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 28th 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 19th 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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