Education India Project #7959

Bricks to Books

by Learning Links Foundation

Project Report | Nov 15, 2011
Initiatives - Bricks to Books

By Nuriya Ansari | Project Leader

Bricks to Books is an initiative by Learning Links Foundation to bridge the gap in education inequity and increase awareness of the rights enshrined in the constitution.

The project provides support to the not so privileged section of the society and impacts the lives of the children by enabling them to maximize their potential to transform their lives.

The project aims to involve students, teachers of the nodal schools and the school going children from the communities to adopt a robust awareness campaigns against abuse, discrimination, exploitation of children from the not so privileged sections of the society.

Activities

On 28^th August,11 a group of 28 students from the Government High SchoolUttarahalli Banglore scanned their environment and identified children who were engaged as child labor. They approched around 11 such children who work to support their family. Ramanujam interviewed a labor ‘Raju’ who works for the the building contractor and earns his livelihood to cater his fatherless family. During the conversation the child showed his interest towards studies, and children advised him about the evening classes which showed sparks in his eyes.

In the other nodal school ‘Pathipaga Chemmal K Ganapathy ‘ at Chennai students had an assessement of their regions on 19^th Sep,11 and realized that the children are working in the most dimal situation. Venkatesh a child working for a fabricator said, “ I’m earning fifty rupees daily, by which my mother arranges for the dinner for my family of five members.”

The stories of these children moved the students and they decided to organize activities so as to help these children attend evening classes and motivate them to get back to the mainstream schools.

UpComing Activity:The nodal school students are organizing a ‘Sahkaritia Mela’ in the surveyed locality to senitize the localilies about the group iniatives, and mobilize them towards the need of education.

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Jul 25, 2011
Initiation of Youth Club

By Usha Bhaskar | Project Leader

Bricks to Books is an initiative by Learning Links Foundation to bridge the gap in education inequity and increase awareness of the rights enshrined in the constitution.

It aims to provide support to the not so privileged section of the society and impact the lives of the children by enabling them to maximize their potential and change their lives. The project reaches out to the communities surrounding the nodal schools of Panchkula, Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai.

The project aims to involve students, teachers of the nodal school and the school going children from the community adopt a robust awareness campaigns against abuse, discrimination, exploitation of children from the not so privileged sections of the society.

Activities As a first step meetings were held to motivate the students which led to the formation of a Youth Club. On Tuesday, 7^th July’11, the club named ‘PRAYATNA’ was initiated. It’s an endeavor to bring together the youth of both nodal school and community and provide a platform to identify the root cause of child labor and come up with measures to tackle the issue. The meeting consisted of teachers and 22 school students. The students were introduced to the concept, objectives and scope of work within ‘PRAYATNA’.

Survey - On 8^th July, 11, the ‘PRAYATNA’, student members visited the nearby catchment areas to study the condition of the people. The objective of the visit was to conduct survey related to ‘Migrated labor classes and ‘Status of children in the family’.

During the survey Harshita Ahuja interviewed Rani who feels, “It is better that my child earns and feeds 10 hungry mouths rather than waste her time in the school”

Pranjal Garg encountered Anita, who opined “I got married at the age of 14 and have 9 kids with 6 daughters. I want them to contribute for my family”.

The visit sensitized the students to the problems of migrated labor and challenges involved in enhancing the status of children in the rural set up.

On the basis of survey report, members of ‘PRAYATNA’ have planned to conduct workshops for labor class and women in the forthcoming weeks. A Community Library has been established and was inaugurated by Mrs. Sangeeta Saxena, Principal of the nodal school, Delhi. The library has an initial collection of 50 books. The first lot of book was issued for the community children.

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