tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86363588678288527472024-03-05T21:32:58.315-08:00DivyadeepaRajesh Hanbalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10354130297582898454noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636358867828852747.post-84698548662070645852024-02-08T03:09:00.000-08:002024-02-08T03:09:39.817-08:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqjMJnKvlqigdCf56mEggwxhusBS9fjco39c6jM2oXZFKqstzwRIq-2L76YQN2iZEJ6IiOhpVJ6ssV8LtscGTtialxe2sQ7y99sOQeV5AcBIrwpIqyDhw7-4WkOs5-j2iL6bUdPSV524P1ey65XRldUa6nZrBMCMHxo_ZI5pSXYano9gAXGzFT_Z0SfqE/s1600/WhatsApp%20Image%202024-02-08%20at%204.29.57%20PM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqjMJnKvlqigdCf56mEggwxhusBS9fjco39c6jM2oXZFKqstzwRIq-2L76YQN2iZEJ6IiOhpVJ6ssV8LtscGTtialxe2sQ7y99sOQeV5AcBIrwpIqyDhw7-4WkOs5-j2iL6bUdPSV524P1ey65XRldUa6nZrBMCMHxo_ZI5pSXYano9gAXGzFT_Z0SfqE/w221-h320/WhatsApp%20Image%202024-02-08%20at%204.29.57%20PM.jpeg" width="221" /></a></div><br /> <b style="text-align: justify;"><u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-no-proof: yes;">A SCHOOL DROPOUT & DYSLEXIC BUILDS HIS LIFE</span></u></b><p></p>
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of January Koushik, our alumni sponsored food for all the children. On that day
Koushik had come along with his mother, sister, and his niece. (He had donated
to the school on earlier occasion too.) “Because of your school, my son could
build his life”, were the words uttered by his mother, the moment she saw
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I felt like sharing his inspiring
story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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to a rural agricultural family. His father was a graduate and mother had passed
class VIII. Koushik studied in formal main stream schools. He exhibited
excellent interest & talent for athletics & even won accolades in
inter-school competitions. So, he joined a special residential sports school. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, he could not adjust to that
school and lost interest not only in studies but also in sports. Eventually he dropped
out of the school without completing class IX. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By seeing a full-page article in Andolana on
22-01-2012, Koushik’s mother came to Kaliyuva Mane and was very happy with the
emotional ambience here. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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home and persuaded her son and brought him to Kaliyuva Mane. In Kaliyuva Mane,
children are given ample time (almost a month) to build rapport with the school, before starting
lessons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Koushik was emotionally
comfortable, he started opening up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
brief informal dialogue with him indicated his academic lag.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was taken to Clinical psychology
department of All India Speech & Hearing (AIISH), Mysore, for a
psychological and academic assessment. According to the report, he was a
dyslexic boy. His IQ was 100 & academic level was 4<sup>th</sup> standard
at the age of 15 years. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At Kaliyuva Mane he regained his lost interest
for studies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the age of 18, he
completed class X board exam in English medium, from ‘Chinmayi’ team, by
scoring 56.48% marks, without availing any concessions he was entitled to. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
achieved this feat in spite of being losing his father, just before a couple of
months before his class X examination. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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completed Industrial Training.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, he
is weaving world famous silk at Karnataka Silk Weaving Factory, Mysuru.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wish him a SILKY SMOOTH FUTURE. </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Nirmala UI";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Divyadeepahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13417275185863458886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636358867828852747.post-1602886977837668842018-05-07T05:33:00.002-07:002018-10-19T01:51:12.802-07:00Crossing all the hurdles, children reach the goal. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[The children were not suitable for mainstream schools. So, they joined Kaliyuva Mane – a free alternative residential school. All the children passed this coveted exam in English medium. They studied Kannada as first language, English as 2<sup>nd</sup> language and Samskruta as 3<sup>rd</sup> language.] <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">R. Vighnesh, unfortunately, lost his mother during early childhood. Father did not stay at home for several years. So, Vighnesh’s paternal uncle gave him shelter. Vighnesh was admitted to a private Kannada medium school. Vighnesh’s uncle was an auto driver. It was difficult for him to bring up Vighnesh. One day, he had come to Kaliyuva Mane with some passengers. He liked the atmosphere of Kaliyuva Mane. Thus, Vighnesh joined Kaliyuva Mane on 02-10-2010. He started learning happily and has now passed coveted 10<sup>th</sup> standard examination. (Total 70.4%) He has joined special Diploma in Engineering course (Tool and die making) Kaliyuva Mane is supporting his post matric education too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Y. Divyashree lost her father at a tender age. Divyashree’s mother works as an attendant in a school in Andhra Pradesh. Divyashree’s maternal uncle took the responsibility of bringing her up. Divyashree was admitted to an English medium private school. Unfortunately, she could not learn at the expected pace. But as per RTE norms, children have to be promoted to next higher standard irrespective of learning. So, she passed 8<sup>th</sup> standard and was promoted to 9<sup>th</sup> standard. Her maternal uncle was not happy with her education. He admitted her to Kaliyuva Mane in 2014. At Kaliyuva Mane, she was sent to All India Institute of Speech and Hearing for a psychological assessment. As per the report dated 07-07-2014, the girl’s IQ was 100 and her academic level was at primary school level. She had intellectual disability of 60%. She was a student with special needs. A copy of the psychological report is produced below. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">C. Vinod belongs to a village, named Basavanapura. His parents are illiterates. His home is not congenial for studies. Father works as a mason. Mother works as a domestic help. The owner of the house, where Vinod’s mother was working, discovered that Vinod was suffering from a serious academic lag. She advised Vinod’s mother to admit the boy to Kaliyuva Mane. Vinod had passed 6<sup>th</sup> standard and had been promoted to 7<sup>th</sup> standard. At Kaliyuva Mane he was taught using the principle, ‘Known to Unknown’. Now he has passed 10<sup>th</sup> standard examination. He wants to pursue ITI course. (Total 44.32%) He has joined ITI (Automobile course) Kaliyuva Mane is supporting his education. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Shankar’s sister, a school dropout had passed 10<sup>th</sup> standard examination from Kaliyuva Mane. She inspired Shankar to join Kaliyuva Mane and continue his studies. Though he was 12 years old, he started learning from basics with zeal. He passed 10th std. examinations securing 61% marks. M/s Krithya Technologies- a software company selected him for training. He is being paid a stipend of Rs.11000/- in addition to food and accommodation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ಕಲಿಯುವ ಮನೆಯ ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಮನಸಲಿ ಹರ್ಷವ ತುಂಬಲು ಯುವಕರು ಮಾಡುವ ಪ್ರಯೋಗಗಳಿಗೇನು ಕಡಿಮೆ ಇಲ್ಲ. ಕೆಂಚಲಗೂಡಿನಲ್ಲಿರುವ ದಿವ್ಯದೀಪ ಚಾರಿಟೆಬಲ್ ಟ್ರಸ್ಟ್ ನಡೆಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ಈ ಪ್ರಾಯೋಗಿಕ ಶಾಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದ "ಉತ್ಕರ್ಷ" ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಮತ್ತೊಂದು ಉದಾಹರಣೆ.<br />
ಸರಿಯಾಗಿ ಒಂದು ತಿಂಗಳ ಹಿಂದೆ ಎನ್ ಐ ಇ ಕಾಲೇಜಿನ ಕ್ಯಾಂಟೀನ್ ಹಟ್ ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಇದಕ್ಕೆ ಭುನಾದಿಯನ್ನ ಹಾಕಲಾಯಿತು. ಅಝರ್ ಅವರಿಂದ ಶುರುವಾದ ಈ ಆಲೋಚನೆ ನಂತರ ಎಲ್ಲರಲ್ಲೂ ಹಬ್ಬಿ ಹೆಮ್ಮರವಾಗಿ ಬೆಳೆಯಿತು. ಗ್ರಾಮದ ಆ ಮುಗ್ದ ಮಕ್ಕಳಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಅಗಾಧವಾದ ಅಪ್ರತಿಮ ಪ್ರತಿಮೆಯನ್ನು ಹೊರಕ್ಕೆ ತೆಗೆಯಲು, ಅದನ್ನು ಅನಾವರಣಗೊಳಿಸಲು ಯುವಕರೆಲ್ಲರೂ ಸಜ್ಜಾದರು. ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ತಕ್ಕಂತೆ ಕಾರ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಹಂಚಿಕೊಂಡರು. ಅದರ ಉಸ್ತುವಾರಿಯನ್ನ ವಹಿಸಿಕೊಂಡ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ ಗೌತಮ್. <br />
ಗೌತಮನಿಗಂತೂ ಅದರದ್ದೇ ಚಿಂತೆ. ದಿವ್ಯದೀಪದ ಈ ಹಬ್ಬವನ್ನು ಹೇಗೆ ಮಾಡಿದರೆ ಚಂದ, ಯಾವ ರೀತಿ ಮಕ್ಕಳಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಪ್ರತಿಭೆಯನ್ನು ಹೊರತೆಗೆಯಬೇಕು, ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಪೂರಕವಾಗಿ ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರನ್ನು ಹೇಗೆ ಅನುಗೊಳಿಸಬೇಕು ಎಂದು. ಅವನಿಗೆ ಜೊತೆಯಾದವರು ರಶ್ಮಿ, ಶರತ್, ಸಂತೋಷ್, ನಮ್ರತ, ಸೌಮ್ಯ ಹಾಗೂ ಮುಂತಾದವರು. ಆ ದಿನ ಯಾವ ಯಾವ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮ ನಡೆಯಬೇಕು ಎಂದು ಅಝರ್ ಅವರ ಸಹಾಯದ ಮೂಲಕ ನಿರ್ಧರಿಸಲಾಯಿತು. ರಂಗೋಲಿ, ಚಿತ್ರಕಲೆ, ಗಾಯನ, ಕಥೆ ಹೇಳುವಿಕೆ, ಕ್ವಿಝ್, ಸೂಪರ್ ಮಿನಿಟ್ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮ ನಂತರ ಸಾಂಸ್ಕೃತಿಕ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮವನ್ನು ಆಯೋಜಿಸುವುದೆಂದು ತೀರ್ಮಾನಿಸಲಾಯಿತು.<br />
ಗೌತಮ್ " ಉತ್ಕರ್ಷ " ದ ಸಲುವಾಗಿ ಹತ್ತಕ್ಕಿಂತಲು ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಬಾರಿ ಕಲಿಯುವ ಮನೆಗೆ ಹೋಗಿರುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಅಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ವಿಭಾಗಗಳಿಗೆ ಹೋಗಿ ರಂಗೋಲಿ, ಚಿತ್ರಕಲೆ ಮುಂತಾದ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಚಟುವಟಿಕೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಯಾವ ಯಾವ ಮಕ್ಕಳು ಭಾಗವಹಿಸುತ್ತಾರೆಂದು ಅವರನ್ನು ಕೇಳಿ, ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಹೆಸರನ್ನು ಬರೆದುಕೊಂಡು ಬಂದ. ಮತ್ತೆ ಮತ್ತೆ ಹೋಗಿ ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗೆ ನೆನಪಿಸಿದ್ದು, ಸೂಪರ್ ಮಿನಿಟ್ ಗೆ ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಹೆಸರನ್ನು ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಂಡು ಬಂದು ಅದನ್ನು ಎಂಟು ತಂಡಗಳನ್ನಾಗಿ ವಿಂಗಡಿಸಿದ್ದು, ಹೊಸತಾಗಿ ಸೇರ್ಪಡೆಯಾದ ಚಟುವಟಿಕೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಮತ್ತೆ ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಹೆಸರನ್ನು ಬರೆದುಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದು, ಹೀಗೆ ನಾನಾ ಬಾರಿ ಕಲಿಯುವ ಮನೆಗೆ ಅಲೆದಾಡಿದ್ದಾನೆ.<br />
ಸಂತೋಷ್ ಸಹ ಎರಡು ಬಾರಿ ಶಾಲೆಗೆ ಹೋಗಿ ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗೆ ಹಾಡು, ನೃತ್ಯ ಮತ್ತು ನಾಟಕವನ್ನು ಹೇಳಿಕೊಟ್ಟಿದ್ದಾನೆ. ಹೀಗೆ ಎಲ್ಲರ ಪರಿಶ್ರಮದ ಫಲವಾಗಿ " ಉತ್ಕರ್ಷ" ಉತ್ಕರ್ಷವಾಗಿ ನೆರೆವೇರಿತು.<br />
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ಗುರುವಾರ ಸಂಜೆ ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಒಟ್ಟಿಗೆ ಸೇರಿ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮದ ಪೂರ್ವ ತಯಾರಿಯ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಚರ್ಚಿಸಿದೆವು. ಪ್ರತಿ ಚಟುವಟಿಕೆಯನ್ನು ನಡೆಸಲು ಸ್ವಯಂ ಸೇವಕರನ್ನು ತಂಡಗಳಾಗಿ ವಿಂಗಡಿಸಲಾಯಿತು. ಆ ಚಟುವಟಿಕೆಯ ಸಂಪುರ್ಣ ಜವಾಬ್ದಾರಿಯನ್ನು ಅವರವರ ಹೆಗಲ ಮೇಲೆ ವಹಿಸಲಾಯಿತು. ಮಾರನೆ ದಿನ ಕೆಲವರು ಕಲಿಯುವ ಮನೆಗೆ ಹೋಗಲು ತೀರ್ಮಾನಿಸಿದರು. ನವೆಂಬರ್ 4, ಶುಕ್ರವಾರ. ಸಂತೋಷ್ ಮತ್ತು ರುತ್ವಿಕ್ ಬೆಳಿಗ್ಗೆ ಕಲಿಯುವ ಮನೆಗೆ ಹೋದರು. ಮಕ್ಕಳು ನೃತ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ತಯಾರಾಗಿಲ್ಲವೆಂದು ಸಂತೋಷ್ ಗೆ ತಿಳಿಯಿತು. ತಕ್ಷಣ ಆತ ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಂದ ಒಂದು ನಾಟಕ ಮಾಡಿಸಲು ಸಿದ್ದನಾದ. ಅದರಲ್ಲಿ ಚತುರನಾದ ಆತ ಅಲ್ಲಿಯೆ ಒಂದು ಸ್ಕ್ರಿಪ್ಟ್ ಅನ್ನು ಬರೆದು ಮೂರು ಮಕ್ಕಳನ್ನು ತೆಗೆದು ಕೊಂಡು ಒಂದು ಹಾಸ್ಯನಾಟಕಕ್ಕೆ ತಯಾರು ಮಾಡಿದ. ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನದ ವೇಳೆಗೆ ಶರತ್, ಗೌತಮ್, ನಮ್ರತ, ಸೌಮ್ಯ, ವಿನಾಯಕ್, ಮಲ್ಲಿಕಾರ್ಜುನ್ ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಬಂದರು. ಒಮ್ಮೆ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಸಿದ್ಧತೆಯನ್ನು ಗಮನಿಸಿ ಒಂದು ಕಡೆ ಕುಳಿತುಕೊಂಡು ಭಾನುವಾರದ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮದ ವೇಳಾಪಟ್ಟಿ ,ಚಟುವಟಿಕೆಗಳು ನಡೆಯುವ ಜಾಗ ಮತ್ತು ಬಹುಮಾನಗಳನ್ನು ನಿರ್ಧರಿಸಲಾಯಿತು. ಸಂಜೆ ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಹಿಂತಿರುಗಿದರು.<br />
ಶನಿವಾರ ಬೆಳಿಗ್ಗೆಯೇ ನಮ್ರತ ಮತ್ತು ಗೌತಮ್ ಕಲಿಯುವ ಮನೆಗೆ ಹೋದರು. ನಮ್ರತ ಸಂತೋಷ್ ಬರೆದು ಕೊಟ್ಟಿದ್ದ ಸ್ಕ್ರಿಪ್ಟ್ ನ ಆಧಾರವಾಗಿ ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗೆ ನಾಟಕವನ್ನ ಹೇಳಿಕೊಟ್ಟಳು ಮತ್ತು ತಾನು ಮತ್ತು ಸೌಮ್ಯ ಆಯೋಜಿಸಿದ್ದ ಫ್ಯಾಷನ್ ಷೋ ಗೆ ಮಕ್ಕಳನ್ನು ತಯಾರು ಮಾಡಿದರು. ಅಝರ್ ಅವರು ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನಿಂದ ಕಲಿಯುವ ಮನೆಗೆ ಬಂದಿದ್ದರು. ಇತ್ತ ಶರತ್ ಮತ್ತು ಭಾರ್ಗವ್ ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗೆ ಬಹುಮಾನವನ್ನು ತರಲು ಸ್ವಪ್ನ, ಮೋರ್ ಮುಂತಾದ ಮಳಿಗೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಹೋಗಿದ್ದರು. ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಬಹುಮಾನಗಳನ್ನು ತಗೆದು ಕೊಂಡು ಅವರು ಸಹ ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನದ ವೇಳೆಗೆ ಅಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಬಂದರು. ಸಂಜೆಯ ಹೊತ್ತಿಗೆ ಯಾವ ಯಾವ ಆಟಗಳಿಗೆ ಯಾವ ಯಾವ ಬಹುಮಾನಗಳನ್ನು ಕೊಡಬೇಕೆಂದು ಒಂದು ಕಡೆ ಜೋಡಿಸಿ ತೀರ್ಮಾನಿಸಲಾಯಿತು. ಮಾರನೇ ದಿನ ಬಸ್ ಯಾವ ಸಮಯಕ್ಕೆ ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರನ್ನು ಕರೆದುಕೊಂಡುಹೋಗಲು ಬರಬೇಕೆಂದು ತೀರ್ಮಾನಿಸಿ ಅಲ್ಲಿಂದ ಶರತ್, ನಮ್ರತ, ಗೌತಮ, ಭಾರ್ಗವ್ ಹೊರಟರು.<br />
ನವೆಂಬರ್ 6 ಭಾನುವಾರ " ಉತ್ಕರ್ಷ"<br />
9 ಗಂಟೆಗೆ ಸರಿಯಾಗಿ ಶಾಲಾವಾಹನ ಮಕ್ಕಳನ್ನು ಕರೆದುಕೊಂಡು ಬಂತು. ಇಳಿದ ಕೂಡಲೆ ಮಕ್ಕಳೆಲ್ಲರೂ ಹರ್ಷೋದ್ಗಾರದಿಂದ ಓಡಾಡತೊಡಗಿದರು. ಅವರಿಗಂದು ಉಲ್ಲಾಸದ ದಿನ. ತಮ್ಮಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಕಲೆಯನ್ನು ತೋರಿಸಲು ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಹುಮ್ಮಸ್ಸಿನಿಂದ ಸಜ್ಜಾಗಿದ್ದರು. ಮೊದಲ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮ ರಂಗೋಲಿ. ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರಾದ ಲಕ್ಚ್ಮಿ, ಸೌಂದರ್ಯ, ದರ್ಶನ್ ರಂಗೋಲಿ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮ ನಡೆಸಲು ಸಿದ್ಧರಿದ್ದರು. ಅದರಂತೆ ಪ್ರಜ್ಞ ದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಕ್ಕಳೆಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ರಂಗೋಲಿ ಸ್ಪರ್ಧೆಯನ್ನು ನಡೆಸಲಾಯಿತು. ಮಕ್ಕಳಂತೂ ಹುಮ್ಮಸ್ಸಿನಿಂದ ತಾವು ಕಲಿತಿದ್ದ ರಂಗೋಲಿಯನ್ನು ಬಿಡಿಸಲಾರಂಭಿಸಿದರು. ಬಣ್ಣ ಬಣ್ಣದ ಆ ಚಿತ್ತಾರ ಕಾಮನ ಬಿಲ್ಲನ್ನು ನೆನೆಪಿಸುತ್ತಿತ್ತು. ಅವರ ಮುಗ್ಧತೆಯ ಪ್ರತಿಬಿಂಬದಂತಿತ್ತು.<br />
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ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರನ್ನು ಕರೆದುಕೊಂಡು ವಾಹನವು ಕಲಿಯುವ ಮನೆಯನ್ನು ಪ್ರೇವೇಶಿಸಿತು. ಸುಮಾರು 20 ಜನರು ಆ ಹಬ್ಬದಲ್ಲಿ ಬಾಗವಹಿಸಲು ಸೇರಿದ್ದರು. ಅಲ್ಲಿದ್ದವರನ್ನು ಸೇರಿ ಒಟ್ಟು ಸುಮಾರು 40 ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರಿದ್ದರು. ಬಂದ ತಕ್ಷಣ ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ತಮ್ಮ ತಮ್ಮ ಚಟುವಟಿಕೆಯನ್ನು ನಡೆಸಲು ಸಿದ್ದರಾದರು. ವಾಹಿನಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಚಿತ್ರಕಲಾ ಸ್ಪರ್ದೆ ಏರ್ಪಡಿಸಲಾಗಿತ್ತು. ಪವನ್ ದೀಕ್ಷ, ಅನುಷ ಮುಂತಾದವರು ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗೆ ಡ್ರಾಯಿಂಗ್ ಶೀಟ್, ಕ್ರಯಾಂಸ್, ಮುಂತಾದವುಗಳನ್ನ ನೀಡಿ ಸ್ಪರ್ದೆಯನ್ನು ಶುರು ಮಾಡಿದರು. ಮಕ್ಕಳಂತೂ ಅತ್ಯುತ್ಸಾಹದಿಂದ ಚಿತ್ರಗಳನ್ನು ಬಿಡಿಸಲಾರಂಭಿಸಿದರು. ಮನೆ, ಕೋಟೆ, ನವಿಲು, ಕಾಡು ಮುಂತಾದ ಸುಂದರ ಚಿತ್ರಗಳನ್ನು ಬಿಡಿಸಿ ಬಣ್ಣಗಳನ್ನು ತುಂಬಿದಾಗ ನವಿರಾದ ಚಿತ್ರಕಲೆ ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಚಿಗುರೊಡೆಯಿತು.<br />
