“Campers participating in the personality development camp have learned more in just seven days than most of adults present here have learnt in their careers,” said Shailesh Awale, Centre Head and Associate Vice-President, HCL Technologies Limited. He was speaking at the concluding ceremony of the first personality development camp organised by Bhonsala Adventure and Sports Foundation in association with The Hitavada Twinkle Club at Bhonsala Military School premises in Bokara. Rahul Dixit, Secretary, Central Hindu Military Education Society (CHME); Tarun Patel, Management Member, CHME; Sanjay Joshi, Treasurer, CHME; Aasawari Shenolikar, Deputy Editor, The Hitavada; Col Amarendra Hardas, Commandant, Bhonsala Military School; and Kishore Gosewade, Camp-in-Charge also were prominently present. Around 96 children participated in the seven-day personality development camp that featured indoor and outdoor activities including Horse-riding, Obstacle training, Firing, Karate classes, Archery, Aeromodeling, Cooking, Craft, Table manners among others.

 

The camp was organised with the aim of holistic development of campers by enhancing their self confidence, communication skills, leadership abilities making them balanced and well rounded personality. Guest lectures on topics like adolescence, first aid, traffic awareness, public speaking and others also were conducted during the camp. Two more such personality development camps are scheduled to be conducted starting on April 26 and May 4. The programme started with the participating students demonstrating the skills they learned during the camp duration like horse-riding and obstacle training. Beena Gupta compered the horse-riding demonstrations while Subedar Roshan Lal conducted the proceedings for obstacle training demonstrations. Ghanashri Naik hosted the concluding ceremony, while Ananya Zawar and Smisha Kamgar compered the cultural programme. Kishore Gosewade proposed a vote of thanks.