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Designed by- Swadeep Shikshan Vikas Shanstha 2

Context 1. Introduction

2. About “Vidhya jyot Project”

3. Key Strategy

4. Project Objectives

5. Project Areas

6. Our Impact

7. Model and Sustainable Education initiative in

a. Anganvadi Centers

b. Primary School

c. High School

d. Site School / LEP Class

8. Parents Gathering

9. Project activity statistic

10. Conclusion

11. Reference


“Education is the greatest engine of the personal

development”― Nelson Mandela

1 Introduction

The country has inequity that is waste. It is only the children from

the wealthy and middle class families afford to attend to formal

preschools. About 18% of the countries children do not get to see any

formal education. The issues are further see when more than 43% of

the children remain malnourished. It is in this context the

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were framed to address the

world's major development challenges which includes the challenge

of putting every child through a formal Primary Education.

2 About Vidhya jyot Project

Swadeep shikshan vikas Sanstha is currently attempting at

implementing a field based programs, named “Vidhya jyot Project”

in partnership with the GHCL Foundation, Sutrapada.

3 Key Strategy

The strategy of this projects aims to work with children at all the

three levels of Education namely at the preschool level, thereafter at

the Primary School level and finally at the High School level. The

strategy is to join hands with the teachers and the Parents wherein

both play an important role to make this happen.


4 Project Objectives

The Vidya Jyot project addresses three objectives. These are:

1) Enhance the capacity of the service providers (Anganwadi

workers, formal school teachers), improve the quality of nutrition

and emphasize upon to improve the quality of education. In

Anganwadi Children effort is to help them learn more words and

improve their vocabulary skill.

2) Decrease the dropout rate in the formal schools by promoting

habit of going to pre-schools. To bring out children’s latent power

and make efforts to help children become regular in school.

3) Provide children with solutions and remove their confusions in

Math’s and English through provisioning of educational materials

and also help them to overcome their stress through counseling.


5 Project Areas

Vidhya Jyot Project is spread over Veraval and Sutrapada taluka of Gir-

Somnath District. The project runs with financial support coming from

GHCL Foundation Trust, Sutrapada.


6 Our Impact

Though the problems seem insurmountable, Swadeep firmly believes

that actionable and effective solution always exits. With financial and

networking support coming from GHCL Foundation Swadeep has

been able to achieve the following in the past one year.

5000 Children in rural areas of these two blocks have received

some or the other kind of support under the “Vidhya Jyot Project”.

11 Villages of Sutrapada and Veraval Taluka, Gir-Somnath

District-Gujarat are covered under the project.

30 Anganvadi centers whose workers and helpers have received

training under this project. They have with training provided

structured pedagogy inputs to the toddlers.

1191 Children of 30 Anganvadi centers are receiving Preschool

education through the project.

2869 Children of the Primary school have benefited under the

Karate Training ,Sports and Extra curricular activities carried out in

the schools. This also includes preparation for the Navoday Exam

NMMS Exam and the Balmela.

483 Students of the 10th and 12th standard have benefited with 0

hour’s classes on subjects like Math’s, English, Accountancy and

Statistic. These students have also gained through inputs on career

counseling.


3200 parents are today with the project. They meet at regular

intervals and share their concerns and provide inputs, support and

guidance in our endeavor. Parents meeting and Field visit under

“Vidhya Jyot Project” considers the role of parents as primary to the

cause of education.

7 Model for Sustainable Education initiative

The educational initiative is targeted to different age group children.

This includes the toddlers, the primary school children and the

Secondary school children. Under the project a separate set of activities

is planned and executed. Let’s look at each of them.


a. Anganvadi (Pre School Centers)

The word Anganwadi means "courtyard shelter". The initiative was

started in 1975 as part of the Integrated Child Development

Services program and was then having the twin objective of combating

child malnutrition and some basic education. It also had then the

objective of ensuring reach of immunization services to mothers

(expecting and lactating) and the new born.

A typical Anganwadi center provides basic health care in Indian villages.

It is a part of the Indian public health care system. Basic health care

activities include contraceptive counseling and supply, nutrition

education and supplementation, as well as pre-school activities.

Over the years, these Anganwadi centers have been seen as nutritional

support programs only. The centers and its workers typically would

gather the children, serve them the food and let them go back.

