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    <title>GlobalGiving.org: Alternative school for railway platform children</title>
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    <description>Progress Reports for Project #23 on GlobalGiving.org</description>
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      <title>Photos from the Train Platform Schools</title>
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      <description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="/photo/PRA353/students-actively-participate-in-lessons-photo-from-pro/"&gt;&lt;img src='http://cloud.globalgiving.org/pfil/23/participatorylearning_Small.gif' alt='Students actively participate in lessons'style='margin: 5px;'/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Students actively participate in lessons&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;"&gt;&lt;p&gt;More photos from the Train Platform Schools&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="/photo/PRA1848/children-learn-the-alphabet-for-the-first-time-photo-fr/"&gt;&lt;img src='http://cloud.globalgiving.org/pfil/23/firstalphabets_Small.gif' alt='Children learn the alphabet for the first time'style='margin: 5px;'/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Children learn the alphabet for the first time&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="/photo/PRA2476/doctors-ensure-the-wellbeing-of-children-attending-scho/"&gt;&lt;img src='http://cloud.globalgiving.org/pfil/23/doctortochild_Small.gif' alt='Doctors ensure the wellbeing of children attending school'style='margin: 5px;'/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Doctors ensure the wellbeing of children attending school&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:14:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Inderjit Khurana</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2006-09-15T14:14:23Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Photos from the Train Platform Schools</title>
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      <description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="/photo/PRA352/students-learn-through-music-and-singing-photo-from-pro/"&gt;&lt;img src='http://cloud.globalgiving.org/pfil/23/joyful_learning_Small.gif' alt='Students learn through music and singing'style='margin: 5px;'/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Students learn through music and singing&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Click below to see photos and descriptions from the Train Platform Schools.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="/photo/PRA1847/school-environment-is-accessible-for-children-photo-fro/"&gt;&lt;img src='http://cloud.globalgiving.org/pfil/23/tps_class_Small.gif' alt='School environment is accessible for children'style='margin: 5px;'/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;School environment is accessible for children&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="/photo/PRA2475/learning-the-alphabet-is-fun-photo-from-progress-report/"&gt;&lt;img src='http://cloud.globalgiving.org/pfil/23/learningalphabets_Small.gif' alt='Learning the alphabet is fun!'style='margin: 5px;'/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Learning the alphabet is fun!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:13:25 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Inderjit Khurana</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2006-09-15T14:13:25Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Train Platform Schools Update 2005-2006</title>
      <link>http://www.globalgiving.org/pr/100/proj23d.html#progressReportLink</link>
      <description>&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;"&gt;&lt;p&gt;In addition to the attached report, Ruchika provided the following information about characteristics of children attending Train Platform Schools:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;·Kind of children coming to train platform schools:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The children attending classes are mostly orphans, runaway from poverty/hunger, abandoned by their parents, handicapped, abused earlier by family/teachers and drop outs from schools. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;· Occupations followed by these children:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A variety of occupations are noticed to have been followed by these children such as, rag picking, hawking, selling tea, shoe polishing, picking up and selling discarded bottles, newspapers etc. and, even reserving seats for passengers in the compartments.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Attachments:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.globalgiving.org/pfil/23/Train_Platform_Schools_updates.doc"&gt;Train_Platform_Schools_updates.doc (DOC)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:50:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Inderjit Khurana</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2006-08-31T16:50:18Z</dc:date>
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