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Operation Vasantha (OV) has been impacting the lives of disadvantaged rural children since 2009.  This highly interactive and empowering initiative addresses the problem of school dropouts. It also aims to educate families on the importance of education and engage dropouts. and other children through interactive activities and fun learning sessions.  These activities include parent counselling, health and hygiene camps, and education on ecology.

Local college students are trained and given support from Agastya to teach children in their villages. These individuals willingly spend their evenings educating and inspiring weaker students and school dropouts from their villages. The target students, many of whom are first-generation learners, had dropped out of school for a myriad of reasons. Firstly, some were “encouraged” to do so to work and contribute to the family’s income. Secondly, younger siblings often have to give up their studies if their older siblings were already pursuing higher education. This is because many families cannot afford the hefty economic burden of putting all their children through school.

From October 2022 - December 2022, 25 units of OV centers reached 2,482 unique numbers of children and 43,485 student exposures.

Given below is the list of activities conducted in the OV centers throughout the quarter:

1. Volunteers and community members came together to celebrate Gandhi Jayanthi on the 2nd of October.

2. The OV in charge visited many centers and empowered community children and volunteers towards the importance of education.

 3. On the 5th of October, children visited the Kuppam campus and performed some cultural activities.

 4. A. N. Kothuru OV Center organized a Swachh Bharat campaign where the school chairman, community members and ward members showed their presence and motivated all our children through their inspiring words. There was also a parent meeting conducted in November.

 5. A tree plantation drive was successfully conducted by Chintharalapayam OV Center with the strong support of the community people.

 6. Children’s Day was celebrated across all OV centers. Children of communities around the Kuppam campus took part in various cultural activities. Gifts and chocolates were also distributed amongst them.

 7. There was a training session on instructions and content by the OV in charge of the OV volunteers on the 16th of November.

 8. On the 23rd of November, an ALP program was conducted at Chintharapalyam.

9. Shobha Narayanan and her team visited the Gudupalli Colony center along with Campus Head Mr Kumar to interact with community children and get to know about our program in depth on the 25th of November.

10. Our children celebrated National Constitution Day in Chintharapalyam OV center to spread awareness around fundamental rights on the 26th of November.

11. We even distributed paper bags in Dasumanupalli village for making the community people aware of plastic usage and its effect on the environment in November.

12. In Mittapalli center, the in-charge took a session on computer basics for high school students.

13. A parent meeting was organized at Guttapaalli center in which all parents participated actively and asked questions about their children to the volunteer and even to their own children.

14. In December there was an HIV awareness done for the community people in Dasamanupali.

15. In the first week of December, the OV in charge visited the Sirigiripalli center and gave a session on low-cost models.

16. On the 16th of December, Donor Team from the Bangalore Head Office visited the Chintharapalyam OV center and observed and gave positive feedback regarding our center.

17. We celebrated National Math Day on the 22nd of December for all centers and exhibited some math models and activities for other friends and community people.

18. A science fair was organized in the last week of December in Chinthrapalyam.

Curious questions from children about everyday life:

• Which is the biggest land animal on Earth?
• Which is the fastest-growing plant?
• How does a match light up?
• How is a rainbow formed?
• How does a camel conserve water?
• What is geography?
• What are the different types of computers?
• How do you fly a plane at night?
• Do butterflies live for 7 days?
• Who created the first landline?
• Can sound waves generate heat?
• Which is the largest and smallest cell?
• How many universes exist?
• How and why do molecules form?
• What is a parameter?
• Why does a glow stick glow?
• What is the pH of human blood?
• Why do flies walk on the ceiling without falling?
• Why is it called an anthology?
• Which period is called the age of fish?
• What is civilization?

