Rotary Club of Dabolim Goa

Inviting partners to help set up a library at one of our partner schools (where we have already completed a Matching Grants project earlier).

The project is listed on ProjectLINK (Dabolim — W05997)

The Yuwak Sangh Primary and Secondary School in Sada, Vasco, India, needs a library to serve its 209 students, many who come from low income families. The Rotary Club of Dabolim will outfit the school with shelves, cupboards and books. The school has already dedicated a room for the new library and will help select the story and reference books for all reading levels.

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Rotary Club of Dabolim Goa, in association with All Goa Govt. recognised unaided Schools Association held the “Science is Fun” Projects Exhibition on Sunday 12 December 2010 at Regina Mundi High School, Chicalim (Goa, India). The exhibition was open to the public from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm.

65 students from 9 schools – Keshav Smruti High School, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, GHS Mangor Hill Vasco, Navy Children School, Regina Mundi, Airway Public Shool, Deepvihar High School, St. Andrews Institute and St. Joseph’s Institute displayed their projects.

The judges were Prof. Terence, Prof. Hirkude of PCC Verna, and Mr. Deepak Khaitan, President, All Goa Govt. recognised unaided Schools Association. The best projects were:

Category: Below 6th standard: Gayatri Salkar – Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, Pushkar Pandit and Aditya Chaudhari – Airway Public School, Tyrel Nunes – Regina Mundi.
Category: 7th-8th standard: Anuj Jaiswar, Steven Vaz and Joseph Francisco Da Silva – Regina Mundi, Shivam Sharma and Sairaj Kakodkar – Deepvihar high school.
Category: 9th-10th standard: Zave C. Vaz and Jafar S. Govikhan – St. Josephs Institute, Vinay R. Tandel – G.H.S Mangor Hill Vasco, Ankita D’Souza and Shilpa B. Kavlekar – Navy Children School.

Also present on the occassion were DGE Avinash Potdar, Rtn. Anand Kulkarni, District Secretary 2011-12, Rtn. Durgesh Haritay – DGSC 2010-11, Rtn. Ashok Naik, Rtn. Ajay Bhatia – President RC Belgaum South, Rtn. Prakash Saraswat, GSR Rtn. Santosh Lotlikar, AG Rtn. Tejendra Lawande, AG 2011-12 Rtn. Atul Naik, Br. Anish, Principal of the host school Regina Mundi. Mr. Deepak Khaitan, Mr. Cherian, Mr. Shetty from the All Goa Govt. recognised unaided Schools Association were present to lend their support and guidance. We also acknowledge the support of Vidya, Rohit and  Nisha for helping make copies of the DVD, Niharika for the calligraphy, and Sparsh and Parag for the photography.

To help kickstart project ideas, 15 schools from around Vasco da gama Goa were given the DVD Learner’s Library created by Dr. Arvind Gupta and his team. The DVD is a treasure trove for a child to know how things work, and has hundreds of ways of making Science Fun to Learn. The schools are requested to show the DVD to teachers and students. The schools are welcome to make copies of the DVD LEARNER’S LIBRARY and allow teachers, students, parents to make copies of the work. The work is in the public domain. The objective is to have more children use it, adapt it, and improve it. The DVD contents are also available on www.arvindguptatoys.com.

Also see http://www.rcdabolim.org/2010/distribution-of-dvd-learners-library-to-schools/

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Rotary Club of Dabolim Goa, in association with ALL GOA GOVT. RECOGNISED UNAIDED SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION, presents Science is Fun DVD + Project Exhibition

We have distributed 15 DVDs to schools around Vasco da gama Goa. The DVD Learner’s Library created by Dr. Arvind Gupta and his team.  The DVDs are a treasure trove for a child to know how things work, and has hundreds of ways of making Science Fun to Learn: the concept of Magnetic Levitation / Maglev trains explained using small magnets, an old slipper and a pencil, or the basics of astronomy explained using an old bucket handle, plastic balls, cycle spoke and thread, etc.

We have requested schools to show the DVDs to teachers and students. The schools are also welcome to make copies of the DVD LEARNER’S LIBRARY and allow teachers, students, parents to make copies of the work. The work is in the public domain. The objective is to have more children use it, adapt it, and improve it. There are PDF books on the DVD that can be printed and distributed.

The DVD contents are also available on www.arvindguptatoys.com

The DVD distribution will be followed by a Science Exhibition to help increase usage of the DVD among children and schools.

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We sponsored tickets of the play Junglenama for under priviledged children from Hamara School (School for street kids) and Matruchaya Orphanage. The play was brought to Goa by two friends Renu Rao and Roshan Bandekar.

The play is about a struggle for existence for animals by the animals. Babbar Khan (The Lion) and his small army comprising of Cheetah, Monkey, Deer, Horse and an Elephant along with the other animals rage a war against the Human atrocities and save their Jungle land. The play responds to the need for an idea of coexistence of Animals and Humans.

The script has been based on a story by Gulzar. It has been adapted for the stage by Varun Narvekar and Sarang Sathaye.

