Nandapur: An Anganwadi worker has been winning appreciation for providing pre-school education to children through toys prepared with waste materials at Nandapur in Koraput district.
The Anganwadi worker was identified as Usharani Jena of Parata Anganwadi Centre (AWC) under this block.
The matter came to the fore after the state Women and Child Development (W&CD) department posted photographs of the toys on its website and Twitter handle (Now ‘X’) tagging the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF).
Koraput Collector Abdaal M Akhtar, district social welfare officer (DSWO), Nandapur CDPO Minatibala Pattnaik and all circle supervisors have appreciated her unique effort in imparting pre-school education to the children. Her work has also drawn appreciation from various quarters in the district.
CDPO Pattnaik said that toys will be made using garbage in all 230 AWCs in the district in the coming days to sensitise people to make best and proper use of waste materials, which we throw away thinking that they have lost their utility.
Usharani is using the waste and discarded materials, which were once in use in the centre, to prepare beautiful toys. She is using the toys to impart preschool education to the kids enrolled in her centre. She has been using old socks, clothes, discarded water bottles, some chips and the old uniforms of the kids as well needle and thread to prepare the toys.
Apart from the kids, women and girls are also visiting her centre to see the toys prepared by Jena.
PNN