After Selva had taken 8 kids
to Pragati Maidaan for book fair, other kids also expressed interest
in seeing the book fair. It was an adventurous trip for the kids; one
that involved fun driving, lots of learning, zealous curiosity, overeating,
speeding, chalaan and what not! J
The month of August was very significant for AID-Prayas
.We celebrated "Independence Day" in a very nice way .The whole event
was very well planned and executed by Raj & Linkan. Both took the lead with
support from all others .Each child was excited about 15th August and they
worked hard along with volunteers to
perform different activities like Song ,Dance etc .We were
privileged to have Nai Disha Founders (Capt. Jaiswal & Col. Jeeta ram
ji ) ,Principal and teacher with us on the event .The entire Prayas family did
a wonderful job to make the event a success .
15th august is always an inspiring day for all
of us but for AID-Prayas it's special, since 2007 .The celebration of
15th august 2007 at Nai Disha inspired us and the aspiration from
there lead us to produce the result s and bring us to a position whatever we
are now. And 15th August 2009 inspired us in a way that our team
decided to make a robust plan of opening a school for under-privileged by
15th august 2010.
Our different classes for different batches
are running satisfactory .Three batches are catered in the evening,
night and weekend class, and the best part is that all the volunteers are doing
their part exceptionally well. One major development has been “Charu
our most dedicated volunteer" took the charge of children in the next year
batch i.e. "fresher’s batch" along with other volunteers. Now
the situation of crisis which existed after the departure of our full
timer Abhinash is resolved for this batch :) .
We had a parents meet to understand their issues and kids who are not going to govt. school can
be admitted .We are going to admit rest of the kids into govt. school with the
help of volunteers very soon .
Our last year and this year batch kids (around 25-30) are
doing good into the school .From last month we have arranged a school bus for
them which is becoming helpful for them to be regular at school. Raj is taking
activity classes for these kids on weekends and Anant has started computer classes.
Apart from all above we’ve divided some key
responsibilities within the executive committee for better functionality of our work
i.e. posts like Volunteer coordinator ,Community coordinator,
Event coordinator ,Project coordinator has been created and
assigned to key volunteers .
Events planned in next month : Teacher’s Day celebration, Id
Celebration,
AID Prayas had it's first Bal Sabha (children's council) meeting this
sunday. Initially it was looking like that very few volunteers were
interested but later on there were 11-12 volunteers and 40 kids :).
We had the formal inauguration of vocational classes by AROH foundation for AID Prayas community women today. There was a good response from the community and we enrolled around 15-16 women including young girls like Juhi for the classes. The classes will be starting from Monday (8th Dec., 2008) and will take place on alternate days in the afternoon from 1:00 P.M to 3:00 P.M. They will be charging Rs 10 as admission fee and Rs 50 on a monthly fees from the women. They'll be conducting sewing and stiching classes to start with and provide certification of training at the end of six months after a test.
