School kids visit to Software company

One of the objective of Chilume is to provide exposure of outside world to government school kids. As part of this objective, Chilume plans yearly trips to places like planetarium, museum, zoo, etc. This year we got good opportunity to visit software company Harman International located in outer ring road, Bangalore.

We formed group of 5 students, each group attended by two of Harman employees. They took them around lab, meeting room, work place, pantry, security/reception, audio experience room and recreation areas in groups. Employees explained importance of each of these places and allowed students to try and experience. 

After office tour, fun session was conducted, discussing their experience in office, details on different job opportunities and skit highlighting importance of discipline and hard-work in student life to achieve goals.

We would like to thank Harman and it's employees for facilitating this trip and making it a memorable day for students. 

Few snaps are below:

Future of government school

Highlights from article in Prajavani newspaper on current situation and best way forward:
- Like old generation, current problem is not schools are not near to school but there are no students in government school.
- There are 15lakh schools out of which 11 lakh schools are government schools. Nearly 4.2 lakh schools have less than 50 students.
- In Karanataka, out of 49,430 schools 10,420 schools have less than 50 students and nearly 5000 schools don't have any students.
- Reason for above problem is:

1. As part of "Policy of access to schools", government built more schools

2. Demographic decline of population

3. Increase in private schools

Main problem with this is single or couple of teachers covering 4-5 standards and load on single teacher if others goes on vacation. Author suggests combining schools nearby to reverse this trend.

http://www.prajavani.net/news/article/2017/07/29/509579.html

Plan for 2017-2018

·         Tie up with Step Up For India (SUFI) for teaching material and volunteers training.

·         60 Hours of English session by volunteers to teach Phonetics based English.

·         Sponsor additional teacher to school to accommodate additional teaching activities

·         English coaching class for teachers

·         Computer education class for teachers and students

·         Non-Curricular learning on Saturdays 

Finance report - Academic year 2016/2017

Thanks for your support to Chilume Foundation. Below are the highlights of last year activities:
- Phoneitics based English teaching.
- Recruitment of additional teacher to handle additional learning activity
- School trip to Tulip resorts
- Facilitating study table for "Nali-Kali" students
- Conducting child safety sessions to bring awareness on child abuse
- Session from child psychologist and counselor. This session conducted to help teachers not to hit trouble making students but use techniques which will reduce restlessness of kids and get the focus in few minutes.

Below is the summary of donation and expense for the financial year 2016-2017. For FY 2017-18, we don't have sufficient fund to sponsor additional teacher for Turahalli school. It will be dis-continued after 6 months based on financial health. Support for school trips and other necessities of school will continue.

Republic Day Celebration

Republic day celebration in Yadalam school followed by session from Shobha Mangoli on building cognitive and emotional skills for children. It was good session where teachers learnt simple techniques to ease restlessness of students mind and bring in focus towards learning. Thanks to Ms Shobha for this wonderful session.

School trip to Tulip resorts

Chilume arranged school trips for two schools in December. Children, teachers and volunteers had gala time!

 

Change for Change

Recently one of our volunteer visited USA. During stay she got invite from School to present the work she is doing in government school. After session, impressed with work, kids collected coin for a month under "change for change" initiative and planned to hand over collected money ($500) to Chilume Foundation. Since we can't accept foreign donation, they shipped us projector. It was touching experience for Chilume. 

We also have flat screen TV donation from CBH resident. These will be used for computer aided learning.