Grade XI IB CAS Activity on December 7, 2013 — Health Awareness Camp for the Drivers

Early Saturday morning, cold weather, and lots of homework. Not much of an incentive to go to school. But we went, nevertheless. We assembled outside the library, delegating roles to each other for the upcoming event of Health Camp. There was one planned for the students of 2 Government Schools and simultaneously for the drivers of our school. 

With the help of our school doctor, Ms. Nazia, we prepared what to do. At ten o’clock, we assembled in the Amphitheatre and after a few minutes of anxious waiting, the drivers finally arrived one by one, taking their seats and looking at us expectantly.

Could we do it well? Could we pull it off? Could we tell them something new? Could we give them something which they would take away and think that it was worth coming to hear us? After all, we were supposed to be the comfortable kids who haven’t had much experience of life. This was true, considering the life that our audience had experienced and the responsibility that they bore, every morning, the responsibility of getting 50 people safely from one place to another. 

The responsibility that one small mistake could take away lives of people. Would we be able to look them in the eye and lecture them? No. So we adopted a new strategy of making it interactive. We talked to them; we learnt about their daily routine, we told them ours. We had a skit about doing exercise. We made it as interesting as possible for them, and were surprised by the amount of things they knew. They were so patient with us, so tolerant and attentive. It was surprising.

Nazia Ma’am was there to help us whenever we got stuck and the drivers were always there to encourage us by clapping whenever we felt that we might not be able to continue. It was a very enriching experience and it taught us the value of patience and of course, medical aspects of being healthy. We learnt a lot from the experience and hope that our audience also has taken away something with them. We hope that we have truly made a change and have lived up to the name “Delta”.

Ujjwal Bansal XI C IB