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Dimapur, November 28 (MExN): From among 1,300 inspiring stories of change from various schools around India, two schools from Dimapur in Nagaland the El Shaddai Academy and Christian Higher Secondary School are  among the winners of the nation’s largest social change contest.
Nagaland schools among winners in national contestChristian Higher Secondary School was one of the winners in the top 20  with their entry titled ‘A gift that gives on giving.’ The school also won in the top 100 winning entries for their entry titled ‘preservation of endangered species.’ El Shaddai Academy was one of the winners of the special jury award for their entry titled ‘Heal the hearts.’ An award ceremony was held at NID in Ahmedabad on November 27 but the schools from Nagaland could not attend the ceremony sadly, citing the ongoing exams as the reason.
Sanen Imchen, Executive Director and founder of Benchmark Education Initiative and the contest anchor for Nagaland in a press note said “This just reinforces our belief that children in Nagaland can compete anywhere at any level if only we provide them an environment and a platform to unleash their potential.”  
Initiated by Riverside School of Ahmedabad, the Design for Giving contest is part of the Joy of Giving week, an initiative of the GiveIndia foundation which was held from September 27 to October 3.  In moving stories of change, school children from all over India took up the challenge to be the change they want to see in the world. They took up projects where the school children’s participating in the contest helped the elderly and orphans, participated in traffic safety exercises, helped  clean  city environments, confront the problem of pollution and so on.  The top 20 schools will receive prizes from Disney outreach and will create play areas with a book shelf stacked with Disney stories and activity books, board games and a 17 inch Disney TV and DVD player.
Disney outreach will also support 100 enthusiastic school teams in their ideas to effect change in their communities through ‘Minnie grants’ to the extent of  Rs. 5, 000 each under various categories such as ‘most environmental friendly,’ the ‘Gandhi’ prize and ‘most people impacted.’

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