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(A)Going Deeper

5. Sugar Schools

JP has stretched its arms and has reached more and more deprived children through 20 newly started '100 days sugar schools' throughout the last year. We have reached upto 1223 students, out of which 884 appeared for exams. The striking thing about it was more than 50% of the successful student s were girls. This chain of 24 sugerschools is duly taken care of by 50 teachers. These teachers and co-ordinators make sure that the whole network of 24 schools is kept functioning without any hitch for all the 100 days. The following inputs were given during training and updating of teachers -

Training camps

Camp for 10 teachers and 30 students was organised and the focal point was 'School beyond classroom' . The intention was to evolve a process of learning and teaching through different projects, to help teachers and students to know each other in better way and to learn to make teaching aids with the help of available resources in the surrounding area. A residential training camp of 58 teachers was organised during 14th to 20th Nov.1999. Evaluation of students was discussed in this camp. Teaching through Media Deliberate and intentional use of the media of drama and storytelling was made this year and was proved successful. It helped students to get involved in studies and the result was creative expression of their thoughts.

Parents, Programmes and Tours

• Frequent meetings with parents by principals and co-ordinators of these schools is the very reason for its lively existence. Parents are also present for various programmes of sugar school and are participating in the programmes.
• Republic Day and Sankranta were celebrated with enthusiasum. Dramas, plays and songs on unemployment, superstitions, illiteracy were presented before the audience.
• Study tours were arranged to places like banks, riverside , parks, temples, post-office. Students were exposed to the subjects like fishing, types of trees, religious customs etc.
• Students of all centres were taken to the "Appughar", an amusement park at Nigdi. Some of them were experiencing railway journey for the first time.
• Students visited "Vijnanashram" at Pabal and were made acquainted with various directions of education and life.

6. Computer Training In Prisons

JP's Institute of Management and Leadershp Development is conducting com puter training for the last 14 years. During last 4 years along with 'Navjeevan Mandal'- an institution working for rehabilitation of criminals, it has started conducting programmes for released prisoners, especially women prisoners.

JP conducted DTP cla sses for them. Those who completed the course got employment and an opportunity to start a settled life afresh. During the period of this report, IMLD thought to go a step further and decided to train the prisoners who are in jail and in the last phase o f their imprisionment. So, in the month of Sept. 98, along with Navjeevan mandal, a batch of 12 prisoners who have completed at least 10 years of imprisonment. It decided to conduct a 3 part programme starting from computer fundamentals, packages like Word and then Page Maker, Corel Draw and Photo-Shop.

The first batch completed its course and all the prisoner students got A+ Grade. They showed keen interest in learning the computer course. The certificate distribution function was held on Rakshabandh an 1999. At the same time the second batch was inaugurated by I.G. Prison and is progressing according to our schedule. Out of the prisoners who have completed the course and were released, 8 have started their own D.T.P. units.

7. School in earth-quake hit area of Marathwada

JP-Solapur runs a primary and secondary school in earthquake hit Harali in south Marathwada. Both the schools are recognized by the State government. At present they are run in village temple and in a few tin sheds. Three villagers h ave donated 12 acres of land for the school. A well-wisher of JP- Solapur has donated Rs. 14 lakhs for the school and now the construction of the school building has started. The school is expected to take shape by Nov. 2000. Seven hundred pits have been dug around the proposed school where fruit trees will be planted with a view to make the school self-supporting.

8.Development of awareness in Social Problems

Sensing the need of time, a research project on " development of social awareness" has been undertaken by JP Institute of Psychology since 1994. As a doctoral research has been completed on this topic and some replicatory research is going on.

Development of a training programme for increasing awareness of social problems amongst the highschool sudents was the main aim of a doctoral research . Results indicate a positive effect on the children's awareness of problems due to social injustice. For verification of these results a replicatory study was launched for two separate groups. They include junior college girl students of lower income group from two different colleges in Pune.

Weekly training sessions were conducted by a team of psychologists and activists for these students in their own schools/colleges. Various methods like games, group tas ks, discussions, interviews, lectures were used for imparting information and motivation building. Main emphasis was given on making them aware of the gravity of the problems and motivating them for finding a solution at the micro level.

The junior college girl students also did some field visits which gave a new impetus to their perception and empathetic understanding of these problems.

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