By Fr. Thomas P.D | Director, Don Bosco Veedu Society
Case Study - Chenda Melam
School Dropout prevention through Chenda melam
“We Grow according to the interest of the world. Yet we live according to the interest of our own desires”
Don Bosco KEEN tuition identified that there are children in the slum who are school dropouts and some of them are irregular in their schools. KEEN project decided to conduct an interest analysis of the school dropouts and identified that 13 among them are interest to learn chenda (an Indian percussion instrument). The KEEN project collabrated with Margi (An organization dedicated to the revival of classical art forms of Kerala) Kalamandalam Krishna Das was assigned by Margi to teach the children Chenda Melam.
Now these children are attending school and the tuition centre regularly without any force, based on a condition set by KEEN tuition that those who are not attending the tuition as well as the school are not permitted to attend the chenda classes.
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