Children Summer Camp 2022 Report

ExTentia 2022
Organized/conducted by Antenna Trust and EXIST Trust
Madurai
Introduction
Still now summer camp has been a costly one for have-nots. Slum children, poor
and government school going children had never attended in any of the summer
camps organized by private schools. We thought that this kind of experience
should be made available to the poor children at least who are studying in our
tuition centers/evening education centers.

We started to conduct summer camp in the year 2013 for 20 children. It was two
days camp. Initially staff only handled the camp. We started to hire professional
trainers from the reputed institutes and now the camp is completely handled by
professional trainers in the respective fields. Next two years (2014&2015) it was
three days camp. And the next two years (2016&17) it was four days camp. In the
year 2018 It was 5 days camp, in the year 2019 it was 7 days camp. In this camp
200 children benefited. Due to corona situation we had not conducted camps in
the year 2020 and 2021.

Since we had no special fund for conducting summer camp, we had been raised
funds with personal and NGO friends to meet out the heavy expenses involved in
conducting the camp. In the year 2013 we received a sponsorship for distributing
T shirts to children from “SHE garments “ Madurai and also received a small
donations. The amount of donations/contributions raised gradually increased in
every year. Also the standard of camp had been improved year by year. Every
year we receive T shirts from the same business organization on free of cost.

We had last touch with contributors for the last two years we did not know how
much we could expect contributions from friends in the changed situation. At this
juncture every material and service had become costly. By taking these two
factors into considerations we fixed 5 days target for summer camp in this year
2022. Also we prepared ourselves to reduce the number of days if we do not get
required amount of support from friends.
Camp days
Totally 5 days
June 2nd to June 6th 2022

Venue
Antenna Trust Campus, Madura 625007
Antenna Trust,

Participating children
130 Children from Simmakkal, Sellur, Meenatchipuram, Alathur and NMS Nagar
Evening Education Centers will participate in the camp. Children are from poor
families and hailed from Urban Slums and rural villages.

Programme Schedule with the details of Resource Persons

Days Sessions Time Resource Persons –Trainers
First 9.45 am to Yoga Master Mrs. Vijayalakshmi –
Session 10.45 am Formerly worked with TVS School
Tea Break 10.45 am to
11.00 am
Second 11.00 am to Master Trainer Mrs. Chandra TVS School
Session 12.00 am Madurai
Third 12.00 am to Mr.Narayanan and his team in Madurai
Session 01.00 am Takewondo institute.
The Takewond trainers for this camp was
Master Karthick and Master Snajeev
For all Lunch 01.00 pm to
the five Break 01.45 pm
days Fourth 01.45 pm to Drawing Master Mr.Villayutham TVS
Session 02.45 pm School Madurai and his team, Artist cum
photographer Ms. Prarthana Madurai, and
Mr.Ramakrishnan and Ms. Malar and their
Team (Ms.Vaisali, Ms.Deepika,
Mr.Irulandi, Mr.Chinnapandi, Mr.Sevugan,
Mr. Kamesh) of resource persons from
Tamilnadu Science forum from Madurai
Region.
Fifth 02.45 pm to Master trainer Mr. Francis and his team
Session 03.45 pm
 Snacks 03.45 pm to
Time 04.00 pm
Sixth 04.00 pm to Dance Master Mr.Jeyavel from Yuforia
Session 05.00 pm Dance institute and Team

Planning , Badge , Flex banner and Whatsapp group

 The planning for the summer camp started bit early in the month of May.
All the teachers, consultants, Antenna team were part of the planning
Team.
 We had prepared two badges. One for all the children and another for
resource person, teachers, volunteers and parents. Everyday the children
wore badges.
 One flex banner was prepared and affixed at the dais of the camp hall.
 All these were discussed with planning team.
 One Whatsapp group was started separately for the Summer camp 2022.
All the supporters, donors, teachers, Antenna team were members of the
group. Everything about the camp was shared in the group. Each day
proceedings and photos were shared in the group

