2. CBSE AFFILIATED (10+2), EDEXCEL IGCSE & GCE
ISO 9001-2000 CERTIFIED, MEMBER QCFI & ISFI
GWALOIR (INDIA)
3. Team Name WINGS
Motto Find something special in someone each day!
Instated on 01 January 2009
Meeting Every week one school period
Facilitators Dr. Mrs. Alka Sharma (Principal), Mr. Yogesh Londhe
Mentor Mrs. Tina Olyai, Director
TEAM MEMBERS:
Miss. Aditi Mittal LEADER
Miss. Mansi Jain LEADER
Miss. Roma Kukreja MEMBER
Miss. Tina Khatri MEMBER
Mast. Sahil Sahni MEMBER
Mast. Navid Olyai MEMBER
Miss. Anuja Bhadoria MEMBER
Mast. Kartikeya Dwivedi MEMBER
Miss. Mansi Pradhan MEMBER
Mast. Kunal Chaturvedi MEMBER
4. CHOOSING A PROBLEM, DEMOCRATIC WAY!
We brainstormed to see what project we could take up. Everyone
came up with some suggestions, we consolidated the list as follows:
1. Service project at local orphanage to improve their living condition.
2. Creating awareness about Child labor.
3. Creating awareness about female feticide and infanticide.
4. Service Project with Atma-Jyoti – Home for Blind Girls.
5. Donate cloths and books to Amar Jyoti - school for differently gifted students.
6. Creating awareness about Global warming.
7. Campaign to save water.
8. Adapting a school in poor neighborhood to improve their classrooms.
9. Service project with “Project Roshni – for people with cerebral palsy”
10. Campaign for safe roads.
We wanted to involve differently gifted students of our own age in this project,
so we shortlisted:
1. Atma Jyoti – Home for Blind Girls
2. Amar Jyoti – School & Rehabilitation Center
3. Project Roshni – Center for People with Cerebral Palsy.
5. CHOOSING A PROBLEM CONTINUED…
We then visited all these three places to find out which place will be our final choice.
This is when we experienced that each individual has special gifts, we need to find
that something special in every one.
We attended the Annual function of
Amar Jyoti – School for differently
gifted, there we saw polio struck
children dancing with
crutches, children in wheel chair
performing dare devil stunts, children
with hearing impediment performing
mime acts, etc. In all their
performances we saw the
indomitable human spirit, to
overcome all limits and zeal to be
recognized in the mainstream life for
their talents.
6. CHOOSING A PROBLEM CONTINUED…
We visited “Project Roshni –
center for people with
cerebral palsy”, where people
with cerebral palsy learn to
lead independent life through
pre-vocational training. We
then invited them to arrange
an exhibition & sale of the
items they make as part of
pre-vocational training. We
saw the beauty and creativity
in the items they make and
they even taught us how to
make few of those items.
7. CHOOSING A PROBLEM CONTINUED…
We visited “Atma Jyoti –
Home for Blind Girls” and
made friendship with
them. The visually
challenged girls sang
songs, played piano and
danced for us. They even
played chess with us and
defeated us. We saw the
talents and zeal to develop
those talents in them, we
became good friends and
great fans of these girls.
8. FINALIZING THE PROBLEM
After visiting all three places, it was difficult to choose one, but the girls at
Atma Jyoti made very good impression on us with their zeal to learn new
things and eagerness to improve their skills, so we chose Atma Jyoti
unanimously.
We involved our new friends at Atma Jyoti in consultation to see what is the
best thing we can do together to help them realize their own potential.
Most of them think that studying is very important to realize their own
talent and live a respectful life. Through education we can sharpen our
inherent capacities and realize our true potential.
We also realized that they face few problems in studies, which we don’t face
because we can see. We want our improve the quality of their studies, so
we took up that as our main problem in the project.
“PROBLEMS FACED BY VISUALLY CHALLENGED IN STUDYING!”
9. Weeks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ...
Task
Forming Team
Planning &
Brainstorming
Survey
Problem
analysis
Proposing
solution
Action
Evaluate
Final Solution &
implementation May- June Summer vacation ...
LEGEND
Planned dates to finish a task
10. DEMING WHEEL / PDCA CYCLE
• Act • Plan
: Final : Build friendship
implementation : Find out their
: Follow up problems
: Analyze
problem
: Evaluate the : Study together
outcome. : Sing together
: Suggest : Donate Braille
improvement printer
: Celebrate : Exhibit talent
success
• Check • Do
11. BRAINSTORMING
We conducted brainstorming session to find ideas on what can we do help our
visually challenged friends, following is partial list of our ideas:
1. Read lessons for them.
2. Make audio lessons on cassettes for them.
3. Celebrate their birthdays.
4. Celebrate our own birthdays with them.
5. Study with them.
6. Write exams for them.
7. Learn Braille and write notes for them.
8. Donate a Braille embosser to their school.
9. Donate Braille books to their school.
10. Start a choir group with them.
11. Teach them songs.
12. Teach them dances.
13. Prepare a skit with them.
14. Go for picnic with them.
15. Visit them and find out what they need.
16. Organize exhibition and sale of handicraft items they make.
12. DATA COLLECTION
We visited our visually
challenged friends again
to conduct a survey about
challenges they face. We
asked them few questions
orally and recorded their
replies. We then
consolidated all their
replies in a matrix, so that
we could analyze the data
using Pareto Analysis.