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We have donated an LCD projector to MES College Zuarinagar Goa to coincide with the official visit of the District Governor (RID 3170) Rtn Mahesh Raikar. Also present were AG Rtn. Rtn. Nikhil Lawande. The LCD projector will be used by the teachers to improve the quality of education in classrooms. The project has been completed under the District Simplified Grants (DSG).

The Rotary Club of Dabolim Goa is focused on improving the employ-ability of students from lesser privileged sections of society. Our Education Projects are thus helping selected schools by improving infrastructure, training of teachers and providing teaching aids. The teaching aids donated by Rotary will help improve the education imparted to students. In the last few months, we have donated a Laptop, books, bags to high performing girl child, helped build toilets at 2 schools – Yuwak Sangh and Anjuman, have planned a teachers training programme, and are working on helping the partner education institutions further.

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One difficulty faced by teachers was the difficulty in motivating students to study, especially students from poor families or with parents who are uneducated or not available at home to spend time with the child.

We gave bags as awards to the high performing girl child. This should in turn motivate other students to study harder. Bags were donated by Rohit & Sonali.

The Rotary Club of Dabolim Goa is focused on improving the employ-ability of children from lesser privileged sections of society. We are thus helping selected schools by improving infrastructure and providing teaching aids.

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As a part of our focus on Education, we donated used reading material to one of our partner schools – Yuvak Sangh School, Sada, Vasco. The books and magazines will augment the school library, and will be used by the children.

You can help by collecting reading material from your home, office, and from your friends and family. The material / envelope should be marked with your name. Your small contribution will go a long way to improve reading and learning in children. This is a great idea for people who love their books, and don’t want them to just become clutter. Its best to pass them on so that they can impact someone’s life and be useful once again. Children from financially challenged backgrounds usually do not have adequate reading material at home – any used books, text books and magazines you donate will go a long way in helping them develop the reading habit and will have a positive impact on their lives. Donations can include books in any language, or even good magazines such as India Today, Time, National Geographic and comics such as Tinkle. The books and magazines should be in reasonably good reading condition.

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As a part of our initiative to partner with schools, we donated reading material to one of our partner schools – Yuvak Sangh High School, Headland Sada, Vasco. The 134 books and magazines will augment the school library, and will be used by the children. Thanks to Amit T, Karuna, Lalit, Shubhangi and Sonali for donating books.

Please help collect reading material from your home, office, and from your friends and family. The material / envelope should be marked with your name. Your small contribution will go a long way to improve reading and learning in children.

FAQ:

What can I donate ?
Reading Material can include any books and magazines in reasonably decent condition that will help a child read and learn. They can include the 5-year old India Today that you have lying somewhere at home, the Amar Chitra Katha that your child doesnt read anymore, Gode Goshti in Marathi, or the workbook on Financial Accounting from your graduation that you have not touched for ages. They can be in any language (English, Hindi, Marathi, Konkani, Gujarati, Tamil, or even Swahili), and on any topic under the sun.

What will the club do with the reading material ?
These books and magazines will be sorted according to topic, suitability etc. and then donated to our partner institutions. We will be donating the reading material to the schools: (classes 1st to 10th) and colleges (11th-12th, B Com / BBA / BA) students. The children will be from ages 5 years to 20 years.

Which are your partner institutions ?
These schools and colleges are in the vicinity of Vasco / Dabolim, and have been shortlisted after evaluation on numerous parameters by our members Amit B and Snehal.

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Rotary Club of Dabolim Goa will partner with (an) Education Institution(s) – a School or College, to try to Improve the life of children from lesser privileged sections of society.

We discussed the process so that the project can be easily repeated by us and by other clubs in the future:
1. Which Education Institution ? We will select the institutions based on some pre-defined metrics, instead of going with a school that is preferred by a member.
2. Focus Areas: Based on the data collected, we will decide whether the institution needs assistance in improving the quality of Teachers, purchase of Teaching Aids, or improvement of Infrastructure.
3. Investment: The above data will help us decide where we need to invest our time and money.
4. Feedback and Reward: This will ensure that we can clearly measure the effectiveness of our efforts, reward the best performers, and as this is a long-term project, use year 1 results to tweak year 2 focus areas and metrics for success.

Please DOWNLOAD the Presentation & Process PPT and Template for data XLS that were used by Lalit. Please note that these are meant to be a thought starter and template only. It will be refined as more members study and discuss it in subsequent meetings.

Project committee would be consisting of Snehal, Lalit, Jen, Umesh, Amit T, Charuta, Avez and Amit B.

We are looking for Rotary Clubs and Organizations that want to partner with us on this project. If you have any suggestions that will help us improve the effectiveness of the project, or would like to help financially, please contact us.

Please also see http://www.rcdabolim.org/projects/partner-with-a-school/

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In November 2008, we visited the Keshav Smruti School in Dabolim, Goa. The objective was to understand whether we can add value to the school. We met the teachers and administrators of the school, and had a quick look at the school infrastructure.

In the next club meeting, it was decided to visit numerous schools to collect pre-determined data. This data will form the basis of deciding which school we will work with, and what are the specific inputs the school needs.

Dinesh, Snehal, Amit T and Lalit visited the school along with Rtn. Santosh Lotlikar of Rotary Club of Vasco da gama.

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