Education India Project #23721

Educate 50 Under Privileged Children for One Year

by ASHWINI CHARITABLE TRUST

Educate 50 Under Privileged Children for One Year

Project Report | Dec 5, 2016
Exploring the talents of our children

By Radhika Arvindam | Trustee

Children acting

Ashwini Charitable Trust (ACT) is a registered NGO that educates and empowers underprivileged children from the urban slums and supports them till they are gainfully employed. ACT is a transparent and efficiently run social organization in Bangalore, working towards the end-to-end needs of the underprivileged children, school education, early childhood development to English training, from proper nutrition good health by giving vaccinations to personality development, from livelihoods training, hobby activities, life skills training to job placements.

During the last quarter September - December we involved the children in a lot of extracurricular activities and hence explored new talents in dancing, singing, acting and also created audio visual reports on the calendar of events of the trust.

Some of the events are listed below:

On 8/9/16 the children participated in a Movie Marathon Event where few volunteers showcased videos on creating about conservation of water. The children were quizzed on the videos and enjoyed the learning experience.
On 12/10/16 the Bengali association organized Durga Pooja celebrations and this year our senior children participated in the invocation dance.
On 27/09/16, during Daan Utsav joy of giving week, a business hotel and cafe each organized a Wishing Wall Activity. 40 children could wish for a gift and the employees came forward to buy these gifts. The children were invited to the hotel where they participated in various fun activities and were given gifts they wished for.
On 19/11/16 a corporate company organized a greeting card making activity where 10 of their volunteers helped around 30 children from various age groups to make greeting cards.
On 26/11/16 we celebrated our Annual day, our most awaited event every year. We always celebrate our annual day with our volunteers, our children and their parents. This year the children presented a musical play "The Last Call", showcasing their talents in the fields of Dance, Drama and Music. This musical addressed serious current environmental issues. The play was in English and some of the performers were so eloquent that the audience was in awe of the performance.
The children also designed and created a movie showcasing all the activities at the trust during the previous year.

Children singing

Durga pooja dance

Greeting card making workshop

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Sunday Special Meal Project

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Sep 7, 2016
Let every child get a education!

By Radhika Arvindam | Trustee

Doctor administering the vaccine

Ashwini Charitable Trust (ACT) is a registered NGO that educates and empowers underprivileged children from the urban slums and supports them till they are gainfully employed. Our organization is 16 years old and we support 500 children from about 350 families thus raising the quality of life of more than 900 people in Bangalore slums. ACT is a transparent and efficiently run social organization in Bangalore, working towards the end-to-end needs of the underprivileged children, school education, early childhood development to English training, from proper nutrition ,good health by giving vaccinations to personality development, from livelihoods training, hobby activities, life skills training to job placements.

During the last quarter, In June which is the start of the school year we paid the fees for the children, gave them their school essentials and we involved them in a lot of extracurricular activities. We worked towards our goal with a lot of enthusiasm .We are sharing a few activities

On 23/6/2016 we took the children to visit to museum of art and photography where volunteers taught them all there is to know to appreciate art and learn photography.
On 25/6/216 and 3/7/2016 the local Bengali Association conducted an inter NGO competition in debates, art and music. Our children took part in the debate competition and the drawing competition and won the overall championship cup.
On 3/7/2016 the children attended a drama workshop at the famous Jagriti theater where they participated enthusiastically and thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
On 5/8/2016 we started the one to one mentoring program by the PwC volunteers which is very helpful to the children.
On 6/8/2016 we gave the children the typhoid vaccine.

Drawing for Competition

Museum Visit

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Healthy Protein mix that we provide to our children

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Jun 7, 2016
Save a School with Ashwini Charitable Trust

By Radhika | Trustee

Save a School with Ashwini Charitable Trust

When Ashwini Charitable Trust (ACT) adopted the Government Tamil Primary School in Murphy Town, Bangalore the school surroundings was in a bad shape. ACT worked hard to mobilise funds for repairing and rebuilding the infrastructure of the school. As a result, now 80+ children studying there are in a safe, secure, clean and attractive environment.

Recently, ACT set up a science lab in the Govt. School, which was inaugurated by Ms. Nadia Haton, well-wisher and friend of the Trust Now, apart from providing/rebuilding the basic facilities like a Kitchen, Toilets, Drinking water and Watchman’s room, ACT has also facilitated additional educational aids such as the Computer Lab, Library and Science Lab. All the rooms are well ventilated and have electricity. ACT has handed over the watchman’s room to a family which now provides the security for the school and the children. ACT prepares a special porridge mix keeping in mind the nutritional needs of growing children, and this with jaggery to sweeten the porridge is supplied to the school children every week. The porridge and milk for the children are now prepared in the new clean, and well lit kitchen

The garden is maintained by a gardener employed by the Trust. It was de-weeded regularly and stone benches and walls of the park were painted recently. The fence was redone and bricks were arranged around the plants and saplings.

ACT facilitates the CSR activities. Volunteers from Thomson Reuters had come to the Govt. School and they taught the students how to make paper bags and charts and also conducted some quizzes and other activities which the children enjoyed immensely. April and May are months when the school is closed for summer vacations, hence there was no volunteering activity during these months. The school reopened on 1st June, and ACT volunteers are back to assist the teachers and students with their academic work, especially in English and Maths.

ACT’s work in the school is ongoing and a lot more has to be done. The school has a huge ground behind it, which can be utilized very effectively for the benefit of the children. Since the school is an almost hundred year old heritage building, there are many infrastructure issues such as leaking roofs, damp walls and broken floor tiles.

Currently ACT is in the process of consulting experts as to whether the roof tiles have to be replaced or whether putting a tarpaulin sheet above the tiles would be sufficient to see us through this year’s monsoon rains.

ACT is keen to get internet wifi connectivity to the school so that the children are exposed to computers and the e - world at the earliest. Authorities from BSNL have been consulted and we are hopeful that the Govt. School children will soon be digitally connected.

Lack of funds is constraining us from doing more. We appeal for more funds through global giving, so that the poverty stricken parents and their underprivileged children are attracted by the facilities and amenities and come back to school.

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