13. MATRIX
CUMULATIVE
Sr. PROBLEM VOTES CUMULATIVE %
VOTES
B: Limited study materials 30 30 38%
D: Giving Exams 25 55 69%
A: Depend on others for study 12 67 84%
Don’t get enough time for
E:
study 8 75 94%
C: No Braille books 5 80 100%
14. PIE CHARTS OF THE RESPONSES
5
25
30
Shortage of study material Depending on other for
writing exam
12
18
Depend on others for study
8
10
20 22
Don’t get enough time No books in Braille
For study
YES NO
15. 35 100% 100%
94%
90%
30
84%
80%
Problems faced by
25 70%
visually challenged students:
69%
60%
A: Depend on others for study.
20
B: Limited study materials.
50%
C: Can’t study as much I wish.
15 B
40%
38% D: Giving exams.
D
10 30% E: No books in Braille.
20%
A
5
E 10%
C
0 0%
16. • Pareto Analysis showed us that if we
work on there 2 vital issues of ‘limited
study materials’ and ‘giving exams’, we
could solve most of their troubles in
studies.
• We then used Dr. Ishikawa’s Why-Why
technique to go to the root causes.
17. FISHBONE DIAGRAM No Braille printer
Machine
Individual Challenges in Don’t get
Difficulty in study Showcasing talent Braille books
Depend only on Not available
oral instruction readily in market
Material
Unavailable No special
In Braille schools
Giving Exams
No special
schools
No special method
of instruction
Method
Social stigma
Non acceptance Society
Limited jobs
For visually challenged
18. ROOT CAUSES
1. Unavailability of Braille printer/embosser
2. Social non-acceptance due to stigma that
visually challenged are dis-abled.
3. Only method of instruction at present is oral
instruction.
4. Unavailability of Braille books/study material
5. No special schools for visually challenged
19. STRATEGIES PROPOSED
A:
Problem: Unavailability of
Braille printer.
Strategy: To collect funds to
donate a Braille Printer.
A good quality Braille Printer, with computer
interface costs approximately Rs. 200,000.00
(Two lakh Rupees), that is a huge
cost, especially for a group of high school
All the donations towards purchase of students. So we discussed the idea of
the Braille Printer are welcome. collecting donations from everyone with our
To send your donations please contact : school directors and they agreed
immediately to the idea. Our directors
Mrs. Tina Olyai at Little Angels Junior suggested, that we divide the cost in smaller
School: +91 751 2324144 or units of Rs 1000.00 (One thousand rupees)
Mr. Yogesh at Little Angels High School: and appeal everyone to donate, we need to
+91 751 2633481 collect only 200 units to buy the printer.
20. STRATEGIES PROPOSED
B:
Problem: Social non-acceptance
due to stigma that visually
challenged are dis-abled.
Strategy 1: Organize exhibitions of the
handicraft things these girls have made.
We spoke to our school Principal Dr. Mrs. Alka Sharma
about this idea and she suggested to organize the
exhibition & sale of these handicraft items on a Parent-
Teacher Meeting day, when lot of parents come to the
school, this way many people can visit the exhibition and
buy few things from there.
Strategy 2: All girls mixed choir group from
both schools.
We spoke to our visually challenged friends about this
idea and they are very excited about this idea. They sing
very well. We will invite to sing with us once in our
school Assembly and then start the choir group.
21. STRATEGIES PROPOSED
C:
Problem: Only method
of learning is oral
instruction
Strategy 1: To prepare audio
lessons for them.
We spoke to their warden Ms Priti Yadav
about this idea, she was very happy with
the idea. She said that the girls have some
cassette players and they use it regularly, if
we make audio lessons on cassettes it will
be beneficial for them.
Strategy 2: To prepare Braille
study notes for them.
When we donate the Braille printer, this
will happen automatically.
22. STRATEGIES PROPOSED
D:
Problem: No special
schools for visually
challenged.
Strategy: Write to Government
authorities to start a special
school for visually challenged
students.
Do you want to see this beautiful world
even after death?
We discussed this with our parents and
teachers and most of them told us that
there are such schools in big cities and
setting up one takes lots of resources.
