Swami
Vivekananda Vidyalaya Lodhar
Swami
Vivekananda Vidyalaya is a major centre of Jagriti where we are
implementing our ideas on education. This school has classes from KG
to VIII, and it has eleven teachers and approximately 320 students.
The school has a very good library consisting of approximately 10,000
books. The children and adults from the neighbouring villages benefit
through this library.
Annual
Cultural Festival
- Swami Vivekananda Vidyalaya at Lodhar conducts annual cultural festival on the occasion of Swami Vivekananda Jayanthi. Various competitions were held and about 200 school children participated in the function.
What
is Jagriti?
Jagriti
Bal Vikas Samiti is an organization working for children's education
and welfare. It is running schools for the underprivileged children
and working towards their social and economic development. It is also
attempting to develop an effective and meaningful academic and
vocational curriculum, educational materials and teaching kits for
primary schools, training the teachers, and establishing alternative
employment resources with no undue stress on academic excellence.
Jagriti family consists of volunteers and workers from IIT students
and faculty, school teachers, villagers, children, and full-time
social workers. We are in close collaboration with like minded groups
like Prayas, Eklavya, ASHA, and Association of India's Development
(AID).
How
it was born?
During
the late eighties Vivekananda Samiti, a student wing of IIT Kanpur
along with a few volunteers from outside took up the challenge of
educating the children of migrant labourers on the campus. This
activity led to a cooperative movement of migrant labourers in 1991.
A group consisting of IIT students, faculty, and social workers
continued to teach kids of the members of the cooperative. Around
1994 some members of IIT community and social workers felt the
necessity of an independent forum to address the issue of education
and welfare of underprivileged children. Thus a journey began.
Collaboration
-
Prayas, IIT Kanpur: Student body working on various social issues.
- Eklavya, Hoshangabad (M.P): Jagriti teachers and volunteers have participated in teachers' training programmes organized by Eklavya. We are in constant interaction with them.
- National Service Scheme (NSS), IIT Kanpur: NSS volunteers teach grown up kids in village and nearby places.
- Vivekananda Samiti, IIT Kanpur
- Association of India's Development (AID): AID has supported financially many of our activities. AID volunteers visit us regularly.
- ASHA:We have a close collaboration with ASHA-India and ASHA-Seattle (USA).
- Dr. R. Venkataraman Foundation
- Freelance Social Workers
- CAF India: CAF has supported financially many of our activities.
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