Sugathi is currently associated with two NGOs.
1) Ananya Trust,Bangalore,Karnataka.
Sugathi is providing voluntary support to Ananya.In every month ,Sugathi members visit Ananya on the second Saturday and interact with children. Games, knowledge improvement sessions are organized. Children really enjoy them a lot. You can see the photos @ the links given on the top.
2) Samskar,Varni Village, Nizamabad Dist, AP
Samskar is receiving financial assistance from Sugathi. As Sugathi does not have many members at Hyderabad, voulntary activities are not being organized.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Information on Ananya
Ananya Trust, founded by Dr.Shahsi Rao, an educationist by profession, aims at providing educational opportunities for poor children who are rejected by main stream schools or who reject main steam schools for variuos reasons.
The school campus is very calm, away from busy city traffic. It's maintained very clean and green.There are total 53 children in the campus, 28 boys and 25 girls (7-19 age group).As the they are in vacation now, we couldn't meet them. The children stay in the school campus from Monday to Friday. They will be provided with food and accomodation. They will be sent to their houses on Saturday and Sunday to spend time with their parents(constructio n workers or coolies or people from low earning working class).
Ananya people will visit the slums to identify the children. Some times, the children from Ananya refer other children from their areas for admission.The teaching methodology followed by them is in striking contrast to that followed in the other schools. Lot of common things like sewing , cooking etc are taught to them which come to help in performing their regular activities and incase they donot earn a NIOS degree.For ex:- they are also taught about carpentry, pottery etc. theoritically. The syllabus is framed such that they are taught of the general awareness along with the normal subjects, but the way of teaching differs.
The syllabus followed by them is not hierarchical.As and when they have some doubts, they are told about these rather than asking them to wait till the chapter is taught. The example she gave in this context was nice . She said , what if a 1st standard guy hears about America in the news or somewhere and asks the teacher what it is ,in a typical Indian school scenario she would ask him to wait until 6th where Geography and the other things are dealt . In Ananya , as it is a class of a mixed age students they try to explain whatever they feel the class can absorb.
The groups formed are based on their learning capablility (ability of the child to read/write/understand the things) and not on basis of age. This would suit rural schools all the more because a lot of students join at 10 or 12. So they have to start from the basics to even those children which is not otherwise permissible in schools elsewhere.
The children are encouraged to take part in different games like hockey, football.These are taken up in the weekends.These are collaborated with the other NGOs and training camps where coaching is organized for free for these rural area based kids.
The school campus is very calm, away from busy city traffic. It's maintained very clean and green.There are total 53 children in the campus, 28 boys and 25 girls (7-19 age group).As the they are in vacation now, we couldn't meet them. The children stay in the school campus from Monday to Friday. They will be provided with food and accomodation. They will be sent to their houses on Saturday and Sunday to spend time with their parents(constructio n workers or coolies or people from low earning working class).
Ananya people will visit the slums to identify the children. Some times, the children from Ananya refer other children from their areas for admission.The teaching methodology followed by them is in striking contrast to that followed in the other schools. Lot of common things like sewing , cooking etc are taught to them which come to help in performing their regular activities and incase they donot earn a NIOS degree.For ex:- they are also taught about carpentry, pottery etc. theoritically. The syllabus is framed such that they are taught of the general awareness along with the normal subjects, but the way of teaching differs.
The syllabus followed by them is not hierarchical.As and when they have some doubts, they are told about these rather than asking them to wait till the chapter is taught. The example she gave in this context was nice . She said , what if a 1st standard guy hears about America in the news or somewhere and asks the teacher what it is ,in a typical Indian school scenario she would ask him to wait until 6th where Geography and the other things are dealt . In Ananya , as it is a class of a mixed age students they try to explain whatever they feel the class can absorb.
The groups formed are based on their learning capablility (ability of the child to read/write/understand the things) and not on basis of age. This would suit rural schools all the more because a lot of students join at 10 or 12. So they have to start from the basics to even those children which is not otherwise permissible in schools elsewhere.
The children are encouraged to take part in different games like hockey, football.These are taken up in the weekends.These are collaborated with the other NGOs and training camps where coaching is organized for free for these rural area based kids.
