PRESIDENT
MEETS MENTALLY CHALLENGED CHILDREN
The President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul
Kalam met a group of mentally challenged children and their teachers
from Delhi here today. The children presented him with gifts that
they had personally made. They also sang various songs learnt
at their school.
In his interaction with the children and
the teachers, Dr. Kalam said the children were normal in every
way except that their mental faculties were not developed. The
President suggested that the teachers should therefore concentrate
on developing the other skills which these children posses. The
President told the faculty that by teaching the children they
were doing "God’s work". Dr. Kalam also recited the
poem, "O Almighty Light the Lamp of Knowledge", a poem
that he had penned after a visit to one of the schools for the
mentally challenged.