Children Travel to Venue and back to home

With the concern on protection of children, timely arrival to the venue and early
return back to their home , we have arranged van facilities to the children.
 Two vans were arranged in this regard.
 One van daily morning first picked up Simmakkal center students and
dropped at venue and next picked Alathur center students and dropped
them at venue. And in the evening it first dropped the Alathur children at
their village and dropped the Simmakkal center children at Simmakkal next.
 The other van first picked Sellur and Meenatchipuram children and
dropped them at the venue. And it picked up Chichiluppai center children
and dropped them at the venue. Evening this van first dropped the
chichiluppai center children at their village and picked and dropped the
Sellur and Meenatchipuram centers children at their locations next.
 The vans arrived the venue daily on time. They dropped the children at
their villages/locations in the evening within 6.15 to 6.30 pm.

Refreshment –Tea –Snacks

  Day -1- Morning (Paruthi Pal and Bscuits), Evening - Vadai
 Day -2- Morning (Tea and Biscuits), Evening – boiled and fried sundal
(bengal gram).
 Day -3- Morning (Tea and Biscuits), Evening – Piece cake.
 Day -4- Morning (Tea and Biscuits), Evening – boiled green gram.
 Day-5- Morning (Tea and Biscuits), Evening – vegetable pups.
Mostly the Teachers and volunteers/Parents served the morning & tea biscuits
and evening snacks at the session itself.

Food
Food was prepared by a team of 5 persons functioned under the leadership of
Ms.Jayalakshmi. Two persons were deputed by Antenna from its canteen team,
two persons were hired from Alathur village and two were volunteers (Ms.
Jayalakshmi and Ms.Vijayalakshmi).

All the children, teachers, parents/volunteers accompanied with the children,

Resource persons, van drivers, were given lunch. Lunch was given to children
between 1.15 pm to 1.50 pm.

Only on two days two sets of food were prepared when we have served non-veg
food. The third day we served egg kulambu (gravy) instead of sambar and in the
fifth day we served mutton kulambu and chicken 65. Since in one area there was
a temple festival was fixed the children and the parents kept to eat only
vegetarian food for 7 days, we served vegetarian food for those students and the
parents on the above two days. Though it was difficulty to the catering team they
did it with commitment.

The following food were served to the children a

 Day-1 – Rice, special vegetable sambar (10 vegetables used), potato 65,
Appalam, rasam (pepper soup), butter milk.
 Day -2- Rice, radish vegetable sambar, Plantain (un ripe) 65, Appalam,
rasam (pepper soup), butter milk.
 Day -3- Rice , Egg Kulambu (gravy) (2nd set-Vathal Kulambu), Carrot and
beans fry, , Appalam, rasam (pepper soup), butter milk.
 Day -4- Rice , Special vegetable sambar (used10 vegetables), Cauliflower 65,
Appalam, rasam (pepper soup), butter milk.
  Day -5- Rice , Mutton Kulambu (, Chicken 65 (for 2nd set it was potato curry)
Carrot and beans fry, , Appalam, rasam (pepper soup), butter milk.

All the food served were nutritious and tasty .

We used environment friendly materials in serving the food and tea –
such as paper cups, paper plates for snacks, areca leaf plates for serving
food/lunch etc.

We liked the food served in all the days. All the items were tasty and we
ate completely without wasting.

Programmes
1.Yoga session
Yoga session was conducted for the entire children participated in the
cap. This was done in one group. This session was handled by Yoga
Masters .1 Ms.Vijayalakshmi (formerly she was with TVS Group of
schools) and 2. Ms. Soundarya (she is with Red Bond school). More than
16 asanas were practiced in the five days. The benefits of each asana
were taught to the children. In the last day the children practiced the
yoga with music and they displayed the same during the valedictory
function. Really the yoga display along with the music was fantastic.
Ms.Chandra who handled art from waste session also supported the
session.