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ಅದೇ ಸಮಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಗಣಕ ಕೊಟಡಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕಥೆ ಹೇಳುವ ಸ್ಪರ್ದೆ ನಡೆಯುತ್ತಿತ್ತು. ಪುಟ್ಟ ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಆ ಮುಗ್ದ ಕಥೆಗಳು ಕೇಳಲು ಮನಮೋಹಕವಾಗಿದ್ದವು. ಆಶ್ರಿತ, ರಚನ ಮತ್ತೊಬ್ಬರು ಅದನ್ನು ನಿರ್ವಹಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದರು. ಶ್ರದ್ಧ ದಲ್ಲಿ ಗಾಯನ ಸ್ಪರ್ದೆ ನಡೆಸಲಾಗುತ್ತಿತ್ತು. ಭಾವಗೀತೆ, ಚಿತ್ರಗೀತೆ ಗಳನ್ನು ಮಕ್ಕಳು ಕಲಿತು ಹಾಡಲು ಬಂದಿದ್ದರು. ಅರವಿಂದ ಹಾಲಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಹತ್ತನೆ ತರಗತಿ ಅವರಿಗೆಂದೇ ಏರ್ಪಡಿಸಿದ್ದ ರಸಪ್ರಶ್ನೆ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮ ನಡೆಯುತ್ತಿತ್ತು. ಮಲ್ಲಿಕಾರ್ಜುನ್ ಅದನ್ನು ನಡೆಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದ. ಸ್ವಯಂ ಸೇವಕರೂ ಸಹ ಅವರೊಂದಿಗೆ ಸೇರಿ ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗೆ ಪ್ರೋತ್ಸಾಹ ನೀಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದರು. ಹೀಗೆ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಕಡೆಯಲ್ಲೂ ನಾನಾ ವಿಧವಾದ ಚಟುವಟಿಕೆಗಳು ಜರುಗುತ್ತಿತ್ತು. ಒಟ್ಟಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಕಲಿಯುವ ಮನೆ ಅಂದು ಮಿರಮಿರನೆ ಜಗಮಗಿಸುತ್ತಿತ್ತು.<br />
ಇದಾದ ನಂತರ ದಿನದ ಅಚ್ಚುಮೆಚ್ಚಿನ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮ ಸೂಪರ್ ಮಿನಿಟ್ ಪ್ರಾರಂಭವಾಯಿತು. ಗೌತಮ್ ಮತ್ತು ಚಂದನ ಅದರ ಉಸ್ತುವಾರಿಯನ್ನ ವಹಿಸಿಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದರು. ಸಂತೋಷ್ ಮೈಕ್ ಹಿಡುದು ಅದರ ನಿರ್ವಾಹಕನಾಗಿದ್ದ. ಕಲಿಯುವ ಮನೆಯ ಒಟ್ಟು ಅರವತ್ತ ನಾಲ್ಕು ಮಕ್ಕಳನ್ನು ಎಂಟು ತಂಡಗಳಾಗಿ ಮಾಡಿ ಸೂಪರ್ ಮಿನಿಟ್ ಅನ್ನು ಆಡಿಸಲಾಯಿತು. ಪ್ರತಿ ತಂಡಕ್ಕೆ ಒಬ್ಬ ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರನ್ನು ನಿಯೋಜಿಸಲಾಗಿತ್ತು. ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗಂತೂ ಅದು ಮನರಂಜನೆಯ ಮಹಾಪುರವಾಗಿತ್ತು. ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಸಂತೋಷದಿಂದ ಅದರಲ್ಲಿ ಪಾಲ್ಗೊಂಡು ಆನಂದಿಸಿದರು. ನಂತರ ಭೋಜನ ವಿರಾಮಕ್ಕೆ ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ತೆರಳಿದರು.<br />
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ಆಟಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಗೆದ್ದ ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗೆ ವೇದಿಕೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾಗವಹಿಸಲು ಅವಕಾಶ ನೀಡಲಾಗಿತ್ತು. ಅದರೊಂದಿಗೆ ಹಾಸ್ಯ ನಾಟಕ, ಡೈನ ಮತ್ತು ರಮೇಶನ ಡೈಲಾಗ್, ಪ್ರಜ್ವಲ್ ನ ಮತ್ತೊಂದು ನಾಟಕ, ಮೂರು ತಂಡಗಳ ಗುಂಪು ಗಾಯನ, ಕಥೆ, ಹಾಡಿನ ಸ್ಪರ್ಧೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಗೆದ್ದವರ ಪ್ರದರ್ಶನ, ಹೀಗೆ ನಾನಾ ರೀತಿಯ ಮನೋರಂಜನೆಯ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮಗಳು ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಪ್ರತಿಭೆಗೆ ಸಾಕ್ಷಿಯಾಯಿತು.<br />
ಎಲ್ಲರ ಗಮನವನ್ನ ಸೆಳೆದಿದ್ದು ಪುಟ್ಟ ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಫ್ಯಾಷನ್ ಶೋ. ನಮ್ರತ ಮತು ಸೌಮ್ಯ ಹದಿನಾರು ಮಕ್ಕಳನ್ನು ಸುಂದರವಾಗಿ ಸಿದ್ಧಗೊಳಿಸಿದ್ದರು. ದೇಶದ ವಿವಿಧತೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಏಕತೆಯನ್ನು ಮೂಲವಾಗಿಟ್ಟುಕೊಂಡು ಎಂಟು ರಾಜ್ಯಗಳ ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತಿಯನ್ನು ಬಿಂಬಿಸುವ ಉಡುಗೆಗಳನ್ನು ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗೆ ತೊಡಿಸಲಾಗಿತ್ತು. ಕೇರಳ, ಗೋವ, ಬೆಂಗಾಲ್, ಗುಜರಾತ್, ಪಂಜಾಬ್, ಮಹಾರಾಷ್ಟ್ರ, ರಾಜಸ್ತಾನ ಮತ್ತು ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ದ ವೇಶಭೂಷಣದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಕ್ಕಳಂತೂ ತುಂಬಾ ಸುಂದರವಾಗಿ ಕಾಣುತ್ತಿದ್ದರು. ವೇದಿಕೆಯ ಮೇಲೆ ನಡೆದು ಎಲ್ಲರ ಮನಗೆದ್ದರು.<br />
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It was a Sunday afternoon. A young lady was waiting in Spandana. The moment I went in, she got up and handed
over her resume for the post of a teacher. It was a typed one, which is readily
available in the market for Rs.20/-. I
offered her a seat. I tried to make her
comfortable at a new location. I invited her to have lunch with kids. But she declined. She was from a rural BPL family. Her qualification was B.A.,B.Ed. She was aged about 23 years. Her parents were
illiterates. I thought of giving her an
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I asked her, whether I could
invite some children from ‘Shraddha’ team [children in the age range 14-16
years] to participate in the interview. She
readily gave her consent. She appeared confident. I was happy.
I requested the children to be silent and just observe. To boost her confidence, I wrote one
subtraction sum, 3000-1897 and one division sum, 30100/9 on the blackboard. She
asked for a piece of chalk. She started
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To my utter disappointment, she
did both the sums wrongly. Further
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Q: What are the essential qualifications required for a teacher?</div>
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A: B.A., B.Ed.</div>
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Q: What qualities should a good teacher have?</div>
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A: Jnanabhandara.</div>
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Q: ‘Bhandara’ means?</div>
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A: Bhandara means, Bhandara
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Q: Which subjects can you teach?
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A: I have studied in Kannada medium schools. My English is not good.</div>
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I asked her to read a paragraph from a Kannada newspaper. She insisted on reading from a text
book. I insisted that she read the
newspaper. She <span class="MsoSubtleEmphasis">could</span> not pronounce many alphabets
properly. That paragraph contained the phrase, ‘Seemita
Avadhi’ (<span style="font-family: "Nudi 01 e";">¹Ã«ÄvÀ CªÀ¢ü).</span></div>
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Q: ‘Seemita Avadhi’ means?</div>
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A: ‘Seemita means…, seemita
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Q: Can you please teach any one topic of Science to these children?</div>
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A: How can I teach? I have to prepare first.</div>
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Q: Yes, I agree with you. You
can teach the topic with which you are most comfortable. It can be from 1<sup>st</sup> standard book
or 2<sup>nd</sup> standard book. Or it
can be from a newspaper. </div>
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A: I will teach about ‘Environment’ </div>
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She wrote ‘Environment’ on the blackboard. Her handwriting was very good. Then she was trying to explain the meaning
of environment. She asked children, “How
many types of environments are there? </div>
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Our children wore a perplexed look on their faces. I could not answer either. But I tried to answer, ‘Internal environment
& external environment? Often internal environment (mind) pollutes the
external environment.”</div>
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But, she did not agree. She
explained, “Types of environment are: air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution
etc.” I wanted to check her general
knowledge.</div>
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Q: Who is Pranab Mukherjee?</div>
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A: Oh, he is the president of Karnataka.</div>
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Q: On what date, do we observe ‘Teachers’ day’?</div>
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A: 5<sup>th</sup> May.</div>
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Q: Are you sure?</div>
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A: Yes.</div>
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The entire interview took around 15 minutes. I called children outside and sought their
opinion. No one was ready to accept her
as a teacher. My decision was also the same. But I wanted to give her a chance. I gave the option. She
could join Kaliyuva Mane as a student.
No salary would be paid to her, till her knowledge level reaches to that
of 4<sup>th</sup> standard. She also
would learn the right attitude, knowledge and skill of transferring the
knowledge. I consider these as necessary
qualifications than formal degrees. I thought, she would never agree! </div>
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But I was surprised to see her at Kaliyuva Mane after 10 days. She had come to join as a resident
student! I admire her honesty and
courage.</div>
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Divyadeepahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13417275185863458886noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636358867828852747.post-44912040632463799792016-07-04T09:36:00.003-07:002016-07-04T09:46:48.482-07:00RTE GIVES RIGHT TO ISSUE FAKE CERTIFICATES<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I was surprised to see a lady
lawyer bringing a boy to ‘Spandana’ – office of Kaliyuva Mane. It seems she had visited Kaliyuva Mane
earlier. She was a volunteer of Pratham
also. The boy was from a broken
family. His mother was working as a
domestic help in Bengaluru. His father
had deserted the family. The boy’s
mother was an illiterate. It seems the boy was going to a Government school in
Sheshadripuram, Bengaluru. As per
records, he had completed 5<sup>th</sup> standard and was in 6<sup>th</sup>
standard. He was 12 years old. </div>
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level. He could not identify Kannada
alphabets even. I asked his age. His answer was funny: 6 or 7 or 12 or 15. Lawyer’s statement is reproduced below. </div>
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I asked him the question: ‘Were you going to
school regularly?’ The boy was frank and
honest! His reply was: ‘Nan beedhi suttha
idde’. <i>[‘I was roaming on the streets</i>] This boy is technically not an orphan. His
parents are alive. He is technically not a school dropout either. As per records he has passed age appropriate
5<sup>th</sup> standard. He is a victim
of RTE Act, which compels the teachers, to issue fake certificates. It forces teachers to be loyal to the rule
book than to their conscience and to the children. </div>
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The advocate wanted admission for
this boy as a resident scholar. We have our own limitations. Chances
of getting sponsorship for a boy-child are very bleak. But we have stubborn faith in Swami
Vivekananda’s words: ’Feel from the bottom of your heart. Take up an issue.
Find the solution. Put your hands to the
wheels of the work. Men will come, Money will come and God’s Grace will
come.” Kaliyuva Mane is yet to get formal recognition
as a ‘School’ in spite of education minister’s instructions to the commissioner
to take necessary steps to grant recognition.
The commissioner, Department of Public Instructions, Bengaluru is
exploring whether there are any such recognized non-formal schools since 16 months. He is yet to take right action. </div>
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Some thoughts crossed my
mind. ‘What is the future for this boy? Will
he not become an anti social element? Where is the school for this boy to <b><i>learn</i></b>?” About a fortnight ago, this boy joined
Kaliyuva Mane family as a resident scholar.
But the next day morning, our children saw him running away from
Kaliyuva Mane. One staff member started
the scooter and brought him back. Once
more the same thing happened. [We will
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Initially, he refused to have
food. I took him to kitchen. I told the boy, “If you feel like, you need
not attend any classes. You can play around.”
He was surprised. He found
another boy of similar nature. They
were happily roaming around in Kaliyuva Mane.
After few days, I took him to our computer laboratory and made him play
some games. His face lit up. He started trusting me. I asked him, “When you grow old, do you want
to buy a motor cycle? Do you want to take care of your mother?” The boy nodded his head in affirmative. ‘How do you earn money? Do you want to steal?
Or do you want to <span lang="EN-IN">beg</span>?
Or do you want to become a monk in a Mutt?’
The boy started nodding his head negatively and smiled. I told him, ‘Look, you have two options here:
one to study, get a job and earn; or you can work here. We will pay you.’ He replied, “I want to work”. Then I sent him to Jayaramu. The boy was with
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A couple of days later, I was a bit
anxious not to find him anywhere in the campus.
But to my delight, the boy was sitting in Geetha’s class, sticking dry leaves
on a drawing paper! I felt, he had
finally arrived! </div>
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Now the boy is happy. He uses vulgar words. First we have to transform him; then teach him teaching life skills; then make him learn 10 years of textual content
within 4 years; then make him pass 10<sup>th</sup> standard examinations; then build
his future. A herculean task indeed!
Greatest hurdle comes from the Policies of the Government. Our prevalent education system considers all
children as machines who can learn a predetermined textual content within a
predetermined time interval, in a predetermined way. Children’s learning depends on several
factors: environment at home, parents’ education, child’s inherent capacity to
learn, child’s emotional quotient, peer group, teachers, school, education
system, etc. It is wrong to label the
child as ‘failed’. But it is equally
wrong to issue fake certificates. 50% of
rural school children suffer from an academic lag of 3 years. This is where
Kaliyuva mane’s non-formal education system gains relevance. I hope Mr. Tanveer Sait, our new education
minister from Mysore visits Kaliyuva Mane soon. To know more about the school, please download
the document, <a href="http://www.divyadeepatrust.org/docs/About%20school.pdf">‘About
School’</a> from our website. </div>
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Divyadeepahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13417275185863458886noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636358867828852747.post-70564503386340416252016-05-17T00:53:00.004-07:002016-05-18T08:12:08.295-07:0010th standard results (Mythri team) <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Every year we used to share very
happy news. Please excuse us to share
'not so happy' news this year. Two
children out of three school dropouts have passed with flying colours, one with
first class and the other with second class.
