Ludhiana, Sept. 21 -- In a heartwarming gesture, children from slum areas studying at schools run by an NGO Nobel Foundation came together to donate Rs.1,01,000 for flood victims in Punjab. The amount, collected from their pocket money and supported by their teachers, was handed over to deputy commissioner Himanshu Jain on Friday.

The children, many of whom come from underprivileged families mostly migrants, study at the 30 schools operated by the foundation under the banner of Maa Sharda Vidyapeeth. Despite their modest backgrounds, they pooled their savings-contributed through the foundation's Piggy Bank Project-to stand with families devastated by the recent floods that washed away homes and farmlands across the state. Their teachers ...