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Seeds of Change to Fill Gaps in What is Taught in Classroom

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New Delhi, 1 December 2023

Prashant Gautam

Shramik Bharti, an organisation engaged in the implementation of corporate social responsibilities (CSR) activities, collaborated with a private bank to initiate Holistic Rural Development Project. The project aimed to involve education-volunteers to be trained by an external education expert in 12 villages of Amritsar and Ferozepur. The exercise was to fill in the gaps in the primary education sector in rural belt by engaging local youngsters.

The programme, called Seeds of Change, is being pursued by volunteers of Shramik Bharati, said the Chairman, Mr Ganesh Pandey.

Kawaljit Kaur of the organisation is heading the campaign and says that during the need assessment exercise, it was understood that there was a need for intervention in the primary education system of these 12 villages. "There were lots of gaps in what was being taught in classroom and how students perceived it. The reasons are lack of infrastructure, low interest of students, shortage of teachers and their involvement in other government activities.

"Keeping these factors in mind, an implementing strata Giwas planned. It was planned to improve the infrastructure, develop an activity room-cum library, and involve education volunteers to support schoolteachers through the introduction of interesting teaching learning methods," she says.

It was during one of these training sessions that Beant Kaur became one such prospective education volunteer. Thereafter, Shramik Bharti undertook a three-day selection process led by an education expert, the purpose being to choose the best volunteers for the 12 villages.

"When Beant was assessed during training by our team, she was a shy, hesitant girl, who had a story to tell. She studied till Class 12, but after the demise of her father, she could pursue her education." recalls Kawaljit. Initially, when Beant started working as an education volunteer, the school she was assigned to had only one regular teacher for all grades. Most of the kids would come late to the school, the morning assembly would be unplanned, the teacher was burdened with administrative work, students were not motivated enough to have any interest in studies, and parents too did not feel encouraged to invest in their children’s education," said Beant.

Gradually Beant became part of the schools' core system. She now works with students on 17 multiple skill improvement courses. Based on her training to teach multilevel kids. Beant has been using techniques such as storytelling, activity-based methods, games, preparing and effectively utilizing teaching learning materials, etc, in the process of teaching, “Ninety-five of the students cleared the test to be a part of the regular classes. Those who didn't were either irregular in attending school or were cases of a special nature," she informs. Now after four years of being an education volunteer, Beant has been a part of theatre-sessions, leadership-workshops, joy of learning sessions, and teacher-training sessions.

Kawahit says the aim of Seeds of Change project is to create more such education volunteers, who will help and aid young children from rural areas to get quality early education.

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The author is  Associate Editor at Mediamap News Network

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