Not only the children got benefited but also the teachers, parents and
the volunteers also practiced the yoga asanas while the children were
practicing.
The following asanas were taught in those five days.
1.Tadasana, 2.Utkatasana, 3. Star pose, 4.Ardha kati chakrasana, 5.
Trikonasana, 6.Parsva konasana, 7. Ardha chandrasana, 8. Sukasana,
9.Dandasana, 10. Virasana, 11. Pachimotanasana, 12.marichyasana, 13.
Vakrasana, 14. Vajrasana, 15. Ustrasana, 16. Mahamudrasana, 17.
Parcathasana, 18. Ashwa sanchalasana , 19. Pathasthasana, 20,
Piraiasana, 21. Sastanga Namaskara Asana, 22. Anandhasayanasana,
23.Makarasana, 24.Uttanapadasana, 25. Breathing exercises, 26.
Silence time, 27.Santhi asana.

Om o mom
We pray our mother
We pray our father
We pray our teacher
We pray the god
We did the above prayer everyday at the beginning and end of the yoga session.
This prayer really touched our hearts.
We learned the several asanas in the yoga session

Every day we started with Yoga session. Yoga had given benefit to our bodies and
our mind. Yoga asanas had given good exercises to our physique and regulated
our mind. During the yoga exercises we really got refreshed and felt peacefulness.
The yoga teacher also taught many useful messages for our life. Due to this good
start of the day, we experienced refreshes in the whole day.

2.Art from waste

In this session children were divided into three groups according to
their age. This session was handled by Ms.Chandra and supported by
Yoga masters Ms.Vijayalakshmi and Ms. Soundarya.

For each group exercises were planned in the following way.

For the children in standard 1st to 4th

1.Snow man wall hanging, 2. paper flower hanging.

For the children in standard 5th to 8th

1.Card board doll( varli doll)
2. Paper mouse
3. Paper folding fish
For the children in standard 9th and above
1. paper cup Basket and pompom ball chick.
2. Paper rose
3. Paper cup and newspapers rolls doll.

These three groups did their tasks by using wastes – like news
papers, card board, paper cups, colour thread wastes, strings, sticks
etc
After displaying their dolls, their creations in the valedictory,
children took all their products to their home. Surely they had
enjoyment with their parents along with the artful articles.

We liked this session very much. In this session we learned how we can
use creatively the wasted materials and make/create artistic and useful
articles out of it. I learned to create flower basket by using wasted
paper cup, made dolls by using sticks, old news paper, made flowers by
using wasted papers etc. the teacher taught us with simple techniques
and language. really we enjoyed our creativeness when we made
things out of wasted materials.
We made puppet from chart paper and stick. We had made one picture
by using papers and charts. We also coloured the picture.

3.Karate
Defensive measure is important to everyone to protect themselves
from any untoward attack or incidents. Karate is one such martial art
exclusively taught to children for defensive purposes. The camp also
planned to taught children on karate martial art. We approached
Takewondo Institute in this regard. Karate Master Mr.Narayanan was
more willing to work with us. Charged very minimum fee for the
services. This year also Masters Mr.Karthick and Mr.Snjeev trained our
children on Karate steps. For the first two days children practiced
general steps on karate in one group. From third day onwards they
were divided into two groups –senior group and junior group. Both the
groups had displayed their demonstrations during the valedictory
function. It was so adventuress, coulourful and simply fantastic. The
following lesions were taught to the children by the above said two
masters.
First Day Second day
 Warm up  Warm up
 Middle punch  Upper block
 Upper punch  Lower block
 Lower punch  Inner block
 Middle double punch
***
Day 1st Badge –Juniors 2nd Badge –seniors
Third day  Warm up  Warm up
 Revise punch technique  Revise punch technique
 Revise block technique  Revise block technique
 Outer block  Outer block
 Hand combination technique
Fourth  Warm up  Warm up
day  Revise punch technique  Revise punch technique
 Revise block technique  Revise block technique
 Outer block  Outer block
 Knife attack  Knife attack
 Poomsae technique  Poomsae technique
Fifth day  Demo practices  Demo practice
 Warm up  Punch block
 Revise punch technique  Self defense technique
 Revise block technique  Tile breaking
 Outer block  Plate show
 Knife attack  Male and Female fire tile
 Poomsae technique breaking
  Poomsae technique
 Kick technique

Karate was completely different level

We like karate very much

4. Mud pot painting

Children practiced this session with two types of mud pots. One was big
flower vase and another was small pot. As usual small children were
given small pots and big children were given big flower vase. They
following steps were covered in the five days to paint the mud pot
beautifully.