GHCL Foundation in order to ensure that in these Thirty Anganwadis

Centers of Veraval and Sutrapada Taluka some preschool educational

services also happen, roped in the expertise of SWADEEP an

organization involved with similar efforts with other agencies in

Gujarat. Swadeep developed an action program and with support from

the ICDS office at the block level a program was developed to work on

the pre schooling aspect of the children. Twenty Anganwadi centers

from 9 villages were selected and the processes initiated for preschool

education.

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The Vidhya Jyot Project approach is to create a simple, beautiful and an

effective atmosphere for preschool education for the toddlers in

collaboration with the local community. Due to this efforts since now for

almost year and a half children who had their names registered at these

centers have become more regular in Anganvadi centers.

SWADEEP carries out a number of activity which makes things happen

in these Anganwadi Centers like

The Anganvadi workers/Helpers training.

Balvadi Cultural Program.

Parents meeting.

Story tailing and singing song and role play activity

Children Activity with electronic Gazets .

Interactions with the local PRI and with the ICDS offices are part of the

overall sets of activities that happen.

The staff of Swadeep are in contact touch with the workers and attend to

their calls and reach out with small support like charts, posters, sltaes,

pencils, chalk, toys etc.

The work done has brought in accolades to two of the ICDS centers at

Veraval and Sutrapada. These two centers have bagged the best

performing anganvadi Center in 2017-18.


Anganvadi Activity

Quarter AWT AHT GST

PM Parents

M F M F T

First 4 1 3 30 18 76 328 404

Second 5 1 4 160 19 44 412 456

Third 4 1 0 0 23 75 474 549

Total 13 3 7 190 60 195 1214 1409

Note : AWT(Anganvadi Worker Training), AHT(Anganvadi Helper Training), GST(Garbh Sanskran

Training), PM(Parents Meeting)

As indicated, training the workers of the centers is a part of the overall

strategy to ensure that preschool education happens in right earnest. There

are total 30 Anganvadi worker who have received training during 2017-18.

Another 4 Anganvadi Helpers too have been given orientation on health and

Hygiene. To rope in the parents into this endeavor 60 Anganvadi Parents

meetings were also held during 2017-18. Nowadays Parents have become

more active and they come up with good suggestions which are thereafter

implemented in the centers.


GARBH SANSKRAN TRAINING :

ABOUT CHILDREN UNIVERSITY, GANDHINAGAR

The children’s university will lead the children of

today to build a new world of friendliness,

mutuality and harmony that transcends all

barriers of narrowness and blind conflicts

resulting from exclusivism and burden of the

past that strives to linger against the pressure of

the future of uplifting light and prosperity.

Children university mainly works on Education

with spiritual way start before conception to

children with 18 year of age.

There were 2 days Fetal Orientation Program

held at GHCL Anurag Nagar Community Hall,

Sutrapada . There were 30 Anganvadi Workers ,

130 Pregnant Women and Newly Married

Women from 11 Villages of Sutrapada and

Veraval Talukas had Participated in this

Program.

Ms. Tarpana Vyas and Sangitaben gave his

Precious Knowledge about fetal Orientation and

solved problems of Pregnant Women in 2 days

workshop.

AGENDA OF PROGRAM

What is Fatal Orientation?

Why Fatal Orientation

require?

Effects of Fatal Orientation on

Human being.

Discussion on Fatal Dialogue

and How to Use it.

Different Yoga Activity and

Games for Pregnant women.

Mind Games and refreshment

activity have done at the time

of Pregnancy.

Discussion on wrong beliefs

on Pregnancy and how to

remove it?

How to Mother and Child

Care during Pregnancy?

Family planning Discussion


Program Memories


b. Primary School

According to the MDGs there is a promise by the Government to ensure

by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to

complete their full course of primary schooling. This however stands

vindicated in the location where we took up this as a challenge.

GHCL Foundation trust has undertaken a remarkable educational

initiative to ensure that children in its surrounding mining area are

provided with the opportunity and access to primary schooling.

Majority of the people who are engaged in the mining activity belong to

the poor households and for their children to be in school is a luxury.

GHCL has focused its attention to ensure 100% enrolment of children

belonging to these parents to be in school.

Primary School

Enrolment Kit

Distribution

Karate Training

Parents Gathering & Parents Meeting

Balmela

Navoday NMMS Exam

Preparation

Sports Competat

ion


PRIMARY SCHOOL

Quarter SPD/

Nav/NM/ Bal

STU PM Parents

M F T

First 0 0 1 33 48 81

Second 11 1659 7 195 93 288

Third 13 1132 9 108 171 279

Total 24 2791 17 336 312 648

Note : SPD(Sports Day),NAV(Navoday Exam) , NM(NMMS Exam),Bal (Balmela),

STU(Student),PM(Parents Meeting)

During 2017-18 there were a total of 623 children from these 10

villages of the Project area attend the School .With the financial support

of GHCL Foundation these children were provided with enrollment kits

as a token and to motivate them to join school.

