Support 25 Transformative Night Village Schools

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.

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• http://www.agastya.org
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