Toilets & Water for school children, rural India

Greetings to all donors!

Thanks to all donors for your support.  With your support we are able to continue the programs in our rural villages through outreach actvities.  Over the last few months we have implemented a number of actvities and some of these are described below.

Health and hygiene committee was formed to make the children understand the importance of cleanliness. The committee has three members and they are responsible for the cleanliness in their homes and neigborhoods. They are making sure that their homes and environment are cleaned regularly.  As part of this program children from classes VI - VIII children were given handwash. 

Screening of Value Education Videos:  Value Education plays an important role in the lives of school students. The students in the early adolescent year need clarity on their behaviour. The choices are important and they are based on the morals and values. Reading moral and values stories are not always interesting among school students. The team decided to do that in audio-visual mode. The screening of VE videos are always their enjoyable moments. These videos were screened in the auditorium to the students from classes VI - VIII. These videos are screened on Fridays. The topics covered are honesty, punctuality, loyalty, truthfulness, integrity and respect. After the sessions, the students were given brief on the values learnt. The students were also asked questions in the session. The social awareness was also given through these videos like importance of girl education, ill effects of plastic usage and national leaders achievements.

Art & Craft sessions: Art & Craft activities were conducted on a regular time frame for slow learners. It will make them recharge themselves. These activities were helped to improve their concentration. This shows the creativity of the students. It was conducted to improve the fine motor skills, concentration and focus among some of the students. As part of this, the students did leaf painting, paper bags, Origami Star and Painting activity

Nutritious Snacks giving program: With an aim to improve the dietary intake among students which in turn can enhance academic success, nutritious snacks are being provided to 70 students of class X. The focus is to infuse an environment of healthy eating habits and hence focusing on providing nutrition snacks after school to keep the energy level intact. The students have been made to bring their own containers and to avoid plastic or paper cups. The students were happy after they were provided with nutritious snacks and they thanked them as it could help them concentrate better during evening study hours. 

Dear Friends and Well Wishers!

Greetings from Kalanjiyam!

These last few months have been very challenging to implement our regular programs.  We have to find innovative ways of reaching the children and families under the new normal conditions during GOVID pandemic.

Our rural communities have also been impacted in that many of the families are daily wage laborers and have lost their income. Children are home as schools are closed and there it has created a greater need for ensuring the health behaviors. Explaining to illiterate communities about the COVID risk and increasing their understanding on how to protect them was foremost in our minds.

Kalanjiyam team took up one to one and small group interactions and started our education program, we explained what is the Corona virus, how it spreads, signs and symptoms and how to protect oneself from infection.  We taught about hand washing practices and self-hygiene and social distancing and why these are required and how to follow them under the rural context.

We have been able to reach 1500 children and their families in our local villages these last few months with these awareness program/ campaign.  We have also made cloth based masks at Kalanjiyam and distributed them free of cost to our communities. 

We are continuing our efforts despite the challenging circumstances and will continue to reach more children and families with awareness.

We thank you for your continued support