Step 1: children used sand paper to smoothen the surface of the pot.

Step 2: they painted the outer surface of the pot using white primer

Step 3: after the coat of primer dried, the children used black enamel to
paint the surface of the pot.

Step 4: once the coat of enamel dried, the students used M-seal to
embellish the outer surface of the pot.

Step 5 : The designs created using M-seal were then painted colourfully
using fevicryl Pearl colours.

In the last day all the vases and pots were looked beautiful. The
children joyfully took their product to their home. Along with their
parents they enjoyed the same. Sure this will make them remember the
memories of the camp on every day.

On the first day we got a raw mud pot. At the end of the fifth day we had a
colourful pot with flowers and leaves on that. We painted the leaves and the
flowers with beautiful colours that we like most. Everyone loved to see the
beautiful pot on the last day. The teacher taught us step by step. We did it
fantastically.

5. Clay modeling
Once, the children in villages had opportunity to make various
household things as a hobby and game out of clay that was available
naturally at village ponds. But in today life situation this hobby or game
had gone, no more available to the children in villages.
This camp had clay modeling as one of the skill sets to impart among
the children. Around 20 children participated in this creative art. The
resource person Ms.Prarthana got the required quantum of clay from
her friends on free of cost. We must thank her for this job.

The following three steps were followed in this session.

Step 1: the children were taught to bring the clay to the correct
consistency using water.

Step 2: two terracotta models of sheep in varying sizes were placed in

front of them. They were asked to imitate the model using the clay
provided to them.

Step 3: once they understood and got used to the texture of the clay,
they were asked to create their own sculptures .

Children were introduced to making various sculptures like animals,

household things, pots etc out of clay. Really the children enjoyed it
and made several things. Each day a child made more than one
sculpture. For avoiding dirtying the floor of the hall we used plastic
sheet and the children took responsibility of keeping the hall floor
clean.

6.Drawing
Two teachers (Mr.Villayutham and Mr. Annadurai were the resource
persons. Both were drawing masters in schools. One master is working
with TVS group of schools) handled the session. Around 30 children
participated in this session. Children were trained to draw picture of
house and its background, flower basket, flower pot, etc. they were
trained on colouring with water colours. Every child had drawn @ one
picture per day. The masters had given feedback continuously and
corrected the same then and there. Really every children drawn
pictures beautifully.

7. Scientific Experiments
We designed this session to inculcate scientific thinking among
the children. By demonstrating various experiments among the
children, we believe that they will get motivated to do such
kinds of experiments on their own. In the past also our children
did many scientific experiments on various occasions at their
respective center level.
This year we had tie up with Tamilnadu Science Forum (TNSF)
for this purpose. Every day TNSF sent two trainers. On fourth
day fifth day two trainers came in total. In total 8 trainers we
received from TNSF.
The following topics were covered
 Air pressure
 What is science – What is scientific thinking
 What is social science
 How it is raining , kinds of rain
 Why seasons are happening
 Why there is full moon and moonless sky
 Solar system, milky way, galaxies, space
Children were asked many questions and tried to understand
the environment and their life situation in a scientific way.
Children liked this session very much

In this session we learned the following

 What is science
 Experiments involved with air pressure
 Learned a science song
 Air circulation in the space was demonstrated through a paper exercise.
When a paper fall from top it simply fall down. When it was folded it
revolved and fall down. It was because of the movement of the air in the
folding gaps. Every child in the group did this exercise separately.
 When you swing a string normally it won’t give any sound. When you keep
the string between two hands tightly and make a beat on the string then
you get a sound from the string due to the vibration it make in the air.

