To avoid the coronavirus, when many families in the neighborhood are cutting off from each other, students of IIT (The Indian Institutes of Technology) Kanpur have mainstreamed children from underprivileged families outside their campuses into education. A bridge has been prepared for maintenance.
In this era of Corona epidemic, about fifty students of IIT engineering as volunteers are creating a quality learning environment for seventy school children from outside the campus including Nanakari, Barasirohi and Lodhar through a group. Not only this, for the families of many children who lost their daily wages in lockdown, these students are going ahead and collecting kitchen items every month.
Whether it is to deliver the books of their course to the children or to provide them with devices like smartphones, to provide them health facilities in medical emergency or to organize online seminars to remove misconceptions related to Kovid-19, their fees in children’s schools In this hour of trouble, to collect or to connect them with various activities, ‘effort’ is like a collective family, standing with them at every step to take care of such children.
Mission continues even in epidemic
In fact, twenty years ago in the year 2000, the group of students of IIT, Kanpur, named ‘Prayas’, found opportunities for the education of children from class III to XII among the underprivileged community. This group teaches such children subjects ranging from English, Mathematics and Science to Social Science. However, students belonging to this group are of the opinion that they rely more on providing ready reading environment and more basic facilities for them than teaching school children.
However, last year when the lockdown was announced by the government to control the corona infection, it became difficult to continue its educational activities in front of the ‘effort’. It seemed that his connection with the school children would be broken and the connection with the school children was broken for some time. Regarding this, Abhishek Savarnya, the manager of ‘Prayas’, a doctorate from IIT Kanpur, says, “As soon as the lockdown is announced. Students and school children were out of touch with each other, because we did not have each other’s mobile numbers. So we had to prepare data anew. After this, when it came to online education, it was found that many children Doesn’t have smartphones. So we collected donations and bought smartphones for some children. “
Then in a few days, the volunteers of ‘Prayas’ realized that digital learning might not be a better option for the children with whom they are working, because even if ‘Prayas’ gives a smartphone in their hands, they will be recharged Getting it done is another problem. So IIT students tried to teach some children through phone calling, while for some children they also provided photocopies of reading material. “The
library’s mind-set is broken
Another major problem during the Corona lockdown was how to make books available out of the course to children, because before the epidemic, children used to read their books in the library made for school children in the IIT Kanpur campus. However, when the campus was completely closed after the lockdown, such material for children stopped getting. In such a situation, the students associated with ‘Prayas’ found in the discussion that if the children do not get books from the library, then such a library has no meaning. So he took out more than a hundred books kept for children in the library and distributed them among the children.
This was the first experiment of its kind in which ‘Prayas’, with the help of children, created a system whose management came into the hands of the children themselves. Now the children are not only transferring many books to each other, but are also keeping an eye on which book the child has been with for how long and to transfer the book to the next child. What are the rules for
Similarly, Suraj Kuril, a student of class X, who is associated with ‘Prayas’, says, “We were having a lot of difficulty reading in lockdown, but ‘Prayas’ gave us a lot of support, they gave us a lot of facilities, my online class I did not have a smartphone, they bought me a smartphone. ” At the same time, the families of many children had lost their jobs in lockdown when they did not have money to pay fees to private schools. According to Abhishek Savarnya, in such a situation, ‘Prayas’ gave financial assistance to their families to pay the fees of the children, because if it was not done in time, then the children would have lost a year.
The system changed to
lockdown To cope with the challenges of online education during lockdown, the group changed its system to make it more child friendly. Under this, it was decided that the school children would plan to organize the sessions themselves and they are exempted that they can be absent in any session of their own free will. For example, if a child has to understand only a chapter of biology, then he can be absent from other sessions of biology by giving information about it in time. Similarly, ‘try sessions’ are being conducted by ‘Prayas’ from time to time to address the doubts of older children and ‘reading sessions’ for younger children in which young children tell what they read from story books. And what did they understand from that.
In fact, one of the approaches to ‘effort’ behind giving so much freedom to children is that its volunteers do not consider themselves teachers. About this, Abhishek says, “We are the facilitators, if a child shares his dream with us, we help him to fulfill it. Just like if a child wants to become an engineer, we would prepare him and his family mentally for this. They provide the child with the necessary notes, teacher, coaching, fees and other facilities for him, so that the obstacles in his way can be removed. “
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