KC Public School Awards King Constantine Medal to Mishika Mittal

Posted: 23 March 2022

KC Public School awarded its 2021, King Constantine Medal, to class XI student, Mishika Mittal for spearheading outstanding initiatives throughout her community.

Mishika has always taken an active part in community service activities and since 2016, with the assistance of her family, has been organising ‘langars’ (free meals) feeding between 800 to 900 daily wage workers each month.

Reflecting on Mishika’s outstanding community service, KC’s Round Square Rep says, “Mishika was also a member of the core team that organised a free eye checking camp for patients from rural Jammu in 2019 in collaboration with the Indian Red Cross Society.” During the eye camp, patients used the school’s transport to access the eye camp, students assisted during the eye camps and free glasses were distributed to help correct long and short-sightedness.
During the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, not everyone could afford masks and sanitisers. Along with the school service team, Mishika took the initiative to make more than 400 masks and distribute them among the poor with the assistance of local police. In the course of several online workshops, she and her schoolmates made homemade sanitisers which were then donated to domestic helpers.

Mishika’s outstanding acts of service continued in 2021 when she started the campaign ‘Support for Tomorrow’, which aims to mobilise fellow students to come forward and help deprived children by spending quality time with them. During Rakshabandhan Festival, a Hindu festival that embraces and honours the relationship between brother and sister, she took the first step to bring her initiative into action by taking sweets, stationery kits and rakhis (sacred threads) to the orphaned girls residing at Nari Nikaten Ashram, Jammu.

Under this campaign, she also organised a fundraising marathon in association with her schoolmates to raise funds to procure winter essentials for underprivileged people living in a shelter home in Jammu in association with an NGO. The fundraiser was held on World Kindness Day and included 3.5km and 7km races and a local newspaper reported over 120 participants.

Mishika, along with several other KC Public School students, also collaborated with the International Volunteer Foundation (IVF) Jammu to distribute dry rations that they procured with their pocket money to those who needed it the most.
‘Joy of Giving’ Week is celebrated every year at KC Public School under the School’s Round Square Service Programme, and along with 55 of her schoolmates, she helped organise a free meal for school support staff.

“I am honoured to receive such a prestigious award. Service to me means making persistent efforts to take up social issues in order to bring about change rather than simply raising awareness about it. I feel content knowing that I can contribute to the happiness of people,’’ said awardee Mishika Mittal who is set to graduate KC Public School in the year 2023 and plans to take up the course of Bachelors of Architecture.