Fwd: [vibha-india-acc] FW: [vibha-blore:3224] HERE COME HEARDS - BACK WITH A BANG - PROJECT VISIT 3 DETAILS
Zankhana Patel
From: Sricharan Madhavan <sric...@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:28 AM
Subject: [vibha-india-acc] FW: [vibha-blore:3224] HERE COME HEARDS - BACK WITH A BANG - PROJECT VISIT 3 DETAILS
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Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 22:59:15 +0530
Subject: [vibha-blore:3224] HERE COME HEARDS - BACK WITH A BANG - PROJECT VISIT 3 DETAILS
From: sunitha...@gmail.com
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Hey Team,
Our third center Visit to HEARDS was extraordinary!!!!!
We visited Prasanthkumar center. Here are the details below.
We ( Ashwini, Ahalya, Gunjan, Kedar, Madhura,Sunitha, Tejasvi and Venky) started our Fantastic 8 journey, We left Bangalore early in the morning and reached Chittoor by 10.12 AM. We called Sajan (From HEARDS) and he guided us the way towards the special school. We reached the place by 10.20 AM.
The HEARDS special school kids are very energetic and enthusiastic. We received a warm welcome from teachers and students. We all were eager to meet each other (as if the day was just meant for that meeting). The moment we said hi, the kids were so excited that we do not know how to express in words. I can say, we can just feel those happy moments and you all missed something!!!!
We did not start the interaction with the kids as we wanted to meet the parents first.
The first task was parent teacher meeting:
There were few concerns by the parents and some shared there sad stories:(
1) There neighbors tell them that they are going to a house and not to a school, our team ( volunteers )provided a great response and told them how good it is to be part of such school.
2) They need hostel facility as they cannot take care of kids.
3) They are very poor so that is the only reason that they are sending kids to work but Thanks to Sajan he is creating employment opportunities to the parents.
4) Some kids who are above fourteen are working in their house or are labourer
Some information given by us to parents:
1) Please do not stop your kid education
2) We will find out about the hostel
3) The live example of why kids should not work because he/she is getting paid 20 rs per day or 1000 rs months (did Reality check)
We interacted with Sajan and 4 teachers for fifteen minutes.
After the interactive session, Sajan introduced the teachers.
Ø Shilpa
Ø Sony
Ø Chinni
Ø Shanthi
After that we left the school and we had decided that we will spend time with the kids by planning some games. Sajan took us to a place which looks like a ground; I must say a very calm and nice place which is perfect for our sports day.
It was a huge ground and we all knew it was enough for us to conduct all activities.
We reached the ground by 11.30 and we had a normal hello, hi with the kids.
We carried few juice bottles with us as therefore as we wanted the kids to be comfortable we served the juice and they started talking with us.
We started with the first intro game by mixing all the 7 color bands. As decided earlier we asked them to pick one friendship band and later formed 7 groups with those colors. Teachers are always there to help us with anything and they were assisting us with everything!!!
We got five team of six each and two team of 5 each. Here the kids were of a small age 6-10 years so therefore we just started with the games we had.
By around 11.40 we started the games; We planned games with all seven groups. we played the below mentioned games and everyone had a chance to concentrate with a smaller group and we were able to give attention to all 40 kids.
The Games we played:
1) Bucket and the ball game.
2) Relay
3) Hula Hoop (Making the hula hoop and jumping with the ring to complete the race)
4) Basket ball
5) Filling the bottle
6) Football
7) The Pyramid game ( paper cups contain some letters, kids need to arrange them)
8) Identifying the object
9) Lemon and spoon
10) Tug of war
Lunch: We all had lunch together; it was delicious at 1.50 PM.
11) Passing the Parcel and we also made the staff to play the games:) the person who is out had to sing, dance or tell a rhyme.
12) The parachute fun game
These mentioned above two games were played after the lunch
The kids told us that they liked all the games some of them told that their favorite games from the above games, It was nice and memorable time spent with them :)
We distributed the gifts which were a fancy stationery box, chocolates and then at the end we left colorful tattoo stamp on their hands.
Teachers informed us at center 1 that they divided the kids into different groups and same at center two. I am writing again so that the who are not aware can get the information.
