Now that I have a firm understanding of what I am working on here in India I would like to share it with everyone. For the past two weeks we have been working with two remedial schools in the area on creating holiday club. Our sister organization Prime Trust hosts Self Help groups each week that are geared towards educating the women in local slums on things like health, alcohol abuse and domestic violence. The Schools were created for the children of these women to have a place to play and study in the evenings. We are now creating a holiday session for the children that will start next week and run through the summer.
Last week the project was being led by a volunteer here but this week she decided to leave Pondicherry which in turn left the project in Siobhan and my hands. The difficulty with this is that we will be leaving Pondicherry ourselves in two weeks and heading back to Sweden. We have one other volunteer helping us and today, thank god, we were joined by two more. I don’t know how we would have managed to run a camp at two different schools with only three volunteers. We really want the teachers to take a leading role in the camp so that they can carry on when we leave or cannot be there, so we are meeting with the teachers today to go over the activities and look at future lesson plans. The idea is for this camp to be run every year with or without volunteers so we are writing up as many lesson plans as we can so that the current teachers and future teachers can look at them for ideas. If anyone has some good songs, rhymes or lesson plans they would like to share please feel free to send them my way.
