Reducing school drop outs in rural India

Art Class for Special Children : Art classes were conducted exclusively for the special children. The children were taught cotton bud painting which helps to develop fine motor skills, concentration and focus. The students were very enthusiastic and showed more involvement in the session.

Club Activities : Social Awareness Club is continued to be held ol for the students of classes IV&V. Topic on taxation was continued with revision on the topic, followed by activities on tax for better understanding among the students. Four sessions were conducted during this month.

A brain storming session to list out various sports all over the world were listed out. Further, Kabbadi as a sport was explained to the students with its rules, India’s accomplishments, etc.

Extempore Speech and Story Telling competition : Storytelling competition for classes I-II and Extempore Speech competition for classes III-V were conducted , and was judged by  a social worker . Participants were judged based on body language, content, creativity and presentation. Most of the students who participated and won prizes in the Extempore Speech Competition are present and former members of speech club.    

Group Art Competition :  Group Art Competition for classes I-V was conducted with a group size of nine students each. For classes I-III, a large picture was split into nine parts and given for the students to colour, and for classes IV-V, the students had to draw a big picture based on the given theme and colour the same as a team. The students were judged based on team coordination, creativity, color selection and neatness. The students participated enthusiastically and the HM appreciated the efforts by the project for conducting the competition.  

Dear Friends and Well wishers,

We are happy to share that we this in the last three months we have focused on supporting students to complete the school year successfully and to attend their exams.  Following this, we conducted some small summer camp sessions before the weather became too hot.

The summer camp was used to teach the participating students new forms of arts, crafts, and other extra-curricular activities as well as to bring out the latent aptitudes. Some of the activities were also structured to lay stress on recycling especially paper The participants were divided into teams with a team leader for each day of the camp; This enabled easier coordination of participants, handling of materials and conduct of activities. This also ensured individualised attention to all participants.

Three days activities were conducted, starting with games for the children followed by arts, crafts and dance. Fun games were conducted at regular intervals to ensure that the children’s energy levels did not dip. Team games and races were organised to enable team building and trust formation among the students. Refreshments were given twice to keep the energy levels up in the face of the summer heat. On the concluding day, all the participants were given a gift as token of appreciation for having attended the camp. All the artwork and craftwork has been collected and stored for display at the Exhibition at a later date.  A total of fifty students participated in the camp. 

The participants showed enthusiasm and zeal during the summer camp. The students quickly picked up the new arts and crafts items taught. They were excited to learn new things and to know that they could try these at home with the materials at their disposal.  The students confessed that the art, craft and dance items were all new to them and that this was the first time they are exposed to these forms. 

Thanks to all for helping us to make this possible