Information on Samskar
SAV School was founded in 1993 as part of social reform movement undertaken for the social reform of Jogini women. Jogini woman is a woman from dalit section who is almost forcefully dedicated to local Goddess against her will and then declared an open woman for all (like a common prostitute within the village). Her children are considered bastard children and rendered fatherless within that village. Neither the society nor the government bothered to take care of these women for a long time. This is the most inhuman system that has been in vogue for centuries together in Telangana region and Nizamabad district had most number of these unfortunate women by the time Samskar began its work in 1988.
Samskar is a non-profit organisation founded by Sri Lavanam and Smt. Hemalata Lavanam, two reputed Gandhians and social reformers of Andhra Pradesh. They have been close associates of Acharya Vinoba Bhave and participated in various social movements along with him. Under the Gandhian inspiration and encouragement from Vinoba Bhave they started two major social reform movements in Andhra Pradesh viz., Criminal Tribe Reform Movement at Stuartpuram in Guntur District (1973) and Jogini Reform Movement in Nizamabad District (1988). Both these groups have been utterly neglected by mainstream society and government for a long time. The success of these two social reform movements is now a great history in Andhra Pradesh.
In the post-reform period the focus of the organisation was on the education of the children along with others like provision of alternate livelihood opportunities, women empowerment, mainstreaming the reformed families and health. Unless one takes care of the children and women in the post-reform phase, they will naturally tilt towards earlier traditions viz., Jogini tradition or crime.
Against this background SAV school was established at Varni in 1993 with around 36 children from reformed Jogini families. Later on the school admitted other poor and needy children so as to give the school a formal look. Thus the school was promoted as a tool for smooth socialisation and easy mainstreaming of the children coming from the tagged communities/families viz., Jogini families and criminal families. Over a period of time poor children from other dalit sections, children of HIV+ parents, orphans and children of female sex workers have been admitted. The school is running successfully with a track record of 99% pass in class X.
The school has been supported by private donor agencies for the last few years. By the end of June 2007 the school will be left donorless as the current donor, Plan International, will phase out its support by June 30, 2007. At this juncture we are appealing to people concerned like you and your friends for support to school. In the absence of the this school (particularly) many children may become dropouts or child labourers or young Jogini adults or young thieves or homeless or anti-social.
Samskar is a non-profit organisation founded by Sri Lavanam and Smt. Hemalata Lavanam, two reputed Gandhians and social reformers of Andhra Pradesh. They have been close associates of Acharya Vinoba Bhave and participated in various social movements along with him. Under the Gandhian inspiration and encouragement from Vinoba Bhave they started two major social reform movements in Andhra Pradesh viz., Criminal Tribe Reform Movement at Stuartpuram in Guntur District (1973) and Jogini Reform Movement in Nizamabad District (1988). Both these groups have been utterly neglected by mainstream society and government for a long time. The success of these two social reform movements is now a great history in Andhra Pradesh.
In the post-reform period the focus of the organisation was on the education of the children along with others like provision of alternate livelihood opportunities, women empowerment, mainstreaming the reformed families and health. Unless one takes care of the children and women in the post-reform phase, they will naturally tilt towards earlier traditions viz., Jogini tradition or crime.
Against this background SAV school was established at Varni in 1993 with around 36 children from reformed Jogini families. Later on the school admitted other poor and needy children so as to give the school a formal look. Thus the school was promoted as a tool for smooth socialisation and easy mainstreaming of the children coming from the tagged communities/families viz., Jogini families and criminal families. Over a period of time poor children from other dalit sections, children of HIV+ parents, orphans and children of female sex workers have been admitted. The school is running successfully with a track record of 99% pass in class X.
The school has been supported by private donor agencies for the last few years. By the end of June 2007 the school will be left donorless as the current donor, Plan International, will phase out its support by June 30, 2007. At this juncture we are appealing to people concerned like you and your friends for support to school. In the absence of the this school (particularly) many children may become dropouts or child labourers or young Jogini adults or young thieves or homeless or anti-social.
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