By Vama Rajpal | Fundraising Manager
QUARTERLY STATUS OF CFS (July - September, 2015)
For overall development we conducted various learning activities for their physical and mental development and special care is taken on their nutrition and hygiene. Currently we have 5 CFS classes at construction sites and 3 in slums.
We inaugurated one new center in this quarter at construction site. We closed down one at the construction site as the project got over.
Two of our supporters celebrated their kids’ birthday with our CFS children. One of them provided one day lunch to all the children and the other one with snacks and drawing kit.
Saath in collaboration with aProCh Foundation conducts various arts, crafts, and storytelling activities with CFS children on every 4th Sunday of the month at different parks in Ahmedabad. This quarter we had conducted activities at Prahladnagar Garden, Law Garden and Parimal Garden. Here children interacts with other school kids and learn a lot with them.
School Kits were distributed to the new enrollments in all the classes and at the new centers.
There is an outbreak of Dengue in Gujarat. The awareness sessions were kept for children and their families.
We had a volunteer Ms. Hina Parikh from Delhi who spent couple of hours every day for two months at our various centers. She taught Hindi alphabets and different body parts in English. She also introduced them to some of the hindi nursery rhymes.
We have divided the children at the centers in three groups according to their age:
Group A: Children who very young, prayers, poems and basic body parts are taught here
Group B: Children are taught Alphabets and Numbers in English and Gujarati
Group C: Children are taught how to write and also they learn addition, subtraction, multiplication.
Given below is the brief of activities at each individual centre:
Different activities were done with children according to their age groups. The children were taught English – Gujarati alphabets, names of fruits, animals, birds, colours and they learned about various shapes. Craft activities were also done with the children and they were taught to make various things out of paper and colouring them. They have been taught to make toys from waste material. They have also taught about glass painting and learned different colours names.
During the 3 month period the children were taught English and Gujarati alphabets, names of vegetables and fruits, they learnt numbers from 1-100, stories were told, sang songs, learnt how to write simple words and draw basic shapes. Few out-door exercise sessions were done for the physical development.
Vejalpur
At this center the kids continue learning different letters in Gujarati and English. They learnt writing numbers from 50-100. They learnt new nursery rhymes and songs. Children were taught about craft and painting. They have learned new techniques of drawing.
SW Park – Naroda
Here children learned simple words, reading and writing the alphabets and small words in English. In Maths the children learned numbers from 1 to 20. The children learned about colours, learned from charts, played various interactive learning games and children songs.
SW Park – Vasna
At this center, younger kids were taught alphabets in two languages English and Gujarati, the older kids were taught to read and write the alphabets. In Maths, kids learned basic examples of addition. Apart from these children were taught basic disciplinary manners. They were taught general knowledge. Mythological stories were narrated.
Umang – Narol
In this center children were taught to write numbers 1-50 in English and 1-100 in Gujarati. Songs in Gujarati were taught. We had a volunteer who taught these kids different body parts in English language and few songs and poems in English. They also had regular sports activities at this center. Children also learnt basic manners. They learnt how to greet and meet in English.
In the class the children were taught prayer songs, reading alphabets (English and Gujarati) and reading from 1 to 100 numbers. With the help of interactive games the children were taught about how to give their introduction, identify various colours and counting digits. Children were taught season names and importance of cleanliness.
Aakruti Aangan - Lamba
This is the new center that was inaugurated in this quarter. Parents were invited so that they can come and see what activities are conducted here. First month only went in registrations, Children played with toys and few games were played every day so that children get comfortable with teachers. Second month songs and poems were taught.
CHALLENGES
Child Friendly Spaces- Status in September 15
Sr. No. Name of the Centre No. of Children
Boy Girl Total
1 Fatehwadi 15 10 25
2 Ram rahim no tekro 14 17 31
3 Vejalpur 17 18 35
4 Naroda- Mahadev Residency 10 14 24
5 Shahwadi- Swaminarayan park 10 10 20
6 Narol- Umang 12 10 22
7 Rajyash Revanta – Vasna 31 37 68
8 akruti Aangan- Lambha 32 36 68
9 Aaryan Opulence- Ambli 6 4 10
Total 147 156 303
Child Friendly Spaces (July 15- September 15)
Sr. No. Name of the Centre Newly Enrolled Children Children enrolled to School
Jul.15 Aug.15 Sep.15 Total Jul.15 Aug.15 Sep.15 Total
1 Fatehwadi 3 2 1 6 4 - - 4
2 Ram rahim no tekro - - 3 3 2 - - 2
3 Vejalpur 4 2 3 9 - - - -
4 Naroda- Mahadev Residency 6 4 - 10 - - - -
5 Shahwadi- Swaminarayan park 5 - - 5 3 - - 3
6 Narol- Umang 4 2 - 6 - - - -
7 Rajyash Revanta - Vasna 9 1 - 10 - - - -
8 Aakruti Aangan- Lambha - - - - - - - -
9 Aaryan Opulence- Ambli - - - - - - - -
Total 31 11 7 49 9 - - 9
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