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Celebrating Teachers’ Month – Taking the School to Children’s Doorstep (School-on-Wheels)

The ‘School-on-Wheels’ is a signature program of Door Step School. A bright yellow modified bus full of teaching aids, charts, pictures and other gadgets along with two teachers reaches out to those communities for whom education is still a distant dream. At present there are four such buses; each reaching out to around 100  children […]

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Celebrating Teachers’ Month – The EAC teachers – Part 2

(Read Part-1 here: http://blog.doorstepschool.org/2016/09/celebrating-teachers-month-eac-teachers.html) After lunch, the younger children take a nap, but for others, it’s story time. Pournima, Priyanka, and all the teachers love this activity. They list out the benefits of story-telling but the best part of it is the rapt attention and excitement of the children. They have the ever popular stories

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Celebrating Teachers’ Month – The EAC Teachers – Part 1

Mornings are always a big rush. Sucheta impatiently waits for a bus at Dhanori and checks her purse if she has enough money for a rickshaw; Mangal and Pournima somehow manage to get onto a bus on Sinhgad road; Anita scrambles into a six-seater heading to Matalwadi; Ashwini has to wait for one going towards

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Celebrating Teachers’ Month – The Book-Fairies in School

All Book-Fairies work for the school intervention project called “Grow with Books”. It includes three inter-related programs conducted within school hours for Grade 1 to Grade 7 students of mainly municipal, Zilla Parishad, and a few semi-private schools. These programs ensure children learn to read in Grade 1 itself and then with some supervision and

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Witnessing Stones Turning into Diamonds…

Door Step School was founded with a vision of empowering children from marginalized communities to become self-dependent and confident educated professionals. Over past several years, numerous teachers and facilitators from Door Step School have been striving to educate underprivileged children across Pune city. It was heartening to witness the results of all the hardwork, when

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Celebrating Teachers’ Month – The making of ‘Book-Fairies’

It is the first week of June and schools are still to reopen after the summer vacation. The ‘Grow with Books’ office is a beehive of activities. There are groups of ladies sitting in all the rooms – Some are having a serious discussion; some are sitting with a pile of books sorting and covering

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Celebrating Teachers’ Month – 5th of September to 5th of October 2016

All schools in India celebrate “Teachers’ Day” on 5th of September every year to commemorate the birth day of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the second President of India, and an exemplary teacher himself. This day, we honour our teachers and appreciate their contribution to the larger goal of nation building.Door Step School teachers are a very

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Teachers’ Day Award for Door Step School

Mrs. Rajani Paranjpe, Founder of Door Step School received ‘Outstanding Educator Award’ from International Institute of Hotel Management (IIHM), Pune on occasion of Teachers’ Day 2016! We believe this award belongs to Rajanitai and the hundreds of teachers fighting all odds to educate children from marginalized communities across Pune. Thanks IIHM for recognizing the efforts

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