Four first generation school goers out of five, have passed with flying
colours, two securing first class and two with second class. But none of the dyslexic children is
able to pass this year. At the time of joining Kaliyuva Mane, they suffered
from an academic lag of 6-8 years in mainstream schools. May
be we should have made them appear for this coveted examination, next
year. All the children and teachers
have put their best efforts. Please bear
with us. The fact is there was no school
for seven children in the current education system, either free or paid! Please read the brief profiles of all the
children. All the children wrote examinations in English medium taking Kannada as 1st language, English as 2nd language & Sanskrit as 3rd language. </div>
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<u>A CHILD LABOURER & A SCHOOL DROPOUT EXCELS: (16 years) </u>Chandu stays in a hut in Ekalavyanagara on
the outskirts of Mysuru. Both her
parents are not educated. Mother does
odd jobs to take care of the family, as her husband does not contribute to the
family. Having dropped out from two
schools, Chandu was working as a child labourer at Bengaluru. Due to the intervention of her relative, she
joined a hostel, run by an NGO and rejoined another school, but again to drop
out. On 04-11-2012, at the age of 12
years 9 months, Chandu joined Kaliyuva Mane as a resident scholar. She started learning from alphabets and
numbers. This year, she has passed SSLC
examinations securing 58% aggregate marks. We heartily congratulate her and wish her
a bright future!</div>
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<u>An ‘OUT OF SYSTEM BOY’ EXCELS:
(15 years, 9 months) </u>Both the parents of Yogesh Ponting are
post graduates and belong
to an economically middle class family.
His mother works as a Head Mistress of a convent and father as an
astrologer in Chennai. Yogesh studied in
two English medium schools. Then he
joined Sadvidya High School for 8<sup>th</sup> standard. In 9<sup>th</sup> standard, in one of the
tests, the boy did not perform well. The
school authorities asked him to bring the parents to the school. Parents wanted to see the progress
report. Yogesh refused to go the
school. The concerned parents tried for
admission in other English medium schools, but in vain. On 03-09-2014, Yogesh joined Kaliyuva
Mane. Due to fine emotional atmosphere, this
year, he has passed SSLC examinations securing 72% aggregate. We heartily congratulate him and wish him a bright
future! </div>
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<u>RURAL CHILDREN PASS IN ENGLISH MEDIUM: <o:p></o:p></u></div>
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<u>Basavaraju J.V. (16
years)</u>: Both the parents of
Basavaraju are uneducated and belong to Gujjegowdana pura. They belong to a BPL family. On 21-05-2013, Basavaraju joined Kaliyuva
Mane after completing 7<sup>th</sup> standard from a rural school, but was lagging behind in studies too much. Now he has passed SSLC examinations securing 61.3%
aggregate. We heartily congratulate him
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<u>Shankar S. (16
years)</u>: Shankar’s parents are
slightly educated and belong to Gumachana halli on HD Kote road. On 02-06-2014, Shankar joined Kaliyuva Mane
after completing 9<sup>th</sup> standard from another school in Kannada
medium, but was lagging behind in studies. Now Shankar has passed SSLC examinations
securing 60% aggregate marks. We heartily congratulate him and wish him a
bright future!</div>
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<u>Santosh C. (16
years):</u> Santosh’s parents are not
educated and belong to Kenchalagudu village.
Santosh is a first batch student of Kaliyuva Mane. Now he has passed SSLC examinations securing
53% aggregate marks. We heartily congratulate him and wish him a bright future!</div>
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<u>Ravi Kumara S.
(16 years,8 months) : </u> Ravi’s parents
are not educated and belong to a rural area.
Ravi completed 7<sup>th</sup> standard from a Kannada medium rural
school, but was lagging behind in studies. Later he joined Kaliyuva Mane on
07-06-2013. Now Ravi has passed SSLC
examinations securing 50% aggregate marks.
We heartily congratulate him and wish him a bright future!</div>
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<u>Santosh N. (18 years): Santosh’s p</u>arents are illiterates and
belong to Srirampura village. He was studying in a rural school. As he could not cope up with the expected
pace of learning, he started going to school once in a while. His parents brought him to Kaliyuva Mane on
17-07-2009. After a year, Santosh was
taken to AIISH for an assessment. His IQ
is 79. His mental age was much 3 years less than his physical age of 12
years. His academic level was at 1<sup>st</sup>
standard. He was dyslexic also. Now he has passed in all other subjects
except English. We help him to succeed in the next attempt. </div>
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<u>Chandra S. (18 years, 9 months): </u> Chandra’s parents are illiterates and belong
to Kenchalagudu village. He passed 5<sup>th</sup> standard from a rural school,
but was not in a position to identify Kannada alphabets properly. In 2008, at an age of 11 years, Chandra
joined Kaliyuva Mane. One day, at Kaliyuva
Mane, teachers noticed that Chandra struggling with vision.
Chandra was taken to JSS for eye testing. He has a very rare eye defect, known as
NYSTAGMUS, which cannot be completely rectified by spectacles. (Difficulty in fixation of eye ball) In 2010, he was taken to AIISH for an
assessment. According to the report his
IQ is 100, but his academic level was at 1<sup>st</sup> standard. He is a dyslexic child. Now he has failed in Science and Social
Science. We help him to succeed in the next attempt.</div>
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<u>Arun R. (18 years) : </u> Arun’s parents belong to Kollegala. Father works as a lorry driver, mother works
in a flour mill. Arun completed 8<sup>th</sup>
standard from two schools in Kollegala, but could not cope up with
studies. His parents brought him to
Kaliyuva Mane on 23-05-2012. He was
taken to AIISH for an assessment. His IQ
was 100, but suffered from an academic lag of 6 years. He was at an academic level of 3<sup>rd</sup>
standard. Now he has failed in Science
and Mathematics. We help him to succeed in the next attempt.</div>
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<u>Swastic P. (17 years, 9
months): </u>Swastic’s parents are
educated and belong to middle class family.
Swastic studied in 3 different English medium schools, but could not
cope up with the pace of teaching. His parents brought him to Kaliyuva Mane on
15-05-2013. He had completed 9<sup>th</sup>
standard from St. Thomas School. He was
taken to AIISH for an assessment. His IQ
was 100, but suffered from an academic lag of 8 years. He was at an academic level of 1<sup>rd</sup>
standard. He was a dyslexic child. Now he has failed in Science, Social Science
and English. We help him to succeed in the next attempt. </div>
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<u>Mahesh M.K. (18 years): </u>Maehsh’s
parents are from Mellahalli. They belong
to a rural BPL farming community. Mahesh
studied up to 4<sup>th</sup> standard and dropped out. He joined Kaliyuva Mane on 15-05-2011. He was 13 years old.
He knew only to write his name in Kannada. Now he has passed in all the subjects except
Science. We help him to succeed in the next attempt.</div>
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<u>Teja N. (16 years): </u>Teja’s parents are from Kenchalagudu. They belong to a BPL family.
Teja has failed in Science and English. We help her to succeed in the next attempt. </div>
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KALIYUVA MANE (The home for Learning) is a unique place for learning which houses an entirely different way of education. The Student Formula team of NIE, FORCE IKSHVAKU got an opportunity to conduct a workshop for the children studying here. We decided to teach them about evolution of engines and some basic concepts of physics. The reason for taking this topic was to educate the kids on the evolution of physics and to change the perspective of the kids about science. We being a motorsports team, bringing in the concepts of cars, bikes was also an agenda of the workshop.</div>
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The team members started preparing for the workshop under the guidance of senior members two weeks before the scheduled date. The time was sufficient for us to prepare but still there was a sense of doubt, since it was the first time for the team members that they had done something of such kind. But the eagerness to make the workshop a success by properly delivering all the intended concepts made us to work harder, sometimes even bunking our classes. Different topics were distributed among the team members and an attempt was made to include experiments associated with all the topics.</div>
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They started asking questions about us and our college. When we were interacting with them, we got to know that regular academic system is not followed here and the mantra here was ‘Learning with the Nature’. The class had different age groups of children studying together. They were divided into groups like Maithri, Prathibha, Shraddha unlike the normal classes. The challenge for us was to convey the concepts in a justifiable way, as some of the elder students in the class could grasp the concepts faster compared to the younger. </div>
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We interacted with them and tried to know their intuitions by playing a small game. Later, we started our sessions and the topics were dealt wit<span style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;">Few Questions where asked in between to know if our purpose was being served. We discussed about internal combustion </span>engines with the eldest children among them, separately, and tried to clear all their doubts by showing the models, videos and some practical demonstrations. This small session helped them to prepare better for the upcoming exams. The session was good and we got an appreciable response. A dismantled engine was used to explain them the parts and working; and the kids enjoyed this hands on experience with the engine. Demonstrations were given on the working of steam engine which caught the attention of everyone. Intermediate questionnaires, video demonstrations made the entire session lively. </div>
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The whole event was arranged and co-ordinated by the senior members in the team. It was new experience for most of us and we learnt a lot of things; and it was a beautiful experience to take back home. We hope that the main objective of getting them in touch with ‘science’ was accomplished. All the team members were inspired and whole morality of the team was boosted by seeing the enthusiastic children, who were interested in automobiles. </div>
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This was just the start. After this workshop, the entire team is motivated to continue this in the future, in different schools around Mysuru, spreading the knowledge of science and automobiles. At the end of the day children were happy and we spent a quality time with kids. The experience was cherishable and helped our team to reach a new standard among other teams. </div>
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<b>FORCE IKSHVAKU</b> is thankful to <b>KALIYUVA MANE </b>and <b>DIVYA DEEPA</b> for giving us such an opportunity.</div>
