Ever heard of the story of the star fish?
How do we juxtapose to that? Every time our teachers haven’t given up on a child and every time we have tried something different to ensure that every single child learns, we’ve been making a difference to starfish.
The year-end Conferral celebrated on 25th April accredited the accomplishments through the inception of the Foundation and presented the plan for the year ahead.
The children of the Vetalnagar centre presented an adapted version of the play, ‘Stone Soup’ with their message, ‘Being rich is not what you have but what you give.’ The Morwadi kids performed to the Colonnial Cousin’s Krishna, speaking about the importance of peace and communal harmony.
While talking about the year gone by, the teachers and children spoke on the importance to believe, dream and be result oriented. After a power point presentation of the year accompanied by ‘A whole new world’ Reeves Rodrigues, Founder of the Poveda, spoke of the impact the program had made.
The children had scored an average of 33.84 and 52.35 in a baseline assessment of grade 6 Science and Math before the program’s intervention. In less than a year, their average in the grade 7 assessment escalated to 45.58 in Science and 61.91 in Math.
The year ahead will see the strengthening of the existing centres and perhaps the addition of one new centre. The Foundation will begin a yearlong Teacher Training Project with 2 English Medium PCMC schools. A play school and nursery will also be run as a means to financially sustain the learning centres.
Awards to children who showed the most academic improvement in English, Math and Science, who demonstrated outstanding conduct, responsibility and timeliness and who had a 95% and higher attendance through the year were conferred.
