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Khandeghar is one of our supported school for last 10 years. While we had got its infrastructure (compound, toilet, school painting etc) to a level, it still needed few things to make it a model/ complete school in itself. The small, but important factor of playground equipment – such as swing, slides, see-saw, merry-go-round etc […]
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Most of the schools we support in Vikramgad area have infrastructure which is around 15-18 yrs old. This necessitates a need to do major repair or rework on the infrastructure. One such school which needed was Kalampada. Our teacher had approached us to reconstruct a toilet which was already in dilapidated condition – resulting into […]
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Every school has electricity connection in the Vikramgad, Palghar region where we are working. However, frequent power outages make running schools little difficult – i.e. comfort of lights and fan, availability of water and cleanliness, use of eLearning facility (if any) – is directly impacted because of absence of power supply at times. This issue, […]
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We all believe that learning is not limited to only classrooms – but also lot remain outside of the classrooms. However, implementing this requires lot of effort at various levels – ranging from parents of children, teachers and supporting institutes/organizations. Suhrid Foundation, based on discussion with girls and teachers at Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalay, Waki […]
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Suhrid Foundation has maintained small library in each of the 11 schools. Every year, there is upgrade to these libraries by adding few books – story books, books which can enhance study, some new charts for display etc. Idea behind this initiative is to develop habit of reading in children, let them learn new things […]
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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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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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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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