Tech For Seva News Letter

Setting stage for Corporates, NGOs & Research Community

March 2015 Vol. 1 Issue 1 Quarterly Magazine

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ContentsEditorialWhy and How should we Work together for a Developed India? 1

Cover Story

Setting a stage for corporates, NGOs & Research community 3

FeaturesIntegrated Approach to Improve the Weavers Livelhood: Chitrika 6

Empowering Urban Slum Women through Kishori Vikas : Seva Bharathi 8

Arogya Dhara A Comprehensive Health Project 10

ChiguruNurturing young India : Youth for Seva 13

Man making education through LLL method : Vande Mataram Foundation 15

Chief EditorR K Anil

Editorial TeamSarvanan DDhammapal ChawhanNandkumar Pudhari

OrganizersSeva BharathiYouth For Seva

For enquiries contactfollowing

Email:[email protected]@techforseva.org

Tech For Seva Times 1

Why and How should we Work together for a Developed India?

By Editor

Paropakaram Vahanti Nadya, Paropakaram Duhanti Gaaya Paropakaram Phalanti Vriksha, Paropakaram Idam Shareeram

{Rivers flow for helping others, Cows give milk for helping others, Trees bear fruits for helping others, similarly this body is also meant for helping others}

S i n c e t i m e immemorial our people in our country have been taking care of their needs through their own systems of governance such as village P a n c h a y a t ,

temple committees, trade guilds, and user associations. They were collectively responsible for the maintenance of their village, water bodies, adjoining forests, temples etc. They had their own Revenue Models and Standard Operating Procedures to ensure their sustainability and viability. The rich in the society also contributed generously to develop and maintain collective assets and Common Property Resources.

However, with the advent of the foreign rule, the management of most of these was transferred to a distant government and impersonal bureaucracy. Gradually people started expecting everything renovation of their village tank, provision of latrines etc to be done by the elected government and outsourced all developmental activity to the hired government servants.

Now we realize that there are limits to what the government can and cannot do in the realm of community development. We

understand that reforms in governance are a continuous process and there is considerable lag before their impact is felt on the ground. Hence we need to take more responsibility for developmental activities by tapping the desire for improvement and the latent energy in the people, by leveraging the resources and expertise available in our corporate sector, and using the technology developed by our scientists.

Our strengthsWe are an ancient civilization with uninterrupted existence. The underlying rule of Dharma enjoins us to live in harmony with Nature and coexistence with all humanity. We have glorious examples of altruism in our mythology (Karna in Mahabharata and Shibi Chakravarty in Jataka tales) and in contemporary wealth creators (the Birlas, Tatas, Azim Premji, Narayanamurthy) to emulate in philanthropy. Our communities, both individually and collectively, have been contributing to help the needy directly or through donations to the temples and other charitable organisations. We are one of the technological (software) superpowers and among the fast growing economies in the world. In spite of being home to the second largest population in the world, we are self sufficient in food due to our farmers and technologists efforts. We have successful Model villages in almost every state including

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Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

Present realityIndia is ranked a lowly 135 on the UNDP Human Development Index (HDI) out of 187 countries in 2014. This depicts our combined national achievement in health, education, and income. Only 30.7 % of our households in rural areas have sanitary latrines at home and an estimated 49% indulge in open defecation nationally (census 2011). The adverse impact due to inadequate sanitation in India is about Rs 2.40 lakh crores i.e., about

6.4% of the GDP (2010). Literacy rate in Andhra Pradesh is only about 67%. The quality of education is low, with NASSCOM stating that only a fraction of our Engineering graduates are employable.

The productivity of land is low with nearly 58% of net area is dependent on the mercy of monsoon rains for irrigation and a low cropping intensity of just 1.26 in Andhra Pradesh (2010). There is a looming drinking water scarcity with declining water tables in 20% of the mandals in the state. There is a rapidly declining trend in our traditional crafts and intangible heritage, and degrading values with India ranking 85th among 175 countries in the corruption perception index of Transparency International (2014).

