August Newsletter

Highlights of activities in previous month

Gahan adhyayan Kendra
Our team worked hard to the idea of setting up an Evening Center exclusively for class 9-12 children living in outhouses of IIT Kanpur and in the surrounding villages. In the first phase we invited all the children who had been coming to our existing Evening Centers for quite sometime. A total of 36 children were enrolled. The Center was inaugurated on 15th July. The children were told the importance of regularity in studies and doing the work assigned. Since then the center is running well.

Training Science
The task of teaching the underprivileged children is challenging. Unlike the children studying in regular and reputed schools, these childrendo not have parental support in education. Also they do not get any motivation from the routine studies based on Rote-learning method. With this view, Shiksha Sopan sent Mr Jaiprakash Maurya, our very senior worker and deeply involved in Sopan Vidyalay, for a Teachers Training Camp in the village Bodhitalla near Moussouri.

Pratibha Poshan Yojana(PPY)
The four children, Manaviya, Poonam, Nareshand Ishant selected for, respectively, Unnati Scholarship, Alex and Kate Sandhu scholarship, BSBE Scholarship, and Madhilka Mishra Scholarship, under PPY (Junior) of Shiksha Sopan have started going school after the Summer vacation in class-7. They were given new books and stationary, a set of dresses and shoes etc.

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July Newsletter

Highlights of activities in previous month

SHIKSHA SOPAN team was mostly involved with the summer camp of the senior PPY as all the evening centers were closed. Preparations for the Gahan Adhyayan Kendra were also taken up, to some extent, in this month. Science Cell was busy making Science Kits for various groups who have approached Shiksha Sopan for the purpose. We also gave a cultural evening for the participants of a National workshop held at IITK

Summer Camp (PPY)
The summer camp of 12 children from different villages of Kanpur, Kanpur Dehat and Buxar districts continued till June 28th. Teaching in classrooms for about five hours a day, each period extending to 75 minutes. Still it was not boring and overloading. Learning by doing was a special focus in this camp. Music was a regular activity. Barring Sundays when they were taken for excursions, 30 minutes of music class was given everyday. Knowledge about Our cultural heritage, Freedom Struggle including 1857 war, Our geographical span etc were given in another regular 30 minutes class every day. The children of the camp enjoyed the camp immensely and they went their home on 28th June with heavy hearts.

Science Cell activities
Firstly, it helped in making experiments for “NWIPT-08”, National Workshop on Innovative Physics Teaching held on June 15-20 at IITK.Mr Amit Bajpai, Mr Hanuman Prasad Gupta and Mr Deepak Agnihotri demonstrated and explained some of the Physics experiments in the technical session of the workshop where 27 teachers from 18 cities of 8 stated/Union territories were participants.
Shiksha Sopan also got an invitation from Guru Ma Ashram, Gannauer in Haryana to participate in a Camp there (June 25-27) and conduct a Science Show for an hour for all the participants. Mr Ashish Bhateja and Mr Amit Bajpai went there with their Magic Box containing about 15 Science Experiment.
The registration bags for NWIPT-08 were prepared by Shiksha Sopan. The cloth bags were got stitched by a professional tailor and then embroidary was done by Shiksha Sopan children from Barasirohi and Ratanpur, mostly studying in middle schools. This handwork on all the 40 bags by children was greatly appreciated by the participants.

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