Can you think of working in an organization which has satisfaction, fun, enjoyment, entertainment in its job profile? Yes those organizations are NGO’s which are driven by its visions & mission to server the society with out accepting any thing in return.
Great Foundation is one such organization
One of the activities undertaken by great foundation & of which I am a part is where we visit Municipal school & help the kids to speak & be fluent in English as their education background is all in Marathi & when they step out of school they find English very complex to deal with.
My team members are :
Arthur Ignatius - SIMS
Nina Gir- Career Forum
Sunil Goel- Career Forum
Dilraj Rehal- IT Recruitments
Jaslene Bawa- Value Notes
We all members meet at the school sharp at
As soon as we entered into the class all the kids stood up wished us “Good Morning Teacher”। Hey I used to do this in school …….but never thought that a day will come when some one will wish me so:)
I was accompanied by Arthur & Nina.We were addressing 60 students having equal no of boys & girls.
We introduced our self & asked each one to introduce them self.Some were very loud but majority of them were shy.Our target was to create a comfort zone so that they can open up & be more confident.
We told them that we will be with them every sat & will be playing some games, giving some assignments which will polish there communication skills in English.When Nina asked them, do they find this interesting & useful?
One of the girl said yes……."Because today English is a powerful language & if we want to progress & make our parents & country proud we must master it”
We started playing dumb charades having two teams – Boys vs Girls.
We gave them words like (School, Teacher, Books, Success) which they have to inact & the team members should guess the word in English.Girls were very smart compared to boys & at the end of the game girls were leading & good to see every one was involved.
After which we started of with associated words where if I say blue they have to give an English word which they can relate with it
eg Blue – sky, water, color, shirt.
Looking at the response of the class we were surprised. They are so creative & think out of the box.Asked them some GK question & played Tanaji says which they enjoyed the most.
The class was full of laughter & bright faces having a close-up smile on every ones face.
We concluded by
- Declaring the winning group – Boys won
- Assignment – Every body has to come with a paragraph from English newspaper which they will be reading it aloud in front of the class.
While saying GoodBy I could read their faces -
Their eyes said - “ All ways be with us, we want to be some thing in life”
Their smile said - “ We enjoyed it”
“My life has become more meaningful. Thanks Kids for adoring, respecting & loving me“
4 comments:
feels nice reading ur post, while seeing some actual contribution n difference being made by ppl, i am sure u must be feeling satisfied after this session u had in the school... wish i had a less hectic job, so tht i cud do some tiny bit too
Thanks......for the appreciation.
Trust me, every day at NGO is a learning and a lovely experience.
It the only time when i feel my life is worth it and meaningfully.
Do not worry, as you have the strong desire to work for a social cause -
Time and opportunity will drag you towards it.
Bhavya, hats off to u:-)
i am going to face a similar situ very soon when i'd start teaching a batch of Std IX students, which includes my cousin, whose English is poor.
Yr blog post is beautiful for it speaks of action and compassion.
Siddharth:
All the Best for your teaching career.
And thanks for all the appreciation.
Its only people like us who can make a big difference on this world as we think of giving back to the society with out any returns.
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