Excited voices, dancing feet and smiling faces is what will greet you when you enter the tiny white gate of Latika Vihar in Vasant Vihar. Latika Vihar is an after school activity centre for children, it is a haven in a world where children are forced to grow up, where parental pressure to excel in every field sometimes kills the joy of childhood. Latika Vihar is a place where fun still exists, it is the only place where children are allowed to grow at their own pace and participate in activities they want. There is no pressure to perform or compete with anyone; there is just their desire to nurture their talents and our commitment to fulfill that desire.
At Latika Vihar no one works for the children, we all work with them, from learning pottery to playing badminton, from learning chess to reading in the library, from dancing to bollywood tunes to enacting scenes from different plays, they do all this and more, without any pressure. The child is left to choose what he wants to learn and since there is no pressure to perform, he can leave his inhibitions aside and experiment with different talents.
A child who thought he could not dance because he was told he is not good joins the group because no one is judging him, who knows with time he may turn around to give us a performance worth remembering.
Latika Vihar teaches you a very valuable lesson of life, no one is better or worse each individual is as capable, special and talented as the other. It is a place where the social, economical, physical and mental differences do not matter, what matters here are the excited voices, dancing feet and smiling faces that greeted you at the gate.
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