Annual Report JUNE 2019 - MAY 2020 PRABUDDHA KUTCH Ramkrishna Seva Mandal, Mandvi,Kutch. Website: www.prabuddhakutch.org Email: [email protected] Preface Ramakrishna Seva Mandal, Mandvi, a branch centre of Gujarat Ramakrishna Vivekananda Bhav Prachar Parishad, has launched a project titled ‘Prabuddha Kutch’. The Project is to adopt government and non-government schools, with priority to remote locations within Kutch and offer them comprehensive support in a holistic manner to uplift and improve the levels of education on the surface and eventually make the future generation better social beings and citizens of the Country. The first year from June 2019 to May 2020 was planned for engaging the schools and the students with our team and the Project’s conceptual details. We tried to deliver our thought about the students and schools for this project. We have to go far in the field of training of the team as well as the associated teachers of the adopted schools. Our drawn activities for the schools in the project are delivered and implemented with no any major issues. The thrust areas of the project initially were to engaged in activities, health and hygiene, improving the aesthetics and reducing absenteeism for students and improving performance. And we have done it that we can see on the face of students and our team members as well as concerned teachers of adopted schools. At the end of the year, here is the consolidated report of the project: Project Statistics till now: KM NARAYAN SAROVAR PRIMARY SCHOOL 162 SONALPAR PRIMARY SCHOOL 162 LAKHPAT PRIMARY SCHOOL 158 KURAN PRIMARY SCHOOL 155 KOTDA PRIMARY SCHOOL 141 SINIYADO PRIMARY SCHOOL 140 NARA GROUP SHALA 135 GHADULI PRIMARY SCHOOL 135 SARASWATTAM SANCHALIT NETRA HIGH … 132 DHORDO PRIMARY SCHOOL 130 GOREWALI SCHOOL 2 129 MISRIYADA PRIMARY SCHOOL 128 GOREWALI GROUP SHALA 128 KASTURBA GANDHI KANYA SHALA 125 SARASWATTAM KHAVDA HIGHSCHOOL 124 MEGHPAR GROUP PRIMARY SCHOOL 120 HODKO PRIMARY SCHOOL 119 BHIRANDIYARA GROUP SHALA 107 REDHARVANDH PRIMARY SCHOOL 105 K.S PATEL PRIMARY SCHOOL, RAVAPAR 105 DHANETI KANYA SHALA 81 DHANETI KUMAR GROUP SHALA 81 DHANETI HIGH SCHOOL 81 SPKR HIGH SCHOOL, BHADRESHWAR 80 DHANETI SCHOOL 2 79 KUKMA PRIMARY SCHOOL 76 MOTHALA HIGHSCHOOL 60 V.R.T.I SCHOOL, MANDVI 12 SWAMINARAYAN GURUKUL, KODAYPUL 8 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 Our Presence in Kutch till now: Only the major activities have been indicated in the table above. ❖ Meeting with Government Officials DPEO and his core team visited our campus for a detailed understanding of the Project and how we want to collaborate with the Government. We exchanged our experiences with each other for betterment of mutual co-operation and understanding. ❖ Teachers Training We conducted teachers training in the Bidada campus for the teachers of Lakhpat taluka schools and in Khavda High School for the teachers of Banni and Pachham schools. We described Prabuddha Kutch project and action plan. Discussed about current challenges and their solution. ❖ Value Education Workshop Revered Swami Vedanishthananda of Ramakrishna Ashrama Rajkot conducted Value Education Workshops in all the schools, the interactive sessions effectively awakened students to the core values of life. ❖ Life Skills Event We held the session on the fire and safety in all the schools of Banni, Pachham and Lakhpat. In this session we gave the knowledge of safety against fire and what is the importance of it. ❖ Eco Club Activities Plantation done by students and teachers in the schools of Banni, Pachham and Lakhpat area. Prabuddha Kutch gave 10 plants to each school. Brief information was given by us to students about the importance of plantation and its value in our lives. ❖ Music Workshop Four local folk artists conducted folk music workshops in the schools, they gave brief introduction of each music instruments like Morchang, Jodiya Pava, Ghado and Gambhelo, Manjira and Sitar. Folk music workshop was conducted to represent local music instruments and connect the children with their roots. ❖ Book Distribution In each school we provided