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<b><u>Team members who handled the workshop:</u></b></div>
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<i>Shreenidhi Nayak N- Team Captain- +91 9902546918 , Rajath Mallya P. , Ajay N. R, Manoj Hegde,Sreevatsa P. S, Adithya N. Kumar , Adarsh Savanth ,Kenneth Fernandez,Vishwith V. M, Naseel ,Sinan, Kiran H. L, Mukunth Krishna, Lavanya Gowda, Arun Raj, Vikhyath, Malavika</i></div>
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ಕಲಿಯುವ ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಹೋಳಿ ಆಚರಣೆ</div>
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ಯವ ಚೇತನಗಳ ಮಮಕಾರ,</div>
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ಇದೇ ದಿವ್ಯದೀಪದ ಆಗರ....</div>
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ಇದೇ ಭಗವಂತನ ಹುನ್ನಾರ...!</div>
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ಬಣ್ಣಗಳಿಗೆ ತನ್ನದೇ ಆದ ಪ್ರಾಮುಖ್ಯತೆ ಇದೆ. ಬಣ್ಣ ವೆಂದರೆ ಯಾರಿಗೆ ತಾನೇ ಇಷ್ಟವಿಲ್ಲ ಹೇಳಿ?? ಈ ಜಗತ್ತೆ ಒಂದು ಬಣ್ಣದ ಲೋಕ. ನೀಲಾಕಾಶ, ಹಸಿರು ಕಾನನ, ಶ್ವೇತ ಪರ್ವತ, ಕೆಂಪು ಗುಲಾಬಿ, ಕಿತ್ತಲೆ ಸೂರ್ಯ, ಹಳದಿ ಸೂರ್ಯಕಾಂತಿ, ಹೀಗೆ ಎಲ್ಲವೂ ವರ್ಣಮಯವಾಗಿಯೇ ಇದೆ.</div>
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ಹೂವುಗಳು ಆ ಬಣ್ಣಗಳ ವಾರಸುದಾರರಂತೆ..... ಬಣ್ಣಗಳ ಬಟ್ಟೆ ಧರಿಸಿ , ಸುವಾಸನೆಯ ಸೂಸುತ್ತ ದುಂಬಿಯನು ಆಕರ್ಷಿಸುವ ಹೂವಿನ ಸೌಂದರ್ಯವನ್ನ ಬಣ್ಣಿಸಲಾಗದು..... ಅದರಂತೆಯೆ ತಮ್ಮ ಮುಗ್ದ ಮನಸ್ಸಿನ ಮೂಲಕ ತುಂಟ ಸ್ವಭಾವದಿ, ಶುದ್ಧ ಹೃದಯದಿಂದ ನಮ್ಮನ್ನು ಆಕರ್ಷಿಸುವ ಮಕ್ಕಳು ಹೂವುಗಳಂತೆಯೆ..... </div>
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ಸಪ್ತವರ್ಣಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಸುಪ್ತವಾಗಿರುವ ಗುಪ್ತಭಾವನೆಗಳ ಹೊರಹಾಕುವ, ಬಣ್ಣ ಬಣ್ಣದಲಿ ದೇಹವು ಮಿಂದು ಮೆರೆಯುವ ಹಬ್ಬ ಕಾಮದಹನದ ಹಬ್ಬ.... ಭಾರತೀಯರ ಬಣ್ಣದ ಹಬ್ಬ.... ಅದೇ ಹೋಳಿ.....</div>
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ಹೀಗಿರುವಾಗ ದಿವ್ಯದೀಪ ಚಾರಿಟೆಬಲ್ ಟ್ರಸ್ಟ್ ನಡೆಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ಸುಮಾರು ೧೨೦ ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗೆ ಉಚಿತವಾಗಿ, ಉತ್ತಮ ರೀತಿಯ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣವನ್ನು ನೀಡುತ್ತಿರುವ ಪ್ರಾಯೋಗಿಕ ಶಾಲೆಯಾದ ನಮ್ಮ ಕಲಿಯುವ ಮನೆಯ ಮಕ್ಕಳು ಮಾತ್ರ ಸುಮ್ಮನೆ ಇರಬೇಕೆ?</div>
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ಅಲ್ಲೂ ಸಹ ಹೋಳಿಯನ್ನು ಆನಂದದಿಂದ ಆಚರಿಸಲಾಯಿತು....<br />
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ಶುಕ್ರವಾರ, ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನ. ೧೨ ಗಂಟೆ. ರಕ್ಷಿತ್ ಮತ್ತು ಇನ್ನು ಹಲವರು ಕಲಿಯುವ ಮನೆಗೆ ಬಂದರು. ಅಂದು ಹೋಳಿ ಹಬ್ಬವನ್ನು ಆಚರಿಸುವ ಸಲುವಾಗಿ ಅಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಬಂದಿದ್ದರು. </div>
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ತರಗತಿಗಳು ಇನ್ನು ನಡೆಯುತ್ತಿದ್ದವು. ಹೋಳಿಯಾಡಲು ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರಿಗೂ ಹೇಳಿದ್ದ ಸಮಯ ೨ ಗಂಟೆ. ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಇನ್ನು ಕೆಲ ಸಮಯವಿತ್ತು. ಪೂರ್ವ ತಯಾರಿಗೆಂದು ಇವರೆಲ್ಲರು ಬಂದಿದ್ದರು.</div>
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ಎರಡು ಡ್ರಂಗಳನ್ನು ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಂಡು ಅದರ ತುಂಬ ನೀರನ್ನು ತುಂಬಿಸಿದರು. ತಾವು ತಂದಿದ್ದ ಬಣ್ಣವನ್ನು ಅದರಲ್ಲಿ ಹಾಕಿದರು. ನಂತರ ಬಂದ ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಬಣ್ಣಗಳನ್ನು ಆ ನೀರಿಗೆ ಹಾಕಿ ಅದನ್ನು ಬಣ್ಣದ ನೀರನ್ನಾಗಿ ಮಾಡಿದರು. ಇನ್ನು ಅದನ್ನು ಎರಚಾಡುವುದೊಂದೇ ಬಾಕಿ. </div>
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ಕಲಿಯುವ ಮನೆಯ ಬಸ್ಸನ್ನು ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರನ್ನು ಕರೆತರಲು ಎನ್ ಐ ಇ ಕಾಲೇಜಿಗೆ ಕಳುಹಿಸಲಾಯಿತು. ಬಸ್ ಅಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ತಲುಪಿದಾಗ ೨:೧೫. ಆಗಲೇ ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಹತ್ತರಿಂದ ಹದಿನೈದು ಜನ ಸೇರಿದ್ದರು. ಇಂದ್ರೇಶ್ ,ಬಿಂದು, ವೈಭವ್ ಶಿವಶರಣ್ ಮುಂತಾದವರೆಲ್ಲರೂ ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಇದ್ದರು. ಬಸ್ ಬಂದೊಡನೆಯೆ ಎಲ್ಲರು ಬಸ್ಸನ್ನು ಏರಿದರು. ಅವರ ಹತ್ತಿರವು ನಾಲ್ಕು ರೀತಿಯ ಬಣ್ಣಗಳಿದ್ದವು ತಲಾ ಒಂದೊಂದು ಕೆಜಿಯವು. ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಸಹ ಬಣ್ಣಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಮೀಯಲು ಕಾತರರಾಗಿದ್ದರು. ಕೆಲವರು ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ತಕ್ಕಂತೆ ಬಟ್ಟೆ ಯನ್ನು ಹಾಕಿಕೊಂಡು ಎಲ್ಲಾ ರೀತಿಯಲ್ಲು ತಯಾರಾಗಿದ್ದರು. </div>
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ಬಸ್ ಮತ್ತೆ ಕಲಿಯುವ ಮನೆಗೆ ಬಂದಾಗ ೨:೪೦. ನೋಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದಂತೆ ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ಆಶ್ಚರ್ಯ. ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಆಗಲೇ ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಹೋಳಿ ಆಡಲು ಶುರು ಮಾಡಿದ್ದರು. ಮಕ್ಕಳಂತೂ ಎಲ್ಲ ಕಡೆಯೂ ಓಡಾಡುತ್ತ ಕೂಗುತ್ತ, ಸಂತಸದಿಂದ ನೀರನ್ನು ಒಬ್ಬರ ಮೇಲೊಬ್ಬರು ಎರೆಚುತ್ತ, ಬಣ್ಣದಲ್ಲಿ ಸ್ನಾನ ಮಾಡಿದವರಂತಿದ್ದರು. </div>
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ಬಸ್ ಬಂದು ನಿಂತದ್ದೆ ತಡ..... ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಮಕ್ಕಳು ಬಸ್ಸನ್ನು ಸುತ್ತುವರಿದರು. ಬಾಗಿಲನ್ನು ತೆಗೆದು ಇಳಿಯುತ್ತಿದ್ದಂತೆ ಬಣ್ಣ ಹಾಕಲು ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಮಕ್ಕಳು ಸಿದ್ಧರಿದ್ದರೆ, ಬಣ್ಣದ ನೀರನ್ನು ತಲೆಯ ಮೇಲೆ ಸುರಿಯಲು ಇನ್ನು ಕೆಲವರು ತಯಾರಿದ್ದರು. ಬಸ್ಸಿನಲ್ಲಿದ್ದವರಿಗಂತು ಅದು ಅದ್ಭುತ ಸ್ವಾಗತದಂತಿತ್ತು. ಬಾಗಿಲನ್ನು ತೆಗೆಯಲು ಸಹ ಬಿಡುತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ. ಅವರ ಬಣ್ಣ ಹಾಕುವ ಆತುರ ನೋಡಿದರೆ ಬಸ್ಸಿನೊಳಕ್ಕೆ ಬಂದು ಹಾಕುವಂತಿದ್ದರು. ಅಷ್ಟು ಜೋಷ್ ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಆ ಮಕ್ಕಳನ್ನು ನೋಡಲು ಬಹಳ ಸಂತಸವಾಗುತ್ತಿತ್ತು. </div>
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ಒಬ್ಬೊಬ್ಬರಾಗಿ ಬಸ್ಸಿನಿಂದ ಕೆಳಗಿಳಿಯ ತೊಡಗಿದರು. ಇಳಿಯುತ್ತಿದ್ದಂತೆ ಅವರ ದೇಹದ ಬಣ್ಣ ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣ ಬದಲಾಯಿತು. ಬಸ್ಸಿನಲ್ಲಿದ್ದವರು ಇವರೇನ!! ಎನ್ನುವಂತೆ ಬದಲಾಗಿದ್ದರು. ಎಲ್ಲರು ಬಸ್ಸಿನಿಂದ ಇಳಿದರು. ಎಲ್ಲರ ಕಥೆಯು ಅಷ್ಟೆ. ಒಬ್ಬರಿಗೊಬ್ಬರ ಗುರುತು ಸಿಗದಂತಾಗಿತ್ತು. </div>
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ನಂತರ ಮಕ್ಕಳು ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರು ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಒಟ್ಟಾಗಿ ಸೇರಿ ಬಣ್ಣಗಳ ಓಕುಳಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮಿಂದು, ಹಸಿರು ಕೆಂಪು ನೀಲಿ ಹಳದಿ ನೇರಳೆ ಮುಂತಾದ ಬಣ್ಣದಲಿ ರಾರಾಜಿಸುತ್ತ ನೀರನ್ನು ಎರೆಚುತ್ತ ಹೋಳಿಯ ಸಂಭ್ರಮಾಚರಣೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ತೊಡಗಿದರು.</div>
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ಅನಂತ್ ಸರ್ ಸಹ ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಜೊತೆ ಮಕ್ಕಳಾಗಿ ಅವರ ಸಂತೋಷದಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾಗಿಯಾದರು. ಮನಸಿನ ನಗು ಹೃದಯದ ಮೂಲಕ, ಹೃದಯದ ನಗು ಬಣ್ಣಗಳ ಮೂಲಕ ವ್ಯಕ್ತವಾಗುತ್ತಿತ್ತು.<br />
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ಸದಾ ಕಡು ಬಡತನವನ್ನೇ ಕಂಡಿದ್ದ, ಕಪ್ಪು ಬಿಳುಪಲ್ಲೆ ಬೆಳೆದಿದ್ದ ಆ ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಬಾಳಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಅಂದು ಬಣ್ಣದ ದಿನ. ಅವರ ಮೊಗದಲ್ಲಿನ ನಗುವಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಸಪ್ತವರ್ಣ ಗಳು ವ್ಯಕ್ತವಾಗುತ್ತಿತ್ತು. ಕತ್ತಲೆಯ ಕೂಪದಲ್ಲಿ ಬೆಳೆದಿದ್ದ ಅವರಿಗೆ ಬಣ್ಣಗಳ ಬೆಳಕು ನವ ಚೈತನ್ಯವನ್ನು ನೀಡಿದವು. ಇದೇ ಹೋಳಿಯ ನಿಜವಾದ ಅರ್ಥ.</div>
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ಯಾವ ಶಾಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ರೀತಿ ಹೋಳಿ ಆಡಲು ಬಿಡುತ್ತಾರೆ ಹೇಳಿ. ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗಾಗಿ ಶಾಲೆಯಂಬುದು ಅದಕ್ಕಾಗಿಯೇ. ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಬೇರೆಲ್ಲಕ್ಕಿಂತ ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಆನಂದವೇ ಮುಖ್ಯ. </div>
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ದೇಹದ ಮೇಲಿದ್ದ ಬಣ್ಣಕ್ಕಿಂತ ಅವರ ಕಣ್ಣುಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾಣುತ್ತಿದ್ದ ಬಣ್ಣವು ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರಲ್ಲಿ ಸಾರ್ಥಕತೆಯ ಭಾವವನ್ನು ಮೂಡಿಸಿತು. </div>
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ಮಕ್ಕಳೆಲ್ಲರು ಅಂದು ಬಣ್ಣ ಬಣ್ಣದ ಹೂವುಗಳಾದರೆ, ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರು ಅವರನ್ನ ಆರಿಸಿ ಬಂದಿದ್ದ ದುಂಬಿಗಳಾಗಿದ್ದರು. ಒಂದು ವ್ಯತ್ಯಾಸವೇನೆಂದರೆ. ದುಂಬಿಗಳು ಮಕರಂದವನ್ನು ಹೀರಲು ಬಂದಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಮಕರಂದವನ್ನು ನೀಡಲು ಬಂದಿದ್ದವು.<br />
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ಹೀಗೆ ಆಡುತ್ತ ಆಡುತ್ತ ಡ್ರಂನಲ್ಲಿದ್ದ ನೀರೆಲ್ಲವು ಖಾಲಿಯಾಗಿತ್ತು.ನಂತರ ಬರೀ ನೀರನ್ನು ತಂದು ಎರೆಚಾಡಲು ಶುರು ಮಾಡಿದರು. ಹೀಗಿರುವಾಗ ಅದಾರಿಗೆ ಹೊಳೆಯಿತೊ ಗೊತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ. ಖಾಲಿಯಿದ್ದ ಡ್ರಂ ನೊಳಗೆ ಹುಡುಗಿಯರನ್ನು ಹಾಕಿ, ಅವರ ಮೇಲೆ ನೀರನ್ನು ಸುರಿದು, ಅವರಿಗೆ ಹೊಡೆಯುವುದು. ನಂತರ ಡ್ರಂ ಮುಚ್ಚಳ ಮುಚ್ಚಿ ಡ್ರಂ ಗೆ ಹೊಡೆಯುವುದು, ಡ್ರಂ ಉರುಳಿಸುವುದು ಹೀಗೆ ಮಾಡುತ್ತ, ಮೋಜಿನಿಂದ ಆ ದಿನವನ್ನು ಕಳೆದರು. ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರಿಗಂತು ಅದು ಬಹಳ ಮಜಬೂತಾಗಿತ್ತು. ಆದರೇ ಬರೀ ಹುಡುಗಿಯರನ್ನೇ ಏಕೆ ಹಾಕಿದರು ಎಂಬುದು ಹುಡುಗಿಯರಿಗೆ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಯಾಗಿತ್ತು:). </div>
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ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗು ಜಾಮೂನ್ ಅನ್ನು ನೀಡಲಾಯಿತು. ಆ ನಂತರ ಸ್ಪೀಕರ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ಹಾಡು ಹಾಕಿ ಕೆಲಕಾಲ ಕುಣಿದರು. ಮಕ್ಕಳನ್ನು ಹೆಗಲ ಮೇಲೆ ಹೊತ್ತು ಫೋಟೊ ತೆಗೆಸಿಕೊಂಡರು, ಕೊನೆಗೆ ಕಲಿಯುವ ಮನೆಯ ಮುಂದೆ ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಗುಂಪಾಗಿ ಸೇರಿ ಗುಂಪು ಫೋಟೊ ತೆಗೆಸಿಕೊಂಡರು. ಚಂದನ್ ಆ ದಿನದ ಛಾಯಾಗ್ರಾಹಕನಾಗಿದ್ದ.</div>
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ಅಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಆ ದಿನ ಪೂರ್ಣವಾಗಿತ್ತು. ಆದರೆ ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣವಾಗಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಏಕೆಂದರೆ ಅಂದು ಒಬ್ಬ ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕಿ ಮೋನೀಷ್ ನ ಹುಟ್ಟುಹಬ್ಬ. ಅದನ್ನುಮಕ್ಕಳ ಜೊತೆ ಆಚರಿಸಲು ಎಲ್ಲರು ಕಾಯುತ್ತಿದ್ದರು. ಆಕೆ ಇನ್ನು ಬಂದಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಮೋನೀಷ್ ಬಂದ ತಕ್ಷಣ ಆಕೆಗು ಬಣ್ಣ ವನ್ನು ಹಚ್ಚಿ ಅವಳ ಬಣ್ಣವನ್ನು ಬದಲಾಯಿಸಿದರು. ನಂತರ ವಾಹಿನಿಗೆ ಕರೆದೊಯ್ದುರು ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಕೇಕ್ ಕತ್ತರಿಸಿ ಹುಟ್ಟುಹಬ್ಬ ಆಚರಿಸಲಾಯಿತು. ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗೆಲ್ಲರಿಗು ಕೇಕ್ ನೀಡಲಾಯಿತು. ನಂತರ ಮತ್ತೊಂದು ಕೇಕ್ ಅನ್ನು ಆಕೆಯ ಕೈಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕತ್ತರಿಸಿ ಅದನ್ನು ವಾಲಂಟಿಯರ್ಸ್ ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಂಡರು. ತಂದಿದ್ದ ಮಂಚ್ ಚಾಕೊಲೇಟ್ ಅನ್ನು ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ನೀಡಲಾಯಿತು.<br />
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ಅಂತು, ಬಣ್ಣ ಹಚ್ಚುವ ಮೂಲಕ ಶುರುವಾಗಿದ್ದ ದಿನ ಸಿಹಿಹಂಚುವ ಮೂಲಕ ಕೊನೆಗಂಡಿತು. ಮಕ್ಕಳೆಲ್ಲರು ಬಸ್ಸಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಮನೆಗೆ ತೆರಳಿದರು. ಅವರ ಜೀವನದಲ್ಲಿ ಅದೊಂದು ಬಣ್ಣದ ದಿನ. ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರು ಸಹ ಅಲ್ಲಿಂದ ತೆರಳಿದರು. </div>
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ಅದೇ ರೀತಿ ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಬ್ಬ ಮಗುವು ಸಹ ಸೂರ್ಯನಾಗಿ ಬೆಳಕನ್ನು ನೀಡುವಂತಾಗಲಿ ಎಂದು ಆಶಿಸೋಣ. ಆಗ ಜಗತ್ತು ಎಂದೆಂದೂ ವರ್ಣಮಯವಾಗಿರುತ್ತದೆ. <br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> ಅಂದು ಫೆಬ್ರುವರಿ ೨೦, ಶನಿವಾರ. ಕೆಂಚಲಗೂಡು ಗ್ರಾಮದಲ್ಲಿರುವ ದಿವ್ಯದೀಪ ಚಾರಿಟೇಬಲ್ ಟ್ರಸ್ಟ್ ನಡೆಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ಕಲಿಯುವ ಮನೆ ಎಂಬ ಪ್ರಯೋಗಾತ್ಮಕ ಶಾಲೆಗೆ ಹಲವಾರು ದ್ವಿಚಕ್ರ ವಾಹನಗಳು ಬಂದವು. ಸುಮಾರು ಏಳೆಂಟು ಜನ ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರು ಅಂದು ಅಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಬಂದಿದ್ದರು. ಆಗ ಸಮಯ ೭:೩೦. ಆ ಹೊತ್ತಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಕಲಿಯುವ ಮನೆಗೆ ಸಹಜವಾಗಿ ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರು ಬರುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಆದರೆ ಅಂದು ಬರಲು ಒಂದು ವಿಶೇಷ ಕಾರಣವಿತ್ತು. ಮಾರನೆ ದಿನ ನಡೆಯುವ ಕ್ರೀಡಾ ದಿನೋತ್ಸವದ ಪೂರ್ವತಯಾರಿಗಾಗಿ ಅವರೆಲ್ಲರೂ ಅಲ್ಲಿ ನೆರೆದಿದ್ದರು. ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರೆಂದರೆ ಮತ್ತಾರೂ ಅಲ್ಲ. ಸಮಾಜದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಕಳಕಳಿ ಬೆಳೆಸಿಕೊಂಡಿರುವ, ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಮೇಲೆ ಅನುಕಂಪವಿರುವ, ಕೆಚ್ಚೆದೆಯ ಯುವಕ ಯುವತಿಯರು- ಇಂಜಿನಿಯರಿಂಗ್ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳು.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">ಆಗ ಅಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಬಂದವರು- ವಾಧಿರಾಜ್,ಮೋನೀಶ್, ಇಂದ್ರೇಶ್, ಬಿಂದು ಮತ್ತೆ ರಕ್ಷಿತ್. ಅವರು ಅಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಬಂದಾಗ ಕೆಲವು ಮಕ್ಕಳು ಆಟವಾಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದರು, ಇನ್ನು ಕೆಲವು ಮಕ್ಕಳು ಮಾತನಾಡುತ್ತ ಕುಳಿತಿದ್ದರು. ಇವರೆಲ್ಲರೂ ಅಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಬಂದದ್ದನ್ನು ನೋಡಿ ಅವರಿಗೆ ಆನಂದವೋ ಆನಂದ. ಇವರ ಹತ್ತಿರ "ಅಣ್ಣ, ಅಕ್ಕ" ಎನ್ನುತ್ತ ಬಂದು ತಬ್ಬಿಕೊಂಡವು. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">ಈ ಐವರು ಕೆಲವು ಕಾಲ ಮಕ್ಕಳೊಂದಿಗೆ ಆಟವಾಡುತ್ತ, ಮಾತನಾಡುತ್ತ, ರಂಜಿಸುತ್ತ ಕಾಲ ಕಳೆದರು. ೯ ಗಂಟೆಯ ಹೊತ್ತಿಗೆ ಸಂಕೇತ್ ಮತ್ತು ವೈಭವ್ ಇವರನ್ನು ಕೂಡಿಕೊಂಡರು. ನಂತರ ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಒಟ್ಟಾಗಿ ಭೋಜನ ಮಾಡಿದರು.