Feedback:

''The center has helped me immensely in improving and applying my prior knowledge practically. I see my future goals achieved through the guidance that I have been receiving here.'' -Harikrishna, Gudupalli Colony

 "Operation Vasantha is a wonderful program because, to many parents and their children, it provides a platform to help them support their education. Children are encouraged to learn through hands-on activities than by the traditional method of rote learning. I have noticed children at the center turning their interests more towards studies and paying attention to self-growth.'' -S. Janaki, Dasamanapalli Volunteer

 "I am an alum of Chintharapalyam OV center. Currently, my sister and a cousin are a part of the same center. I really liked the idea behind this program which aims to even somewhere improve English. Other than tutoring, their strong emphasis is on including community members and their children in various activities." -L. Murali, Community Member, Chintharapalyam

Links:

• http://www.agastya.org/
• http://www.facebook.com/Agastya.Foundation
• https://twitter.com/agastyasparks

Operation Vasantha (OV) has been impacting the lives of disadvantaged rural children. This highly interactive and empowering initiative addresses the problem of school dropouts. It also aims to educate families on the importance of education     and engage dropouts. and other children through interactive activities and fun learning sessions. These activities include parents counselling, health and hygiene camps, and education on ecology.

Local college students are trained and given support from Agastya to teach children in their villages. These individuals willingly spend their evenings educating and inspiring weaker students and school dropouts from their villages. The target students, many of whom are first-generation learners, had dropped out of school for a myriad of reasons. Firstly, some were “encouraged” to do so to work and contribute to the family’s income. Secondly, younger siblings often have to give up their studies if their older siblings were already pursuing higher education. This is because many families cannot afford the hefty economic burden of putting all their children through school.

During April 2022-June2022, 25 units of OV center reached 2,482 unique number of children and 53,485 student exposures. Given below is the activity conducted in the OV center.

• On April 6^th, Operation Vasantha program conducted annual day function at Noolukunta OV center. Conducted sports and cultural events. They distributed prizes to winners.

• On 14^th April Ambedkar Jayanti Celebration happened at Adavibugur OV center. As a guest village sarpanch, MPTC, Village community, Volunteers, Children participated in this event. They conducted sports to children and gave prizes to them and also children spoke about Ambedkar Garu.

• Daily classes was happening and also preparing kids for final examinations like helping out regarding on main topics and explaining where they are poor.

• Planning for summer camp in summer vacation.

• OV children visited to campus for summer camp purposes and also explore different activities which provide children fun, creativity, and also knowledge on various topics. And also, they participated on various cultural activities which is happening in the auditorium.

• Mobile van also came for some OV centers along with Agastya Instructors and sessions are happening in villages also.

• On 28^th May, Parent meeting happened in all OV centers. Parents came and discussed about children’s growth and needs.This helps us to improve children’s development and need to be fulfilled.

• OV children came to campus for summer camp purpose to explore different activities, which is giving children fun, creativity and also knowledge on various topics. And children participated on various cultural activities which is happening at the auditorium.

• On 5^th June conducted World Environment Day celebrations. OV volunteer, Children and local community participated and plantation done at villages.

• On 17^th June, Most of our OV children and volunteers participated on Magic show program by Mr. Suresh and Health Awareness program by Dr. Charan at Kuppam Campus.

• On 21^st June, Yoga Day celebrated at the Kuppam campus. Mr. Gopinath, Yoga professor came and yoga awareness program conducted at Auditorium.

• On 25/06/2022 Parents meeting happened on all OV centers. Parents came and discussed about children growth and needs.This helps us to improve children development and need.

• On 28^th June Earth Day conducted at Indian Network Partnership with CES senior Manager, Deebapriya Datt visited Kadepalli

• Some volunteers selected solve for society (SFS) and gave training to the volunteers.

• On 29^th June Earth Day plantation celebration at Agastya, Kuppam Campus. Students participated at Balavana with the presence of Ecology manager and CES team.

Feedback from Students

“OV center helps me to improve my communication skills and also knowledge in my subjects. I like to do hands-on learning. It’s helping me to give better performance in my future.”- Swapna-5^th class, P.B.Wada.

“In our OV center starts every day at 6 pm and ends by 8 pm. In between, we pray God for 5 minutes. We complete our homework. Stories telling, origami activities will be there. Agastya activity kits and utilizing those, it is very useful. We are very happy in doing all these. Thanks to Agastya team.”- Vandana 8^th class, J.K.Palli.

Links:

• http://www.agastya.org
• http://www.facebook.com/Agastya.Foundation
• https://twitter.com/agastyasparks