Though the centre officially, closed in the first week of October. The Teacher Learner (TL) Team, went to Bhopal for the first exposure visit. Please do browse below for a short photo update of October at the Jeevanshala. L-R : Discussion on Gandhi Jayanti, captured on the board cloud; Special Shramdan – Senior students makeContinue reading “The October, 21 Holiday for the Jeevanshala”
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September, 2021 at the Jeevanshala
The idea that we all learn from each other is beautifully illustrated below, where students help each other learn the making of brooms from palm frond. A skill only a few teacher learners (TL) have. Our children are fascinated with colours, for them a cat on paper is not the usual boring browns, whites, butContinue reading “September, 2021 at the Jeevanshala”
Family
This is the script of a play the children came up with, when making use of English words, learnt for family relations like mother, father, uncle, aunt, sister, brother and others. Mithun jotted down the script exactly as how the the children did it.
AN APPEAL FOR SUPPORTING THE NEW GENERATION LIVE ITS DREAM
He is 10, he likes observing squirrels, he shouts excitedly “watch them dance”. The child of a landless Dalit labourer, this one has a spark in his eye and you know he will go far. She is almost always quiet. She’s 10 but doesnot recognize English or hindi alphabets, though she has memorized the alphabetsContinue reading “AN APPEAL FOR SUPPORTING THE NEW GENERATION LIVE ITS DREAM”
Stories from the Centre (2021)
In 2018, we turned to you for support. And thanks to all your support, we were able to see 10 children through their school education, no drop outs. This year post covid-19, we have selected a set of 7 new students and more are to join in. Please do look below for a pictorial introductionContinue reading “Stories from the Centre (2021)”
Social Media: Moving from Passive Consumers to Active Creators– The Bengal Experience
From March 1st -4th,2021 a small team of three from the MBSNS visited a trade union of landless labourers and marginal farmers based in West Bengal to conduct a 4 day social media content creation workshop with activists and young people from their union. Special thanks to Anuradha di and Swapan da for inviting us inContinue reading “Social Media: Moving from Passive Consumers to Active Creators– The Bengal Experience”
Leveraging The Power Of Social Media – Level 2
19, 20 February 2021 This social media workshop, was with participants from the earlier social media workshop held in December, 2020. Building on the December workshop, the workshop this time focused on improvement of video making skills such as: making sure endings are not abrupt, introducing both visual and sound effects, choosing better quality images,Continue reading “Leveraging The Power Of Social Media – Level 2”
CONSTITUTION WORKSHOP – Holding up constitutional values
The values thus engaged with were Justice/ Nyay, Equality/Samanata, democratic republic/loktantratmak gantantra, freedom/swatantrata, fraternity/ bandhutva, Socialist/ samajvad, Sovereignty/ Sampoorna Prabhutva Sampann and Secularism/ Panthanirpeksha/Dharmanirpeksha.
Youth Workshop On Elections And Electoral Landscape
The entire group were presented with placards with political party symbols stuck on them. The group was asked to identify the political party based on the symbols. At this point, the broad ideological leanings of each coalition were also mentioned and the difference between left wing, right wing and centrist politics briefly discussed.
Gearing Up To Improve The State Of Health In Bihar In 2021
As part of revisiting key health inequalities, a session on gender was conducted. The session focused on common gender differences in health outcomes, and the life-cycle approach that shows that gender inequality in each stage of life accumulates and produces long term health inequalities.