Dheeyan di Lohri






While most of us keep cribbing on various stereotypical thoughts prevailing in the society, only a few dare to come forward and change them.
Prasanchetas Foundation, always working on the positive mindset and trying to break through stereotypes and in this direction there another initiative was celebrating of Dheeyan di Lohri at a mass level along with the involvement of general public at the DLF City center Mall in the IT Park Chandigarh.



It was a three days event, inclusive of an online contest where to "post a selfie with your daughter" was huge hit, wherein all the parents were then invited to the mall as an honor and to celebrate with all, their daughters' first Lohri.
Also, Prasanchetas Foundation, which otherwise immensely works with the children from from various slum and other backward areas, had created a special platform especially for such less privileged students coming from very humble families to exhibit their talent on a public forum. For which a dance competition was organized for the children of various NGO'S to come forward and show case their talent. The whole crowd was spell bounded by the performances and applauded the talents of the students along with the efforts put in by the team to identify such enriching talent amongst the less privileged ones. Each group dance was honoured and appreciated along with their respective NGO.




Upcoming Punjabi singer Gursaaz also graced the occasion on the event, and spread the charm of his melodious voice on the crowd. The maddening crowd at the mall was peppingly dancing on his dance numbers during Gursaaz's live performance.
At this , Ms Manjula, director of the foundation added that," We just did our bit to shun out the stereotypical thinking of not celebrating birth of girl child, and we got huge response from the city and it's awesome to see, such a positive response to our efforts."
She also added her vote of thanks to the Gursaaz who is very much attached to all the social causes working towards girl child safety and well-being.



On the concluding day, Mx Dhananjay Chauhan graced the occasion as being a guest of honor. Various items like nukkad natak, solo items, puppet show, Beard and mustache competition, ramp walk with girl child, bhangra by children and kite making were the main attractions.

Mx Dhananjay Chauhan added that" She is intensively working for the human rights and she would love to be part of such a noble cause of abuse free childhood, on which Prasanchetas Foundation is aggressively putting in lot of efforts.


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