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> ಊಟದ ನಂತರ ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ತಾವು ಬಂದ ಮುಖ್ಯ ಕಾರ್ಯವನ್ನು ಮಾಡಲು ತಯಾರಾದರು. ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಗುರು ಕುಟೀರ ಎಂಬ ಸ್ವಯಂ ಸೇವಕರ ಕೊಠಡಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸೇರಿದರು. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> ಹಿಂದಿನ ದಿವಸ ಮೋನಿಶ್, ಅಭಿಷೇಕ್, ಇಂದ್ರೇಶ್ ಮತ್ತೆ ಬಿಂದು ಮನ್ನಾಸ್ ಮಾರ್ಕೆಟ್ ಮತ್ತೆ ಸಯ್ಯಾಜಿ ರಸ್ತೆಗೆ ಹೋಗಿ ಹಲವಾರು ಗಿಫ್ಟ್ ಗಳನ್ನು ತಂದಿದ್ದರು; ಆಟದಲ್ಲಿ ಗೆಲ್ಲುವ ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗೆ ಕೊಡುವುದಕ್ಕೋಸ್ಕರ. ಆ ಉಡುಗೊರೆಗಳನ್ನೆಲ್ಲ ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿ ಬಣ್ಣ ಬಣ್ಣದ ಕಾಗದದಲ್ಲಿ ಕಟ್ಟಿದರು. ಉಡುಗೊರೆಯ ಪ್ಯಾಕಿಂಗ್ ಮುಗಿದ ಮೇಲೆ ಮಾರನೆ ದಿನ ನಡೆಯುವ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮದ ವೇಳಾಪಟ್ಟಿ ಸಿದ್ಧವಾಗಬೇಕಿತ್ತು. ಐದು ನಿಮಿಷ ವಿರಾಮವನ್ನು ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಂಡು ಮತ್ತೆ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡಲು ಅನುವಾದರು.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">ಕಲಿಯುವ ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಉಳಿದ ಶಾಲೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿರುವಂತೆ ೧,೨... ಎಂದು ತರಗತಿಗಳಿಲ್ಲ. ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಬುದ್ಧಿಮತ್ತೆಗೆ ತಕ್ಕಂತೆ ಹಲವಾರು ಗುಂಪುಗಳಾಗಿ ವಿಂಗಡಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. ತುಂಬ ಚಿಕ್ಕ ಮಕ್ಕಳು ಚಿಲಿಪಿಲಿ ಗುಂಪಿಗೆ ಸೇರುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಹಾಗೆ ಚಿಗುರು, ಚೇತನ, ಪೂರ್ಣ, ಪ್ರತಿಭಾ, ಪ್ರಜ್ಞಾ ಮತ್ತು ಶ್ರದ್ಧಾ ಎಂಬ ಹಲವಾರು ಗುಂಪುಗಳಿವೆ. ಮೈತ್ರಿ ಎಂಬ ಗುಂಪು ಹತ್ತನೇ ತರಗತಿಯದ್ದಾಗಿರುತ್ತದೆ. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> ಈಗ ಆ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಗುಂಪಿನ ಮಕ್ಕಳನ್ನು ಕ್ರೀಡಾ ದಿನಕ್ಕೋಸ್ಕರ ನಾಲ್ಕು ಗುಂಪಾಗಿ ( ಎ ಬಿ ಸಿ ಡಿ) ವಿಭಜಿಸಲು ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರು ತೀರ್ಮಾನಿಸಿದರು. ಪ್ರತಿ ಗುಂಪಿನಲ್ಲೂ ಹುಡುಗರದ್ದೊಂದು ಹುಡುಗಿಯರದ್ದೊಂದು ತಂಡಗಳನ್ನು ಮಾಡಿದರು. ಟೀಮ್ ಎ ಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮೈತ್ರಿ ಮತ್ತೆ ಶ್ರದ್ಧಾ ಗುಂಪಿನವರು, ಟೀಮ್ ಬಿ ಹುಡುಗರ ತಂಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಜ್ಞಾ ಮತ್ತೆ ಪೂರ್ಣ ಗುಂಪಿನವರು ಟೀಮ್ ಬಿ ಹುಡುಗಿಯರಲ್ಲಿ ಚೇತನ ಮತ್ತೆ ಪ್ರತಿಭಾ ಗುಂಪಿನವರು, ಟೀಮ್ ಸಿ ಹುಡುಗರಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರತಿಭಾ, ಚೇತನ, ಚಿಗುರು ಗುಂಪಿನವರು, ಟೀಮ್ ಸಿ ಹುಡುಗಿಯರಲ್ಲಿ ಚೇತನ ಮತ್ತೆ ಚಿಗುರು ಗುಂಪಿನವರು, ಟೀಮ್ ಡಿ ಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣವಾಗಿ ಚಿಲಿಪಿಲಿಯ ಮಕ್ಕಳು, ಹೀಗೆ ಮಕ್ಕಳು ಆಡಲು ಅನುಕೂಲವಾಗುವಂತೆ ನಾಲ್ಕು ತಂಡಗಳಾಗಿ ವಿಂಗಡಿಸಿದರು. ನಂತರ ಮಾರನೆ ದಿನ ನಡೆಯಬೇಕಾದ ಎಲ್ಲ ಆಟೋಟಗಳ ವೇಳಾಪಟ್ಟಿಯನ್ನು ಸಿದ್ಧಪಡಿಸಿದರು.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> ಫೆಬ್ರುವರಿ ೨೧, ಭಾನುವಾರ. ಕಲಿಯುವ ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕ್ರೀಡಾದಿನೋತ್ಸವ. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> ವಾಧಿರಾಜ್ ಮತ್ತೆ ಬಂದಾಗ ಬೆಳಗಿನ ಜಾವ ೫:೩೦. ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಆರಾಮಾಗಿ ನಿದ್ರಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದರು. ಈತ ೫:೪೫ ರ ತನಕ ಸುಮ್ಮನೆ ಮಲಗಿದ್ದ. ಅವರೆಲ್ಲರೂ ಎದ್ದೇಳಲಿ ಎಂದು ಕಾಯುತ್ತಿದ್ದ. ಮೊದಲು ರಕ್ಷಿತ್ ಎಚ್ಚರಗೊಂಡ. ಮುಖ ತೊಳೆದು ವಾಧಿ ಕೊಟ್ಟ ಬಿಸ್ಕೇಟ್ ಅನ್ನು ತಿಂದ. ಅವನಿಗೆ ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಹುಷಾರಿಲ್ಲದಂತಿತ್ತು. ನಂತರ ಬಿಂದು, ಅಮರೇಶ್ ಇಂದ್ರೇಷ್, ಸಂಕೇತ್, ಅಚ್ಯುತ್, ದೀಪಕ್, ಮಹೇಶ್, ವರದರಾಜ್ ಚಂದನ್ ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಕ್ರಮವಾಗಿ ಎದ್ದರು. ತಮ್ಮ ದಿನನಿತ್ಯದ ಕಾರ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ಮುಗಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು ಕೆಲಸಕ್ಕೆ ಅನುವಾದರು. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> ೬:೩೦ ರ ಹೊತ್ತಿಗೆ ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಮೈದಾನಕ್ಕಿಳಿದು ಅದನ್ನು ಸ್ವಚ್ಛಮಾಡಲಾರಂಭಿಸಿದರು. ನಂತರ ನೀರನ್ನು ಚಿಮುಕಿಸಿ ಒಂದು ಹದ ಮಾಡಿ, ಟ್ರ್ಯಾಕ್ ಅನ್ನು ಎಳೆದರು.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> ಅಷ್ಟು ಬೆಳಿಗ್ಗೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗೋಸ್ಕರ ಕೆಲಸವನ್ನು ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿರುವುದು ಅವರಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಅನುಕಂಪ, ಸೇವಾ ಮನೋಭಾವ ಮತ್ತು ಬಡ ಗ್ರಾಮದ ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಮೇಲಿನ ಪ್ರೀತಿಯನ್ನು ಬಿಂಬಿಸುತ್ತಿತ್ತು. ತಮ್ಮ ಕಾರ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ಬದಿಗಿಟ್ಟು ಇತರರನ್ನು ತಮ್ಮವರೆಂದುಕೊಂಡು ದುಡಿಯುತ್ತಿರುವ ಆ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳಿಗೆ ಒಂದು ಸಲಾಮ್. ಭಾರತಮಾತೆ ಬಯಸುವುದು ಇಂತಹ ಮಕ್ಕಳನ್ನೇ. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> ೯:೧೫ ಕ್ಕೆ ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ತಿಂಡಿಯನ್ನು ಸೇವಿಸಿದರು. ಪುಳಿಯೊಗರೆಯನ್ನು ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಇಷ್ಟಪಟ್ಟು ತಿಂದರು. ನಂತರ ಗುಂಪು ಆಟಗಳಾದ ವಾಲಬಾಲ್, ಕೋ ಕೋ, ಕಬಡ್ಡಿ ಗಳ ವಿಜೇತರಿಗೆ ಕೊಡಲು ಉಡುಗೊರೆಗಳನ್ನು ತರಲು ವಾಧಿರಾಜ್ ಮತ್ತೆ ಆಗ ತಾನೆ ಬಂದಿದ್ದ ತನುಜ್ ಸಪ್ನ ಬುಕ್ ಹೌಸ್ ಗೆ ಹೋದರು.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> ಅದೇ ಸಂದರ್ಭಕ್ಕೆ ಶಾಲಾ ವಾಹನ ಆಗಮಿಸಿತು. ಮಕ್ಕಳೆಲ್ಲರೂ ಭಾನುವಾರದ ದಿನದಂದು ಶಾಲೆಗೆ ಬಂದಿದ್ದರು. ಬಸ್ ನಿಂದ ಇಳಿಯುತ್ತಿದ್ದಂತೆ ಎಲ್ಲರ ಮುಖದಲ್ಲೂ ಮಂದಹಾಸ. ಅಲ್ಲಿ ನೆರೆದಿದ್ದ ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರ ಹತ್ತಿರ ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಓಡಿದರು. ಅವರಲ್ಲೂ ಅಷ್ಟೆ. ಯಾರಿಗೋಸ್ಕರ ತಾವು ಅಷ್ಟು ಹೊತ್ತಿನಿಂದ ಕಾದಿದ್ದರೊ, ಯಾರಿಗೋಸ್ಕರ ತಯಾರಿಗಳನ್ನು ನಡೆಸಿದ್ದರೊ ಆ ಮಕ್ಕಳನ್ನು ಕಂಡಾಗ ಎಲ್ಲರ ಮುಖದಲ್ಲೂ ಸಂತೋಷ. ತಮ್ಮ ಹತ್ತಿರ ಬಂದ ಮಕ್ಕಳನ್ನೆಲ್ಲ ಒಂದು ಕಡೆ ಒಟ್ಟಾಗಿ ಸೇರಿಸಿದರು. ಹಿಂದಿನ ದಿನ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದ ನಾಲ್ಕು ಟೀಮ್ ಗಳ ಅನುಸಾರ ಮಕ್ಕಳನ್ನು ಬೇರ್ಪಡಿಸಿದರು. ೧೦:೧೫ ರ ಹೊತ್ತಿಗೆ ನಾಲ್ಕು ತಂಡಗಳು ಅದರಲ್ಲಿನ ಮಕ್ಕಳು, ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರು ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಕ್ರೀಡಾ ದಿನಕ್ಕೆ ಸಿದ್ಧರಾಗಿದ್ದರು. ಬಸ್ ಉಳಿದ ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರನ್ನು ಕರೆತರಲು ಹೊರಟಾಗಿತ್ತು. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> ಮತ್ತೆ ಬಸ್ ಬರುವ ವೇಳೆಗೆ ಹಲವಾರು ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರು ಕಲಿಯುವ ಮನೆಗೆ ಬಂದಿದ್ದರು. ಬಸ್ ಬಂದಾಗ ೧೦:೩೦. ಎಂಟು ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರನ್ನು ಅದು ಕರೆತಂದಿತ್ತು. ನಂತರ ಹೊಸದಾಗಿ ಬಂದ ಎಲ್ಲರನ್ನು ಒಂದು ಕಡೆ ಸೇರಿಸಲಾಯಿತು. ನಾಲ್ಕು ತಂಡಗಳಿಗೆ ಅನುಸಾರವಾಗಿ ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರನ್ನು ಬೇರೆ ಬೇರೆಯಾಗಿ ವಿಂಗಡಿಸಿ ಅದರ ಉಸ್ತುವಾರಿಯನ್ನು ನೀಡಲಾಯಿತು. ೧೧ ರ ಸಮಯಕ್ಕೆ ಕ್ರೀಡಾದಿನಕ್ಕೆ ಚಾಲನೆ ದೊರೆಯಿತು.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> ನಂತರ ಟೀಮ್ ಸಿ ಹುಡುಗಿಯರಿಗೆ ಓಟದ ಸ್ಪರ್ಧೆ, ಕಪ್ಪೆ ಓಟ, ಲೆಮೆನ್ ಆನ್ ದ ಸ್ಪೂನ್ ಆಡಿಸಲಾಯಿತು. ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಬಹಳ ಸಂತೋಷದಿಂದ ಆಟದಲ್ಲಿ ಪಾಲ್ಗೊಂಡರು. ನಂತರ ಟೀಮ್ ಬಿ ಹುಡುಗಿಯರಿಗೆ ಓಟದ ಸ್ಪರ್ಧೆ, ಗೋಣಿಚೀಲದ ಓಟ, ಲೆಮೆನ್ ಆನ್ ದ ಸ್ಪೂನ್ ಆಡಿಸಲಾಯಿತು. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> ಬಿಸಿಬೇಳೆಬಾತ್ , ಬೂಂದಿ , ಚಪಾತಿ ಪಲ್ಯ, ಬಾಳೆಹಣ್ಣುಗಳನ್ನು ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಚಪ್ಪರಿಸಿ ತಿಂದರು. ಊಟದ ಮಾಡುವಾಗ ಎಲ್ಲರಲ್ಲೂ ಇದ್ದದ್ದು ಒಂದೇ ಭಾವ. ಅದೇ ಸಂತೋಷ, ಆನಂದ.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> ನಂತರ ಹುಡುಗರಿಗೆ ಕಬಡ್ಡಿಯನ್ನು ಆಡಿಸಿದರು, ಅದೇ ಸಮಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಹುಡುಗಿಯರಿಗೆ ಕೋ ಕೋ ವನ್ನು ಆಡಿಸಲಾಯಿತು. ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರು ಬೇಕಾಗದ ಕಾರಣ ಕೆಲವರು ವಿಶ್ರಾಂತಿ ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತಿದ್ದರು. ಮೋನಿಷ್, ಇಂದ್ರೇಷ್ ಮಾತ್ರ ಕೊಂಚವೂ ವಿಶ್ರಾಂತಿ ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳದೆ ಕ್ರೀಡೆಗಳನ್ನು ಆಡಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದರು. ಯೋಜನೆಯ ಯಶಸ್ವಿಯು ಅವರನ್ನು ಮತ್ತೂ ಉತ್ತೇಜಿಸಿತ್ತು. ಅಂಜನ, ಸಾಯಿಚರಣ್ ಮತ್ತೆ ಸ್ಮೃತಿ ಗುರು ಕುಠೀರದಲ್ಲಿ ಆಟದಲ್ಲಿ ಗೆದ್ದ ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗೆ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ ಪತ್ರ ಬರೆಯುವುದರಲ್ಲಿ ನಿರತರಾಗಿದ್ದರು. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> ಇತ್ತ ವಿಜೇತರಿಗೆ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ ಪತ್ರಗಳೆಲ್ಲವೂ ಸಿದ್ಧವಾಗಿದ್ದವು. ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರು ಸಹ ಬೆಳಿಗ್ಗೆಯಿಂದ ದಣಿದಿದ್ದರಿಂದ ಕೆಲ ಕಾಲ ವಿಶ್ರಾಂತಿ ಪಡೆದರು.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> ೩:೪೦ ರ ಸಮಯಕ್ಕೆ ಸರಿಯಾಗಿ ಎನ್ ಐ ಇ ಕಾಲೇಜಿನ ದೈಹಿಕ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣಾಧಿಕಾರಿಯಾದ ಹೆಚ್ ಎನ್ ಶಂಕರನಾರಾಯಣರವರು ಆಗಮಿಸಿದರು. ಅವರು ಕ್ರೀಡಾ ದಿನೋತ್ಸವದ ಮುಖ್ಯ ಅತಿಥಿಯಾಗಿ ಆಗಮಿಸಿದ್ದರು. ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರು ಮತ್ತು ಮಕ್ಕಳು ಅರವಿಂದು ಹಾಲ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ಉಪಸ್ಥಿತರಾದರು. ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಆ ದಿನದ ಸಮಾರೋಪ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮ ಪ್ರಾರಂಭವಾಯಿತು. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> ಶಂಕರನಾರಾಯಣರು ಸ್ಪರ್ಧೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಜೇತರಾದವರಿಗೆ ಬಹುಮಾನ ವನ್ನೂ, ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ ಪತ್ರವನ್ನು ನೀಡಿದರು. ಅದನ್ನು ನೀಡಬೇಕಾದರೆ ಇಡೀ ಸಭಾಂಗಣ ಮಕ್ಕಳ ದನಿ, ಚಪ್ಪಾಳೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ತುಂಬಿ ತುಳುಕಾಡುತ್ತಿತ್ತು. ಎಲ್ಲರಲ್ಲೂ ಹರ್ಷೋದ್ಗಾರ. ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಮುಖದಲ್ಲಿ ಮುಗ್ಧ ಆನಂದ. ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರಲ್ಲಿ ಸಾಧಿಸಿದ ಆನಂದ, ಕ್ರೀಡಾ ದಿನೋತ್ಸವವನ್ನು ಯಶಸ್ವಿ ಯಾಗಿ ನೆರವೇರಿಸಿದ ಆನಂದ. ಒಟ್ಟಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಎಲ್ಲವೂ ಸಂತಸಮಯ. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> ನಂತರ ಶಂಕರನಾರಾಯಣ್ ರವರು ಒಂದೆರಡು ಮಾತುಗಳನ್ನಾಡಿದರು. ಅದರಲ್ಲಿ ಅವರು ಕಲಿಯುವ ಮನೆಯನ್ನು, ಅದಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಸೇವೆ ಸಲ್ಲಿಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರನ್ನು ಮುಕ್ತ ಕಂಠದಿಂದ ಶ್ಲಾಘಿಸಿದರು. ನಂತರ ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ಸಿಹಿ ಹಂಚುವ ಮುಖಾಂತರ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮ ಯಶಸ್ವಿಯಾಗಿ ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣವಾಯಿತು.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರೆಲ್ಲರು ವಾಹಿನಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸೇರಿದರು. ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಅವರಿಗೆ ಕೃತಜ್ಞತಾ ಪತ್ರವನ್ನು ನೀಡಲಾಯಿತು. ಅಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಆ ದಿನವೂ ಎಲ್ಲರ ಮನದಲ್ಲಿ ಮರೆಯಲಾಗದ ದಿನವಾಗಿ ಮೂಡಿತು.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಹಿಂದಿರುಗಿದರು. ಆದರೆ ಮತ್ತೇ ಬರಲೇಬೇಕಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಏಕೆಂದರೆ ಮಾಡಬೇಕಾದ ಕೆಲಸಗಳು ಇನ್ನೂ ಸಾಕಷ್ಟಿದೆ. ಸದೃಢ ಭಾರತ ನಿರ್ಮಾಣವಾಗಬೇಕಿದೆ</span></span></div>
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writing 10</span><sup style="line-height: 115%;">th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> standard examinations this year.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">So, on last Saturday, we, the teachers and children
were travelling to one of the girl's home.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">After travelling
for about 30 kms, she asked us to park our vehicles on the roadside.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Further,
the road was not motorable.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We started
walking.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">That was my first visit to a
slum.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> She</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> took us to her mansion!</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Her father was in another alcoholic world. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Her mother hurriedly borrowed two or three
mats from neighbours and spread them on the uneven ground, which was cleaned
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">All of us entered her house bowing our heads, to save our
heads. We sat on the mats and there was
no space left! Putting up a brave smile on her face, the girl’s mother welcomed
us. Knowing about our visit, she had piled up all their belongings in a corner and camouflaged it with a
bed sheet. Of course there was no
toilet. They used the nearby canal for
washing all. One incandescent bulb was hanging which was tapped directly from
an electric post. Many curious visitors
were looking at us from the opening of the house. Someone told us, “Badavara mane, Enu tilko
bedi” [Poor people’s house, do not feel bad]
Someone else added, “Avarige gottide, Adakkee bandiddare”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thanks to the power of advertising! Pepsi and Fanta have entered slums also. Mother opened a Fanta family bottle and
poured it into plastic tumblers. She
served us Good day biscuits and Bananas also.