The challenge is how to leverage our strengths to positively change the present reality. The elected governments and bureaucracy cannot be solely entrusted with the responsibility of bringing about the desired socio-economic change. Based on our experience in Tech for Seva symposium, we believe that it is essential for the three main drivers of economy and community development - the NGOs, the Corporate sector and the Scientific research organizations to cooperate and leverage each others strengths in ushering in the desired change in peoples lives.

Road Ahead After the successfully organizing the first Tech for Seva (TFS) symposium, the TFS team plan to work closely with all the corporates and research institutions based out of Hyderabad. It would be useful to form a Secretariat to act as a clearing house and a bridge between those working at the cutting edge with the communities and those who have resources (knowledge and financial) so that the prevailing information asymmetry is rectified. Possible roles of such a Secretariat could include:

Maintaining and updating databases of all the stakeholders

Matchmaking between/among partners Due diligence for authenticity Helping NGOs in compliance of quality

and delivery

Bringing out a newsletter Organising events such as TFS

conferences.

For a larger good, will it be useful to conduct the future TFS conferences on fixed dates in Hyderabad every year, such as being done for the Vibrant Gujarat Summit in Gandhi Nagar or IITF in Pragati Maidan, Delhi, so that all the three pillars (Corporates, NGOs, and Research Institutes) of community development look forward to this and be prepared to showcase what they have done and what they have to offer?

Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached Swami Vivekananda


Setting Stage for NGOs, Corporate, and Research Scholars

Tech For Seva Conference ObjectiveSeva Bharathi and Youth For Seva organized the Tech For Seva conference on December 12 and 13, 2014 at YSR National Institute of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Gachibowli, Hyderbad. Over 300 NGOs, 90 corporates, 20 researchers, and 1000 delegates participated on various presentations. The conference was conducted to foster collaboration between scientists, innovators, academic and corporate

institutions, and NGOs to provide sustainable solutions for inclusive growth and improved quality of life for the poor.

BackgroundIndia has taken a giant leap in economic development over the last two decades and has made significant progress in every sphere. Today, India is a recognized economic power and its voice is heard by the world powers. At the same time, development gap is clearly visible and the people in the bottom of the social pyramid must not be neglected. United Nations Human Development Index (HDI), which provides a composite statistic of life expectancy, education

and income indices ranks India at 134th position globally. The rank indicates that the large amount of work that needs to be done to emancipate the poor and needy of the country.

The challenges that we face can be easily resolved by joint actions. Time has come to explore and

invent innovative approaches for joint actions from different stakeholders that include not just government agencies but also NGOs, Corporate

and scientists. Clearly science and technology can play a crucial catalytic role. Over 300,000 NGOs and many corporate through their CSR activities are working with all earnestness as change agents. Many organizations have developed new technologies in the field of Medicine, Energy, Agriculture, Environment, Information Technology etc. and leading research institutions like ISRO, BARC/DAC, DRDO, CSIR Laboratories and many more have been developing them with social relevance. However all the stakeholders i.e. Corporate, Research agencies, NGOs and socially cognizant citizens look for a common platform to address various problems affecting the lives of millions.

This conference provided a networking platform for all NGOs to share and work together to deliver the benefits of development to the needy.

Organizers

Seva Bharathi, Telangana, Youth for Seva, Hyderabad

Event StatisticsNo. of days of the Event : 2

Dates of the Event: December 12th & 13th, 2014

No. of NGOs Participated: 330

No. of Scientists Participated: 50

No. of Corporates Participated: 92

Delegates Participation at the Inauguration: 750

Total Delegates Participation on Day One: 920

Delegates Participation at the Key Note Event: 880

Total Delegates Participation on Day Two: 800


Inauguration DayShri. Etela Rajender, Finance Minister, Telangana State; Swamy Bodhamayananda, Director, Center for Human Excellence, Ramakrishna Math, Hyderabad; Dr. G Satish Reddy, Director, RCI; Dr. Ganesh Natrajan, CEO, Zensar Technologies; and Shri. Nrupender Rao, Chairman, Pennar Group were the dignitaries who attended the inauguration day of the event.

