Archive for 2023
Usually, kids in our region, pull-off the entire academic year with only 2 sets of uniforms (and may be last year’s uniform). They may get new clothes during festive season once or twice (if their parents have come back from work with some extra money). This leaves almost no space for having season specific clothing […]
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Continuing our effort to support girl child education, we have been working with Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalay (KGBV) for over 2 years now. In this school, there are challenges of shortage of teaching staff for learning few subjects in some grades. Last year, we had supported with additional teacher for last few months of the […]
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Monsoon typically brings minor illnesses amongst kids. This results into absence from school and also loss of their study and indirectly better nutrition (which otherwise they get along with their mid-day meal through a program which we run on school days). Children also get exposed to change of weather. Hence, this is the period when […]
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has been focusing on all-round growth of children in all the schools supported. One of the core areas of the same is related to their physical and mental growth – through sporting and fun activities such as: 1) Participating in physical sports – such as badminton, skipping rope, cricket, volley-ball, football, throw-ball etc, 2) Mental games through board games – ludo, chess, puzzles, etc 3) learning cognitive and analytical skills with puzzles such as Rubik’s cube, carrom board 4) learning bicycles
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Even though learning Marathi and English, both are equal “foreign” to tribal children for all our schools, Marathi gets picked-up fast when interacted with people in town or with teachers in a year. However, learning English remains a challenge. In last 9 years or so, our experiment of teaching Phonics to these children has paid-off well. Teachers could observe highly amplified improvement in learning English. Our friend and supporting teacher Ms Krishna Sheth has taught teachers in both level-1 and level-2 of Phonics in last 9 years – with refresher sessions being taken every alternate years.
This year as well, on 26-Aug-2023, a session was conducted. We wanted it to be propagated in the area to as many schools as possible and hence we invited interested teachers from other schools as well (even if not otherwise directly supported by us). Though intense, both sessions was well received, with lunch-break in-between. We thank Ms Krishna Sheth, teachers for support. Children get benefitted a lot with this. Sharing few of the links below which our teachers enthusiastically share to let us know about the benefits.
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Kaspada village from Vikramgad region, is known to have scarcity of water due to its geological conditions i.e. rocky terrain and bed of rocks in majority of terrain around. Though there is water available in river for around 3 months of monsoon, their primary source of potable water remains wells made by government.
There are three usable wells in village. Generally, these wells start getting dried-up around Feb/Mar every year. With this trend, in the past, local government had to provide village potable water with the help of tankers every 2 days till it rains and wells get recharged during the month of June or July. Until then, people even have to walk down 2km to nearby village for drinking water during peak summers – at times, which also becomes issue of conflict between two villages.
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Majority farmers in the region take only one crop of rice from June to Oct/Nov every year and migrate to other regions for earning. This impacts their kids’ education, their health, elders and overall family. In last 4-5 years, we have been working with the farmers and have been encouraging them to take-up additional 2 or 3 crops in the land – for improving livelihood and arrest the migration of working people from family. Couple of villages who had availability of water, have come-up and have started taking various produce such as, onions, garlic, leafy vegetables, bottle gourd, brinjal, lady-finger, ginger, guar, chili, and mogra flower, mango, etc cash crops after their rice season.
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After completion of one batch of training at Khandeghar, few women from Khanipada (sister village of Khandeghar) had shown interest in starting training centre in their own village. We agreed and moved some sewing machines from Khandeghar centre to start another centre at Khanipada which is around 1.5km from Khandeghar. Meeting with women and few interested men happened on 11-Mar-2023.
Since August 2021, we had taken up training of females for tailoring using sewing machines and so far, we have trained around 75-80 females on the same in three villages – Janathepada, Khandeghar and Khanipada. While it was like a learning new skill for some, few of them realized that as an option to earn livelihood as well. Four such females from Khandeghar (and Khanipada) came forward to indicate their inclination for the same. We encouraged them by giving them a subsidy in purchasing sewing machines of their own – i.e. they can get brand new sewing machine from Suhrid Foundation if they can contribute partially towards the same. The partial contribution was symbolic so that they own it with pride and also make a serious attempt to generate livelihood using the new sewing machine.
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Suhrid Foundation conducts camp for health check-up of 650 children from all our supported 10 schools. In the month of April 2023, Suhrid Foundation conducted medical camps for all schools before end of academic year 2022-23. From this session onwards, we had decided to request parents of children to also join during the camp – at least for 1st and 2nd standard kids. This ensured following things:
Parents could articulate problems better (eg any repetitive illness)
Parents could understand dosage of medicines better – reducing burden from teachers and also bringing-in ownership of administering medicines to kids at home
Parents could also be guided on better nutrition and taking care of their ward’s health – for which otherwise Suhrid Foundation used to arrange for separate parents’ meeting.
Main observation from the camp was – need for rebuilding up of enthusiasm and coordination amongst teachers, re-focus on nutrition and health, rekindling of all projects and processes – which were impacted due to lock-down period for around 2 years. We decided to work on this as soon as academic process starts back in Jun 2023.
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As some of you may know, in Jun 2022, we had started fortnightly sessions for career guidance, confidence building and improving study skills of girls at Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalay (KGBV) through career guiding trainers from Boisar – named Shubham Learning. This session has helped these girls a lot in various ways:
Confidence for public speaking
Communication skills
How to take notes in the classes
How to plan their studies
Improve concentration
Improving English vocabulary
And finally, choosing career objective and defining right goals
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