Students of 10 Corporation schools in north Chennai await their turn once every week for a bonanza of books, courtesy a mobile library project started a couple of months ago. The van packed with story books, educational material and general knowledge compact discs (CDs) has become so popular that other Corporation schools want the library [...]
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Siksha Foundation – underwrite annual, renewable, need-based scholarships and loans for students in developing countries.
Pratham Books is a non-profit trust that publishes high quality books for children at affordable prices and in multiple Indian languages.
The Global Fund for Children’s mission is to advance the dignity [...]
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Prérépana (Kannada for Inspiration) – works with 8 urban slum communities in the city of Mysore. PRE is funded by the N. Rangarao Foundation and is essentially NR Group’s CSR initiative. PRE is run from a central location in Mysore, namely the Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement Center. SVYM is the parent organization of PRE.
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Ideas on what to do:
Science workshop (using our Science kit)
Movie night for children
Sound of Music
Gods Must Be Crazy
Born Free
??
Health campaign
How to brush teeth properly
How to avoid contact with germs
Health and hygiene for little women
How to treat minor injuries (sprain/bruise)
How to care for someone with a fever
“What would I do if I had Rs. 1000?” workshop
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Here are some things which seem cool to implement with Pudiyador.
1. At the end of each school day, students are given their personal diaries, in which they write and draw for 30 minutes. Every Saturday, the students take the diaries home to show their parents what they are learning; the parents must then check a [...]
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Google ‘education for children of construction workers’ and you come up with many interesting stories. Here are a few that might be of interest to us.
Free education for children of construction workers: Chandigarh
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Free-education-for-kids-of-construction-workers/301432/
Mobile Creches – Mumbai, Delhi, Pune
http://www.livemint.com/2008/06/08231838/Mobile-creches-a-safe-haven-f.html?d=1
About TN construction workers welfare board and other useful info
http://www.hinduonnet.com/mag/2002/07/07/stories/2002070700400500.htm
Canadian International Development Agency and Child Schooling projects
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/CIDAWEB/acdicida.nsf/En/NAT-427145331-Q6H
Door-Step school, [...]
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