nearly 120 books of values education. We conducted various competitions based on content of books throughout the year to engage children with reading. ❖ Art Workshop Art is the essence of life. By the Art Workshop, Art and Drawing expert came to brief the students about techniques for still life sketch. It was a good learning experience for the students and they enjoyed. ❖ Health Awareness Camp Health awareness camps were organized in schools. Doctors’ team was invited to give a talk on importance of maintaining personal hygiene for the students. They talked about three areas of hygiene - Personal Hygiene, Food Hygiene and Environmental Hygiene. They gave several tips to the students. It was very informative and helpful for students. They talked about proper hand wash and advice to take proper nutrition and avoid junk food. Sanitary pad and medical kit were provided to all schools. Regular medical check-up of students was held. The check-up was done by the team of doctors. ❖ Educational Tour We had arranged two days’ educational tour which included Mandvi sea beach, Shyamji Krishna Verma Tirth, Vijay Vilas palace, Bhuj museum, Handicraft manufacturer and LLDC museum where students got chance to get close to nature, get awareness of Kutch, It’s history and craft traditions. ❖ Sports Event The aim behind holding the event was to inculcate the spirit of sportsmanship and fondness for sports in children. Sports event was conducted in schools. By this event, the selection of students for sports’ training was done. Sports training workshops were held at Bidada Campus, Meghpar School, Narayan Sarovar School and KGBV school campus. Tips and techniques were given by the sports instructor for better performance. ❖ Annual Day Function Annual Day function was arranged in two days due to vast span of project area, One for Banni area schools’ and another for Lakhpat area schools. Total 18 schools participated in this event with more than 255 students and total of 20 cultural programmes were performed in two days. ❖ Faculty Development Programme Prabuddha Kutch organised one day “Faculty Development Programme” at Bhuj on 23rd Jan 2020 delivered by Swami Vedanishthanandaji and Srinandan Mukherjee. More than 25 schools’ principals participated in the training programme. This programme was designed to improve the performance of faculty members in education, child behaviour and their thinking pattern as well as how to counsel children and their parents. ❖ Yogakshema (Bangalore) - Visit and Training Counseling session in Banni area schools and Core team of Prabuddha Kutch by Neuroscientists from Yogakshema. It was a two days full training programme and it aimed at gathering requisite ‘gap area’ information through counseling. ❖ GCERT Team Visit Mr. Uday Desai, advisor to GCERT, CAA & his team of Shroff Foundation had come to visit in Lakhpat and Banni area schools for survey and counseling. ❖ Weekly Lectures Apart from the major events and activities, our team has conducted weekly lectures & interactive sessions on various important subjects in the schools of Banni, Pachham and Lakhpat areas. Some Lecture Topics No Topic Name 1 Social Studies 2 English Grammar 3 Indus valley civilization 4 Navy Day 5 Types of pollution 6 Awareness on Cleanliness 7 Human Rights 8 UNICEF 9 History topic on world war -1 10 A documentary story on Rabindranath Tagore 11 Panchatantra ki kahaniya 12 A childhood moral story of Swamiji’s life 13 Awareness on Cleanliness 14 Kisan Divas 15 Mathematics day (Srinivasa Ramanujan Biography) 16 Christmas day (Life of Jesus) 17 Know Why We Celebrate New Year on 1st January 18 Indian Republic 19 Biography of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose 20 Documentary film on Lala Lajpat Rai 21 Martyrs’ Day 22 Wet Land, Planets & World 23 Swami Dayanand Sarasvati 24 Biopic of the legend (Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj) 25 Indian Nightingale SAROJINI NAIDU 26 World Radio Day 27 National Deworming Day 28 How Life Started on Earth 1. Agrocel Industries Pvt Ltd 2. 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