By Usha Bhaskar | Senior Manager
Activities Taken-up in the last Quarter :
The Children of migrant labours had an opportunity to have fun learning during the summer holidays. In spite of hot summer these children were very eager to work with notebooks, pen, paper and even technology. More than 100+ students participated in the summer sessions. Initially they were slightly hesitant to attend but later days they were not willing to miss the sessions as it had more activities and fun filled learning. The children were oriented based on activities they come across in day to day life. The most interest activity was on animals and birds they see every day. They felt very sad knowing on the fact of the effects on animals and birds due to human behavior, deforestation, pollution etc. The kids portrayed their thoughts through simple paintings on conserving the nature.
The activities to these children were given based on their skill set after analyzing the same. The identified children shared their skills to others by training their peers with their skill set. Best example was one of the kids training others on origami (paper folding) and others joined together and made the models of animals and birds too. The technology intervention played a vital role during these sessions. The children were very adaptive to learn the basics and used it as a tool to display their learning’s.
The minority children from various part of the country gather to learn Arabic language through Madarsa’s during summer. These students were surprised on getting an opportunity to learn technology. Since these students never had an access to computers ever before and also since they cannot read, write, speak or understand English, learning computers was a humungous task for them. They found it very interesting as it was activity based learning’s using technology as a tool. The children shared the happenings around their community, the problems they face every day. The healthy discussion resulted with lots of solutions to over go the issues in their community. The children finally returned back with lots of learning’s and assured to join next summer too.
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