8. Street theatre
The theme of the skits the children prepared was protecting the nature.
Children were introduced to various techniques of street theatre.
Children learned to create structures, postures by using their bodies.
Also children learned to express feelings through their facial
expressions. The children made two skits.

One was about save/protect the nature. The following was the story of
the skit. People were happy when more number of trees were in the
forest. People started to cut trees for various purposes. The forest had
become treeless. The natural life of people was gone. People suffered a
lot. This skit was done without a single word and only by mimes,
postures and movements.

The other one is on a story involving ant, hunter, dove, river. The story
was simple - Ant saved doves when they were about to capture by a
hunter by his net and in turn the doves saved the ant when it was
floating on a river.

Usually if any one says a message orally to a community of people it

won’t reach them as it was intended. But if the message is given
through a cultural media like skit it reaches the people to depth of their
heart. It won’t be easily forgotten. Since skit gives the message with
scenes and feelings it reaches the people easily. The children learned to
create scenes and express their feelings through the street theatre
techniques.

Mr.Francis, a master trainer in various cultural forms, a legendary

cultural trainer handled the session.

In this session we learned how we can use our body to depict various scenes, and
express feelings. We also learned how to express feelings through our faces.
Among the dram group we divided into two groups and each group practiced one
skit.
 Mirror game
 Acted on various posture such as branches of a tree
 Theme of the skit we performed was – people were happy when there was
more number trees around villages and cities and the happiness were gone
when trees were cut down for various reasons/purposes.

9. Parai
Parai is an traditional instrument beating with dance art. It has its own
history. It is one of the cultural identities of Tamil people. So, Tamil
people usually attached with this dance.

This session was handled by Mr.Velmurugan from Kudal Kalai Kulu

Madurai. He is a professional trainer cum performer.
A group of children from our camp learned parai. Children were very
much enthusiastic while learning the parai. They enjoyed when they
beat parai. The trainer taught the children the following 7 basic steps.
According to the steps the children had beaten the parai. Simply the
parai attam is dance with beating parai instrument. Children learned
the both.
The following 7 steps were taught to the children in the five days.
Step -1- Theem, Tha, Tha, Ku, , Tha, Ku Ku, Tha.
Step -2-Tha , Ku Ku, Tha, Tha, Ku Ku, Tha.
Step -3- Ta, Ki Ta, Ta, Ki Ta, Ta, Ki Ta.
Step -4-Tan, Ta, Ta Ki Ta, Ta Ki Ta, Tan, Taa.
Step -5- Tan, Takku, Ittakku, Ta Ki Ta, Tan, Taa.
Step -6- Ta Ki Ta, Tan, Taa. Ta Ki Ta, Tan, Taa.
Step -7- Ta Ki Ta, Ta Ki Ta, Thom, Ta Ki Ta, Ta Ki Ta, Thom.

10. Karagattam
No festival in rural and urban Tamilnadu celebrated without
karagattam. Karagattam has become symbol of festival celebrations.
Men and women perform the art. Yes, it is a traditional art.
This session was handles by Ms.Sundari. She too come from Koodal
kalai Kulu Madurai. She got university degree in this art. She is a
professional trainer and performer.

Children practiced basic steps in karagam every day. From second day
onwards they started to practice Karagam for a cine folk song –“Munthi
munthi vinayagane”. The following 8 basic items were taught to the
children.
1. Karagam Theermanam.
2. Wishing the crowd or audience
3. Dance steps named as Shree Ramachandran
4. Araivadam steps
5. Karagak kirukki steps
6. Oyil steps
7. Front sarukkini and back sarukkini steps
8. Nayyandi steps /items
On the fifth day children performed Karagam Dance with colourful and
traditional costumes for the practiced song. It was really great and
professional.

