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Eliminating Learning Poverty

November 27, 2019 Charity Admin Education

Madapatna Grama, near Begur, is located 40 km South of Mysore. It is a quiet village dependant on farm income. As in other places, farm dependence exposes the farmer families to climatic vagaries. Crops fail at times, hopes get dashed! The families and children’s studies are affected.

For a child in rural settings, the joy of being in school, quality of academic performance and encouragement from home and school matters. It enables them carry-on to senior school and move to higher education. Unlike their city-school going counterparts, they are not blessed with proper academic resources and amenities. So they need proper nurturing to be confident and competant. If not, the stigma of being a “small town” person and discouragement could gradually set in.

In rural areas, parents find it difficult to give educational support at home. Local assistance is rarely available. Even if available, for many it is not affordable. As a result, children find it difficult to meet the learning targets. If they don’t get help at the right time in their school life, the pathway to higher education and even the ability to read, write and learn will be impacted. Therefore the isuue is something beyond ensuring regular attendance.

How can we help them? What would inspire them to think beyond to achieve a better life and a fulfilling future? What can uplift them to be successful and contribute to the development of their village?

OSF’s Solution – Sahay Shiksha Centres

Observing the imminent need for academic aid for these children, we launched “Sahay Shiksha Centre” at Madapatna in July 2019.

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OSF aims to collect, Rs.1,88,000/- which is the estimated annual expenses to run this centre. What does the estimate include? Teachers’ salary, study materials and essentials like stationary. Per child, the expenses will be Rs.470 per month and it will cover assistance for all subjects, English capability building, personality dev activities. The program will run for 10 months in a academic year.

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Your donation will serve to gift quality education from Madapatna Sahay Shiksha Centre! Note that at OSF, none of the directors take remuneration.

Engage and Encourage

Plan a visit to the centre on one of the weekday evenings. Share with them your experiences, share thoughts on career roadmap for their future, teach a skill or game, lend some learning tips. Your presence will be invaluable.

Closure to School Closure Plans

October 11, 2019 Charity Admin Education

“This school has less than 20 kids now. There’s an order to shut the school as the number is well below the cut-off level fixed by the Government. Can you do something? I see that you arranged for good School Kits through OSF in few other schools. If you can do a distribution here, maybe, we can encourage the kids as a last attempt to continue schooling.” These were the words of Mr.Niranjan Bagha of Narayanpatna education block.

Panabadi Village is a quiet community of 65 families, who are passionate farmers in the mountains. They practice slash and burn agriculture. The entire family including children participate. Parents therefore don’t see much value in schooling.

OSF arranged and distributed the School kits at a meeting iwhich was well attended by the village families. In the program, the necessity of education, regular attendance and completing education diligently was stressed by social worker, Mr.Ananta and the HM. The parents were apprised on the significance of sending children to school. Each child was presented a School kit. The school kits became a hit. “We saw an immediate change – the very next day onwards, more than 30 children started coming to school. I reported this to the Narayanpatna Block EO.” With 50% more than the benchmark level, this OSF initiative put a happy closure to the closure plans! The children still continue and the school is all alive.

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June 22, 2021 Charity Admin Education

Muni Wadeka lives in Patamanda Village in Koraput Dist of Odisha. She is the daughter of Nistu and Tare Wadeka. They are small farmers in the hilly uplands in Narayanpatna area. Her mother tongue is Kuvi, which does not have a native script. Muni last attended school in February 2020 when she was in the 6^th Standard. The school is situated 2km from her home and she walks to school. It was a long break as the schools remained closed and there was no provision for online classes. They do not have smartphones, tab or laptops.

By the 7^th month since the school closure, Operation Sahay Foundation started a learning program for the children of her village. She started attending that regularly and says “It was so good, that I could continue my learning at my village itself. My parents are so happy that I have this opportunity. We do reading, writing, practice mathematical tables, learn addition, division, multiplication, subtraction and also learn puzzles”! The learning centre works from 5PM to 7PM.

She is excited there are books now in the reading centre which runs as part of the learning program. Odiya, English and Hindi books are available for children on various subjects. She likes the Story books and it’s the first time she has come across books with nice pictures. Muni has not seen story books earlier and never knew that such resources existed.