Inaugural speech:

Shri Etela Rajender and Swamy Bodhamayananda inaugurated the event by lighting the lamp.

In the inaugural speech Shri Etela Rajender said Governments are not able to solve the

problems of a common man fully, hence NGOs, Social workers and Private sectors has to take part in this process as their social responsibility. He said a lot of money is being spent in service activities, but there is a need to ensure money is spent on useful initiatives. He suggested all the stakeholders (NGOs, Corporate and social cognizant citizens) to concentrate on education, health, livelihood and rural empowerment as these are the basic areas where betterment is needed. Once we stand up to the standards in the above areas then automatically all the problem of common man will be solved.

Keynote Session

Shri. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister for Communication and Information Technology, Govt. of India; Dr. V.K. Saraswat, Former DRDO Chief; and Shri P. Venugopal Reddy, Ekalavya Foundation were the dignitaries for the second day keynote session event.

Keynote Speech:Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Honorable Union cabinet Minister asked the NGOs to take forward their goals by optimum use of technology. He also said that Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna and Swacch Bharat Mission initiatives were taken to the people with the help of technology. Minister further said technology can improve the quality of life. The world is looking at India and Indias talent. Information Technology

Co Hosts Vandemataram Foundation

Ekalavya Foundation

Seva Sahayog

Saksham

Grama Bharathi

Vignan Bharathi

YSR NITHM, Gachibowli


+ Indian Talent = Indias Tomorrow and the government will make the governance better by utilizing technology. He added people are ready to change and change is possible through the use of technology.

The conference will be doing the most important thing that is lacking today is to connect ground level innovators to Corporate and NGOs to help them take their innovations to next level (go to market). TFS will be the enabling medium for taking these innovators to the market.

Valedictory CeremonyShri Bandaru Dattatreya, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Govt. of India provided the valedictory speech.

Valedictory speech:Shri Bandaru Dattatreya, Honorable Union Minister in his valedictory speech shared his experiences in services activities with Seva Bharathi, what is the meaning of service, how a social worker should think and so on. He also stressed the quote Biggest benefit of Technology is that we can use it to link the people of India, link to energize the people of India and link to inspire the people of India.

Shri Bandaru Dattatreya honored eminent & senior social workers.

NGO Felicitation: Nearly 250 NGOs are felicitated by the Tech for Seva team for their great partnership in service to the Society.

Many NGOs congratulated the organizers and expressed their willingness to work with the organizers in all future events. Few NGOs had requested for training sessions that will help in using technology effectively, maintaining accounts, and leveraging the CSR.

Ramakrishna, who works for an IT firm coordinated one of the sessions in the conference says, TFS conference was not just that an event to witness. It was an awesome feel to associate with. The concept was very refreshing and novel. I was thrilled seeing NGOs, Corporates, and research scholars with infectious zeal to work for the country. I felt satisfied and thoroughly refreshed being a part of the conference. Looking forward to work more.

Next Steps:Connecting with all the NGOs.

Top 10 initiatives being run by the NGOs which will have the maximum positive impact have been identified and TFS will work with corporate to execute the projects

Two training sessions for all the NGOs are being planned to educate them on Project management, proposal making and Financial management.

Knowledge Partners FAPCCI

HYSEA

NASSCOM Foundation

TIE, Hyderabad

TECCI

FWB

COWE

Sponsors WELLS FARGO

Capegemini-We Kare

Value Labs

Anath Technologies

GGK Tech

Cigniti Technologies

AIA Engineering


Integrated Approach to Improve the Weavers Livelhood: ChitrikaChitrika is an artisan development foundation that promotes self-managed, self-reliant, and self-sustaining institutions of weavers. Chitrika works with weavers in Srikakulam and East Godavari districts in Andhra Pradesh. The organization supports artisans in improving their realization, reducing drudgery, increasing productivity, reducing risks by improving social security measures and developing self-sustaining artisan business institutions.