11.Oyil Kummi Attam

Oyil kummi Attam is a folk dance. Usually rural village youth practice
before their village festival and perform during the festival. They usually
wore uniform clothing and have kerchief in both the hands. The dance
is being performed along with traditional drum beats either “Thavil” or
“Urumi”.
Since we did not have separate trainer for this myself, Rajendran,
handled the session. Around 10 basic steps were practiced in this
session. 30 children participated in these practices. From third day
onwards children started to practice the steps for the song .every day
the performance had been improved. While they practicing they
danced in circle. When they performed during the valedictory they
performed in two lines, small children in front and senior children in the
back. Really the children performed well. The participants enjoyed the
dance.

We heard about oyil kummi. It is a traditional folk dance. Village people used to
perform at their village festivals. We learned 4 steps in the first day. Second day
we learned 4 more steps. Third day we learned two more steps and started to
dance on a famous Tamil folk song (Thottu kadai orathile). Third day, fourth day
and fifth day we practiced for the song. And during the valedictory function we
performed well and got applause from the audience and guests.

12. Cine Folk Dance

This was the last session of every day. We call this session as dance
session. Two dance masters from Yuforia institute Madurai handled.
These two masters made all the children to dance for the following two
cine songs :-
 1. Jolly o gymkhana song
2. Vambula thumbula song
These two masters taught children differently. Taught very simple steps
that relate with the Songs. Every stanza was played and they
choreographed various steps for that stanza. The children picked up the
steps and easilydanced for the songs.

This was the last session of everyday. We all learned this dance together. The
teacher taught this dance with great love and simple steps. Everyone of us
learned this dance easily and we performed dance for two songs. Really it was
great achievement in just five hours practices (@ one hour per day). Every day we
learned many steps. First day we completed half of a song. Second day we
completed the full song. Third day we practiced our dance for the full song. Fourth
day we started to dance for one more song. Fifth day we practiced for the two
songs in whole. During the valedictory function we had performed well and the
whole hall was full of joy.

Visitors and their accommodation in the programme

The camp had visitors. On the third day 30 children from Marani and
Koolapandi village , 5 teachers (children evening education) from the
same village joined in the camp. Also 10 teachers (children evening
education) from CENTREREDA Nilakottai also joined in the camp. All
the visitors were given food, tea, snacks etc properly. The children were
accommodated in all the sessions-drawing, Parai, oyilkumi, karate,
yoga, art from waste and cine folk dance etc. they were not considered
as visitors but they were given proper space to enjoy as participants.
They enjoyed a lot. the teachers too got experiences and enjoyed.

On the fourth day 6 teachers (children evening education) from

Sholavandhan came and joined the camp. They too were given all the
facilities and accommodated with space to participate and learn from
the camp.
On the last day 15 children and 5 Teachers (children evening education)
from M. Subbulapuram village cme and joined the camp. As in the
above these children were given space to participate in all the activities.
All the facilities were provided to them. the children and the teachers
enjoyed the camp.
We did not charge any for all the above visitors.

Hall and Campus

The hall was enough to accommodate around 130 children. It was round in shape.
It has all the facility-lighting, fans, sound system, video facility, mike set system,
white board, enough furniture, tables etc. So we did not have any difficulties.
Instead we enjoyed the hall. Even we conducted three sessions at a time – like
drawing, mud pot painting and clay modeling. all these three sessions were gone
at a time. Different trainers handled each session.

The campus was beautiful, green and having more space. Many sessions were
conducted outside the hall i.e. in campus. Sessions such as Scientific experiments,
Karate 2nd badge, Street theatre, Parai, karagam, oyil kummi etc were conducted
outside the hall.

The campus has play structures. The children enjoyed a lot in playing in those
structures such as sea saw, swing, etc.

First Aid
We received a first aid kit from Dr.Gandhirajan (Thangaraj Hospital K K
nagar). Every time we conduct summer camp we used to get first aid kit
from him on free of cost. The first aid kit contained cotton rolls,
oinment and tablets. The tablets were for giving first aid to the
following ailments such as – fever, head ache, itching, cold, cough, pain,
loose motion, stomach ache, vomiting and vomiting sensation etc

Mr. Jayaraj from Antenna trust added the kit with move ointment and
detol etc.
Only three children were given aid on only one day. Two girls used
move ointment for their leg muscle pain or contraction. The one boy
got ointment for his small scratch at his forehead.

