Literacy drive in slum area westwood school, tenali
1. Our story of Change from
WESTWOOD SCHOOL, TENALI.
Yogya, Andhra Bharathi , Aman, Shruthi, Teja, Sravya,
Moneesha, Jai Surya
Mentor Teachers : Mr. Shiva Naga Prasad,
Ms. Naga Lakshmi
2. We from Grade VI and VII had a brain storming
session and felt that we need to do something for
the children of our age group who were neglected.
We have done a survey in and around our town
Tenali.
We found children in slum area near a school in
very bad condition and not going to school.
They are left on the road during the day when
their parents go to the work.
We also identified a school called NICE run for
orphans who are in need of emotional help and
support in co scholastic areas.
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4. We thought of grade VII working for literacy
drive for slum children .
We planned to motivate the parents of slum
children to join them in government school.
We also decided to spend considerable
amount of time with them as they might not
agree in the first meet.
Grade VI group planned to visit NICE school
again and spent time with those kids teaching
them Dance, Music and Yoga as they are
craving for relaxation activities.
5. We visited the slum area during the parents
are available and interacted with them. They
were hesitated and did not accept our
proposal of joining their kids on the first day.
On the second day we motivated them by
speaking to them about the importance of
education and at last convinced them to join
their kids in school.
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9. We spent qualitative time with the kids and
had lunch together.
We taught them 2 light Music songs
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13. We realized that how blessed are we to have our parents
who could fulfill all our needs and give a comfortable life
and started giving more respect to our parents and
obeying them in a better way than earlier.
We have learnt how to cooperate with in the group and the
importance of team work to achieve a difficult task like
convincing the elders to put their kids in hostel.
We understood the importance of holistic education that
we are getting when the children of NICE School were very
happy and relaxed after our support in co scholastic areas.
We have understood the real meaning of joy of giving and
service and felt happy that our project title – “Hand in
hand ,light in eyes and joy in hearts” is apt for what we
have done.
14. It is a great pleasure to share that the parents
feed back about the story of change project is
wonderful. They could see the change in their
own kids by the end of the projects.
This story continues as we are going to keep a
track of slum children and also have tie up with
nice school to support them in co scholastic
areas in future too.
It was a beautiful journey which has taught our
students that the happiness we get in giving is
much more than what we get in receiving.
Jyothi Reddy
