The Abhay Art Gallery and Counseling Center started in 2001 as a counseling center to help people with emotional difficulties and generate income through selling crafts made by rural women. It grew into a group of artists, musicians, and social workers seeking avenues for expression. The organization is focused on creating spaces for performance, communication, and generating income. The document also discusses the organization's work in education, specifically promoting a more realistic approach to teaching mathematics to make it more relevant and reduce aversion to the subject.

1. Abhay Art Gallery
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India- 680553
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2.  Started as a counseling centre in 2001 with an objective to
organize people with emotional difficulties. The
organization hoped to sustain itself with the self
generated income through the sale of traditional crafts
and products from groups of rural women.
 The center eventually grew into an informal group
consisting of theatre artists, musicians, painters, sculptors
and social workers who came together to share common
concerns beyond their respective mediums, seeking new
avenues for self expression. Attempting to remain
independent while working together. Constructing new
spaces for performance, expression, communication,
mutual support as well as generating an income is the
major emphasis.

3.  Mathematics is inseparably intertwined with
everyday life of any human being, however
when it is taught as an isolated subject in the
formal schooling, the life is lost and children
fail to understand the significance and
relevance in life beyond examination. Any
knowledge if at all produced remains inert.
Numbers become scary and there is aversion
towards mathematics.

4.  Realistic mathematic education is one such initiative
with an intention to restore the meaning and
relevance of mathematical education in our life and
dispel the aversion towards mathematics.
 Through this means of teaching a space is provided
for children to discover their potentials where they
learn to invent and reinvent and eventually own the
knowledge.
 This approach encourages teachers to be aware of the
child’s background & capacities and accordingly
create a conducive learning environment.

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130.  Abhay Art Gallery and Counseling Center ’s
intervention in the field of education was
motivated by the association with Jodo Gyan,
the leading educational institution in New Delhi.
Jodo Gyan inspired by Fruedenthal Institute,
Amsterdam, actively involved in literacy
movements in the slums and promotion of
realistic approach in mathematic education.
Navnirmiti, another organization in Mumbai
working for universal active mathematic
education also approved and supported our
efforts in Kerala.

131. Thank You!
Abhay Art Gallery and Counselling Centre
Thrissur, Kerala, India-680553
E-mail: abhayecoart@yahoo.co.in
+91 94470 49181, +91 94958 84865