Away from the bustling life of the city lies the scintillating village of “Sembadu” in the Thiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu. A small village filled with aspiring children who dare to dream big. Located in the centre, is the government school that holds close to 2000 students. The school provides education from 1st to the 8th grade and is teeming with ambitious minds.Unfortunately, due to the financial instability the institution fails to meet the demands of these anxious learners. The students lack basic hands- on computer knowledge and are unable to keep pace with the booming technology. Communicating in English also forms a barrier since they are deprived of personal mentoring at home as their parents are uneducated.
Hence, in all “Good Hearts”, we have decided to adopt the Sembadu government school to help suffice the needs of these budding children. “Education is indeed a debt from the present to the future generations”. Therefore we have conceptualized a program called STC – Special training centre. Through STC we plan to provide individual help to the children from 6th to the 8th grade after regular school hours.
Our First STC was started on 16th of October 2008 at 6:00 p.m. with 45 students tutored by three teachers. Each teacher provides special attention to 15 students through the week from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. except on Sundays. Apart from this, STC will also conduct workshops by volunteers on Sundays. These workshops will cover diverse topics from computer education to communication skills, personal awareness and also provide exposure to the business world. This will indeed mould the students to achieve their goals.
On a longer run we intend to raise the quality of education by improving the infrastructure. We are keen on starting a library and installing computers to help them gain better practical knowledge. Plans of including all the students of the institution to the STC program are also on.
We truly believe that “Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire”. We would like to thank you for your undying support and encouragement in helping us bridge the gaps in the society.
First, I would like to thank everyone who were responsible for enabling us to start and run the STC (special training centre) in Sembadu.
ReplyDeleteWe have started this blog to gather your feedback and comments about this project and many more to come. Staying together in this busy world is quite a big task and we would like to solve it using this blog.
Looking forward for your comments
Good Hearts Team
Good News:
ReplyDeleteMr. Design, an experienced teacher who has worked with government school teachers and students for about 30 odd years has volunteered to help Good Hearts in monitoring the students and creating Good Hearts coaching materials in all subjects.
Good Intiative couber!!!. Lets invite our friends & members to give their comments & feedbacks on STC. I am sure the feedbacks will give us a lot of new ideas & perspectives.
ReplyDeleteGood Hearts Team along with Mr.Desing has planned to meet the Head master of the Sembadu government school and the teachers of the STC on 19-11-2008 to discuss on the following topics:
ReplyDelete1. Full co operation by the teachers of the government school in helping us to make the Good Hearts coaching material best suited for the students
2. Monitoring of student’s improvement in all subjects (including communication skills and computer skills)
3. The different Methods to be employed by the STC teachers to teach the students in the best possible way.
Regards
Good Hearts Team
Visit to Sembadu has been postponed to 21-11-2008 because of the unavailability of the head master at the government school
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