Some parents suggested that we create
awareness about EYE Donation, which will
Donate eyes! benefit the visually challenged people in
general.
23. ANALYZING OUTCOME - 1
Though we plan using the QC
tools, sometimes we need to change
plans for good reasons, like writing
exams for these visually challenged
girls came up suddenly and we had
put everything aside to do that first.
This came up suddenly, because the
Exam dates for them were changed
to start and finish earlier and thus
their regular exam writers could not
help them, so we organized the
writers for them.
All our visually challenged friends
got very good grades and we
celebrated their success together.
24. ANALYZING OUTCOME - 2
The Exhibition and Sale
of handicraft items
made by the visually
challenged girls created
lot of awareness among
parents about talents of
these girls. Now many
people go to Atma Jyoti
to visit and sometimes
buy few things made by
them.
25. ANALYZING OUTCOME - 3
• We could not prepare
audio lessons for them
before exam, due to lack
of time and now that they
are next class, their school
is changing their syllabi
and we can get the books
only in August 2009. We’ll
prepare the audio lessons
then.
• We’ve started collecting
funds for Braille
Printer, we hope to buy
and donate the printer by
mid-July.
26. ANALYZING OUTCOME - 4
• We have good feeling
about the choir
group, we have
already started singing
together, soon we’ll
be performing on big
stage together.
• Our awareness
campaign for eye
donation is
appreciated by our
teachers and parents.
27. DOING MORE – FOLLOW UP
• Even after we finish this
project, we will still keep visiting
out new friends and make sure
they have no troubles in studies.
• We hope by next year they’ll be
able to learn typing and give their
examinations using type-
writers, we’ll work on that.
• We’ll create more awareness about
donating eyes.
• In past our teachers and students
have helped the girls from Atma
Jyoti to start a Quality Circle. We
will also help our friends start their
own Quality Circles to solve their
problems on their own.
28. Weeks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ...
Task
Forming Team
Planning &
Brainstorming
Survey
Problem
analysis
Proposing
solution
Action
Evaluate
Final Solution &
implementation May- June Summer vacation ...
LEGEND
Planned dates to finish a task
Actual dates as the task was completed
NOTES:
1. Parts of final solution like making audio lessons could not be started as students of “Atma Jyoti” will get their books only in August.
2. Summer vacation started in last week of April and the team could not meet to finish the further tasks.
3. The remaining tasks will be finished when team meets again in July.
29. PROJECT OUTCOME
1. SOLVED THE PROBLEM OF WRITING EXAMINATIONS. ALL OUR VISUALLY
CHALLENGED FRIENDS PASSED WITH GOOD GRADES.
2. WE’VE STARTED COLLECTING FUNDS FOR DONATING A COMPUTER
BRAILLE EMBOSSER, VERY SOON OUR FRIENDS WILL BE ABLE TO GET
STUDY NOTES IN BRAILLE.
3. WE WILL RECORDING AUDIO LESSONS FOR OUR FRIENDS, SO THEY CAN
STUDY ANYTIME THEY WISH.
4. WE’VE STARTED ALL GIRLS CHOIR GROUP, INCLUDING THE VISUALLY
CHALLENGED GIRLS.
5. NOW MORE PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THE HIDDEN TALENTS OF THE
VISUALLY CHALLENGED GIRLS FROM “ATMA JYOTI”
6. WE HELPED THEM START A QUALITY CIRCLE IN PAST, WE WILL HELP
THEM START MORE SUCH QC TO SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS USING QC
TOOLS.
30. OUR PERSONAL GAINS
THESE YOUTH ARE NOW EMPOWERED
TO UNVEIL POTENTIALS IN OTHERS! LEARNED NEW
THINGS
REALIZED MY
OWN
POTENTIAL
WE GOT NEW
FRIENDS
FOUND OUT
THAT EVERYONE
JOY OF SERVICE IS SPECIAL
31. END NOTES
•We have been blogging our project progress
as and when it happened. There you’ll read
more stories as they happened. Please visit our
blog at http://discoveringability.blogspot.com
•Our Junior Youth Empowerment Program
sessions were big source of inspiration for us.
These sessions gave us lot of spiritual strength
to work on our ICT Seagulls project.
32. THANK YOU!!!
• We thank Dr. Hayal Koksal and KALBEMER for starting ICT
Seagulls Project.
• We thank our school directors Mr. & Mrs. Olyai for their
encouragement and support.
• We thank our school management especially our
Principal Dr. Mrs. Alka Sharma for guidance at all steps in
this project.
• We thank our facilitator Mr. Yogesh Londhe
• We thank our parents & teachers for guidance.
• We thank management of Atma Jyoti, especially Ms Priti
Yadav for encouragement and support.
• Of course our new friends for their wonderful friendship