With the experience of Balmela and Sports day celebration during the

previous year, SWADEEP under the Vidya Jyot project could support the

10 schools to organize the Balmela activity. This year it was done in two

phases. The first phase included a balmela on extracurricular activities

whereas the second balmela provided children the opportunity to show

case the same with small Science experiments. A total of 1549 children

from 5th to 8th standard participated.

In addition to during this year we could also organize an inter school

sports and music competition. This was hosted in one of the

participating school at Kadvar. The Kadvar Primary School made all


arrangements to ensure that the sports and music event happens for all

the 10 schools.

In addition to this during the year 115+100 students from these 10

School participated in the ensuing Navoday and NMMS exam. GHCL

foundation arranged for the preparation test of these students at its DPS

School in Sanjay nagar. Children who attended this mock test were

provided with educational materials which helped them to prepare.

There were total 355 Students from school Level with The emphasis on

Karate events in 3 schools, a student from the Primary School at

Meghpur


Mr. Manav D. Vaja and Mr. Yakesh G. Vaja got the 3rd rank in “Karate

Championship 2017” conducted by All India Wado – Kai Karate Do

Association Veraval in the Taluka level competition in Kala Utsav

Program hosted by the state Government.

As per the program during the year Swadeep also organized 4 primary

school teachers meetings, 20 Balmela activities in 2 phases (1st phase

extra curriculum activity and 2nd is “Surakha Setu Abhiyan” Balmela). A

total of 2169 children participated in these two events. With the efforts

of the team 20 Parents meeting were also held during the year. About

411 parents participated in these meeting and provided their

suggestions for improvement of the activities.


c. High School

Secondary high school education serves as a link between the elementary and

higher education, and plays a very important role in helping children to

choose a vocation and make a living out of it. Child's future as a future earning

member of the household depends a lot on the type of education she/he

receives at the secondary level. Apart from grounding the roots of education

of a child, secondary education can also be instrumental in shaping and

directing the child to a bright future. This stage of education serves to move

on higher secondary stage as well as to provide generic competencies that cut

across various domains of knowledge as well as skills. Providing secondary

education to all, both boys and girls, with a focus on quality education

assumes greater meaning today, when we consider the emerging challenges in

our society.

Our emphasis is to make secondary education of good quality available,

accessible and affordable to all young persons in the age group of 14-18.

High School

Remedial Classes for Maths ,

English ,Account & Stat subject

Education Material

distribution

Parents Gathering &

Parents Meeting Career Counseling

Regular Test


When children complete his/her education at the 8th and 9thstd many of

them start facing some difficulties in the Std.10th and latter at the Std.12th .

They have to appear at the board level examinations that are conducted

across the entire state and many of them do not fair well. Understanding of

Mathematics, English, Science, Accountancy and Statistics are poor. Many

of them fail to qualify the pass grade in these board examinations on these

papers.

SWADEEP and GHCL Foundation decided to overcome this problem and

thereafter provided for extra tutors for Maths and English Subject in 5 high

schools. These are Saraswati Vidhyalay, Gorakhmadhi,Model School,

Gorakhmadhi, RMSA School Bolas, Bhagavati School-Harnasa and

Vadodara Zala High school. A total of 483 students studying at the

Remedial Class in year 2017-18

Srno. School Students 10th Class 12th Class Total Class

Math’s English Account Stat

1 Saraswati School , Gorakhmadhi

276 107 50 46 46 249

2 RMSA School, Bolas

45 146 0 0 0 146

3 Bhagavati School, Harnasha

13 63 61 0 0 124

4 Model School 60 0 44 0 0 44

5 Vadodara Zala 89 0 0 0 0 0

Total 483 316 155 46 46 563


secondary and higher secondary level in these 4 schools benefitted out of

this support.

The students are

taken through a test

to divided them into

four categories in the

order of their

grasping on the

subjects. Special

attention is given to

the students having

the lowest level of

grasping and are

slowly made to move

from the lower level

to the higher level. This support has paved way for the students to learn

the subject and clarify their doubts. Resource materials are also provided

to the children for them to practice the same while they are awy from the

school. The school teachers remain present during the exam preparation

time to guide students having difficulties. Periodic examinations are taken

for the students to dispel the fear of the board examination.

