All the good things have to come
to an end, they say. I believe they start but never end. When we started
SPOORTHI, We were a bunch of engineering lads hoping to be the change we wanted
to see. Every journey begins with small steps. We managed to conduct few
sessions of computer basics and basics of English grammar in the one year. We
had limited resources, limited number of volunteers, and limited amount of
time. But, we had something that kept us marching forward, BELIEF! That we can
inspire others to take a step and make them to think of doing their little for
the country. With that hope, we kept
working.
On February 24, 2013, I came
across an NGO called Akanksha which had
same motives as us. While going through their website I ended up watching a
beautiful video of one of their initiative. Recently concluded JOY OF TEACHING
WEEK (JOTW) was inspired by them. Only difference being that Akanksha took school to the public; we took
public to the schools.
Preparations for JOTW started in
the month of September. We first decided on the schools to visit, made a
schedule and posted in our blog. Then we invited public to be part of the event.
Sri Lakshmi, a BCA student was the first one to approach us. Then few more
people started joining hands. We approached PROJECT REACH OUT , an
initiative by the students of SJCE Mysore. They played a very important role in
making JOTW a success. Next in the line was Revion, a startup by the students
of MIT Mysore. Owing to our resources constraint, they managed a session
without projector, which earlier was promised by us. We thank both the teams
for coming together with us in our little effort to inspire people.
On the first day, we visited
Manasa High School and Revion team visited Metagalli High School. Next day, our
team went to Banumaiah’s Girls High School. Bhavana, an M.Sc student, did
science experiments to increase the curiosity of the students and later taught
Origami, paper folding art. Ashwin, a student of MIT Mysore, explained about
the hardware part of a computer. On the third day, PROJECT REACH OUT joined the event. They visited Metagalli High School
with their team. India’s freedom struggle, photography, inspirational stories,
mathematics, English, computer were covered in their session.
9th November, Our team
went to Yeliyuru, a village near Mandya and took classes for the High school
students. It was an amazing experience to interact with the students as it was
the first time we were visiting a school outside Mysore. Moving on to fifth
day, our team visited Banumaiah’s Boys High School. We concluded our event at
Paduvarahalli School along with, PROJECT REACH OUT.
During the course of the event, live
update on Facebook and twitter were carried out by the volunteers, which got a
good response from the people all over the Globe.
It would be very unfair if I don’t mention the actual people behind the event’s success. Heart felt congratulations to Akash, Sachin, Sahana, Sowjanya, Apeksha, Shreyas, Chirag, Varsha, Pooja, Sudarshan and Supriya. Special thanks to PROJECT REACH OUT, Revion and Prof. KrishneGowda, Secretary, MET, Mysore.
6 days
7 schools 25 classes 60 volunteers 1000 students1 mission: Inspiring the Future.
The Joy of Teaching Week Inspired tens of people to teach, hundreds of students to learn better and thousands of people to believe that Yes, education can make a difference in shaping our country better.
We are planning for many more things from the next academic year. If interested, get in touch with us!
Volunteers Words
"First I want to congratulate all the
coordinators of spoorthi for letting me to take part in the event "joy
of teaching week”. I am very glad that the students got to know about
different subjects which would help them to build their career in future. So I
consider myself to be lucky for being a part of it . it was a great experience
. Let’s hope these kind of activities will go on in the future and wishing
spoorthi and all my co-members a great success."
Chirag M.S
"Spoorthi came to existence on 12th April 2012
since then I have attended almost all the events which took place till now ,
but I haven't teach the kids. In JOTW I started teaching the kids about
Personality Development and Career Guidance in Banumaiah’s Girls High School, Mysore.
It was my 1st teaching experience. After that I took classes in Yeliyuru High
school, Mandya and also in Banumaiah’s Boys High School. It was really a great experience in teaching kids and to learn something from them,
had a great time with kids."
Akash V
"Had an awesome experience teaching the students of govt schools.
Teaching something which was new to them. Showing them a better future. Never
thought even I could do something helpful to this society. Spoorthi gave me an
opportunity to make it possible. Keep up the good work..!! I wish it continues n reaches each and every
child who is in need of it."
Pooja D T
"I thank Spoorthi Foundation for organizing the Joy of
Teaching Week.It really was a great experience and we sure learnt a lot more than we taught "
Spoorthi
Vijay Ravi
Adarsh, SJCE, Mysore
Please visit www.spoorthifoundation.org to know more about us
With Love,
Veer Santhosh
CEO
Spoorthi Foundation
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