Giving spreads Joy! A young student shows us how!

Supplies and equipment are essential to delivering our fun, interactive and experiential learning programs. For Build Maya, Lego blocks are the most important material to deliver our lesson plans. Providing each child with a set of blocks that they can carry back home can give them a sense of ownership and most importantly the – ‘lego experience’ to play and create things.

Lego donation drives are a great way for grown-up children to give away their used LEGO blocks. Our Build Maya team wanted to solicit used blocks, but they never materialized. But as the saying goes – good things come to you unexpectedly.

Aadi Khemka, an 11-year student came across Enabling Leadership at an event he attended with his parents. He enquired about EL and after hearing about our engagement with children across India, he decided he wanted to contribute.

“When I saw some photos in the stall of children my age playing with LEGO, I went over to enquire. As a Charity Prefect in my school, I wanted to make an initiative out of it” says Aadi. He went back home and visited our website and watched our Youtube channel.

He approached his principal to explain his interest towards this. “At first they weren’t fully sure, but I took close to thirty minutes to explain and finally they agreed to it,” he says.

Getting the word out …

With the support he received from his Principal, Aadi planned out a few activities to get the word out. His Deputy Principal accompanied him to put the posters that Aadi had made to promote the donation drive in classrooms.

“I also made a PowerPoint Presentation with 12-15 slides. I utilised the school assembly time where all kids would be present to talk about this initiative”. His friend Aryav Mudgal (also a charity prefect) helped him during the presentation, Aadi said.

Close to three cartons of LEGO blocks were collected at the end of the drive. Many children came forward to give and share what they had.?For our team, it was a learning process to see how far children could go when they are passionate about something.

We are grateful to the children, the school, and the parents for responding to this initiative.