By Usha Bhaskar | Project Manager
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 16th 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 21st 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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