KG students paint their impressions about floods

On Saturday, their impressions of the floods were up on display in Mogappair. Some drawings reflected submerged houses and cars, while some showed helicopters providing food packets. The school put up a display of 120 painting, each priced at Rs 600. Speaking about the effort, headmistress Thila Devi said: “Most of the paintings were the reflection of whatever the children saw during the deluge. The amount collected will be donated to Chief Minister’s relief fund. They told us their imagination, we helped in outlining and they painted it mostly with pastel and water colours.”

Though the teachers outlined most of the drawings and the students had only coloured them, in some cases, the some students had also drawn them.

One of the drawings showed a man wading through neck deep water with his pet dog while another showed the army personnel helping people.

Some drawings also depicted the depression in the Bay of Bengal while most of the drawings were a reflection on how the city was washed away, starting from houses, cars, temples, people standing on top of roofs. They also included rescue operation with boat trying to save a person who was on the verge of drowning.

LKG student Akshara Shruthi drew a person following Muslim faith distributing clothes to an elderly Brahmin woman said that during flood she saw some people from different community helping everyone. “It was flooded all over in our area,” she said.

Her Mother S. Lakshmi said that she gave the idea to draw this, which mainly reflected that humanity is a religion, which does not discriminate. S. Snaghvi another student said she enjoyed colouring the drawing. When asked about flood, she said, “ Her house was safe but her friends were affected by flood.”