Learning Never Stops here

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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 academic year in doing a crash-course for Maths for girls of Standard 10th. But, availability of teacher in Vikramgad is not always feasible and we may have to draw availability of teachers from our network in Mumbai. At the same time, coming to Vikramgad on regular basis for those teachers from Mumbai is also not always feasible. Hence, we moved to an option of using technology – i.e. remote learning and e-Learning setup.

To ensure that learning does not stop for these girls, we decided to install full-size TV, e-Learning syllabus, Laptop, microphone and speakers. This would take care of self-learning (using e-learning SSC syllabus 1st to 10th standard) and also remote video calling facility for sessions by teachers from remote location.

This has already started helping girls in doing self-studies for some subjects which need additional support or need to spend more time to clarify few things in their hostel, post school time. This also would enable us to bring-in support for special needs in areas which are weaker – eg English Grammar, Science, Mathematics etc from remote teachers. We thank our donors, Rotary Club of Bombay Bayview for this set up.

On this day, we also distributed bicycles to 12 boys and girls. These boys and girls are selected basis the number of kilometers they have to walk for their secondary school. Some of these kids was anything between 6-15km in a day.

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