Q2. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow.
The message got through and after that the helicopter made regular rounds of the shelter, air-dropping food and
other basic needs (b) whay
was food air dropped
Answers
Answer:
. How has Prashant, a teenager, been able to help the people of his village?
Answer:
Prashant, who was a teenager decided to help the people of his village by stepping in as a leader. He organized a group of youths and elders to jointly pressurize the merchant to given rice for the people living in the shelter. After this, he organized a team of youth volunteers to clean the shelter and to tend wounds and fractures of the many who had been injured.
Prashant found that a large number of children had been orphaned. He brought them together and constructed a polythene shelter for them. Then he organised cricket matches for children.
Women were mobilized to look after the orphan kids, while the men secured food and other essentials for the shelter. When he realised that the women were becoming too grief-stricken, he persuaded them to start working in the food-for-work programme, which was started by an NGO.
Prashant, who was a teenager decided to help the people of his village by stepping in as a leader. He organized a group of youths and elders to jointly pressurize the merchant to given rice for the people living in the shelter. After this, he organized a team of youth volunteers to clean the shelter and to tend wounds and fractures of the many who had been injured.
Prashant found that a large number of children had been orphaned. He brought them together and constructed a polythene shelter for them. Then he organised cricket matches for children.
Women were mobilized to look after the orphan kids, while the men secured food and other essentials for the shelter. When he realised that the women were becoming too grief-stricken, he persuaded them to start working in the food-for-work programme, which was started by an NGO.