Thursday, September 29, 2011

Enrolling slum children in schools...

2011 is so far so good as there are many moments to pen down. During this summer, I engaged myself in Aashayein Foundation’s flagship program Bache Man Ka Sachche (BMKS). BMKS program identifies underprivileged children in slums and enrolls them to schools with a measurable scholarship. Here is how I did it along with a bunch of 30 active volunteers.
    Firstly, we identified four slums to find underprivileged children. We trained volunteers to approach each family and judge the family condition on certain parameters. While identifying kids, we noticed that some kids never went to school, some were drop-outs to join labor and some wanted to get educated in private schools rather than Government schools. We appreciated the efforts of the parents to bring up their children and provide good education. In some cases, I was really blown away by the efforts of the parents to educate their children.

    Secondly, we analyzed the family condition and conducted a test for the children. Through this test, we identified bright children who couldn’t pursue their education and also those who wanted to get educated in private schools. In a bid to make the parents responsible, we conducted a session to help them understand the value of education. Thus, we granted scholarships to the bright children.


    Finally, we convinced school officials to enroll the children and also paid the students' scholarship amount. During this process, we received valuable inputs from the school officials about the performance of the students and the behavior of the parents. We documented the details of the children for our future reference.


    At last, we enrolled 300 underprivileged slum children to schools. Though it took us four months of exhaustive effort, the difference that we made gave me immense satisfaction. Over a period of four years, I could enroll 600 children from slums to Government and Government aided schools.

16 comments:

Ramana KV said...

Great job dude... Appreciate you for your effort..

Jet said...

Hi dude..
Thank u. Actually, I was a lil lazy for a while to blog. Infact, ur posts motivated me to resume blogging. Thanx a ton for that buddy..

Raja Chowdary said...

Very Good Initiative..

Jet said...

Thank u chow. We enrolled 200 children last year also but I couldn't blog that as I was just a volunteer then.

Anonymous said...

Great work dude...

Jet said...

@ Anonymous : Thank u. if I'm not wrong, is this the lazy bones kiran?

Lucid Blog said...

It is incredible work dude..Keep it up. Really I appreciate you from my bottom of the heart. Keep doing these kind good things..

Jet said...

Thank u armug.. Will look forward to carry this with your encouragement. Unfortunately, I couldn't succeed in pulling u into this :)

GADDAM said...

Good work Jet. If your volunteering organization is small and low on funds then approach http://www.aidindia.org/main/. Submit your detailed work and project plan and request for funds.

Jet said...

Hey gads.. Thanx for ur comment and info buddy.
Aashayein is self sufficient. U must have looked at my previous post in 2009. http://jayanthspeaks.blogspot.com/2009/08/walkathon-09.html
In 2010, we didn't conduct Walkathon as we have funds in excess. Currently, we are looking forward to utilize these funds by identifying more underprivileged kids. Anyways, thank you for the info dear.

Sivaji said...

Very good Initiative Jet..

Jet said...

Thank you Sivaji.

SUBBU said...

Great Job Jayanth. I really appreciate your dedication

Jet said...

Thank you very much subbu. I hope everything is going gr8 at ur end.

Sam said...

Now i know where you have been investing your time.. good job buddy...Keep it going..

Jet said...

Hey swamy.. wassup buddy? I'll make u work on this when u come back to India. How is life treating u? When r u coming back?