Some woman narrated how girl's father does not care for the
family. He visits house once in a
blue moon. Mother often becomes a victim
of domestic violence and the children silent spectators to this violence. Mother told us, how she has left all the three
children in 3 different free hostels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">While coming back, the mother accompanied us. Some youth gave us curious stares, some
indifferent ones. It was
getting darker and with a heavy heart and a pensive mood, we left the
place. While coming back our Teja’s
remark broke the silence. “Brother, when
I grow and become a police, I will construct houses for all these people” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">About girl's Eduacation: She studied in three Government
schools and finally bid good bye to school.
She worked as a child labour in Bengaluru, first as a child care taker
and secondly as a domestic help for about two years. Then she came home and started helping her
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free hostel run by an NGO and joined another Government school, only to drop
out after a few months. In November 2012, another NGO brought the girl to
Kaliyuva Mane- a free non-formal quasi-residential school. The girl was around 13 years old. She did not have any educational documents
like Birth certificate, Transfer certificate or progress report. At Kaliyuva Mane she started learning from
alphabets and numbers. This year, the girl has appeared for 10<sup>th</sup> standard public examinations in English medium
through another recognized school. Thanks
to the excellent emotional ambience at Kaliyuva Mane which has changed the
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girl to learn? As per RTE Act, the girl could have joined age appropriate 8<sup>th</sup>
standard in any Government school. But
will such children be able to comprehend the lessons? Is it possible for the teacher to pay special
attention and start teaching alphabets and numbers to children like this girl among
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OUT OF SYSTEM/SCHOOL children? Can you please share, share & share this
blog with your friends till it opens the eyes of our policy makers: including housing
minister and human resource development minister Smt. Smriti Irani. Should RTE give only ‘Right to Schooling’ or ‘Right
to Education’ also? Don’t you feel every educated person with values is an
asset to his/her country in particular and to the world at large? Our Education Minister Sri Kimmane Rathnakar
has instructed the Commissioner, Department of Public Instructions, Bengaluru
to take necessary action to grant approval to Kaliyuva Mane as a ‘school’. But the Commissioner has written back to
DDPI, seeking clarification, whether there is a precedence of giving approval
for such a non-formal school. DDPI is
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You are aware that natural resource and human
resource are the two vital ingredients for the development of any country. India has both in abundance. (Human resource
in potential form!) Education is the
tool which transforms ordinary human beings into human resource. Knowing this, the Government of India has
rightly brought into force, ‘The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory
Education Act’ (RTE). I have given below
brief profiles of 6 children, who have remained out of the ambit of education
system. As a citizen of India, I ask you
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<b>Profile 1:</b> The name of the girl is Bhuvaneshwari. [Name changed on request from the child] She stays in Ekalavyanagara [impoverished
colony] on the outskirts of Mysore city.
She belongs to Scheduled caste. Her
father is an alcoholic addict. Both her
parents are illiterates. The atmosphere
at home is not congenial for studies.
Father does not stay with the family always; some days he comes
home. Mother often becomes a victim of
domestic violence and the child, a silent spectator to this violence. Bhuvaneshwari studies in three Government
schools and finally bids good bye to school.
She works as a child labour in Bengaluru, first as a child care taker
and secondly as a domestic help for two years.
She does not like both the jobs, comes home and starts helping her
mother. Thanks to the efforts of her
relative, she again joins a free hostel run by an NGO and joins another
Government school, only to drop out after a few months. She does not have any educational documents
like Transfer certificate or progress report.
She does not have birth certificate either. She is approximately 13 years old now. As per RTE Act, she can join any free
Government school again and sit in age appropriate class. But without prerequisites and unable to
follow the lessons, she will drop out from that school also. Is it possible for
a teacher to do justice for such a child, without compromising on the interests
of rest of the children? <b>Where is the school for this girl to learn? RTE gives such children right to schooling,
but not right to education!</b>] <o:p></o:p></div>
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Trust’ spotted her and decided to build her future by admitting her into a free
residential school. Thus, she landed up
in ‘Kaliyuva Mane’, a free residential Non-formal school and gained interest
for studies. At present, she is
preparing to face the coveted 10<sup>th</sup> standard public examinations this
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<b><u>Profile 2:</u></b> Swastic is the only child to their parents. Both his parents are educated. Father is a Government employee. Parents
belong to an economically middle class family.
Swastic’s parents own a car. They
know the importance of education. So,
Swastic joins a reputed English medium school. Unfortunately, he cannot cope up with the
rigour of the mainstream schools and always lags behind in studies. The child undergoes humiliation at the school.
Concerned parents change the school
twice, but in vain. Thanks to the prevailing
education policy, he completes 9<sup>th</sup> standard from St. Thomas School,
Mysuru. But his educated parents know
the truth about the academic level of their son. They become apprehensive about their only son
passing 10<sup>th</sup> standard examinations. The boy is 15 year old. Otherwise, he is mentally sharp. <b>But</b>
<b>where is the school for this boy to learn? </b>There is a film for the dyslexic but not a school ! <b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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brought him to Kaliyuva Mane (Kaliyuva=learning, Mane=Home) in April 2013. School staff members advised the parents to get
the assessment of the boy done by Clinical Psychiatrist of AIISH. According to the report, Swastic’s
IQ is 100, but academic level is 1<sup>st</sup> standard. Is the boy mentally retarded? No, the child
is dyslexic. (Learning disability) Because
of the fine emotional environment at the school, he starts learning. He is preparing to face the coveted 10<sup>th</sup>
standard public examination this year. He has some difficulty in learning languages.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u>Profile 3: </u></b>Manu hails
from Mellahalli located on Bannur road, on the outskirts of Mysuru. Both the
parents are illiterates and belong to rural BPL Scheduled tribe family. Manu is the second son. Farming is the family profession. Manu completes 1<sup>st</sup> standard from a
rural Government Kannada medium school.
He loses interest in the studies and drops out from the school due to
multiple reasons such as inherent disinterest, rote teaching methods, lack of
guidance at home, fear of punishment at schools etc. Manu starts helping his parents in farming and
taking care of the cows. In the
meantime, Manu's uncle Shivalingu, an illiterate who had learnt reading and
writing attending literacy classes, motivates Manu to continue his
studies. But, Manu does not know
anything else except to write his name in Kannada. He is now 13 years old. <b>Where is the school for this boy to learn? How much can he learn in one year as RTE
covers only children of age range 6-14?</b> At least 6 months’ time is needed for him to
regain the lost enthusiasm for studies. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Mane. In April 2012, at an age of 18
years, he passed 10<sup>th</sup> standard examinations in English medium. Then he underwent a training course at CIPET. Now he is employed in an extruder company in
Bengaluru. Inspired by Manu’s success,
his brother Mahesh, a 4<sup>th</sup> standard school dropout also has joined Kaliyuva
Mane. Mahesh is preparing to face the 10<sup>th</sup>
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<b><u>Profile 4:</u></b><u> </u> Both the parents of Nitin are post graduates. [The
boy’s name has been changed on his request.] Their qualification is M.A.,
B.Ed. Both have teaching
experience. Currently the boy’s father
is a practicing astrologer in Tamilnadu.
Nitin’s mother is the head mistress of a convent. Parents belong to a middle class family. They own a car also. The boy studies in English medium private
schools. He always passes with ‘A’
grade. But in 8<sup>th</sup> standard
his parents admit him to one of the reputed schools of Mysuru, viz Sadvidya
High school. Surprisingly, the boy’s
academic performance starts declining. He
progresses to 9<sup>th</sup> standard. In
one of the routine academic tests, the boy fails. The school authorities ask him to bring his
parents to the school. His parents
demand school progress report. The boy is
in a dilemma. One day, he does not
return home. His parents are worried. Finally his parents trace him. The boy refuses to go to the same school
after that incident. The boy is 14 years
old now. It is September month. His parents approach 3 more private English
medium schools. Unfortunately they
refuse admission for this boy. <b>‘Where
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Nitin’s parents brought him to Kaliyuva Mane.
Due to a very healthy emotional environment prevailing at that school,
the boy was happy and so started learning.
He is preparing to face the 10<sup>th</sup> standard examinations this
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a rural scheduled caste BPL family. His mother rolls Agarbathis and works as a
domestic help for a living. So Prajwal joins a rural private Kannada medium
school. Though Prajwal’s mother is an
illiterate, she determines to give good education to her son. The boy passes 5th standard and enters 6th
standard. But the child lags behind too
much in studies. So, Prajwal is brought
to Kaliyuva Mane. The school, conducts
an informal test to find out the academic level of the child. Performance of the boy in this test is
dismal. Then the child is taken to
AIISH for an authentic assessment. As
per the report, his IQ is found to be 100, but academic level 2<sup>nd</sup> standard. The boy is now 11 years old. The boy is mentally sound, not dyslexic, but
has an academic lag of 3 years. According
to the report, he shows academic difficulties that needs to be addressed by
evolving a learner paced, individualized activity oriented program. <b>‘Where is such a school for this boy to
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admission to this child. The school
arranges bus pass free of cost for the boy. In 2015, the child’s mother joins garment industries. So the boy joins the school as a resident
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<b><u>Profile 6:</u></b><b> </b>Sridhar belongs to Harohalli village
which is 25 Kms. from Mysuru city. His
father is an illiterate and works as a coolie. His mother works as a teacher in
Anganawadi. His parents belong to
scheduled caste rural BPL family. He
joins a close by Government school, but struggles to learn there. So he loses interest in lessons, starts indulging
in cross-talking. This disturbs
teachers’ concentration. Agitated
teachers scold him and sometimes punish him.
Lacking in prerequisites, the child fails to understand subsequent
lessons. The boy remains in the
classrooms out of compulsions. Teachers
don’t have any other option except to promote him to next higher standards
every year. Somehow he completes 7<sup>th</sup>
standard. His mother is aware that his
son cannot read even 1<sup>st</sup> standard Kannada lessons. He is now 13 years old. <b>‘Where is the school for this boy to
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his mother brought Sridhar to Kaliyuva Mane, in April 2014. The school staff
members took him to AIISH for a psychological assessment. As per the report, he was functioning at the
level of Mild Mental Retardation. He had
50% intellectual disability and learning disability. His mental age was 4 years less than his
physical age of 13 years. His IQ was 68.
Due to healthy emotional environment prevailing at the school, Sridhar enthusiastically
started coming to the school regularly.
He can read Kannada lessons reasonably well now. He
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Respected Minister, do
you know how many such ‘OUT OF SCHOOL/SYSTEM CHILDREN’ are there in India at
present? As per Annual Status of
Education Report, more than 50% of children studying in rural schools suffer
from an academic lag of minimum 3 years. Any educated person with social concern can
authenticate this. It is not right blaming
the children/parents/schools/teachers/Education officers for this. The problem lies with our Education system,
which considers all children as machines with equal efficiency, designed to learn
a predetermined textual content within a stipulated period, at a predetermined speed.
As long as children learn happily this way, there is no problem. When this does not happen, problems crop up. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Respected Madam, the fact is that children
have varied emotional sensitivities, varied learning interests and varied learning
pace. So, many mentally normal children are
unable to reach the grades in regular schools.
But these ‘Out of school/system children’ also belong to this world. Don’t
you feel the education of 50% of rural children is important? Every educated person with values is an asset
to his country in particular and to the world at large. Don’t you feel when a photo does not fit into
a frame, a new frame has to be designed to suit the photo? Don’t you feel a new education system functioning
on the philosophy, ‘school for CHILDREN’ rather than ‘children for SCHOOL’ is
essential for the development of these ‘OUT OF SCHOOL/SYSTEM CHILDREN’? <o:p></o:p></div>
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I have attached some details about Kaliyuva
Mane, a free non-formal school where all these children are learning now, along
with 100 such children. It is an irony
of the system, that this school which has gone beyond RTE Act, in giving educational rights to the childsren, lacks formal recognition
as a ‘School’ and faces plenty of hurdles
from the education department. I request,
invite and urge you to visit this village school. Who knows, you may find a new way of
educating rural kids and training teachers. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Divyadeepahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13417275185863458886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636358867828852747.post-41435370980699257542015-08-12T08:11:00.000-07:002015-08-12T08:48:11.145-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An open letter to the Prime
Minister</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">RTE gives only the right to schooling, </span></span></u></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">not right to
education to these children <o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Respected Hon’ble Prime Minister,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On 15th August 2015, we will be
celebrating 69<sup>th</sup> Independence Day.
It is the time to celebrate, pay tributes to all heroes who got us this
precious freedom and to rededicate ourselves for the development of India. On this occasion, we would like to highlight
a problem which has remained a hurdle in the path of development of our
nation. We also offer a possible solution
to remove this hurdle!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Natural resources and human resources
are two vital ingredients required for the development of any nation. Fortunately India has both in abundance. Education is the tool to transform normal
human beings into human resource. Every
educated Indian with values is an asset to India in particular, and to the world
at large. Keeping this in mind, ‘The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory
Education Act’ (RTE) was formulated. But,
‘Is this Act giving Right to education to all children? Or is it giving only
right to schooling? With the examples of 3 children, we are
writing this letter to you. We request
you to read and act. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Name of the boy is Prajwal and his age
is 11 years. The boy’s father is not
alive. Boy’s mother lives with her child in a small house. Mother rolls Agarbathis and works as a
domestic help for a living. Seeing the
plight of the lady, house owner comes forward to sponsor Prajwal’s
education. So Prajwal joins a private
Kannada medium school. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mother loves her son very much. Though she is an illiterate, she determines
to give good education to her son. She
takes care to see that her son goes to school regularly. The boy passes 5<sup>th</sup> standard and
enters 6<sup>th</sup> standard. In
spite of this, boy’s academic level is found to be at 2<sup>nd</sup>
standard. Mother is not aware of this
fact. Is the child mentally
retarded? No, the boy’s IQ is 100. Is this boy dyslexic? No. According to the clinical psychiatrist of All
India Institute of Speech and Hearing, teachers’ pace of teaching should match
the pace of learning of the child. But,
where is such a school? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sattwik is a 15 year old boy. (Name changed) He is a student of 9<sup>th</sup>
standard in a reputed English Medium school in Mysore. Both his parents are
educated. Father is a Government
employee. Parents belong to an
economically middle class family. Sattwik’s parents own a car. Sattwik is their only child. But unfortunately, Sattwik could not cope up
with the rigour of the mainstream schools.
He always used to lag behind in studies.
The child was subjected to humiliation at the school. Concerned parents
changed the school twice. But it was not
useful. Is the boy mentally retarded?
No. He is bright. As per the report of the clinical
psychiatrist of All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, his IQ is 100. But his
academic level is at 1<sup>st</sup> standard.
The child is dyslexic. (learning disability) Where is the school for this boy to learn?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The name of the girl is Maheshwari. [Name changed] She stays in a slum on the outskirts of
Mysore city. Father is an alcoholic
addict. Both the parents of Maheshwari
are illiterates. The atmosphere at home
is not at all congenial for studies.
Father does not stay with the family always; some days he comes home. Mother often becomes a victim of domestic
violence and the child, a silent spectator to this violence. Maheswari studies in three Government schools
and finally bids good bye to school. She
works as a child labour in Bengaluru, first as a child care taker and secondly
as a domestic help for two years. She
does not like both the jobs, comes home and starts helping her mother. Thanks to the effort of her relative, she
again joins a free hostel run by an NGO and joins another Government school,
only to drop out after a few months.
Now Maheshwari is 13 years old. She
does not have any educational documents like Transfer certificate or progress
report. She does not have birth
certificate either. But another NGO spots her and decides to build
her future by admitting her into a school.
But where is the school for this girl to learn?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As per RTE Act, this child can join any
age-appropriate standard in any Government school, free of cost. So this child can join 8<sup>th</sup>
standard in a mainstream school. But is
it possible for the child to understand lessons? If the girl is integrated with other 8<sup>th</sup>
standard children, is it possible for the teachers to teach alphabets and
numbers to this girl? Will the child not
drop out from this school also, unable to comprehend the lessons? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mainstream education system expects all
children to learn a predetermined textual content within a stipulated period,
in a certain way and at a predetermined pace.
As long as children learn happily this way, there is no problem. When
this does not happen, problems crop up.
When a child cannot learn, she/he loses interest in the class, starts
indulging in cross-talking. This
disturbs the teacher’s concentration. An
agitated teacher fails to do justice to her/his profession. Lacking in prerequisites, the child fails to
understand subsequent lessons. This has
a cascading effect. Such a child either
drops out of the school or remains in the school out of compulsions. Teachers are pressurized to promote such
children also to the next higher standards, irrespective of the children’s
success in learning. This practice,
which is in vogue, has deprived such children of learning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is alarming to note that more than
50% of the children who are attending rural schools are suffering from a minimum
3 years of academic lag. As per Annual
Status of Education Report 2014, 51.9% of the 5<sup>th</sup> standard children
are not in a position to comfortably read 2<sup>nd</sup> standard mother tongue
text book; 73.93% of the children cannot do a simple 3 digit by one digit
division sum. RTE Act gives them Right
to schooling; will it give these children Right to learn? So we request you to amend this Act suitably
so that each child gets an opportunity to learn. A new education system should come into force
which reaches out to these ‘OUT OF SCHOOL/SYSTEM CHILDREN’ also. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Presently all the three children are
learning in our free non-formal school along with 100 more children. Our school works on the philosophy, ‘school
for CHILDREN, rather than ‘children for SCHOOL’. Two of the children cited as examples are
preparing to face the coveted 10<sup>th</sup> standard public examinations,
this year. We are trying to create a
successful education model for such ‘OUT OF SCHOOL/SYSTEM CHILDREN’ through
this school. A new education system is evolving here! The
Hon’ble Education Minister of Karnataka has already instructed the
Commissioner, Department of Public Instructions to take necessary steps to
grant recognition to this school. We are
eagerly waiting for the recognition. So
there is a possible solution to this problem. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We hope, this letter catches your
positive attention and your Government takes suitable steps to amend the RTE
Act, so that it becomes a Right to Education Act in a true sense. We listen to your ‘Man ki baath’. We also request you to listen to ‘Hamara (common
man’s) man ki bath’ and opportunity deprived children’s man ki bath. We cordially invite you to our school, located
in a village. Jai Hind! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">M.R. Ananth Kumar</span></div>
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<a href="mailto:divyadeepa.trust@gmail.com"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">divyadeepa.trust@gmail.com</span></a></div>
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Mane education system, click on the link below: </span></div>
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Divyadeepahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13417275185863458886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636358867828852747.post-87997773044489672292015-06-14T15:12:00.001-07:002015-06-14T15:12:31.317-07:00Success story of Manu<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We are very happy to share this
success story. Manu of Vivek group who successfully
underwent training at CIPET, Mysore was selected in the campus interview. He will be joining an Extruder company at
Bengaluru shortly. Total emoluments
include <span style="font-family: "Rupee Foradian","sans-serif";">`</span>11,000/- + Free food and accommodation. After 3 months he will be eligible for PF and
ESI benefits. Here is Manu’’s brief profile:</div>
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Manu belongs to an economically
backward, rural family. His parents are
illiterates. He belongs to a farming
community. (ST) Due to inherent
disinterest in studies, lack of proper guidance and due to rote methods
followed in the mainstream schools, he
dropped out of the Government school after completing 1<sup>st</sup> standard
and started helping his parents. In
2007, at an age of 13 years he joined Kaliyuva Mane – an alternative school for
opportunity deprived children, to find his future. There was no hope of schooling for him elsewhere. Only thing he knew was to write his name in
Kannada. He has a simple name too! In 2012, he passed 10<sup>th</sup> standard
examination with flying colours. </div>
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He joined laboratory technician’s
course. Though he was good at work
practically and the hospital team
appreciated his dedication and work, he found
it too difficult to complete two theory papers.
