Warning: There is beatboxing, adorable singing, and million dollar smiles involved.
The talented children of Bangalore-based NGO Reaching Hand collaborated with volunteers Jacob Cherian, Davin Lama, and Shaktiraj Jadeja, to work on a beautiful project.
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The covered their favourite song, "As Long As You Love Me" by Justin Bieber.
There are approximately 50 children dwelling at Reaching Hand and most are abuse rescues or orphans. NGO volunteer Jacob Cherian identified their talents and with a team of performing arts professionals, the project took off.
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This is Chuimayo.
Joined New Home (a unit of Reaching Hand) when he was in the third standard and studies in grade 11 presently. Chuimayo's mother passed away when he was very young and he has five siblings. His father is a poor farmer. Poverty led his uncle to bring him to New Home with hopes of him getting an education. He is a good dancer, singer and he plays football. He hopes to be an engineer and football player one day. He's good at Math and Computers.
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This is Jyoti.
Jyoti`s mother makes a living working as a caretaker in number of homes. Jyoti was brought to New Home five years ago with her younger sister. She does not have a father. Before she came to New Home, she would be locked at home to take care of her sibling while her mother was out working. She had a great desire to study and wanted to be a somebody in life even at the tender age of five. Today Jyoti is in the fourth standard and doing well in school. She's very good at acting and is a very cheerful child.
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