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Angel-Jo Mr. Nambiar, who actively participated in a youth festival Big Bala Mela in Bangalore. What a Bala Mela serve?

 

Nambiar – I want to be categorical classification. It is a festival of youth as it is a children’s carnival. A carnival for underprivileged children to be more specific. As for their purposes, all the efforts of society to provide its population with the main requirements of food, clothing and shelter. But look closely at the environment of a child, and you will see that the basic needs of a child, other than food, clothing and shelter are also safety, love, health and education . The focus of many NGOs in Karnataka and even if the rest of the country was to provide support and financing of these six areas – namely the food and nutrition, clothing, shelter, love and safety, health and education. Many NGOs and charities have done exemplary work for many years in these areas so that successive governments have always failed. Many non-governmental – in fact more than a hundred who are directly involved, have done this successfully by children for many years. Bala Mela Committee decided to look a little beyond. Father Anthony Sebastian, who heads an organization called ECHO asked the following few years ago: – a disadvantaged child how to celebrate his birthday once a year? Do you have a child to languish in a poor neighborhood even know the date on which he or she is born? A street child can have fun and enjoy the regular festivals that children are better able to take advantage of our society? Whether for Christmas, New Year, Holi, Ugadi. Easter, Pongal, Deepavali, Id-ul-Fitr or one of the many festivals that mark the calendar for each month of the year? Beyond that, is there a forum in which a child of the streets, slums or orphanage can speak and express their issues and concerns? Do not these children are our future citizens? If their voices are not heard today is not to blame for allowing that frustration, crime and terrorism to gain control of our future society? From these questions and face-to Bala Mela was born in 2002 and has held every year since. It is intended to be a day when disadvantaged children gathered in one place and having fun, sharing food and festivities that would otherwise be lost in their lives. It is a platform for them to share their views, meet others like themselves, to express their concerns and show their talent. This is a place to enjoy your hearts content as well as a place where their horror stories are exchanged personal. And why not? The truth is laid bare before all to see and take note. Company, the media and government.

 

Angel – And what was the response of society at all its efforts? He made a difference in the lives of these poor children a day program?

Nambiar – We, the organizers, for our part spared no efforts to bring services together. With over eight hundred volunteers in place, dozens of buses carrying children in the early morning. a child’s day at the place Bala Mela, a nutritious breakfast, a medical examination, games, food, theater, contests and a meeting with the press. For these children, it’s like the Olympics, the Oscars and the carnival in Brazil, all in a day on the site.

Angel – But to what end or purpose?

Nambiar – Take the stage, for example. Many have moved to a stage before an audience for the first time. Many have held a microphone for the first time in their lives. Think of the exposure, recognition, praise and applause they receive. At least one day in the year they can forget their pain, their frustrations, their hunger and their problems. This in itself is a reward for us and is worth every effort we make. Awards are bestowed on them. Many lives are high for a simple tap on the shoulder. The street children or slum sees hope. They make an effort to obtain better results. They are proud of their talents and their achievements. In Bala Mela a sense of belonging. They see a purpose in life. For example, a good singer or performer suddenly sees a choice that can be done – a life of misery and crime – that promises a more fruitful possibility he would never have known if it did had not been received for the Mela thunderous applause in Bala! I know this is hypothetical. But even if all efforts caused a child to be safe, are not worth the trouble?

Angel – Who is really listening to a street or a problem of slum children of today, but NGOs and the media? What is the message that the child be heard in the corridors of power and cause pain or pressure sufficient to push our government to do something about their plight?

Nambiar – I beg to differ in their views on the media concerned. On November 23, 2008 at the headquarters of Bala Mela, a press meet was organized so that children can interact with the press. We have sent invitations to more than twenty newspapers and television channels. Only four reporters even bother to come to the press written the day before the event. And the day of the event, much to the disappointment of children, journalists have been more serious in interviews with chief guests Mr. Shivraj Kumar actor and Oscar Fernandez, Union Minister. Children have much to say, but the media did not listen. The only photographs in the newspapers the next day Mr. Shivraj Kumar and Mr. Oscar Fernandez. In fact, Mr. Rahul Gandhi is also intended to grace the occasion, but could not reach due to some compromise. He sent a nice message, though. I wonder what the media would bother to report on the Bala Mela or the children of Mr. Gandhi had also come to headquarters. We had over ten thousand children in Bala Mela, and had chosen a very articulate group of children to represent them at the press meet. How can you expect the voices of these children to reach the corridors of power, if you do not have strong light or report? The responsibility lies with the media. If a couple of newspapers and television channels made enough noise can pass new legislation to Parliament. It is the influence of media controls. Tell me, how can we get the media to do their part for the children?

Angel – Nambiar, we have also heard of his claim that the Bala Mela established a world record. How can you justify that?

Nambiar – we can not. The Guinness Book of Records for this purpose. Our request is that this is the largest gathering of disadvantaged children in the world in one place. We hope to invite the judges to the Guinness Book this year to support this allegation.