Photos: Social messages and art spruce up Delhi’s Sanjay Camp
Updated On Apr 27, 2018 12:34 PM IST
Light Up (Emotions Matter Foundation), a NGO based out of Delhi, took to art, celebrating the completion of its first year in existence and its work with residents at Delhi’s Sanjay Camp. To mark their journey the NGO organised a two-day event ‘Colours of Sanjay Camp’ where 90 artists, college students from Jamia Millia Islamia, NIFT- Delhi, Hindu college, Sanskriti School, and Light Up Team pooled in to colour and re-energize the slums of Sanjay Camp with colours and social messages.
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Light Up, a social venture that focuses on equipping children, parents and teachers with emotional intelligence, celebrated its first year by sprucing up the slums of Chanakyapuri’s Sanjay Camp in New Delhi with colours and social messages. Around 90 artists, college students from institutions like Jamia Millia Islamia, NIFT- Delhi, Hindu college, Sanskriti School, and the Light Up Team participated in this two day event. (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)
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The idea behind the event ‘Colours of Sanjay Camp’ was to colour and re-energize the slums of Sanjay Camp with social messages which then becomes a part of the residents’ daily lives. Walls were covered with messages on emotions, UN sustainable goals, gender equality, diversity, women empowerment, education, and family cohesiveness. (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)
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A boy plays with a chick in front of a newly painted wall of the slum. The NGO’s focus is on developing social and emotional competencies within the community, and providing tools necessary for a cohesive, non-violent, and caring community that would ultimately equip them to lead happier and successful lives. (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)
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Over the two-day event, the students and social workers shared touches of colour with the residents of Sanjay Camp, hoping to harness the power of emotions to create a healthier, more equitable and a compassionate space. (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)
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A girl comes out of her house, where the wall depicts art highlighting the importance of teamwork. Art was chosen for its strength as a medium when delivering social cause messages, that runs parallel with the organisation’s community work. (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)
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The Delhi based NGO believes in bringing emotional intelligence into the curriculum of Indian education for better social and emotional adjustment as part of the overall development of children and higher academic achievement. (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)
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Part of the activity also sought to familiarise residents with the leaders who have shaped India with portraits such as this of B. R. Ambedkar also among pieces rendered on the walls. (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)
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While working in the community for the past one and half year the team claims to have impacted 200 lives within the slum. Light Up has also been working with organisations like Teach For India, Sanjay Basti, Philarthrophy and The Neemrana Music Foundation. (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)
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The artists managed a two-fold task of not just delivering lasting social messages to the residents but beautified their living spaces in the process with the event. (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)
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