Shillong, November 25: The William Lewis Boys Home Orphanage in Mawphlang, Meghalaya received global attention at Rome, Italy. Over the last years through NESFAS, the Indigenous Partnership for Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty (TIP) has been extending their work in the villages to the well-being of the children in the Boys home. With a special interest from Mrs, Anita Roy and, Mr.Phrang Roy who is the Chairman of NESFAS and also the coordinator for TIP. There has been a constant interest in the upkeep of the building and have worked with the caretakers of the children to work on programs of nutrition and vocational training for the senior boys.
Mrs. Roy had been instrumental in driving The Kids Kitchen Initiative (KKI) program with NESFAS since 2014 with the aim to teach children how to cook based on the concept of Good, Clean and Fair. As a teacher at the AMBRIT International School in Rome, Italy she and her colleagues visited the home in Mawphlang. Ms.Paige Short Thompson, who teaches Music was one of the visitors and did a singing workshops for the children at the boys home.
Last month during their visit to Shillong Mr.and Mrs Roy visited the Boys Home with the NESFAS team which included architects and an engineer. They identified areas of concerns for the comfort of the children. They wanted to merge the idea of the school garden of NESFAS with an idea of warming the building with a protective layer.
To take this initiative forward, Ambrit International School in collaboration with TIP organised a recital of music titled “Piano with Friends”. It was a successful fund raiser to generate the seed fund to be pass to the Boys Home for keeping the home warm in winter by protecting the vegetable garden around the building and trapping the heat that the earth generates which will connect the children to the landscape and the building they live in.
