Dear Jeyamohan,
I watched the video about introducing children to nature.
In my experience, taking children to a forest or a farm once or twice a year during the holidays is not enough to engage any child with nature. That is because they do not truly understand it. Nature may even seem boring to them at times. Some children, because of their innate instincts, may naturally become engaged with nature.
If a child is not taken out into the outside world at least once a month, they never learn how to be with nature. Even when they are taken there, they may cry and insist on having a mobile phone.
For 363 days of the year, a child is constantly engaged in school and artificial technological entertainment. If they are placed in nature for just two days, they cannot be expected to understand it. Nature may make them feel uneasy. It may also bore them. The child may simply try to return to doing what they are already familiar with.
Today, some modern schools engage children with nature every single day. Such schools exist in both America and India, but they are all very expensive and meant for the elite. Ordinary people cannot afford to enroll their children in them.
In this situation, organizations like Muzhumai Arivu could organize programs where children come and stay amidst nature at least once a month. This would help relieve the fatigue caused by their studies and refresh them. It would be far better than taking children to the cinema, parks, or malls.
The main difficulty is that you have planned it as a three-day program. Children face constraints in getting leave from school. If it were a two-day program held only on Saturday and Sunday, many more people would be able to participate.
Sharada
