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Activities taken up in last quarter

Signature Campaign - Thumb Impression to Signature

A signature campaign is conducted at Bangalore to create awareness on importance of literacy. Students along with corporate employees visited the Jeevan Bheema Nagar area and educated the illiterates about the importance of education. Students taught them how to do the signature and motivated them not to use thumb impression. A database is prepared with the list of illiterates in the area and these people are asked to attend the Literacy Classes at Jeevan Bheema Nagar School.

Literacy day celebrations

Literacy day is celebrated in three cities across India on 16^th October. Students from different schools, School dropouts and Parents participated in this activity. Various activities were conducted for the students on this occasion and best students were awarded.

Overcoming the Social Barriers

Special digital literacy batches are conducted at Hyderabad to train the Madrasa (Islamic Education Centers) girls. These girls never had any chance to acquire digital literacy skills. During the course of 2 months special training the girls empowered themselves with digital literacy skills in a 21^st Century environment. On seeing the impact of these trainings. The Madrasas planning to impart computer education as the part of their core curriculum.

Digital Literacy access to underserved students:

At Gurgaon special digital literacy batches are organized for the children of laborers. Though these students do not go for formal schooling, they are learning basic reading, writing and arithmetic along with computer education at our facility. These sessions are helping the students to bridge the gap once they rejoin the formal schooling system.

Old and New cloth Donation and Computer Education Classes for the Orphanage

The foundation is organizing a interaction session between the children of Orphanage and Corporate employees to motivate the children. During this interaction session Old/New clothes will be donated to the children and Educational Material (Stationary, Toys, Books …etc) will be gifted to the children. Since the Orphanage does not have a computer lab the foundation is planning to conduct the computer literacy trainings to these children.

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Activities taken up in last quarter

School Dropouts to Formal Schooling

Suriya and Madan the school dropouts being the part of community outreach program at Chennai. Orientation to these students and their parents on the importance of literacy resulted admission in formal schooling in 7^th standard at PCKG Government Hr Sec School, Chennai.

Digital Literacy Trainings for Madrasa Students

Madrasa students are trained on digital literacy skills through the community outreach program at Hyderabad. These students never had any chance to learn digital literacy skills.      

Digital Literacy Trainings for Visually Challenged Students

Special digital literacy trainings were conducted to the Visually Challenged Students at Chennai. Though these children were visually impaired they were trained on basics of computers and recognition of alphabets by typing it through the keyboard. The students were trained on technology through special application designed for visually challenged like Jazz, NVDA etc. This initiative motivated them to learn their regular subjects with the help of technology through audio aids.

Computer Classes for Laborer’s Children

Special trainings on digital literacy were organised for these children during the vacation. The students were eager to learn technology and seemed enthusiastic to use the colorful platform.

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