Education India Project #34783

SOFT SKILL TRAINING FOR 450 CHILDREN FOR A YEAR

by Create Foundation (India)

Project Report | Dec 14, 2020
THE CREATE FOUNDATION - December 2020

By Krishma | Project Executive

Online Ramayan

THE CREATE FOUNDATION – December 2020

In view of the pandemic, as the country has now turned digital, we at THE CREATE foundation, in collaboration with the Salaam Bombay Foundation, made our first online-offline production by directing scenes of the play, ‘Rediscover The Epic’. All students were from marginalized backgrounds of the Salaam Bombay Academy of Arts. We are delighted to share some stills of their fantastic performance which was broadcasted on Facebook live on the Salaam Bombay Foundation page.

Additionally, we celebrated ‘Joy of Giving Week’ in October where we conducted a five-day workshop with 217 kids and a one day workshop with 77 young adults. The goal of this workshop was to build Personality, Confidence, develop good Imagination Skills, learn about Mahatma Gandhi, and emotes through activities such as Mime, Improvisation, Talk time, Theatre games & the Use of a prop.

THE CREATE foundation is happy to have expanded in the online space with 6 Non- Government Organizations, who are currently on board with our Speech and Drama Life Skills program. Sharing a glimpse of our online sessions.

We also created something very special for Children’s Day on 14^th November.One common and equal platform for children from mainstream schools, integrated with children from marginalized backgrounds. Through our workshops, we helped them to communicate, find their voices, and speak up for the things they believe in... Presenting a small performance- “Look out World, Here come the leaders of tomorrow”.

Recently, THE CREATE Foundation organized a Virtual Magic Show for 100 kids including kids and young adults of various NGO like ADAPT, Seva Sadan Society, Salaam Bombay Foundation, Pehchaan, and the Society for the Education of the Challenge. Our talented magician and mentalist thoroughly entertained everyone with mind-boggling tricks and even taught the kids a few tricks. All the kids were thrilled to learn new magic tricks! This was a Christmas Present for our CREATE students.

The entire show was a fantastic way to relax and enjoy together.

Below are some stills from the show.

Group performance for Facebook live

Enacting Ramayan character

Online Celebration of 'JOY OF GIVING' week

Virtual Magic show

Fun with NGO kids

Collaboration with NGO'S for Speech&Drama workshop

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Children's Day celebration

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Aug 13, 2020
CREATE Foundation- August 2020

By Roxainne Santamaria | Head- operations

Apr 17, 2020
CREATE Foundation- April 2020

By Roxainne Santamaria | Executive

CREATE Foundation as a part of their Soft Skill Training endeavor, has utilized the funds received to start 13 classes with 7 NGOs in Mumbai, reaching out to approximately 335 students from marginalized backgrounds to impart soft skill training.

CREATE Foundation is pleased to inform you that we have successfully completed our very first academic year for soft skills training through Speech and Drama and are almost through with the completion of our second academic year.

Syllabus for the children for Soft skill and life skills training is specially curated after careful consideration of their requirements and after feedback from our instructors post each session. We add or subtract fun activities, speech exercises, Theatre games, etc based on what the children can relate to the most.

Our ongoing singing program for a visually challenged NGO and dance classes for an NGO with children having hearing impediments have also received great feedback from both parents and the children who excitedly and eagerly look forward to every session.

The goals of these activities are to build personality, confidence, interactive skills through our Speech & Drama class which covers speech exercises, enunciation, vowels, pronunciation, age-appropriate poems and correct pronunciation of English words. Using the medium of the creative arts, the children have participated in various fun activities in every session, like a role-play in a real-life situation in which they can relate to, like at the market or at the fair, acting in an ensemble, theatre games like “Continue the story”, “Form shapes with your bodies” etc. bringing and fleshing out the ‘actor’ in them.

Through our Dance & Singing class, we help with social interaction, voice modulation, teamwork, creative thinking, memorization, etc.

Grooming: Through our grooming sessions, we help develop many skills namely interview etiquette, basic greeting, communication, interpersonal and social skills.

Amidst this lockdown in our entire nation, keeping in mind our children from all the NGOs. We made sure to research and send them weekly assignments which consisted of reading to improve their vocabulary along with audio files for guidance while they practice. And, animated moral based stories for younger children. The feedback from all the NGOs and the children have been truly overwhelming so far.

Attached to this report are some stills from our fun-filled sessions.

PLEASE NOTE: Not all NGOs allow photography/videography during class, resulting in us not having pictures of sessions at a few NGOs.

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