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AMITY UNIVERSITY, NOIDA
HVCO SEMESTER IV, ACADEMIC YEAR 201516
TOPIC: EDUCATION OF THE UNDERPRIVELEGED
Name of Student: ISHAAN SAINI
Enrolment Number: A2315814095
Institution: ASET
April 2016
th
Date of Submission: 12
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I would also like to thank my human values and community
outreach teacher, Ms. Ruchi Tah Tripathi for constantly
motivating me to move ahead in helping these needy children.
INDEX
INTRODUCTION 1
LITERATURE REVIEW 3
DESCRIPTION OF UNDERTAKEN WORK 5
ACHIEVEMENTS 7
SELF EVALUATION 8
REFERENCES 9
ANNEXURE 10
UMEED A DROP OF HOPE
Education is a means to an end, Umeed believes in the
“empowering” effect of education and its ability to enable
people to develop a critical questioning attitude towards
society, government, existing gender and cultural stereo
types.
The term universalization must include universal enrolment,
universal retention and universal achievement of an
acceptable level of reading; writing and arithmetic.
‘Umeed’ believes that quality education is key to overcoming
poverty in a single generation. And the same is fundamental
in creating a future for human security, community
development and progress of the nation. It is an enormous
challenge. It is also an immense opportunity.
Umeed works for providing an enabling environment to
kindle the light of education in each child
Objectives of the outreach project:
Achieving 100% School enrolment and retention
Promoting girl child education
Capacitating teachers to be effective as facilitators of
learning
Promoting the culture of reading
Equipping children with skills for life
Providing conducive learning environment
Community participation that supports learning
‘Umeed’ is an NGO that my friends and I joined in the month of
February, 2016. The NGO aims at child education and is located
in Laxmi Nagar.
It has been an year since the NGO is functional and has carried
out various activities in the past including a special performance
by the toddlers in the Annual Diwali Cultural Festival and a health
camp set up in the society to monitor the wellbeing of all the
society members/maids and workers.
Started up with just 5 volunteers and 12 kids, today there are 15
volunteers and over 50 students. All the volunteers and students
meet every Saturday from 4 to 6 in the evening and every Sunday
from 9 to 11 in the morning to study and have fun together.
With better learning and friendly environment the NGO have
started their new academic session and more than 80 students
have enrolled so far with increasing amount of volunteers willing
to participate.
Many people within and outside the society have donated
something or the other and proving them with no hindrance in
their education and learning.
DESCRIPTION OF UNDERTAKEN WORK
Studies are something that everyone dreads or dislikes. It is
a compulsion on people like us as we have no other
choice. It was hence very normal for children like these kids
who are underprivileged to find it boring. People of Umeed
did their usual job of teaching these children regular
subjects like maths, English etc whereas I decided to teach
them something out of the ordinary for them.
As we entered ‘Udaan’, my friends and I noticed that the
children were being taught but not ‘educated’ that is, they
were not being taught any life skills such as yoga, dance,
paper craft or any other art form hence we decided to bring
out a change and lighten the spark of holistic development.
My objectives were:
a) Make the children enjoy while learning
b) Make these children value education
c) Instil creativity in them
d) Create health awareness
e) Teach them basic manners
f) Teach them how to live in a friendly environment
These objectives were easily achieved as the children and
the organization was extremely helpful and cooperative. The
first day I basically started with a simple interaction session
to familiarize the children with myself. They became quite
comfortable with me. I told them about the importance of
education and how we can lead a successful life by studying
hard. The kids had great energy. Next class, I taught them
poems and a bit of dance to change their monotonous
routine. They enjoyed it a lot. As the classes progressed I
taught them a bit of craft and art. They managed to draw
with a lot of mess. Every week, we taught them newer
things such as yoga, spelling out the ‘Gayatri Mantra’,
recitation of poems with actions and so on.
They were even taught to make a paper bag out of old
newspaper. We had a health awareness campaign as well.
The children were taught about basic sanitation and health
diseases.
Umeed organized a holi celebration function for these
children. They danced on the song taught by us.
By the end of my sessions with these children they knew
very well to how to use ‘Thankyou’ and they were greeting
everyone they knew. Even though we are teaching them
various skills, we always make sure that we distribute some
food such as fruits at the end!
