Spirit of Independence Day

"Prizes are given to you as a recognition of the commitment and hard work. If you do not drop out of school and work harder, you can enjoy still better fruits. So, please do not discontinue the studies and also give us information about the out-of-school children in your area. We should bring them all to school. Let this Independence Day give all of us the spirit to do this!!!!!"



This is the message conveyed by teachers and Sugathi volunteers to the children at Jeevanahalli and N.S.Palya Government schools during the 63rd Independence Day celebrations on 15th August 2009. Programmes at both the schools were a big success.



Pavan, Srinivas, Taranath, Kishore and Venkat took part in the programme at N.S.Palya. Sameer, Ramana, Sandilya , Aparna and Srinath formed another team and participated in the celebration at Jeevanahalli. The celebrations included flag hoisting followed by singing, recital of poems by the children. At the end, prizes were distributed to winners in the painting and singing competitions held by us.



The kids involved themselves in the celebration with great deal of enthusiasm and the it was a treat to eyes to watch them. We are sure, you are going to feel the same after watching these pictures.






Link Jeevanahalli school pics:

http://picasaweb.google.com/sugathi4all
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Link to N.S.Palya pics:

http://picasaweb.google.com/sugathi4all
/63rdIndependenceDayAtNSPalyaGovtSchool#

Independence Day'09 activities and lot more

Experience and maturity will be recognized when things are done at a larger scale and in a better way. As mentioned in our previous post, the time has come for us to spread out and reach more children. Our programmes should be able to bring difference in their lives and make them part of the social developmental process. Then we can articulate that our motto is "Social Development through Child Education".

As far as Government schools are concerned, we are already working with Jeevanhalli school, Bangalore. Now, another school is identified in Bangalore to work with. It is the Government Kannada School, N.S.Palya, J.P.Nagar. There are around 130 children studying in classes from 1st standard to 7th standard. There are 4 teachers, including HM. The school has many constraints like teacher shortage, insufficient space, no playground etc. We may not and sometimes should not address all the problems because any work done by us should not completely relieve the Government from its responsibilties. So, let us work out and extend all the support possible.

We can volunteer to teach the classes that face teacher shortage. Children can be encouraged to showcase their talent by conducting extra curricular activities,competitions and distributing prizes. We can closely work with the school management in reducing the number of children dropping out of the school. To say it in one line, we can follow our Jeevanhalli school model here too.

Activities at N.S.Palya school have already started. As part of our Independence Day'09 activities we conducted a painting competition yesterday at N.S.Palya school. We also conducted painting and poems competitions at Jeevananalli school also. Two seperate teams took care of the activities at each school.

We will be taking part in the Independence Day celebrations at both the schools on 15th August. Prizes will be distributed to the winners from our competitions on that ocassion. We request you to join us and make the programme a big success.

Our activities at both the schools demand volunteers in big number. We need volunteers who can teach English, Maths, Hindi. Familiarity in Kannada or Telugu will be helpful. So, before we close, an earnest appeal to all those who read this post. Please come forward to volunteer and also kindly spread the word about Sugathi among your circles and help us in getting more volunteers.

Those interested in joining the Independence Day celebrations, please conatct Srinath @ 9886777878 or Pavan @ 9980199133.