.. Pankhudi Delhi ..
Current Projects undertaken : Protsahan
Current campaigns undertaken : Sanjeevani
Details about our work :
Protsahan
Number of children catered : 25
Batches run: 1
Class timing : Sunday 9am - 11am by Pankhudi volunteers, daily from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM by Ms. Aasmeen, an 18 year old girl from the slum.
Class location : Priyanka Camp at Okhla
Since when: March 2007
We are teaching 25 kids at the Okhla camp mainly focused on English as of now but works are underway to start maths and hindi also. The weekday classes are taken by a girl called Aasmeen selected from the slum itself who teaches them for one hour daily. We have identified 2 other girls who will be teaching maths and hindi during the week. Sunday classes are focused towards evaluation of work done during the week. Daily classes use a structured curriculum prepared by the Pankhudi content cell with the help of other NGOs. We plan to begin teaching life sciences shortly.
Sanjeevani
Number of children catered: 50
Dates of campaign: 27th July 2008, 5th July 2009
We have held 2 health camps at the slum where external doctors have come and done a general health check up of all the children and provided medicine for their general illnesses and health problems. Over 50 children were checked up each time. We plan to make this a bi-annual event.
We also had a dance workshop by instructors from a dance group on Pankhudi Day. We have taken them on field trips to the zoo and the Railway Museum in Delhi in the past.
Impact & Achievements
Prior to January 2009, our focus was on supplementing the material taught to the children in school. We helped them resolve problems they had with their NCERT curriculum in maths, hindi and english. We found that many kids became more interested in their studies once they had a better understanding of the fundamentals of their subject. They were also eager to learn and would often bring us problems that they had with their school syllabus.
Since we have implemented a structured English curriculum designed to teach them the very basics of the English language, there has been considerable improvement in the children's ability to understand what is taught to them. The younger children are able to identify the phonetics behind alphabets and use this knowledge to spell and read short words. They also understand simple questions like 'What is your name' and 'Is that a car' and are able to respond. The older children are able to spell and identify longer words and phrases and are able to respond to questions like 'How many sisters do you have?' 'Are you singing/playing/dancing', 'What is your father's name' etc.
We recently evaluated their progress in English and found that over 70% had improved in English comprehension considerably from the last time we evaluated them in January 2009, before implementing the curriculum. Many of the children have expressed greater interest in learning English and all are passing the subject in school.
Volunteer details & Contacts of all representatives
Active volunteers: 15
Representatives (Contact Number)
Sameer Gupta, Content Representative (9971219998)
Background: Sameer is an engineer from IIT Mumbai. He is currently working at a consulting firm - BDA Connect in Delhi.
Vaibhav Khandelwal ,PR & Resource (9310121285)
Background: Vaibhav is an engineer from NSIT, Delhi. He is currently working with Reliance Tech Services.
Vidha Jain, Chapter Representative (9810401135)
Background: Vidha has done a degree in Economics from the University of Manchester. She is currently working with a software start up - Valyoo Technologies Private Limited in Delhi.
Naval Chaudhary , Finance Rep (9811801301)
Background: Naval is an engineer from IIT Mumbai. He is currently working as an environmental consultant at EQMS India Pvt Limited in Delh.
Other Active Volunteers: Namita Dalmia, Anvesha Khandelwal, Nitin Sagar, Mrigayanka Roychowdhry, Vaibhav Khandelwal,
Manish, Deepali Vasavada, Saurabh, Amit Srivastava, Amit Garg, Nitin Sharma,Kunal Gupta, Others
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