This kit was given responsibility to Mr.Jayaraj for the first three days
and Ms.Mahalakshmi, our teacher, handled it in the rest of the days.

We thank Dr.Gandhirajan and Mr. Jayaraj in this regard.

Valedictory function
On the last day 6th June at 3.00 pm the valedictory function was started. Mr.
Devamanoharan , Managing Trustee Antenna Trust chaired dais. Yoga
Masters Ms.Vijayalkshmi , Ms.Soundarya, Karate Masters Mr.karthick and
Mr.Sanjeev, Drawing Masters Mr.Villayutham and Mr. Annadurai, Science
Masters from TNSF Mr. Kamesh and Mr.Sevugan, Cultural Masters
Mr.Francis, Ms.Sundari, Mr.Velmururgan and Dance Master Mr.Jayavel were
the special guests in valedictory function. Mr.Rajendran welcomed the
guests and Ms.Mahalakshmi teacher said vote of thanks.
 All the guests and chief guests gave speeches on children rights,
education and development and need for learning various skills apart
from academic skills.
 Children performed Yoga asanas along with music
 Children displayed drawings around the hall
 Children displayed the beautifully painted mud flower vase, mud pot
and clay sculptures in the hall
 Children performed oyil kummi dance for a folk song
 Children demonstrated karate steps, plate show, tile breaking, fire tile
breaking, etc
 Children performed two skits
 Children performed parai attam
 Children performed karagattam for a folk song
 Children performed cine folk dance for two cine folk songs
 At the end of the function all the children were given prizes and
certificates.
  All the trainers, parents, canteen staff, van drivers, volunteers,
Teachers were given prizes.

Conclusion/ General feeling

 Parents too enjoyed the camp and many times they also danced and
exercised with their children.
 Children felt the camp days would have been extended to more days.
 All felt that the campus in which the camp was organized was safe and
protective.
 In today context mostly the children do not engage in physical exercises
and they spend more time in seeing TV shows and have fun with mobile.
This camp was completely different. It had given 100% physical exercises
and learning out of it. Really it rejuvenated the children both mentally and
physically.
 The camp re-introduced the traditional art forms like Karagattam,
Oyilattam and Parai to the children and it had given opportunity to learn
several things in that art forms and did beautiful performances.
 This camp imparted skills, knowledge and attitudes beyond the academic
subjects but necessary for the life and community living.
 All the sessions were handled by the professionals in those subjects. So the
children were given best learning opportunities.
 Sumer camp opportunity had been costly one and always it was
unaffordable and un-available to the poor children. This camp made it
available to the poor and slum children and on free of cost.

 For many of us (children) this summer camp experience is new

 We got refreshed and rejuvenated
 We got so much excitement
 Learned many new things
 During the corona period we were shut down within the doors and walls for
months.
 These two days we were at the height of excitement and we forgot those
bad memories of corona lockdown experiences
 We learned –yoga asanas, how to make artful things from wasted articles
or things, Karate steps, street theatre techniques and skits, oyil kummi folk
dance, Karakattaam folk dance, making many creative things with clay,
 mud pot painting with artistic tuch, cine folk dance, drawing with water
colouring, etc.
 We forgot the wasteful spending times on seeing TV shows and on mobile
searches and games on these five days.
 We felt that five days camp had gone too quickly. It would have been more
number of days. We enjoyed all the five days. At least the camp would have
been conducted for seven days.
 We enjoyed and made lots of noises. The masters, teachers and the
organizers treated us with patience and with love. Every master taught us
fantastically and enjoyed their training.
 The entire camp was conducted on free of cost. What our parents
contributed was very very minimum when compared to the whole cost for
the five day camp.
 I liked dance and karate most.
 We thank all the masters and the donors who supported the camp.
 We miss all the masters and mams who taught – Yoga, Art from waste,
karate, mud pot pinting, clay modeling, drawing, karagam folk dance, oyil
folk dance , parai fold art, street theatre and cine folk dance.yes we really
miss you all.
 All the five days went very quickly.
 You all made many arrangements for us to have a fantastic experience in
the camp. We thank you all from our hearts.
 We enjoyed the Antenna Trust campus very much. We thank Antenna Trust
in this regard.
 We thank our teachers for organizing us to participate in this camp and they
had given all the protection measures and enjoyed their hospitality in the
campus.
 We miss the summer camp too