The inefficiencies in weaving sector range from incorrect identification of beneficiaries to corruption. In the entire weaving value-chain, there is a need for tight integration and centralization of certain activities. The key issues in value-chain are:

Weavers do the pre-loom activities individually and manually

No value additions in terms of printing, garmenting, and embroidering

In the long run, there is a need to rectify the channels through which the benefits flow to the artisans.

Chitrika envisages in promoting an integrated,

transparent and technologically advanced model, developed after in depth study of the value chain of handlooms. Some of the solutions tried by Chitrika are-

Creating local economic clusters of weavers

Single window integrated services that contains bouquet of services related to inputs and outputs management

Improved technological solutions to preproduction activities

Centralized value addition unitsChitrika also experiments with different institutional forms, strengthens the producer business institutions, and helps them to have better access to finances. Building a marketing channel that is owned by the artisans is one of the crucial interventions to create space for producers in the market. Technology focus will be built into the intervention from management of institutions, tools of the artisans, market intelligence and connecting with various players.

However, Chitrika also looks for

Capital investment support for any of their proposed technologies

Developing software for inventory manag ement s y s t em/des i gn/production planning systems

Contribution for working capital of the producer company

There are few more options, where you can decide to invest in.

Provide LoansAt times even when we have manpower, skill and technology financial crunch may stop or hinder the growth process in an enterprise. You can provide loans and invest directly in producer enterprises.


Investing In InfrastructureWith internal financial systems in place, Chitrika is now looking at computerizing all the systems to decrease workload and at the same time train the employees of the artisan collectives to grow to the next level. You can contribute a computer directly to the producer enterprises.

Sponsor A Training ProgrammeChitrika is planning for every month learning activity and annual training for the members of the producer enterprises. These training programmes will enhance the skills of artisans- be it in production, technology or marketing. Contribute to annual learning retreat of producer enterprises

Sponsor A CampaignThere are many people who are unaware about the livelihoods of artisans and the value attached to the products made by them. Campaigns help to showcase the true picture of the entire value chain and the key actors involved in the market. Campaigns in Chitrika will target schools, colleges, corporate and institutions to represent the cause behind and also to educate the consumer on how they can contribute meaningfully.

Ms Vijaya Switha Grandhi, CEO of Chitrika encourages people from different spheres to connect and support their initiatives. The NGO is located at Plot No.26, 4-3-92/3/A, Tejaswini Colony, Attapur, Hyderabad-500048, Telangana (Phone: +91-9440901146, Email: [email protected] , www.chitrika.org).

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Empowering Urban Slum Women through Kishori Vikas : Seva Bharthi

Today more than 1/3rd of Hyderabad population are living in slums. According to Census 2011, the slums continue to grow at a higher rate of 6.06%. There are 1179 slums notified by GHMC officially but it may be around 1500. Approximately, there are 30 Lakhs of slum dwellers.

The majority of the slum dwellers are below poverty line. The people in slum work as construction workers, do housekeeping jobs, drive auto or tempo, or work as a watchman, peon, or daily wages worker to earn an average monthly income of around Rs.4-5 thousand.

Huts or a make-shift room is the residing place for these people. In such a small congested space all the family members performs their respective activities. The general atmosphere and environment in slums, particularly in the evening and night is noisy and not conducive for the students to study peacefully.

Basic literacy is not the core problem in these slums. But the deprivation of the calm and healthy atmosphere that fosters healthy behavior is the main problem. Also parental care or a mentor is absent in slums. The lack of these adequate facilities leads to higher dropouts from the school and also leads to unemployment, which in turn causes frustration, addictions, spat, verbal and physical abuse.

Lack of education and unemployment often forces people to illegal means of livelihood. Domestic violence and alcohol addiction becomes an output of frustration and unhealthy social environment breeds negative characters. Ignorance and submission to suppression completes this vicious circle.

