By Shruti Pimplikar, DSS Volunteer So who is Shailesh Sahni? And why a toast to him one fine weekend? Let me give you a background into this. I started teaching English at a local PCMC school as part of my social responsibility. I started off with a skit on my first day. It was something […]
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1. Shivaji Rathod is a student of 3rd std. from Golwalkar – E&Y CLC (Community Learning Center). He was a very naughty and mischievous boy when he started attending DSS class. He came along with his sister. His language was rude and rough, with other children and with teachers, too. The teacher observed his behaviour
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Jyoti Lungare is attending DSS classes from nursery (Balwadi). She is studying in 8th std. now. Jyoti has learned English and Mathematics from the volunteer who came to the DSS site class at SumaShilp site. She speaks English very well, and participates in all activities in the class. All the volunteers like her for this.
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Uma Wagh has been working with DSS since four years. She has completed B.A. and conducts the Study Class and Reference Library at DSS. She works as a mobile teacher. She conducts the morning prayers and tells children stories with morals, conducts exercises, spells shlokas and values. She has taught the children to draw rangolis
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Research confirms a strong link between regular school attendance and learning outcomes ! The field staff of the project ‘Parents’ Participation in Children’s Education’ tries various ways to encourage children in Kondhwa and Mohammadwadi area to attend school regularly. In November, it was announced that all children with 100% attendance each month will be given
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UDAAN Pune is Pune chapter of informal employee group of Geometric Ltd and 3DPLM. Udaan volunteers have been working with Every Child Counts campaign for last couple of years now. Last year they conducted survey of children living in labour camps on construction sites near Hinjewadi and enrolled them in nearby ZP school. (Read the
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Under Project Grow with Books an innovative initiative was undertaken to provide a different variety of reading material for children. This initiative was ‘One Page Story’, stories written by children for the children. These stories were to be just one page long. All the schools where Project Grow with Books is run were made a
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Over the years, Door Step School has been interacting with the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) schools for various programs. All the 6+ year old children (from various construction sites, slums and other areas) are enrolled in the PMC schools throughout the year and a follow-up is done for all of them. The Need: ASER reports
