Making provisions for school transport for children is an essential service, particularly in Pune which is known for its heavy and undisciplined traffic. Transport is needed to bring children to the Municipal schools as well as for collecting them from different construction sites to one location for conducting classes.
The Childcare facility was mainly started at construction sites to take care of the younger siblings of the NFE students. If there is a younger sibling to look after it is not possible for the older sibling to attend school. Therefore, it becomes imperative for us to take care of the young ones too.
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We identify communities, like migrant worker’s children, street children, and fishermen’s children, and then try to establish classes as quickly as possible for them. The aim is to get them to the level where they can enroll in regular school.
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The dropout rate of children enrolled in Municipal Schools is a cause for concern in the battle against illiteracy. Study classes run by us offer students in class I and II extra tuition and help in order to cope with school.
On Saturday, February 23rd, a gathering for DSS volunteers who are contributing to various projects. In order to expand the reach of DSS activities and to keep in touch with current and potential volunteers, it was suggested to use social media tools like Facebook groups. Hence a group has been created for volunteer-related communication at
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On Sunday, Feb. 17th, about 80 children from various construction sites in the age group 10 years and above were taken to the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune for an inspirational meeting with Dr. Mashelkar. The children were thoroughly awestruck by this experience. As an eminent scientist, twenty seven universities have honored Dr. Mashelkar with honorary doctorates,
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Jagdish Sen, studying in standard 4th, Sagar Nora, studying in standard 5th and Sohail Sheikh, studying standard 4th made a working model of city streets. The entire projects was created using scrap material from construction sites.
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On Saturday, January 26th, Republic Day was celebrated in all construction site centers. Typically the celebrations start with morning procession, followed by prayers, flag hoisting, national anthem and exhibition of projects by children. Variety of different activities are planned in each center. Visitors and volunteers are also present in many centers to participate in the
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