Fear to Confidence

Confidence can drive to being proactive

Name: Neelamma Karashetti
Age: 18
Education: 2nd PUC
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Background:
Neelamma hails from a family of four members. Her father is a farmer, and her elder brother
also helps her father in farming. Her mother is a housewife. Neelamma currently pursuing her
arts degree in Government PU college, in Byahatti. During her free time, she likes to read
books of different authors. Neelamma has been associated with Agastya sessions since her 6 th
standard.
Neelamma says she still remembers the first day of Agastya sessions. She was very excited
for her first class, and did a lot of group activities, and she enjoyed the session so much that
she started looking forward for the next sessions. She used to attend the sessions every once a
month. She says that not just the class and group activities, but she also liked the summer
camp. She learnt a lot and enjoyed so much during the summer camp as it was entirely a
different experience for herself.
She says that Agastya is a great opportunity for her to learn new things in a different way.
One of the best things that she learnt at Agastya is to connect the subject with regular daily
life. This helped her understand her surroundings better and enjoy the nature a bit more. This
also helped her to learn by herself. She says that with self-learning, one of the best things that
gets acquired is to be proactive in any situation. She became proactive during lockdown and
cleaned her village. She says she is very happy to do it.
Neelamma says Agastya not just helps to achieve educational excellence, but also supports
the children to get close to their dreams. Neelamma always wanted to become a teacher and
with Agastya, their methodology and the experiments they teach, she can now clearly see her
dreams coming true in the future. She says that she gained skills like confidence, got rid of
her stage fear and performing peer to peer teaching. In agastya sessions she used to listen
story and she used to watch video, and she used to participate in the game from that she
understood how human values are important to the society and how leadership quality is
important to get knowledge. from that she can adopt in her life to learn something new. She
says all these changes in her lifestyle were only possible with Agastya and she is eternally
thankful to them.