Bricks to Books

Activities Conduted During Last Quarter :

During the summer vacation the Foundation conducted special digital literacy trainings to the children in Kunnapattu village situated in Kanchipuram district Tamilnadu. The children from the nearby community used to assemble in one of the house of the child to attend the trainings  . The children were initially trained on basics like how to handle a tablet, laptop etc then with interesting web 2.0 tools. The curriculum also helped the children understand the importance of values in our life. Post trainings the students prepared a “value tree” and aligned it with their goal.

Kunnapattu is extremely backward village from Tamilnadu state . The  children had to travel long distances to for their schoolings.

Since the village is in a remote year and far away from the technology, the children from the school had a practise of going to their schools to check their results every year. But after attending the digital literacy trainings by the Foundation ,  for the first time they had borrowed a cell phone from the village head and checked the results of all the children in the village.

The village heads and the parents of the children were very excited and had requested the resource person to provide training even for the parents. The initiative was extremely appreciated and welcomed by everyone in the village as it helped them to move a step higher.

The distribution of stationeries was also continued in this phase too so as to motivate the students and parents about the importance of education. It was extremely a cool summer.

• Digital Literacy at the Door Step (PDF)
  

Activities Taken-up during the Last Quarter

This quarter focused on the community surrounding Kanchipuram district is surrounded by unskilled /semi-skilled population. Majority are from economically weaker sections of the society and to meet their basic needs, children drop out of school and are engaged in child labour.  80% of the children work in unorganized sector. Many children enrolled in schools were irregular as they were enrolled for minimal daily wages works.

The aim to bridge the gap in education inequity and increase awareness of the rights enshrined in the constitution. Such underprivileged children in and around Kanchipuram districts of Tamil Nadu were motivated by contributing stationery’s like note books, pencils, erasers, rulers, pens, sketches, crayons, water colours, uniforms, school bags, geometry boxes and so on. Students were oriented not only on the importance of education but the fun they can have at schools other than studies.

Students were taught to read, write, more of fun activities like just a minute sessions, story sessions, origami, painting, learning aids etc. Technology sessions were also organised for the children from the community in the nearby schools. Empowering children with technology is like, giving them wings to fly in the current fast moving global scenario. There is always a need to reach out to the students from rural areas that are deprived from learning the technology. The foundation encourages and privileged to provide “Digital Literacy” to such deprived children in rural places of Kanchipuram Districts.

• Stationary Distribution (PDF)