2. JAMNABAI NARSEE SCHOOL OUR MOTTO-”KNOWLEDGE IS STRENGTH SUPREME” Jamnabai Narsee School was founded on 17 January 1971. It was established and managed by the Narsee Monjee Educational Trust. It is a co-educational, English medium school. The school is an 'Unaided Linguistic-Minority Institution', affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination- New Delhi.
3. DESIGN FOR CHANGE is the largest global movement designed to give children an opportunity to express their own ideas for a better world and put them into action. Children and adults learn through the Design for Change Challenge that “I Can” are the two most powerful words a person can believe. Children who have discovered this are changing their world.
4. This year, Design for Change reaches 33 countries and over 300,000 schools inspiring hundreds of thousands of children, their teachers and parents, to celebrate the fact change is possible and that they can lead that change! The challenge asks students to do four very simple things : Feel, Imagine, Do and Share. Children are dreaming up and leading brilliant ideas all over the world, from challenging age-old superstitions in rural communities, to earning their own money to finance school computers to solving the problem of heavy school bags – children are proving that they have what it takes to be able to ‘design’ a future that is desired.
5. The right to education is recognized as a human right and is understood to establish an entitlement to education. According to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights the right to education includes the right to free, compulsory primary education for all. The right to education also includes a responsibility to provide basic education for individuals who have not completed primary education. RIGHT TO EDUCATION
6. DFC MEMBERS OF JAMNABAI NARSEE SCHOOL ImaanSaudagar PrajaktaDeshpande Education is a gift, and it is my honour to share this gift with the less fortunate. This project has given me an opportunity to help in some way as education is extremely important in our country. I believe in doing social work and this project gave me a chance to express myself. IshaSaraf I would love to promote education among the people of India in order to take a step in eradicating illiteracy. ShivangiKhanna I support this cause strongly as education is needed in a country like ours and I loved working with my peers on this project. PrakritiPuri Education is our birth right .I would love to support this cause through this project.
7. PROBLEM TARGETED The problem that was targeted was illiteracy. We took up steps which would help eradicate the problem of illiteracy. we went to schools like Bhakti Vedanta ,Beacon High School where we spread awareness about right to education. We also donated the books and educational toys which we had collected, to the Children of the SOS village.
8. HOW THE IDEA CAME ABOUT ? Illiteracy is increasing at a very fast rate. Due to which various problems have been arising, thus we took up Mission literacy in which our motto is to spread literacy among children as well as adults.
9. PREPARATION We painted t-shirts with our message on it and wore it around the foyer. We collected books, stationery, educational toys. Posters were displayed all over the school. Skits were also conducted to spread the message especially to primary students. Attractive badges adorned students who made valuable contributions.
12. OUR EXPERIENCE We went to Bhakti Vedanta school in Andheri ,Mumbai to spread awareness about our mission. We spoke to the children there and told them about the need to be educated. We asked them to donate any spare educational items that they had to any needy person. We showed them a presentation regarding our mission literacy.
14. VOLUNTEERS Other than our core team, few students helped us toward our mission literacy, they are:- AishwaryaAmbardekar JaspreetSandhu Nandini Shankar Disha Maan DritiBhanushali Tanya Virani
