A presentation about Aloha mental development programme was held at Chaudhry’s TKC restaurant on Southall Broadway on Thursday.

Numerical activity can exercise the brain and help children achieve their full potential.

Children no longer fully exercise their brain. We no longer remember telephone numbers as they are stored on our phones. We no longer plan our routes as we use Tom-toms. Children are too reliant on calculators.

At school children are taught in overcrowded classes where the teachers don’t have time for pupils. Extra tuition is expensive and the child is still relying on a teacher.

The Aloha Mental Arithmetic Programme uses the international Abacus Training method for the whole development of the brain.

Initially the child is taught to count from 0 - 99 using his fingers. The next stage in learning arithmetic is using the abacus.

The third stage is to do the calculations mentally by merely visualising the abacus board, Over a 2 year period you can learn to do arithmetic as fast as a calculator.

The aim is to build the child’s self-confidence and for the pupil to become self-reliant.

The demonstration given by Ms Zeeshan Nadeem, CEO of Aloha UK, was impressive. Her pupils were not children but adults interested in improving the standards of education for our children.

Councillor Mohammed Kausar of the Southall Broadway ward and governor in several schools took part in the learning demonstration and was impressed.