Sangam

‘Unrecognised’
Vihar

Work Report- Alumni Incubator

Program



-Prakhar Saxena
 Vision

My vision is to provide high-quality education to the

students of J II block -Sangam Vihar that will enable
them to be contributing members of the society. The
schools will nurture and educate students who are
confident, competent communicators, problem solvers,
creative thinkers and aware of their surroundings and
the outer world.
 4D-Strategy

The endeavour is to facilitate change in the two low income

private schools of J-II block by starting interventions across
four fronts. External implementation partners would
implement projects. The learning outcome would be measured
by a year-end showcase of the children in the community
centre.







Teacher


Training


Resource
and
Infrastructure
Parental
Investment

Extracurricular

Activities
S. Intended Inputs Actual Plan for next
N. Outcomes of the Outcomes month
O month

1 Start the library Trained 7 volunteers Library setup is The SABIA

project with from JIMS through done with SABIA program is for 12
Shareabook(SABIA) TCLP (the community donating 84 books weeks but the
foundation library project) team in (level 1 to level 3) JIMS volunteer
Gurugram on ' How to to the school, 7 can commit for
execute Read aloud Interns are the next 7
sessions in low income working with 150 weeks. So for the
schools' . kids to help them remaining 5
read the books weeks, I need to
every Thursday's. find new
volunteers to get
them trained and
finish the
program.

2 Completion of the The interns are new to The draft To have our
Draft implementation the social sector and implementation content for the
plan (DIP) and needs lack ground knowledge. plan(DIP) is ready, next 8
assessment with IMT I organised their three and we have workshops ready.
Ghaziabad interns community visits with decided to work
different on parental
stakeholders(TFI investment for the
fellows, govt teachers, next 8 weeks. The
students, community project execution
leaders, community would be done
members, school through workshops
owners, parents) of the conducted by IMT
community to build Ghaziabad interns.
investment and decide The major focus
the future scope of our of the workshops
project would be to build
the capacity of
the parents and
increase their
awareness of
school education,
financial literacy ,
health and
nutrition et al.
3 Finalise workshops Meeting with Tale The workshops The biggest
dates with Tale Weaver founder would begin from challenge over
Weavers and Red the third week of here is to
Elephant Foundation December procure
volunteers as
Tale Weavers
have no
volunteers right
now who are
working in
Sangam Vihar We
have our lesson
plans ready but
don't have
volunteers. Get
the volunteers
and begin the
workshops

4 Raise more than one Executed the three Raised RS. 103000 Pay all the
lakh from the wave strategy in :) outstanding bills
fundraiser collaboration with the
fellows.

5 Kickstart the Awaaz Awaaz team had a The principals like Find volunteers
program meeting with their the idea but are get them trained
clients(schools) and not willing to with Awaaz and
they pitched the idea execute it this start the
of having their year as the exams program for the
students( 10th and 12th of the students year end
grade) come into the are approaching so showcase
community and work in they would like to
these unrecognised start this program
schools as a part of in the month of
thier school project. April.
S. Intended Inputs Actual Plan for next
N. Outcomes of the Outcomes month
O month

6 Begin Just for ART Met the Just for Art Logistics Partnership with
workshops team to discuss about sorted,Volunteer the local SHGs or
the project and procurement done, Silai Kendra
logistics program to begin
from 2nd week of
December,

7 Organise Menstrual Pattered with ‘Health Workshop Introduced

Hygiene workshop in set Go’ under its CSR Conducted on 12th fellows with the
J block senior program Nov organiser so the
secondary schools for workshops keep
fellows happening in the
months to come

8 Partner with Naila School Visits with Naila Naila will help me Follow up with
Jung to let her understand on resource and Naila and share
the context and plan on infrastructure the report of my
what we can do part and would work
together start looking for
people who could
help us paint the
school.

9 Partner with Prabhu Intital level call done, Prabhu and Help find an
and Khatija talked about the Khatija will come affordable
context of the schools on 23rd December accommodation
and community to help paint the for Prabhu and
walls of the Khatija
school and work in
arts and crafts
with the kids for
the next ten days
 Challenges

Finding people to work with you for getting nothing in return is difficult.
Pro-Bono Everyone has different expectations and demands, to keep up with that
and having them believe in your vision is taxing sometimes

The organisations who are willing to work on a pro-bono basis need

volunteers and its difficult to procure invested volunteers because the
Volunteers geography and location of the schools are far inside and the commute to
the place of work is tough

The rate at which the work is done in the community is slow because
forming partnership from scratch requires multiple meetings, discussions
Pace and schools visits. Also the organisations/ individuals I am working with
aren’t that full time invested in my project as I am so to make this
project their priority is challenging.

Learnings

NO - Learning to say ‘no’ was the most difficult thing to me. I have
wasted a lot of time in my initial months in doing things which I shouldn’t
have like trying to do work outside of my purview so as to build
relationships. Now, I have learned to say no and this has helped me pace
up my work.

Aggregation- While being six months into this role, I have started to
realise the power of aggregation and how I am the initiator and the
connector. A leader at the backend who make others execute his/her
vision.