Note : Children’s views were given in italic letter in coloured boxes

Donors List
Children Summer Camp 2022- Donors List
S. N0 Donors Contribution
1 Mr. Shankar- Santhoshnagar, Madurai 1000
2 Mr.Anandharamakrishnan-Singapore 10000
3 Mr.Nirmal Gowtham- Warangal 2000
4 Mr. Kunsekaran- Vasantham, Varusanadu 1000
5 Mr.Sundravadivel-Hosur 2000
6 Mr.Thangavel-Vizhithugal, Avinashi 1000
7 Mr.Akilan-Madurai 1000
8 Mr.Parthipan- Koolaiyanur , Theni Dt 5000
9 Mr.Jeganathan-Theni 1000
10 Mr.Keshvraj, ARCOD, Royakottai 5000
11 Mr.Senthil-Karupayurani, Madurai 3000
12 Mr.Vinodh-Aundipatti 2000
13 Mr.Vinodh Nelson, RDS, Cehgalpattu 2000
14 Mr.Deva, MMS , Chinnamanur 1000
15 Mr.Poun, Uthamapalayam 1000
16 Mr.Elangovan, Nihil Fish Farm , Madurai 2000
17 Mr.Ayyanar, Builder , Kochadai, Madurai 3000
18 Ms.Laura, The Netherlands 4000
19 Mr.Issac, California , USA 7700
20 Mr.Thirukumaran, Ramanathapuram 1000
21 Mr.Alagarsamy, SRED , Aundipatti 1000
22 Ms.Ananthi, Santhoshnagar, Madurai 2000
23 Mr.Jeeva IRCDS , Sivagangai 2500
24 Mr.Gandhi, Consultant , Madurai 2000
25 Mr.Udhayakumar , Dindigul 2000
26 Mr.Jai Shankar , Madurai 850
27 Mr.Muralidurai , Usilampatti 1000
28 Ms.Meera devi, Chennai 1000
29 Ms.Mahalakshmi –Sellur, Madurai 1000
30 Mr.Prabakaran Pethusamy, Madurai 1000
31 Veeraragavan-TVS Nagar, Madurai 1500
32 Sureshkumar –TVS Nagar, Madurai 1000
33 Parents contribution (101 parents ) 10100
 34 Mr.Bimla Chandrasekar , EKTA , Madurai 1000
35 Honorable Minister Mr.Murthy 10000
36 Mr.Soundar –Mahalingapuram, Usilampatti 2000
37 M/s.Antenna Trust 5000
38 Ms.Fatima , NMS Nagar, Madurai 1000
39 Ms.Meenatchi – Virdhunagar 1500
40 Mr.Manoharavel Pandian, Palamedu (in Kind) 1000
41 Mr.Ananth , Goripalyam, Madurai (in kind) 500
42 Ms.Jayalakshmi, Santhosh Nagar, Madurai (in Kind) 1000
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Account statement
Children Summer Camp 2022 - Account Statement
Income In Rs. Expenditure In Rs.
42 Donors from various
places 105650 Food and Water 54425
Antenna Trust -Children
Project 40000 Tea Snacks 8986
Stationeries and Training
EXIST Trust -Reserve Fund 3135 Materials 13374
Sundry Income 1350 Prizes 8850
Van (2) Charges 28500
Hall decoration 4000
Resource persons fee 32000

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