He joined Central Institute of Plastic Technology and underwent
training. Now at an age of 21, he is a self-reliant citizen of India. This is the aim and dream of Kaliyuva Mane –
to transform rural opportunity deprived children into self-reliant citizen of
India. </div>
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Manu is a soft spoken person with
steely determination. His hobbies
include marathon running and playing cricket.
He has learnt cooking. He takes
care of cows too! With his amicable personality, we are
confident that he will do well in any activity.
We wish him a bright future!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">For learning an
uncluttered mind is necessary. Love
& Care are essential ingredients for an uncluttered mind. Little freedom to explore things, freedom to
fail and learn - are very necessary for the overall development of a
child. But uncontrolled freedom may be
detrimental to the growth of a child.
Such a child may become an anti-social element later. According to psychologists, Love and Control
are both necessary for the healthy growth of a child.</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. This special place has been constructed
by children and volunteers of Kaliyuva Mane.
This may not look beautiful, but it is the product of enthusiasm and
hard labour. So it is priceless.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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court. A water proof petition box made
from eco-chip board has been placed in the court. Those who seek justice can drop the petition
in this box. For the time being,
teachers play the role of the judge. Gradually children will be trained to take
this role. Judge will hear views of both the parties, collect relevant
information from the witnesses and deliver the verdict. Following transformation modes are (
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Divyadeepahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13417275185863458886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636358867828852747.post-91621985209003397742015-05-12T15:19:00.001-07:002015-05-12T15:20:00.107-07:00It is 100% again !<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today 10<sup>th</sup> standard
results are out. We are extremely
delighted to share our joy. All
the 8 children from ‘Chinmayi’ team, who had appeared for the exams from
‘Kaliyuva Mane’ have emerged with flying colours, four of them securing first
class<b>. 7 of the 8 children belong to rural SC/ST families. Few did not have any school at all to learn!</b>
Each one of them has crossed social/ economic /educational /emotional hurdles
successfully and reached the goal.</span></span></div>
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the children have passed in English medium taking Kannada as first language,
English as second language & Sanskrit as third language. As Kaliyuva Mane still lacks recognition as a
school, children had appeared as private candidates for the coveted
examinations. So they were deprived of
20% internal assessment marks, instead they had answered questions for
additional 20 marks. </span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is the brief profile of each of them!</span></span></span></h2>
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Taluk. The boy lost his father a few
months ago. Mother is a housewife. She
has studied up to 8<sup>th</sup> standard.
The boy belongs to a rural poor family.
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standard in a mainstream Kannada medium school. The boy was good at sports. So, he was admitted to Sports school at
Chamundi Vihar stadium, Mysore as a resident scholar. He won state level prizes in Athletics. Afterwards he was admitted to Coorg Sports School
as a resident scholar. The boy could not
adjust to the school. He was
academically lagging behind. He did not
progress in the field of sports also. Somehow, he managed to complete one year
there. Then he dropped out of the
school. He was staying at home for one
year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then the boy’s mother came across
an article about Kaliyuva Mane in a newspaper. The boy was sent to Clinical Psychologist of
All India Institute of Speech & Hearing, Mysore for assessment. According to the report, he was a dyslexic
boy. Though his IQ was 100, his academic level was
4<sup>th</sup> standard. He joined Kaliyuva Mane as a day scholar in
August 2012 and as a resident scholar in 2013.
He regained his lost enthusiasm for studies at Kaliyuva Mane. Now he has successfully completed SSLC
examination. He did not utilize the
benefits, he was eligible for, such as exemption from studying two additional
subjects and additional one hour in exams etc.
He took the exams like a normal boy. He owes his success to healthy emotional
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examination in <b>SECOND</b>
class. (56%)</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Swamy S.</b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (</span><b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">16 years</b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) hails from Bogadhi. Father has passed 7</span><sup style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
standard. Mother has not gone any formal
school. The child belongs to rural Below
Poverty Line family. Father does
gardening work in various houses (temporary job). Mother is housewife and is maintaining a fragile
health. The boy completed 7</span><sup style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once by coincidence his father
happened to work in a house, whose owner happened to be an office bearer of
Rotary Club West. This noble hearted
lady sympathized with the child and was instrumental for the boy’s admission
into Rotary West School, Kuvempunagar.
But, due to lack of pre-requisites, the boy could not cope up with the
studies there. So, as per the
advice of the same lady, the boy’s
father admitted his son to Kaliyuva Mane, as a day scholar in 2012. In 2013, he joined Kaliyuva Mane as a
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from Mellahalli village. Father did not
go to any formal school, but learnt reading and writing from Divyadeepa. So he knew the importance of educating a girl
child. He is a farmer. Girl’s mother is a housewife. The girl
belongs to a rural BPL family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The girl’s father admitted her to
a rural private English medium school in his village. The girl studied there up to 7<sup>th</sup>
standard. The school did not get permission to start 8<sup>th</sup>
standard. Urban English medium schools
demanded a huge donation for a seat in their schools. So girl’s father brought his daughter to
Kaliyuva Mane. She joined Kaliyuva Mane
as a resident scholar in 2013.</span></div>
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standard examinations securing <b>FIRST</b> class. (69%)</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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BPL family. In 2003, the girl’s parents
migrated to Kenchalgudu village from Kollegala.
The factory, where the child’s father was working, closed down. The girl’s father was jobless for more than 6
months. One of the well-wishers of Divyadeepa introduced the family to Kaliyuva
Mane. Child’s father started working at Divyadeepa. In 2005, the girl joined Kaliyuva Mane as a
day scholar. The girl has not attended
any other formal school. Currently, the
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standard. The child belongs to a rural
BPL family. The child’s father works in
a private factory. The boy completed 2<sup>nd</sup>
standard from a mainstream Kannada medium school. Because his friends had joined Kaliyuva
Mane, the child also expressed the desire to join Kaliyuva Mane. So the child’s mother brought Manju to
Kaliyuva Mane in 2007 and the boy joined as a day scholar. In 2010, the boy joined Kaliyuva Mane as a
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standard. The boy’s mother has not gone
to any formal school. The child belongs to a Scheduled caste Below Poverty Line
family. Both the parents work as labourers.
(Temporary job) The boy had completed 7<sup>th</sup> standard from a rural
mainstream Kannada medium school. </span> <br />
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centric school, Kaliyuva Mane. So his
father brought him to Kaliyuva Mane in 2012.
We noticed that he had an
academic lag of minimum 3 years. In
2014, he joined as a resident scholar. Now the boy has passed the 10<sup>th</sup>
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standard from a rural mainstream Kannada medium school. He was finding it
difficult to cope up with studies. So
he requested his father to put him at Kaliyuva Mane. So the
boy joined Kaliyuva Mane in 2010 as a day scholar. Now he has passed SSLC. </span></div>
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patrons of Divyadeepa, to our dedicated teachers, and to our enthusiastic
volunteers. </b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Holi Hai !!!</span></b><br />
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Holi is one of the major festivals of India and is the most vibrant
of all. The festival is filled with so much fun and frolic that the very
mention of the word<span class="text_exposed_show"> 'Holi' draws smile
and enthusiasm amongst the people. Children particularly enjoy this
festival to drench people from far and escape further drenching.</span><br />
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On March 8th, we the volunteers called 'vayam redefined' at Divya Deepa
Charitable Trust planned an informal event of celebrating holi at our
school Kaliyuva Mane. More than 60 volunteers from different colleges in
the city including Sri Jayachamaraja College of Engineering, NIE, GSSS
Engineering College, Mysore Medical College, Acharya institute of
technology - bengaluru, P.E.S college of engineering – Mandya, Acharya
institute of technology, etc turned out to celebrate the festival of
colours with the children.<br />
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Celebrations began in the school
playground. The volunteers arrived in the school bus just to get hit by
the water missiles on the very first foot set on the ground. We then
spent the next 3 hrs smearing each other with colours. Black, red, pink,
yellow, blue etc all coloured fancy faces were like the theme for the
day. Then the fun took a leap forward with the throw of water filled
balloons; just to start with. It eventually turned out to be the fall of
water filled buckets.<br />
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As the colours seem to end, we danced to
the loud beats of music. Dancing with kids gives the joy of freedom,
takes all the shyness away cause the kids challenge you with that very
notion of "do you think you can dance even though your this bad?” We
danced all the way long from Naagin dance to the very Lungi dance.<br />
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After long tiring period we nourished ourselves with sweet dishes
gilebi and samosa on the menu. We were much interested in others portion
of it rather than our own. This festival very much brings us in blend
with the kids, eventually becoming one.<br />
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Festivals like holi not
only bond us with the school children but also with volunteers from
various places. This is how new friend requests are sent and received
for ones benefit in education, progress of Kaliyuva Mane as well as
other extracurricular activities.<br />
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At the end it was a day of fun,
joy and celebrations. A day with the school kids is all you need to get
a break from this unhealthy schedule of the society. We all volunteers
bid farewell just for the day, and left with the joy and content that a
child's smile gives one.<br />
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She was a young Muslim girl
belonging to a poor family. As she attained youth, she too dreamt a
thousand fairy dreams about her husband and family. She fell in love with a Hindu boy. Love transcended caste, religion... and all
barriers! But her parents declined to accept this
relationship. She married her chosen one, against stiff
opposition from her parents. They got a baby boy. Till
now, life was a happy song for the couple. </div>
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Gradually cracks developed in the
relationship. So her husband started ill
treating her, physically assaulting her. He became an alcohol addict. She did not know what to do. After a few years, she took divorce from
him. But the girl’s parents did not
accept her back. Her three younger sisters
were yet to get married. Later on, her
husband remarried. Now her life turned into a tragic song. </div>
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But God stretches his helping hand in a
strange way. Another old man belonging to
Hindu religion entered her life. He was
staying alone in Bangalore. He gave shelter to this Muslim lady. They are staying together as father and daughter. In the meantime, she completed
her B.Com. But she could not do hard
physical work due to the physical assault received at the hands of her
husband. Recently her ex-husband passed
away. She is searching for a job. Incidentally her elder sister is also a
divorcee. </div>
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A couple of months ago she came
across an article on ‘Kaliyuva Mane’ in a newspaper. So a fortnight ago, a 13 year old boy joined
Kaliyuva Mane family. Even now she has
dreams, this time about her only son.
Kaliyuva Mane will certainly fuel her dreams. Hope the boy will rise to her
expectations! While parting, the lady
told us, ‘Teach him universal love. I will be happy, if he prays to Hindu gods.
If possible, once in a while send him to
mosque also.’ </div>
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At Kaliyuva Mane, we believe and
try to practice the religion, defined by Swami Vivekananda, “Each soul is potentially
divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within us by controlling nature, internal
and external. Do it either by work or
worship, philosophy or psychic control, by one or more, or by all of these and
be free. This is the whole of
RELIGION. Doctrines or dogmas, rituals
or books, temples or forms are all but secondary details.” </div>
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Divyadeepahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13417275185863458886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636358867828852747.post-68613479106459988482014-05-12T07:52:00.000-07:002014-05-12T20:17:08.259-07:00Wonderful achievement!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-IN">Today
10<sup>th</sup> standard results are
out. All the 5 children from ‘Sphoorthi’
group, who had appeared for this important exam from ‘Kaliyuva Mane’, have
emerged with flying colours, one in first class and two in second class. Each
one has crossed domestic/social/economic/educational/emotional hurdles
successfully and reached the goal. All
children have cleared the exam in English
medium. Congratulations! </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Hemanth belongs to a lower middle class family. His father works in a private firm. Mother is a housewife. His father has passed PUC and the mother has
studied up to SSLC. Hemanth’s parents
knew the worth of education. So they
sent him to an English medium private reputed school. But unfortunately, the boy could not cope up
with the rigid structure of the school.
The constant failure in academics shattered young boy’s confidence.
Concerned father took the boy to All India Institute of Speech and Hearing,
Mysore for assessment. The boy was on
the threshold of 8<sup>th</sup> standard then, but his academic level was found
to be equivalent to that of a beginner of 3<sup>rd</sup> standard, though his
IQ was age appropriate. A copy of the report is
attached. The boy was found to have ‘learning
disability’. So, Hemanth’s disappointed
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He was
educated as per the guidelines of the clinical psychologist, which were being
practised at Kaliyuva Mane already. He
was exempted from studying two additional subjects. Hemanth regained the interest in studies and
started cooperating with the faculty members.
Now Hemanth has cleared 10<sup>th</sup> standard examination in second
class. (51.75%) <span style="color: red;"> </span>He is very happy. His achievement has made his family members
and teaching faculty of Kaliyuva mane happy and proud. <o:p></o:p></div>
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He is
practicing snake catching. He is fond of
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lost his father in a vehicle accident during his early childhood. His mother even now works as an attender in a
school in Andhra Pradesh. After the accident, Hemanth migrated to Mysore. Hemanth’s maternal uncle started taking care
of the boy. His maternal uncle works as
an electrician. He came across an
article on Kaliyuva Mane in ‘Andolana’ paper.
Two years ago, Hemanth’s maternal uncle brought Hemanth to Kaliyuva
mane. The boy joined Kaliyuva Mane as a
resident scholar. He is studious and
works hard. Having passed 10<sup>th</sup>
standard in first class, (75.2%) he is very happy now.
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Manu is from a rural ‘below poverty line’ family. His father works as a security guard in
a private company. Both the parents are illiterates. Manu was studying in a Government Kannada
medium school. Parents came to know
about Kaliyuva Mane. So his parents
brought him to Kaliyuva Mane five years ago. Though his academic level at the time of joining
Kaliyuva Mane was below par, he gained enthusiasm for studies. Now he has
passed SSLC.<span style="color: red;"> </span>Everyone
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Shankar
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separate house. His father is an
illiterate and does some odd jobs like selling vegetables, painting etc. Shankar used to stay with his
grandmother. He was going to the
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earlier. So one resident of Mellahalli
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studies. Now he has passed SSLC in
second class. (58.4%). He wants to pursue Diploma in engineering course.<b><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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Shrikrishna’s parents are educated.
Inspired by the ideals of Sri Aurobindo and Swami Vivekananda, they were
conducting supplementary classes for rural school going kids mornings and
evenings free of cost staying in a village on the outskirts of Mysore since
1992. Conceptualization of ‘Kaliyuva
Mane’ took place, based on this grassroots level experience. Due to paucity of resources, they could not
start the school and were forced to send their son to a mainstream school. After Kindergarten, the boy joined 1<sup>st</sup>
standard in a mainstream school.
Initially he was happy. But later
on, he developed an aversion to the school and refused to go to the
school. With no other options, parents
forced him to go to the school. The boy,
out of compulsions started attending classes submissively. Eventually parents withdrew him from the
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He was
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suggested an informal school for him. There was no such school in Mysore. Even when Kaliyuva Mane was started he
refused to learn there. Gradually since
4 or 5 years, he has started attending classes regularly. He is very intelligent. But due to his traumatic childhood, he is
poor in social skills. Now he has passed
10th standard. We hope, this result
will give him enough confidence to face life.
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Divyadeepahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13417275185863458886noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636358867828852747.post-24479079078697286132013-07-01T16:35:00.000-07:002013-07-17T13:28:27.442-07:00Suma blooms!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
She is 12 years young. She joined Kaliyuva Mane only last year. She can read 7th standard Kannada lessons now. She has learnt all the basic arithmetic operations. She can speak a few English words. Well, someone may ask us, " What is so great about this?" Have a look at her academic report just a year ago!. click on the link below :<br />
<a href="http://www.divya-deepa.blogspot.in/2012/02/how-to-give-this-child-better-future.html">http://www.divya-deepa.blogspot.in/2012/02/how-to-give-this-child-better-future.html</a><br />
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She has regained her lost enthusiasm for studies. Watch her reading Kannada. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMSx9z8ZyME">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMSx9z8ZyME</a><br />
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Now she wants to become a teacher at Kaliyuva Mane. She is learning English too! Despite our fight with the system (about land, about recognition for the school, about registration of the vehicle, about funds), our journey inside the young minds is very very pleasant and adventurous too!<br />
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<span style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">30th May 2013 -
A child joined Kaliyuva Mane as a resident scholar - 12 years young – No parents
- rural background - Staying with his illiterate grandmother - Due to inherent
dislike for structured studies, rote learning and lack of parental guidance,
the boy had dropped out of Kannada medium rural school after 3rd standard –</span><span style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">came to know about two school dropouts from
his village, continuing education after passing SSLC in English medium </span><span style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">– One of his well-wishers brought him to
Kaliyuva Mane – A desire to learn, which was hitherto latent in him has
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There are
orphanages for him. Even that is
doubtful. For admission, death
certificate of one of the parents is a must.
