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Events: 2023

February 22, 2024
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Thanks to your incredible support and generosity, our Books and Stationery Donation Drive for rural government school children has been an overwhelming success this year. Your contributions have touched the lives of 385 children, opening up new horizons of knowledge and possibilities for them. Your dedication and kindness have made a significant impact, and we want to express our deepest gratitude for your involvement. Through your donations, we were able to provide : – School bags to 385 kids. – Stationery kits in eco-friendly pouches provided to ~ 385 kids This year, we have plans to sponsor an English teacher (external) who can visit 3 (or 4) schools every day, in a week,…

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Events: 2022

February 22, 2024
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The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in at least one positive thing: a much greater appreciation for schools. Through a struggle, we saw: – the Govt. adopting leap-frog initiatives like Vidyagama, community classes etc. – the teachers fluttering between students, schools, remote-learning and innovative techniques. – the parents trying hard to support the children from home. – Rising public support that recognizes how essential schools are, in society. – New education allies that have galvanized – from parents to social welfare organizations to support the children’s learning.We, at Vidhyadaanam, would like to seize this moment to transform education to better serve…

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Vidhyadaanam – 2020 – Outset

December 27, 2021
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First, we know no words will do justice to everyone’s individual experience over the last couple of months as we feel the weight of our responsibility to the community, particularly now. By now we are all aware of the severity of Covid 19 and probably exhausted from the anxiety of it all. While we don’t want to add to the stress we do want to let you know how we plan to execute this year’s drive. Current Covid-19 status of schools: 1) We were able to contact a few of the teachers and the below details are as accumulated: The…

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Vidhyadaanam – 2020 – Conclusion

December 27, 2021
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Hello Friends, Challenging times only call for our will to keep moving forward and to keep doing the next right thing. As the schools have been closed, since Mar-2020, it was a dilemma, as to how we could help the students, in these changing times. We would like to provide a quick status of the 2020 drive that happened on 6-Mar-2021. Current COVID-19 status of the schools: — Only the children of grades 6 and above would visit the schools before the 2nd wave. Currently, the schools are closed for everyone. — No Lunch provided, instead, the ration is being…

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Saarathi – Content Creation

June 18, 2020
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Vidhyadaanam’s SAARATHI is a program to bridge the digital divide for students who are untouched by the digital revolution thereby adding opportunities to existing traditional classroom set-up. Our plan to set-up this smart-TV based learning, necessitates suitable content for viewing. This arrangement is to be used as a complimentary and helping aid. As a teacher’s assistant only. Here are the guidelines for content creation:These guidelines were prepared in consultation with the teachers of these schools. 1) If videos are taken from restricted/no-download sites. Please share the links and not the videos.2) As much as possible we want to avoid jazzy…

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Vidhyadaanam – 2020 – Status

May 19, 2020
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Hello Friends, First, we know no words will do justice to everyone’s individual experience over the last couple of months as we feel the weight of our responsibility to the community, particularly now. By now we are all aware of the severity of Covid 19 and probably exhausted from the anxiety of it all. While we don’t want to add to the stress we do want to let you know how we plan to execute this year’s drive. Current Covid-19 status of schools:1) We were able to contact a few of the teachers and the below details are as accumulated:The…

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Vidhyarthi – Library Development Program with Pratham Books

January 30, 2020
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What started as a chance try, led to the setup/up-gradation of libraries in 8 schools in Kolar Dist. Thanks to our individual and corporate donors and with the constant support of Pratham Books, we were able to touch ~336 children with ~670 new, best-quality and well-suited books. All the schools have promised to set-up a lending process where they issue a book to the kids to take home for a certain time (1 week or 15 days) and return it after that. Apart from this, the children are free to pick a book for reading, within the school time and…

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Vidhyadaanam’s Library Development Program

September 13, 2019
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Hello Friends, We are coordinating with Pratham books (Donate-a-book) for Vidhyadaanam’s Library Development Program. We aim to setup libraries in select government schools. The collected funds will be utilized for buying books for children in English, Kannada and Hindi. The children can read the books at school and also borrow one book home, per week. The books and inventory will be closely monitored by the teachers of the school, and also by us, at Vidhyadaanam. Please visit https://donateabook.org.in/campaign/669 to help us with this campaign

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