SMART-i to be rolled out across the State

SMART-i is a derivative of SMART-40, a life-skill education camp organised since 2010 for 40 select children, with behaviour, personality, social, learning, and mental-health issues, in schools.

The inmates of Government Girls Home at Ernakulam now wake up every morning looking at trees drawn on charts pinned to the walls. From those trees hang their myriad dreams, aspirations, and talents that keep them motivated. This was one of the many outcomes of the SMART-i (Sensible, Motivated, Able, Responsible, Talented) initiative, the first ever life-skills education camp organised by the Department of Women and Child Development, for the inmates of childcare homes earlier this month, under its Our Responsibility to Children (ORC) programme. Seventy-two inmates of the Government Girls Home, Ernakulam, and Government Boys Home, Thiruvananthapuram, attended the three-day camps, held in compliance with COVID-19 protocol.