But where is the school for him?
RTE Act ensures admission into schools for all the children below 14 years. But does it ensure learning? It is a
challenge for Kaliyuva Mane to build his future. Keep him happy, motivate him to study, start
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Kaliyuva Mane
has not only implemented RTE Act in spirit, but has gone beyond RTE. It is an irony that Kaliyuva Mane lacks
recognition from the Education department. Forget about Government support, often its
rules and regulations have become stumbling blocks for Kaliyuva Mane. We are
buying 24 seater school bus for ferrying school dropouts, first generation
school goers and children labelled as ‘slow learners’ from far off
villages. Because our education system
is not recognized, we have to pay 40 times more road tax! We
have to run pillar to post to get documents such as study certificate and rural
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DDPI has come to our school and has left this remark
in the guestbook, “The school premises were very pleasant”. On 29<sup>th</sup> December 2012, Block education
Officer, Mysore Rural visited Kaliyuva Mane.
He was happy and has left the following remark in our guestbook, “Good
learning environment exists. The method of teaching considering not only the
age, but the lacunae in learning, is really special here.”<b> </b>The Karnataka Government, labour
department has carried a 4 page article on our alternative school, <b>‘Kaliyuva Mane’. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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We have filed an application seeking recognition for
Kaliyuva Mane. But BEO feels, there is no space in the
education system for innovative/alternate thinking. It is only a prerogative of the Government. Finally he has agreed to forward our letter
to the Commissioner – Education. Democracy means Government of the people, by
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As a last resort, in November, I tried to meet the
then education minister, Mr. Kageri
Vishweshwara Hegde. I got his
number from the net. Dialled the number,
felt so happy to hear the voice of his personal secretary. I requested for an appointment with the
education minister and got immediately.
Next day, i.e. on 26-11-2012 at
4.00 am I boarded the Bangalore bus. I
was the first one to sit in front of Kageri’s room waiting. By 8.45 am the room door opened. We were let inside. There were about 20 people waiting to meet
him. I was allowed inside. I started off the conversation, “Namaskara,
we are running a school…….” I was interrupted
by his impatient voice, “What do you
want, tell me fast” I wanted at least 15 minutes to articulate about
Kaliyuva Mane. The
best thing I could do was to invite him to our school. Unfortunately, God forgot to give me the ‘Gift
of gab’. I am not blaming the education
minister. He must have been very busy on
that particular day. I am blaming the system. At least he could have had a secretary who
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I am neither rich nor politically connected. I am neither a cricketer nor a film actor. I am a
low profile common citizen. I know how
difficult it is to meet local MLA for a common citizen like me? So the system has to be changed for better
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10th standard results were out. All the 3 children Anand (15years), Shivu (15years) and Kartik(16 years) of
Chaitanya group who had appeared for the 10th standard exams from Kaliyuva Mane
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successfully crossing different domestic, economic, educational and emotional
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<span class="textexposedshow">One boy is a first generation school goer from a
village near HD Kote. He was going to a
rural Kannada medium free school. The
child was a zero level learner in that school.
Another child is motherless and his father is blind. He was
studying in a Govt. Kannada medium school in a village prior to joining
Kaliyuva Mane in 2010 as a resident scholar.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="textexposedshow">Another
child is from a broken family. Father is not staying with the family. Mother
sells fruits near bus station. The child was not going to the formal school regularly
in spite of the best efforts of the mother.
Mother had changed the school for the boy thrice earlier.</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">All the children studied at Kaliyuva Mane as resident
scholars. [a free school including food,
accommodation, entertainment and medicare].
Nobody was sent to any outside formal school. These
were educated in a special way. A new
education system has emerged here at ‘Kaliyuva
Mane’. This free experimental
residential school is reaching out to more and more rural opportunity deprived
children every year. It is soon
reaching its capacity of 100 children including 36 resident scholars. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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moment, we express our deep gratitude to all of you - the patrons, volunteers
and well-wishers for your support. Needless to say we need your support
always. Kaliyuva Mane welcomes you
all. For updates : </span></span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/divyadeepa.trust">http://www.facebook.com/divyadeepa.trust</a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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Divyadeepahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13417275185863458886noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636358867828852747.post-78548133839334644952013-04-18T20:44:00.001-07:002013-04-18T21:01:31.315-07:00First resort of a patriot - POLITICS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There are good and bad engineers. There are good and bad doctors. There are good and bad teachers….. But even today the words ‘Engineer’, ‘Doctor’ and ‘Teacher’ connote a positive vibration. But thanks to our politicians, they have managed to change the meaning of the word ‘Politics’. This word instead of meaning ‘Art or science of government’ connotes negative and repulsive vibrations. When greed for power and money raises its ugly head anywhere, we suspect the entry of politics, whether it is a temple or an educational institution.<br />
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Now I would like to introduce a patriot by name C.K. Naveena, CEO of Karthavya IT solutions. It was in 2006 January, one of Divyadeepa’s wellwisher introduced C.K. Naveena to me. A huge photograph of my hero, ‘Swami Vivekananda’ adorned a wall of his office. He spoke softly. He expressed his desire to visit Kaliyuva Mane. A few youth visited Kaliyuva mane a few days later. I’m not sure of the date, may be in February 2006, I received a call from him. Myself, Padma and Srikrishna were in Mysore city. Naveena invited us to attend website launching function of his company. Swamy Nithyasthanandaji of Sri Ramakrishna Ashram was there to launch the website. As usual I sat in a corner. Suddenly Naveena requested me to speak a few words about Kaliyuva Mane. I know pretty well how good I am at public speaking! Somehow I uttered a few words and invited all the people who had gathered there to Kaliyuva Mane. After the meeting was over, a few youth ( I am sure of Ashwin, Saurabh and Neetu ) came to me. We were discussing informally. They were keen to visit Kaliyuva Mane. After a few days 16 youth came by 8 bikes to Kaliyuva Mane and expressed their happiness to support Kaliyuva Mane. That was the beginning of volunteers’ movement!!!<br />
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Later onwards Naveena interviewed me for his ‘mysorematters.com’. At that time I also asked him a few questions. He expressed his inclination towards entering politics. My anathema for politics is well-known. But why not? He has the fire in his belly. He is honest. He is educated. He is an Engineer. He is young. Below 30! More than everything, he is committed. What other qualifications you need? He is contesting from Krishnaraja constituency. Unfortunately I cannot vote for him, as I stay in a different constituency. He needs our support. He also needs the support of Divyadeepa volunteers. <br />
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Naveena, God bless you! More and more honest, educated patriots should enter politics. The word, ‘Politics’ should regain its lost meaning. This word should bring back to our memories the contributions of politicians of the calibre of Lal Bahadur Sastry.<br />
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Divyadeepahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13417275185863458886noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636358867828852747.post-42125555594229189582013-03-12T04:01:00.000-07:002013-03-12T04:01:12.214-07:00Journey inside the young minds!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">On
16<sup>th</sup> August 2012, 3 persons belonging to 3 different generations
visited Kaliyuva Mane - a 9 or 10 year old young boy, his mother and an old man
from Kenchalagudu village. The mother
and son were from a far off village. The
father was an alcoholic addict.
According to the mother of the boy, her husband had extra-marital
affairs and used to visit home occasionally.
Both the parents were illiterates.
The mother could not check her tears while revealing this. The mother used to work as a coolie. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></div>
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son used to go to a Kannada medium rural mainstream free school. But due to some reasons, he stopped going to
the school. At that time he was studying
in 5<sup>th</sup> standard. (Later, the mother submitted the boy’s 4<sup>th</sup>
standard progress report) But unfortunately
the boy fell into bad company and started stealing. He used to get caught in the act sometimes
and punished by the owners. The boy’s
mother became restless. Her anxiety
about the future of her only son also started growing. Out of anger and desperation, the mother
started beating her son.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></div>
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could notice 6 or 8 burnt marks on the boy’s body. These were clearly the marks of the
frustration of his mother. An old man from Kenchalagudu brought the boy’s
mother to Kaliyuva Mane. The boy’s
mother wanted admission for him as a resident scholar. It was difficult for us to accommodate him
as a resident scholar. We admitted him
as a day scholar.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This
way the boy joined Kaliyuva Mane. But
the same afternoon he was on the verge of leaving the school. The reason: one of our new teachers had
scolded him for his bad behaviour. During lunch time, we found the boy
missing. Getting some clue from one of
the children, Mahadeva Swamy, one of our staff members took scooter and brought
him back to Kaliyuva Mane. In the evening,
we all the discussed about the boy’s future.
There were two options for us, either to send him out of Kaliyuva Mane
which would make him an antisocial element or to try to mend the boy to the
best of our ability. So we spoke to the
boy, gave him the freedom to attend the classes whenever he liked. He used to play the slide and swing. One day he came to the computer lab. He started coming to computer classes
alone. One of our school teachers,
Kavita offered him a new set of clothes, a pair of slippers. Kavita has
excellent soft skills. On that night his
mother called us and enquired whether her son had stolen any material from the
school! He started attending that
particular teacher’s classes. Gradually
he started attending all the classes. We
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3 months, he instigated one resident scholar to steal some money from one of
the German volunteers. The boy shared
the booty with other friends. This was
really shocking and shameful for us. What
our foreign guest think about Indians? But
we did not know how to handle the situation.
After this incident, the boy did not come to Kaliyuva Mane for a
week. After a week, his mother brought
him to the school. For one week, we made
him sit alone in Kaliyuva Mane’s office for contemplation. On hourly basis, one of the teachers used to
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after 7 months, he is attending all the classes regularly and learning
well. He does not use vulgar words. He is less quarrelsome. But the million dollar question is, “Is this
transformation permanent?” His mother
is happy. We really don’t know how to
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Divyadeepahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13417275185863458886noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636358867828852747.post-48759532308089741352012-12-28T19:06:00.000-08:002012-12-28T19:06:49.471-08:00Victims of the system<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
From this academic year, Kaliyuva Mane is conducting entrance test
for the teachers. Test paper contains questions on Kannada,
English, Mathematics, Science and General knowledge. <br />
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Her qualification is
M.A., B.Ed. Can we select her? Till now more than 60 aspirants
have taken the test. Unfortunately till now, none of them have
passed the test.<br />
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From this year onwards, the Government has revised the 5th std., 8th
std. and 1st PU text books. The whole idea is to raise the standard
of State Board education and bring it on par with CBSE standard.
It is a welcome move! So policy makers have revised the curriculum
and revised the text books, but have not thought about the
implementers. I'm teaching 5th standard English to our trainee
teachers. Now they can read and understand 5th standard text books.
Still they cannot answer the questions at the end of the lesson.
Proper formation of sentences is a big problem. <br />
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When do the policy makers learn to think holistically? When are
they going to change teacher training programmes? How long our
D.Ed. and B.Ed. colleges keep on producing unemployables? Some
brain storming is required. We should stop victimizing innocent
rural candidates. <br />
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Most
of the urban elite children pursue lucrative courses like
engineering, medicine, business management and very few aspire to
become
primary school teachers. The
salary
package does not attract them to choose teaching as a career. Most of the rural children
who have studied
in Kannada Medium in high school continue to study PUC (higher
secondary) also
in Kannada medium taking ‘History, sociology and economics’ as
electives. Then they study
D.Ed. Generally this does not
equip them to teach English, Hindi, Mathematics, Science and
Social Science
even for 5<sup>th</sup> standard children.
Hence this obsolete teacher training course on one hand is
creating plenty
of rural jobless/underpaid candidates with graduate and post
graduate degrees
and on the other hand has created a scarcity of competent teachers
to teach
English, Mathematics and Science in rural areas. Very few teachers
realize that
teaching is a time based activity, whereas learning is a process
based
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">The summary of the findings of the
Karnataka Jnana Aayoga,
a high powered commission constituted in September 2008 by then
chief minister
of Karnataka under the chairmanship of renowned space scientist Dr
K.
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<i>“The
colleges where the study was undertaken had adequate
infrastructure; 65% of
students opted this
course were females;
47% belonged to OBC category; 26% belonged to SC category; 71.4%
belonged to
low income group with an annual income of Rs.6000-Rs.12000; most
of the
students belonged to social science stream. Majority of the
teachers were males
(63%), average age was 37 years and very few (15%) had teaching
experience in
primary schools. They had attended an average of 2.5 training
programmes in
their entire career and showed poor readiness to implement
reforms in school
education. In all the colleges lectures were dominant with more
stress on
written work. It was a common feeling that curriculum was too
heavy. Most of
the educators felt that the time available for content
enrichment was very
less”. Details are
available at the
following website :<o:p></o:p></i><a href="http://jnanaayoga.in/index.php/resources/research-studies">http://jnanaayoga.in/index.php/resources/research-studies</a>
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Kaliyuva
Mane’s biggest hurdle is the non-availability of persons with
knowledge, skill, passion and commitment to teach. The impact of Kaliyuva Mane
on children
would have been 200% more if we had had such man makers. The role of teachers in nation
building is
grossly under-estimated in India. So
it
is a challenge to discover service minded persons with requisite
knowledge,
competency to transmit knowledge in rural areas. <o:p></o:p>
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<small><i><big>A
doctor’s blunder kills a patient; An engineer’s blunder
spoils a
monument; A teacher’s mistake spoils generations - Dr.
Radhakrishnan (
heard )</big><o:p></o:p></i>
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Divyadeepahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13417275185863458886noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636358867828852747.post-24918033320515550102012-09-13T22:48:00.000-07:002012-09-22T21:59:01.786-07:00Raji, India & We<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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young when she joined Kaliyuva mane. At
the time of admission, she did not know how to spell the word, “English” and
had committed more than half a dozen mistakes in three lines of Kannada
writing. She was neither a school
dropout nor a dyslexic. She had
completed 6<sup>th</sup> standard and was going regularly to school. I wanted
to know her aspirations. She uttered,
'DOCTOR'. I could not suppress my
smile. I decided to make her at least a
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal;">But she went on to finish X standard in first
class that too in English medium! This speaks volumes about her grit, steely
determination and hard work. [Her detailed case study has been given at the
end.] Raji's feat made Prof. Rame Gowda
who sponsored her education happy. But Raji was adamant. She reiterated her wish to study
medicine. I thought, she was
overambitious. But she went ahead and
joined NIE PU college taking PCMB as electives.
Generous help came from Shashank, our volunteer who arranged her college
fees. Now every weekend Azaruddin (our volunteer) and Raji come to
Kaliyuva Mane. Azaruddin sits with her
for several hours mentoring and tutoring her. He inspires me too! Even now I consider Raji overambitious and
feel MBBS is Mt. Everest for her, but silently want her to become Edmund Hilary
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of 2+6 years just like her urban counterparts from educated families, she would
have definitely become a doctor. Who
knows, even now she may pass PUC in flying colours and join MBBS. If she cannot, who is responsible? Raji or the system? Is Raji's a stray case? No, there are millions of Rajis in the
villages of India. In fact, 51.8% of 5th
standard rural children cannot read 2<sup>nd</sup> standard mother tongue text
books as per the Annual Status of Education Report released by Dr. Kapil Sibal,
our minister of human resources! (</span><a href="http://images2.asercentre.org/aserreports/ASER_2011/press_release_15jan_2011.pdf"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">http://images2.asercentre.org/aserreports/ASER_2011/press_release_15jan_2011.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal;">) What about
these children’s future? MBBS doctors
refuse to serve one year in villages!
Rather they prefer to pay a fine of </span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">₹</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal;">1,00,000/-. So what about the
future of Indian villages where more than two third of Indians dwell? Finally what about the future of <b>India as a whole</b>? </span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri, sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Though our constitution
guarantees <b>EQUALITY</b> of status
and of opportunity to all Indians, this has remained a distant dream even after
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal;">We all love India.
We celebrate Independence day. We
respect national flag and anthem. We
celebrate India's success in cricket. We
rejoice when Indians win medals at Olympics.
Divyadeepa wants to go beyond this token patriotism. We consisder every educated person with
values as an asset to our country in particular and to the world at large. <em><span style="color: #006633;">"Human capital is a vital
ingredient in building a nation. Education is the passport to accelerated
economic growth and is the key to build human capital"</span></em> - Anon</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal;">So more Kaliyuva Manes ( to be precise, better
models of Kaliyuva Manes ) functioning on the principle “School for children”
should come up throughout the length and breadth of Indian villages and
co-exist with the main stream schools which work on the principle “Children for
school”. For that to happen, we should
stabilize existing Kaliyuva Mane first.
We should transform Kaliyuva Mane from individual model to institution
model. Without indulging in any blame
game we must go on to create a replicable model of education system for
mentally sound children who find main stream schools inadequate.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal;">Reasonably good infrastructure has been built. We need a school bus to ferry more day
scholars, one more driver and more diesel month after month. During night we have lost two bicycles and an
old scooter. So campus needs a compound wall and the residents feel
secure. On positive side, more children
friendly systems are evolving. We have
taken up 3 years' rigorous Teacher empowerment programme'. Income generating units have to be
established. Kaliyuva Mane should become financially self-sustaining.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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efforts to get recognition for Kaliyuva Mane is going on. I personally met BEO. I have officially written to BEO requesting
him to visit Kaliyuva Mane for inspection.
But he is yet to respond. Today
we are going to officially file application seeking recognition for Kaliyuva
Mane. (to both DDPI and BEO) It took
plenty of time for me to prepare a document of 160 pages. If they don't respond, we have to write to
Education ministers. If
not.................. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal;">So plenty of work to do! Millions of people have
sacrificed their lives to give us political freedom. Now we have to free India from poverty and
ignorance. Divyadeepa needs resources- both human and financial. Divyadeepa needs continued support from
patrons, volunteers and well-wishers. We
need more patrons, volunteers and well-wishers for this grass root level
nation-building task. Whether you are a
selfish person seeking your happiness in
helping others or a spiritual person who consider work as body's best prayer to
the Divine, you are welcome to associate with Divyadeepa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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