Cases of gender bias and discrimination against women are seen in significant percentages of urban slums and rural India. These make women more vulnerable to all sorts of abuse. The girls face numerous problems such as lack of proper education, unfair wages in employment, choosing the wrong path due to lack of proper guidance or circumstances, and so on.

There are lot of unanswered questions regarding their physical as well as emotional wellbeing. They also suffer from depression due to lack

of freedom at home. Early marriage makes the problem even worse.

The Kishori Vikas program of Seva Bharathi tries to address these problems by empowering the women in the slum. As a part of the program, a college going girl student, trainer, is trained in various activities who in-turn will train other school and college going students in education, health, culture, behaviors and also help in identifying women who will be made self-reliant through vocational trainings. The trainers are incentivized by free education and related support.

Activities in Kishori Vikas Free tuitions for school or college going girls

and increasing their confidence by preparing them for competitive exams, essay writing and elocution competitions etc.

Conducting yoga and medi tation classes Conducting health awareness campaigns

to make them aware about their role in prevention of several diseases and maintaining a healthy lifestyle

Sanitation campaigns to improve the health status amongst the girls and the women.

Cultural development through moral stories and bhajans

Self-reliance through vocational trainings like tailoring, hand embroidery, fabric and screen-printing, candle, chocolate preparation etc.

Martial art training for self-defence.. Regular group meetings provide a platform

for social support and individual leadership development, enabling women to become powerful agents of economic and societal transformation within their communities.

Seva Bharathi has specialized in the field of education, health, hygiene, and improving physical and emotional development of slum girls. Many of Seva Bharti initiatives are being supported under Corporate Social Responsibility. Seva Bharti office bearers can be contacted at House No: 3-2-106, Nimboliadda, Kachiguda, Hydereabad - 500 027 (Ph: 040-24610056).


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Arogya Dhara A Comprehensive Health Project: Ekalavya Foundation

Public health in rural India is in shambles for a variety of reasons. Lack of public health infrastructure, lack of skilled personal who are willing to work in rural areas, inadequate supply of medicines are among the many reasons for this sorry state of affairs.

The health situation in tribal and adjacent areas is much worse than the plains. Inaccessible road network and poor communication network coupled with all the above mentioned reasons pose unique health challenges.

Modernization has brought in new food habits (like rice consumption) as against their staple food like jowar.

Loss of traditional wisdom in treating diseases with locally available herbs, plants etc.

Many tribal people were found to be suffering from various diseases caused by nutritional deficiency.

These agency areas suffer from various communicable diseases like malaria,dengue, pneumonia, diarrhoea during rainy seasons.

Open defecation is another reason for spread of waterborn diseases.

Lack of basic awareness about preventive health and general health.

Consumption of Gutka, Paan parag and other tobacco products, cheap liquor.

Our solution:The solution proposed and being implemented is comprehensive, holistic, people centric and all-inclusive. It not only aims at prevention, but also supplements with knowledge, training and empowerment of communities for a healthy and disease free lifestyle.

On the eve of Swami Vivekanandas 150th Birth anniversary, Ekalavya Foundation has initiated a comprehensive health program named Arogya Dhara in 2013 to cover all people living in 162

villages of Indervelly Mandal of Adilabad Dist.

First year it was proposed to cover 42 villages in 6 Gram Panchayats and from 2nd year onwards, all 162 villages would be covered under this program. The total number of beneficiaries will be 47433 individuals from 9650 families. To solve the problem of open defecation, Ekalavya Foundation had taken several drives such as Swachch Bharath.

Program objectives:

Every household should have a toilet and a soak pit

Adequate potable water to every person Every person should have knowledge

and access to healthy and nutritional food

People participation in all developmental activities through village development committees.

Action plan: 5-6 persons from every village should

be given training on participatory democracy (adequate representation to women)

Special training to all adolescent girls and women on issues personal hygiene,


nutrition etc.

Information campaign on cleanliness, personal hygiene through videos, Kala Jaata programs, pamphlets.

