Fwd: [vibha-india-acc] Fw: [vibha-blore:2789] Mission accomplished - HEARDS VISIT!!!!

[Zankhana Patel]

Hi All, 

Forwarding you all a small write-up on the experience of the Vibha - Bangalore volunteers with the HEARDS kids. HEARDS is one of our project partners located at Chittoor, AP The kids in the pics are rescued child labors who are getting prepared to be mainstreamed in the regular education system. With Vibha's support, HEARDS run 3 bridge schools where these kids' basic education, nutrition and psychological needs are taken care of. 

As a result of this long partnership between Vibha and HEARDS, there is complete eradication of child labor from its one of the slums.  

Thanks,

Zankhana.    

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From: Venkatesh Subramanian <dhua...@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 9:13 PM
Subject: [vibha-india-acc] Fw: [vibha-blore:2789] Mission accomplished - HEARDS VISIT!!!!
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Hi,

 

  please share with you action centers.

regards,

venky

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Sent: Sunday, August 5, 2012 6:38 PM
Subject: [vibha-blore:2789] Mission accomplished - HEARDS VISIT!!!!

Hey Team, 

Our Visit to HEARDS was excellent. I would like to share a few  details with everyone.

I, Venky Rajesh and Edward started our wonderful journey, We left Bangalore early in the morning and reached Chittor by 8.58. We called Sajan (From HEARDS) and he guided us the way towards the special school. We reached the place by 9.15 PM.

We interacted with Sajan and 4 teachers for fifteen minutes and we planned earlier to conduct the games on terrace but we found a empty space (Kind of ground) opposite to the school We all noticed that its a big ground so therefore we decided to have all activities in that space.

We reached the ground by 9.40 and we carried few juice bottles with us so 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 4 color  friendship bands, they were yellow, pink, green and purple color. As decided earlier we asked them to pick one friendship band and later formed 4 groups with those colors.

I was in Purple color group, pink color Venky, Green color Edward, Yellow color Rajesh. We asked the kids to choose a animal as a group name, make noise of that animal and get us a team leader for the group.

Team purple named there group as Elephant, pink - Cat, yellow - lion, green - tiger and I must say kids where very enthusiastic and they gave us the team leader very quickly.

By around 10.30 we started the games, We planned games with all four groups. I  played first with Elephant group, then cat. lion and at the end with tiger, similar others also did and 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 by dividing them in a group of 10

I am also sharing few pictures below:

The kids drinking juice:



Team at work started to decide a team leader and they are showing the group band color.







1) Bucket and the ball game. You can find sajan in the fourth picture below (Left one person)








2) Lemon and spoon race:



3) Hula Hoop (Making the hula hoop and jumping with the ring to complete the race)






4) Passing the Parcel and we also made the staff to play the games:)




5) The parachute fun game.






6) Playing with Hula hoop,



7) Basket ball: Sajan's Brother below, he is also equally evolved!



8) Hitting the wicket:



9) Filling the bottle:




10) Relay:







Kids with Venky and Rajesh:






Staff - Nousia, Sunitha, Revathi and Latha (left to right)



Classroom and school.



Lunch: We all had lunch together, it was nice lunch.



Teachers are kids here see the fun with bubbles:




We completed all the games by 12.30 and then we went to see their  classroom & asked them want they wanted  to be , we were amazed by hearing  their ambitions,as many chose the noble profession of teachers, Police, Military of which 1 wanted to be optician, collector and other a nurse.

The kids told us that they liked all the games some of them told that their favorite games from the above 10 games.. we also asked them what kind of games they would like us to plan for the next time, they mentioned about few games which they wanted us to play with them like Cricket, tennis, Shuttle etc and also the games which we played today.

Teachers informed us that they divided the kids into different groups.

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 are understanding what is taught, The subjects which they teach are English, Hindi, Maths 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.

Sunitha teacher is working from past 10 years so she informed that the kids are learning a lot and she think that this is her second home and kids are a very important part of her  life. They also make sure kids eat lunch on time, The kids are very sharp.

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 also thanked us, He said that for the first time he is seeing that all the children are smiling and enjoying, he mentioned that Vibha is been a big support for them because of Vibha -  HEARDS is now recognized by the government bodies. government bodies now invite them for all meeting which deals with child labor. They are working very hard.

Mid-day meals  is provided by the government of India.

We need to visit center 2 and 3, I am planning to visit the second center on October 26 and the third center on November 24. Please block your calendars!

We distributed the gifts which was a fancy stationery box and then at the end we left colorful tattoo stamp on their  hands

Edward's V for Victory we have finally done this:)


A very special thank you to Venky, Rajesh and Edward for making this a day a very special day in my Life. Thank you Viv for helping me whenever I needed help:)


Venky, Rajesh and Edward please feel to add any experience or anything I have missed!

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