In addition to this special coaching and career counseling and also

counseling sessions are organized for the children in all these four schools.

The parents have been quite appreciative of this intervention.


5 Site School / LEP Class

Site school and LEP class run under direct observation of GHCL

Foundation, Sutrapada. Three of the site schools located at Sutrapada,

Haranasa, Nakhada village has a total of 180 children. They are children

of the mine labourers and they attend these schools both after and

beore the school time.

There are total 1 LEP (Learning Enhancement Program) classes that run

in (Sutrapada and Kadvar Village). These LEP classes have a total of 55

students. The attempt of LEP classes is with children in grade 3rd to 5th.

These children have deficit in their learning and are taken through the

Site School & LEP Class

Class Monitoring

Education Material

distribution

Parents Gathering &

Parents Meeting

School Programs


LEP inputs to help them mainstream with other children in the school.

There is also a

simultaneous

attempt being

made at the

LEP schools to

involve the

teachers into

teaching the

children on

the set

pedagogy of

LEP. The

success of

these efforts

will lead to

overcoming the endemic problem of learning deficits among children

and their exclusion from schooling.


In the year 2016-2017 a total of 13 parents meeting and school program

organized at the Site schools. This was attending by over 299 parents.

Site School/ LEPClass

Quarter PM Parents

Male Female Total

First 0 0 0 0

Second 4 32 30 62

Third 3 66 43 109

Total 7 98 73 171

Note : PM(Parents Meeting)


8. Parents Gathering

In order to enhance the effectiveness of the Vidhya Jyot Project GHCL

Foundation trust Sutrapada and Swadeep Sanstha provides opportunity

for the Student of Anganvadi , Primary School and High school to showcase

their talents at the VALI SAMELAN-2018.

During this year a total of 55 Students participated in Program wherein

about 600 parents were also present. This was probably the first time


parents in these villages witnessed the public display of their wards

performance in schools. The children of all age groups starting from 3 to 6

years gave performance without any hesitation and fear. Primary School

Children involved themselves in Prayer , Welcome song and Drama on

Subject “Svachchhata Abhiyan”. The Anganvadi Workers also acted on a

drama “Educational Sanedo ” Subject. Girls students from Bhagvati high

school, Harnasha carried out a folk dance “Gori Racha ne kalo Kan”.


9 Project activity statistic

Yearly Report

April-2017 to March-2018

Anganvadi Primary School High School

Site School/ LEPClass

Annual Parents Gathering

Qut. AW

T AHT

GST PM

Parents SPD/Nav/NM/Bal

STU PM Parents

CCU STU TC PM Parents P

M

Parents

M F M F T M F T M F T M F T M F T

1st 4 1 3 30 18 76 328 404 0 0 1 33 48 81 0 0 80 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

2nd 5 1 4 160 19 44 412 456 11 1659 7 195 93 288 3 209 227 2 38 0 38 4 32 30

62 0 0 0

3rd 4 1 0 0 23 75 474 549 13 1132 9 108 171 279 9 400 211 3 5 90

95 3 66 43

109

150

450

600

Total

13 3 7 190 60 195 1214 1409 24 2791 17 336 312 648 12 609 518 5 43 90

133

7 98 73

171

150

450

600

Note

AWT(Anganvadi Worker Talim),AHT(Anganvadi Helper Talim),PM(Parents Meeting),PTM(P.School Teachers Meeting),CCU(Career Counseling),TS(Total Student),TC(Tutor Class),SPD(Sports Day),NAV(Navoday), NM(NMMS),Bal(Balmela)


10. Conclusion

The results impacts of this educational adventure will be visible

after a few years. However shades of them have started becoming

visible during the year of the work itself. The increase in the number

of children attending these centers is a clear indication that the

community has understood the worth of these centers and the

approach GHCL Foundation Trust, Sutrapada want to follow.

There was cooperation from the community and leadership in these

villages. The administration have seen how the village leadership

have come forth in ensuring that the centers are open and serve the

purpose of education. The school teachers are highly enthusiastic

about the interventions and are giving in their best to make the

intervention successful. The parents too are with the project. Finally

it is the children whose happiness has increased. They are more

interested in reaching to the schools. They have seen a meaning in

being in school. The school for them is a center that is adding to them

the knowledge – but alongside the job of learning as well.


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