Now her daily routine is to do homework given at the learning center in the morning. Then goes out to help in the farm and does some house work. In the evening before the classes, she spends time with her friends and goes to the reading centre. Her family is glad that despite the difficulty and restrictions due to Covid, Muni is able to participate and be benefitted through the centre established by OSF.

WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO HELP YOUNG FRIENDS LIKE MUNI HAVE A GREAT FUTURE THOUGH SHE LIVES IN A VERY REMOTE AREA – PLEASE WRITE TO US HOW YOU COULD HELP.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO DONATE FOR THE RUNNING OF THESE CENTRES, USE OUR ONLINE DONATION OPTION www.osfindia/donate-donor

Generous Heart

November 11, 2020 Charity Admin Education

Jayanti Mandingi, of Patamanda in Narayanpatna Block in Odisha, is a Class 12 student in Arts. She has a creditable achievement as the only girl of her village to have successfully completed Class 10. Her parents, Godru and Kone Mandingi are small farmers and daily wage labourers in the mountains. Their earnings are insufficient to meet the needs of 6 members in their family. Jayanti is second daughter among the 4 children. Education gets a lower priority in this area where Kuvi, a language with no script is the mother tongue. It’s a challenge for children to study in Odiya medium from their lower classes.

After returning from her school, she rushes to her role as the Teacher-cum-Facilitator of the Mind-to-Read Centre of Operation Sahay Foundation in their village. This is one of the 12 village-centric learning centres established by OSF. The centre has a library and regular brush-up classes are conducted for children to retain their reading, foundational math and concepts. The schools are shut owing to Covid-19 for many months. A Feb 2021 report by Azim Premji Foundation observes the detrimental impact – School closure due to COVID-19 pandemic has led to complete disconnect from education for the vast majority of children or inadequate alternatives like community-based classes or poor alternatives in the form of online education, including mobile phone-based learning. Equally alarming is the widespread phenomenon of ‘forgetting’ by students of learning from the previous class – this is regression in their curricular learning

Jayanti is clear why she took up this challenge of teaching even when she is a student – “my brothers and sisters were without any guidance, nobody were there to take care of their academics and schools remain closed. This compelled me to help them. By the same time OSF has given a scope for it, so I wanted to use the opportunity for the betterment of our children.” She adds “In the beginning I was scared of this work, but now I am comfortable. This is also an avenue to develop myself. Before teaching I have to prepare and I get to read many books now. Through this work my knowledge and outlook is getting developed.”

The honorarium she is getting from OSF is a great support for her own education as well.

Learning unlocked

January 22, 2021 Charity Admin Education

Dablu Bingadika, a 7^th Std student, hails from Denganapayu village, which is a beautiful hilly area situated 1300m above MSL. The village got connected to the road network only a few months back. Dablu is a student of TRW Govt Residential School, 45km away from the village at Burja, Laxmipur. Their village school is non-functional and hence his parents Utra and Harso Bingadika has put him in the far away hostel school.

OSF’s Reading and Learning program is functional in the village since September 2020. This has made the family relieved that the children in the village are able to spend some useful time learning, even during the Covid days. Earlier Dablu and his friends were just whiling away their time and moving around the area. Daily, classes are held from 8AM to 10AM in their village except during the lockdown days. Only students from their village attends the classes. Sirma, is the teacher who is a 10^th Class passout. Reaching 10^th class is a great milestone in their area. Dablu has access to the story books stocked in the OSF learning unit as well and he is a regular user.

Parents of Dablu are illeterate and never attended school, but they desire a great future for Dablu and his elder sister. They want their children to make the best opportunity of the facility which they feel is God given.

WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO HELP SUCH YOUNG ONES GET UNINTERRUPTED OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN IN REMOTE AREAS? PLEASE WRITE TO US HOW YOU COULD HELP.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO DONATE TOWARDS THE RUNNING EXPENSES OF THESE CENTRES, USE OUR ONLINE DONATION OPTION www.osfindia/donate-donor

Hope in sight

July 14, 2021 Charity Admin Education

Natpurwa in Uttar Pradesh is known for the unexpected survival option practiced for many generations. There are welcome changes off-late led by those coming out of the trade. The village Pradhan reflects the will and wish of a large majority who desires a different, bright and healthy future for their children. On request from the village, OSF is assisting with the provision of education resources for children. A regular contact program is also on to encourage them to learn. Other learning resources are also being provided on a regular basis.

Location – Natpurwa in Uttar Pradesh
Reach – 200 children

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