Group A - those who do not know anything
Group B - Those who know the English alphabets
Group C - Those who know to frame words
Group D - Those who know to frame sentence.
Teachers are very helpful and caring. They make sure that the kids understand what is taught, The subjects which they teach are English, Hindi, Math’s and Telugu. They informed us that as these kids are trying hard to learn and they motivate them on regular bases and make sure that they get the basic educations. After this they are shifted to a government school!
The kids are very sharp. All they need is love and support which is possible by HEARDS Visit.
Many kids were very happy by playing all those games and spending time with us and when the teachers asked them to tell their experience. They said that they never had such a wonderful & fun filled day and they enjoyed playing the games, They also thanked us for spending time with them.
Sajan informed me that first and second center kids wanted to meet us so therefore we visited the same. I love spending time with these kids as they miss me and I miss them too!!!!
Distributed chocolates, juice. Interacted with everyone and felt every bad to leave the place. I wish these centers were near!!! I felt like I met my extended family after a long time.
The things that we know but some new volunteer do not know so writing again, they informed us what HEARDS do to rescue the kids. She mentioned that it takes a lot of efforts to rescue the kids, sometimes they have do this by force or sometimes take help of the labor department or police and rescue this kids, make sure that they get proper education. She also mentioned that they have keen eye on tea stalls, hotels, construction work place and domestic industries to check of kids are involved. What we all felt is its not a easy task to bring back the kid from not being a child labor because sometimes parents are also least bothered and they just do not care!!!!
They also showed the unique method of teaching which they have adapted in the special school. we all know we remember the things which are visual rather than being read. For example we all remember what happened in daily soap or a movie but don't remember completely we read that day:P.
They use some technique in HEARDS kids are given more practical training, few listed below:
1) They have some drawing from which they learn the objects. Example they have a house painting and the kid tells us what he can see also the spelling. One of the kids told us what he can see in the picture (like door, woman, window, water tank, wall, broomstick, plans, trees etc)
2) They have different charts made. like the animal chart, birds chat, great leaders chat, flowers, fruit and etc chats. They can not only identify the object but are also able to spell those words This way they learn English and Hindi.
3) Teaching Math - they have few softdrink lids which are used for counting and they have simple math easy technique for tables,additions and subtraction things.
4) Each center has computer. They have some teaching software, where the object appears and the kid need to type that word. for example apple picture is visible they need to type the word apple.
5) For learning capital and small letters - a empty match box is used its covered with a white paper. The upper cover will have the capital letter and the smaller letter will be inside when you open the box, This is one of the creative method of making you remember things.
For Telugu letter the aa and aaa letters are together in the box.
6) There are some news paper cutting which contains the English proverbs and the story is explained in Telugu. I must say the kids can tell you the story and the moral of the story.
7) The daily life lessons are written in a chat. Example respect teachers, never lie, never fight, be a good friend, respect friends, always say the truth, early to bed, early to rise etc which our parents thought us when we were kids just to make sure we were well mannered.
After knowing the things in details all we can see that we are proud to be associated with such a wonderful special school and of course the sweet kids.
At 6PM we had a meeting with Sajan, I have mentioned only few key points:
1) HEARDS was found in 1997 and Vibha is associated from 2005.
2) Our main focus is on Educating Kids
3) The teachers are trained for this informal education and all teachers are graduate
4) We suggested to Target few students from college so that they can teach the kids and share these experience.
5) We also informed them to invite those students who have successful carrer now and were the student from here
6) Sajan’s team do monitor the kids who are shifted to govt school for further education
7) Advised him to take the help of self help groups for funds and expanding the centers.
8) There are two more centers to be established, update from Sajan
A very special thank you to 7 volunteers for making a very special day in my Life. The special people who made the event even more special to us:
Juice for Second center - Gunjan.
Juice for First center - Tejasvi
Chocolates - Kedar and Tejasvi
Viv – Toys
Volunteers – Old clothes.
A heartfelt thank you to those of you who graciously donated and supported us in these past several times. Your help is appreciated.
Other volunteers please feel free to add if I have missed something!
Acc - send this e-mail to the US team and the other states.
I have tried my best to communicate our experience in words but sometimes feeling are our best friends compared to words.
Nothing is said,
Nothing is heard,
No expressions,
No confessions,
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