Backyard plantation in every household consisting of fruit and vegetable plants to inculcate the habit of consuming the seasonal fruits and vegetables.

Homeo medicine distribution to every household.

Frequent eye testing in schools and village Panchayat centres.

Special training to women from every village on how to use locally available vegetables to prepare healthy and tasty dishes.

Study of Health and dietary habits of tribal people: We have requested National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), Hyderabad to undertake a study of health and nutrition of tribals in Utnoor area.

Sakira (B) became the first village in entire Adilabad district (Probably in Entire Telangana and AP) to construct toilets in all 49 households.

About Ekalavya FoundationThe Ekalavya Foundation was established on

April 27, 2006 under the Trusts Act with an aim

to empower the tribes and other marginalized

groups of society and help them to effectively

participate in nation building. Senior personnels

are employed as full time workers along with

volunteers to formulate and pursue strategies

and implement them to achieve the goals of the

foundation. To support and know more about

Ekalavya Foundation, corporates and NGOs can

connect with V. Mallikarjuna Reddy, Secretary,

Ekalavya Foundation, 1-8-522/7, Chikkadpally,

Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh, INDIA 500020

(mobile:+91 94406 80032, 040 - 2761 0388,

2767 4649 , e-mail:- [email protected]).

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ChiguruNurturing young India : Youth for SevaOver the past three years, Youth For Seva (YFS) has been organizing an inter-school sporting, cultural and literary fest titled Chiguru. The participants are children studying in government and non-formal schools, where our volunteers are involved in various activities. Chiguru which means bud is a volunteer-organized event aimed at providing a platform for these budding, future citizens to showcase their talents. Apart from enhancing their talents, cultural activities help build self-esteem, focus and commitment in children.

The Third Edition of Chiguru was conducted on March 1, 2015 where 4000 children from 150 projects across the city participated in 13 competitions with electrifying enthusiasm. About 1000 volunteers from 40 companies and colleges volunteered in organizing the event.

From the Chiguru launch in November 2014, about 300 volunteers got involved in training the kids at their respective locations. Needless to say, volunteers were extremely proud seeing their children perform to the best of their abilities at the big stage. The judges felt overwhelmed seeing bundles of talent all around and they admitted that they had difficult time to pick winners.

YFS plans to nurture the talents shown by the

kids so that the chiguru blossoms into poovu (flower) and later pandu (fruit).

About Youth For Seva Youth for Seva, Hyderabad started in 2010 as a platform to provide opportunities for youth who wanted to take active part in community development despite time constraints. Through this platform, YFS aims to empower youth to become positive change makers who will enable organizations and institutions to work without a vested interest. The goal of YFS is to support schools, NGOs, government hospitals and other organizations in the social sector through volunteers who can help them mitigate some of their shortcomings and challenges. Volunteering is made easy and customized to the individuals interests and time constraints.

There are several YFS chapters around the country and we look forward to making volunteering a movement. YFS encourages pro brono activist from corporate sector and colleges to participate in their initiatives. To be part of YFS activities contact their office bearers at plot no 18, 8-2-248/B/13, Journalist colony, Rd No 3, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad 500034 (Ph 9885198292).


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Man making education through LLL method : Vande Mataram Foundation

The academic performance of the students studying in under-resourced schools cannot be commensurate only with the faculty and physical infrastructure available in these schools. Some of it has to do with lack of support at home as most of the students hail from impoverished families and being first generation learners. However, most of the problem lies in the teaching methodology adopted in these schools, which instills a fear for mathematics and doesnt promote any affinity towards reading. The larger purpose of schooling is not only to teach academics but also to build their character and impart life skills to transform them in to good citizens. Unfortunately the curriculum is not designed to support this either.

Language, Logic & Life Skills (LLL) program launched by Vandemataram Foundation (VMF) focuses on man-making education by improving the reading habit, honing logic skills, and enhancing life skills.

