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The ‘Girls Going to School’,(GGS ), initiative which began in 2006, is progressing well, with 39 Remedial Education Centers, (RECs), in operation. Thirty four of these centers are exclusively for girls, while the remaining 5 RECs functioning in MCD government schools are primarily for girls. In the new academic session, we have plans to expand into 15 additional MCD schools.
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Thanks to our sponsors and individual donors, in the last year and a half, we have been able to reach out to nearly 1411 children through our GGS initiative. Despite the great success of our programs, an extraordinary number of girls still need to be reached out to.
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We invite you to visit our centers to learn more about our work and meet the people we work with. For more information on our ‘Girls Going to School’ initiative please visit www.indiasponsor.org.
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Tsunami Relief- S.U.G.A.M Vedashram Project 2006-2007
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 Tamil Nadu was amongst the worst affected area of the Tsunami in 2004. Over the past 3 years ISF has impacted the lives of many women and children in the affected areas by reaching out to help and rehabilitate them. The S.U.G.A.M. Vedashram Project, an education programme for tsunami affected children which was supported by ISF since 2006 and run by Udayan Care has just recently concluded. The project had teachers, doubling as counselors, teach different class subjects, provide remedial coaching as well as trauma counseling, especially for orphaned and semi-orphaned children in identified schools. The project area covered the villages Thalampettai, Chinnurpet and Chandrapadi in Tarangambadi Taluk of district Nagapattinam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
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Children’s Hope – Making a Difference 2003 - 2008
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 We would like to thank Children's Hope for continuing to support the Saral Shiksha project in Munirka. This is a comprehensive after school support programme, which besides providing education and uniforms to the children, also provides them a nutritious meal, health care through a mobile Ranbaxy medical van and regular health camps, and exposure to other cultural activities. We have seen this program successfully grow from 58 children in 2003 to the current 365 children.
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Capacity Building for Model RECs
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 Capacity Building: Besides enrolment and retention of the girls in schools, we feel it is equally important for the girls to actually retain their learnings and absorb them into their daily lives. Stepping stones are a series of especially developed tests administered periodically for assessing the learning retention of the children and form an integral part of Model RECs. Capacity building of teachers and coordinators of the NGO partners is currently being conducted for providing quality education and promoting learning in children. Teachers are being trained in the art of making and using relevant, subject and age appropriate Teaching Learning Material and use of basic concepts of Multi Grade- Multi Level Teaching.
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Standardisation of Systems: Another aspect of turning RECs into Model RECs is to ensure uniformity of reporting systems. ISF has developed Management Information Systems (MIS) to ensure that all the partner NGOs are able to effectively record and report important developments in the initiative in the same format. The teachers and coordinators at the RECs were trained in MIS. |
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Survey training for Phase II Partners |
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 Two new GGS Phase II implementing partner NGOs were trained by the ISF team for carrying out initial baseline surveys in their respective areas, as this is a requirement of the project for all NGOs when they join the campaign. The training was followed by a pilot survey which helped troubleshoot some problems so as to ensure that they are not replicated. These surveys gather information on the educational status of children, the size, income, socio-economic background of their families and other relevant data.
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Interactions with Corporate Leaders
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 In a visit organized by Leaders' Quest, ISF recently hosted a group of corporate leaders from across the world. The quest was a journey for these leaders to understand first hand the issues and challenges in development work and also to get a perspective on the kind of work being done by social sector organizations in India. ISF was honored to get the opportunity to host this quest and hopes to get many more of these opportunities in the future.
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 We thank Grant and Brigitte Gordon for taking time out of their vacation to visit with us and also the Remedial Education Centers being supported by them. We hope it was as gratifying to them as it was to us to see how their support is impacting 259 girls who were enrolled in MCD schools last year. We welcome and are happy to have donor visits.
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Encouraging Reading- New Library at BNS |
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A community library has recently been set up at Bhartiya Navdeep Samiti (BNS) as a pilot. Through this we hope to inculcate the reading habit in children and also to encourage some of the neo-literate mothers to read more.
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The film ‘Taare Zameen Par’ is based on the life of a dyslexic child in school. As a part of the capacity building programme we provide to teachers, all the teachers from the 39 RECs were taken to the theatre to view this film. This was to sensitize them towards children, encourage them to look at the children as individuals and to find creative ways of helping them. The film was very inspirational. |
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Amidst all this hectic activity, we moved our office to a more central location – Safdarjung. (Close to the Safdarjung Hospital) |
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In keeping with the nature of activities being carried out under our Girl Child Programme, it has been renamed as the Girls Going to School Initiative |
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