Education to Poor Rural Indian Child(One year)

Project 

Normally in all Indian Educational Institutions, the holiday is declared and school remains closed to celebrate all cultural related festivals.  Students and teachers do not come to school on this day and spends their time at home mostly playing or doing some home related activity. They are not aware as what is the reason, why this holiday in school, what is the value related to this occasion for which the holiday is declared?

Purpose of the Project 

Educate the students and make them aware about the festival and stories related with it for which the holiday is declared to mark the respect to the occasion. Learning from happening on this day to be inculcated in the development of student’s overall personality for e.g. Dusshera is celebrated to mark winning over the bad to the good.

Current Situation

A complete holiday is declared in the school to mark and celebrate the occasion/festival. Teachers and students do not come to school. Teachers also do not educate students what happened on this day in the past and why do we celebrate this occasion.  Who are the characters involved – Why this was done – Who did it – What good or bad happened on this day.

What we did to improve the situation

(i)            Complete holiday in the school is not declared. Students and teachers have to attend school on the function day. An educational programme is introduced which is related to the occasion for which the holiday is to be observed. Teachers teach all students by way of conducting special lessons, which tells about the happenings and observations and the lessons to be learned from past events.

(ii)          Students and teachers participate together to celebrate the occasion and mock drills are performed by performing related activities.

(iii)         School functions for half a day and then after the educational curriculum is complete, the students and teachers disperse for rest of the day.

 Result

1.         Students got educated and are aware about the occasion/festival for which the holiday is declared.

2.         Learned about good and bad deeds and how it affects their life.  

3.         Students have knowledge and awareness about the occasion.

4.         They also know as how they can implement the learning’s and the value of the occasions for the development of their personality.

5.         They performed the creative activities which enhanced their development instead of spending the time in play or doing some not so important activities at home.

 Thanks to Donors

The Management and Members of Psycho Educational Society, BDP School students, staff and teachers are grateful of donors who have donated the funds. With the aid of these funds all these events could happen and the successful event would not have been possible without it.

Utilization of Funds

The funds received from donors are utilized to pay the extra salaries of the teachers and to meet the running expenses of the school during this period to execute the programme conducted for the project.

Quotes from beneficiaries

The group of students both boys and girls who participated in celebrations Teej function, Dusshera, Independence Day, Janamasthmi, Buddha Jayanti functions, performed the creative activities in the school, learned the teachings and got involved and educated. Their parents appreciated the involvement of students and the learning they got from the activities performed. In fact the parents also joined their wards during the performance of these activities in the school, encouraged and appreciated the students.