Improving the Reading HabitVMF encourages the children to read books of their own choice at their own pace without correcting their mistakes and without asking them to reproduce or remember what they have learnt. The volunteers involve the students in various activities in which they are interested and which will entice them to books and read them by themselves. The children shall be facilitated to read story books of their choice in the first phase for at least 45 minutes a day in the pre-schooling session and as a continuation to it

they shall be asked to share with their friends for 15 minutes the interesting things they have read in the books. This they shall do sitting in groups which will familiarise the group with the contents in other books and motivates them to read other books the next day. This whole exercise shall be monitored and coordinated by a Vidya Volunteer.

Apart from focusing on academics and reading books, school has to identify and hone the creative skills present in a student. If this is not done a child who has a potential for creative expression get demotivated to attend school. Mere writing or copying from the books is a dull and dreary exercise. All day academics kills the enthusiasm and many children lose interest in going to school.

Every day, make the children to draw what they like and exhibit their works in the school. If the fellow students and eminent persons visiting the school admires and appreciates the student, it will be a tremendous boost to the children and will increase their interest in going to school and also in sharpening their skills.

Honing Logic SkillsA child without basic competencies in arithmetic cannot participate in teaching and learning process of their standard academic mathematics. Efforts are to be made in the direction of helping them to acquire the basic competencies that will facilitate learning mathematics with ease. Else, there will be no value addition to their presence in the class room. As they do not understand


what/why they are learning, they gradually lose interest in attending the classes and in course of time turn their attention towards other things and thus end up as drop-outs even after attending the school for some time.

As a remedy, the child shall be facilitated to aquire basic competencies in arithmetic by allowing to do and practice and learn in groups in the post schooling session for one hour a day monitored and coordinated by a Vidya Volunteer.

Enhancing Life Skills

Our schools generally create an impression that schools is not a place for fun and all the learning that takes place there is an inescapably terrible ordeal which the child has to endure to get ready for another harrowing experience called exams. This naturally kills the joy in learning and dissuades the children from going to school.

Singing and dancing come naturally to children and can go a long way in making schools lively and inviting places for children. Having fun and laughter makes the day delightful and keeps the mind active and enthusiastic..

The ability to communicate properly is an essential skill that needs to be cultivated in every

child. It helps the child to interact with others in the school and the society, share the thoughts and understand others ideas thus helps the child to grow as a healthy social individual.

Story telling is an educational merit and a very efficient communication technique. It develops the creative, critical and social skills of children. Story telling sessions if planned and executed properly can make the children take part in it with enthusiasm and cultivate the interest in them to come to school regularly as they begin to find learning at school an interesting and exciting activity.

About Vande Matram Foundation (VMF)VMF was founded by Shri.Ravinder Rao with an objective to build character, inculcate right values in the formative stage of a child in the under resourced schools in the rural and backward regions. The foundation works based on the principles of extending academic and emotional support to the government school children, strengthening the infrastructural facilities in the school and village and involvement of villagers in the development activities.

Today, VMF works in more than 320 schools in Warangal, Mahaboobnagar, Nalgonda, Karimnagar and Ranga Reddy Districts of Telangana. Making village a nodal point, Sri Ravinder Rao attained success in building a strong committed team of village elders, parents, youth associations, teachers, school staff, alumni group, education and other governmental departments. VMF office is located at 1-8-522/7, Chikkadpally, Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh, INDIA 500020 (Ph. 9440788282, [email protected])


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For CorporatesFew participants of the TFS conference had expressed interest in supporting the NGOs participated in the confer-ence. If you are also looking for an NGO that works for a cause, please contact us.For NGOsMany NGOs had requested for a training program on book keeping, volunteer engagement, technology in vol-unteering, and so on. TFS is planning to conduct a training program for the NGOs, in the next quarter. If you are interested, please contact us.

Contact Us:Seva Bharathi,3-2-106, Nimboli Adda,Kachiguda, HyderabadTelangana - 500 027, India. Tel: +91 9949566499, +91 9963077600.Email: [email protected] : www.sevabharathi.org

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