ACHIEVEMENTS
All the objectives set by me were achieved. The children
had learnt basic manners and were happy to learn and
study more than ever. They were keen on learning craft and
art. The health awareness camp too instilled knowledge in
them. They knew about basic health concerns and diseases.
They now know the preventions and cures to fever, malaria,
dengue etc.
These children value education now and all of them see
themselves as someone successful. All of the kids had a
goal that they wish to achieve.
They were very happy to see me everytime I went to them
because they were willing to learn something new. Everytime
they would ask, ‘Didi aaj kya karenge?’ They were all
pumped up to learn.
The count of these children increased overtime. From 2025
children, it increased to 40 children from the age group of 5
years to teenagers.
SELF EVALUATION
The outreach work was a different experience for me
altogether. I have gone to a lot of places, met a lot of
different people but never felt so happy being around a
bunch of children who are not even from the same social
class and are so diferent. Being around these children was
like a safe haven for me. I went to teach them a lot of
things but they in return taught me a lot of things like being
selfless, valuing food and other stuff, being hardworking etc. I
started thinking like them on various aspects. The love and
respect these children have is enormous.
Everything that I ever taught them or gave them was kept
by them so safely.
I thought this community work to be the same compulsory
boring social work that I had to do in school. But this was
altogether different. These kids looked up to me to learn
new stuff. They thought me to be angel for them who would
bring fun to their boring life. This love and respect made me
care for these children a lot. I literally started thinking about
doing a lot for these kids. I would occasionally get them food
and chocolates. Few of these children didn’t have proper
clothes to wear. I even gave few of them clothes.
These children also instilled a sense of responsibility and
organization in me. I knew I had to teach these children
whatever I could because these are the future of our nation. I
would get up every morning and think about numerous
things I could teach them or do with them. I became
responsible for them and their learning. I had to arrange and
organize for their art and craft material.
What touched me the most was that these children even
turned up to learn on a day when it was raining heavily. All
drenched they sat eagerly and waited for their teachers to
come and teach them. Their willingness to learn made me
value my learnings and education.
These children managed to make a special place in my
heart and our relationship will not surely not end with the
end of my service hours. I will continue visiting them and
teaching them.
WORK DONE
The weekly report on my work done in helping Khusboo Welfare
Society achieve their goal in given below.
Week I:
In the introductory week, I was supposed to understand the work
and build a good rapport with the staff and students to understand
the way of their working in a better way. I was introduced to the
children whom I was going to be with for rest of the time. The
second day of the way, I was asked to teach the students of age
group 610, the basic alphabets of English and I further helped
them learn the 3 letter easy words. I also taught them how to write
their own names in English.
Also I had a chat with the children to understand what background
each one belonged to. Having done this, I realised how difficult
their life was and how little I could uplift them by teaching them.
Week II:
During the second week I carried on with the basics of
mathematics and gave them simple problems to solve. As a
reward I asked one of them who would be the first to solve the
problem correctly, to play x&o's with me. This helped in
maintaining their interest as well as made learning fun for them.
Being from different backgrounds I was not able to understand
some of what they said and sometimes they could not understand
me. But later, as the class proceeded they helped me in
understanding themselves better and opened up to me.
Week III:
During the third week, English class was conducted where they
were taught the framing of small sentences like how to say their
name, age and where do they belong to. I asked my students to
greet whoever comes to teach them with a good morning and say
bye to them and a thank you when they leave. In order to
introduce themselves to new people I made them say Hello, my
name is.........
They liked this a lot and even practiced introducing themselves to
me.
During the second half, I talked to them about habits and personal
hygiene. I told them about the desired and good habits they
should follow and others they should discontinue doing. As the
children I was teaching belonged to the slum, I tried to educate
them a bit about hygiene and how they can stay away from
diseases in an affordable way.
Week IV:
Week four was supposed to be allotted for recreational activities
like games, singing and dancing. Due to the lack of equipment
dance could not be held but games and singing was done.
Children indulged in these activities with great interest and were
happy in doing these things. They were made to play games and
sports like cricket, football and some interested in singing went for
the singing activity.
Maths was also taught to the students who had their interest in
studying rather than recreational activities. Basic questions were
given and they were asked to solve them.