Uttaran - Dantewada inaugurated

Posted Mon, 01/18/2010 - 12:46 by TF

Dantewada wth a literacy rate of mere 30.01, is the least literate district in the entire India. It is also the district having lowest male literacy rate in India(39.59%). Over the last year, more than 350 people have been killed and 50,000 moved into camps in the Dantewada district, as a result of a Maoist uprising. As a result hundreds of children have been orphaned. Sarva Shikha Abhiyan has started initiative to educate many children in relief cams. But the orphan children are mostly left to the mercy of relatives.

Diganta: Towards making government schools accountable to the poor

Posted Tue, 12/22/2009 - 15:29 by TF

Diganta means horizon in Bengali - the horizon where the sky and the earth appear to meet with each other - otherwise they are miles apart - and it seems we have to walk a long distance to reach the horizon.

Making government schools accountable to the poor is like reaching a horizon. In normal circumstances the parents and the government schools are far apart.

Identification and certification of differently abled persons in Kolkata

Posted Wed, 11/25/2009 - 17:33 by TF

As part of its mission to reach out to the unreached TF has started working with the differently abled children. Last year we have been recognized by the Government of West Bengal (Office of the Commissioner, for persons with Disabilities) to work for with differently abled persons.

Recently we have started identification and certification of differently abled persons from our project locations. Despite stated agenda under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, identification of differently abled children has not been completed in all areas of the city of Kolkata.

Other Reports

Posted Wed, 11/25/2009 - 12:16 by TF

Study on ‘reasons of dropping out from schools’

 

A study with children who dropped out from Mother Project of Tomorrow’s Foundation

Active Learning in Mother Project & Model School

Posted Mon, 11/23/2009 - 13:15 by TF

Active learning focuses the responsibility of learning on students. At Tomorrow’s Foundation we are replacing the traditional methods by active ones. Our aim is very simple - we want the children to be at the centre of our teaching learning processes. We want the teaching learning environment to change from being passive to active.

Celebrating children’s day

Posted Thu, 11/19/2009 - 15:52 by TF

On the special occasion of children’s day, last 14th of November, 100 students of Dharmadas School took part to a drawing and painting competition. All the children who had this opportunity gave their best, and the nine winners were offered schoolbags. We sincerely thank Ms. Isabelle Allanic, who gave financial support to the event and helped the other judges to choose the most beautiful drawings. She took pictures of the competition and is planning to organize an exhibition in France, whose benefits will be given to Tomorrow’s Foundation. TF volunteers Ms.

Western classical dance performers and teachers from Kolkata Slums

Posted Thu, 10/15/2009 - 10:44 by TF

Yes, that would be a reality soon. Since September, 2009, well known western classical dance group Padatik Dance World has started training our students from Mother Project.

The dance group has started training 8 TF children. Classes are held every Sunday in Mother Project premises. At the end of the training an examination would be conducted and successful candidates would be placed as professional dance performers and teachers.

Amader Pujo

Posted Fri, 10/09/2009 - 19:10 by TF

Every Kolkatans gets into festive mood and enjoy the most during Durga Pujo Festivities. Few of our children from Mother Project would never forget this Pujo. They could never expected that they would be able to hop the best Pujo Pandals, wear nice new clothes, dine in elite restaurants, visit a radio station and play expensive games. It was all possible as Big 92.7 in collaboration with Bharti Axa came forward to extend these otherwise unreachable facilities for our unprivileged children.

The children at the TF Model school

Posted Fri, 10/02/2009 - 20:11 by TF

Contributed by Isabelle Payen - a volunteer of Tomorrow's Foundation

Hi again! Here I wanted to talk about the children at the TF Model school. As I am mostly with the children from the PP2 class, they are the ones I know best, therefore the ones I will talk mostly about. Class I currently has 6 students, and all other students (the very young ones, between 1 and 3 years old) are in PP1.

Volunteering in TF

Posted Wed, 09/23/2009 - 22:50 by TF

Posted by Sunandini on our blogsite for the volunteers:

Hello!

I am from India, but currently a resident of Qatar. I worked for TF this July at their evening tutorial classes and thoroughly enjoyed my first volunteer assignment. I taught English to Class 3 and Math to Class 7. I was so excited when I first got a reply to my application from Mr Ritwik Patra, the COO of TF – thank you Ritwik for this opportunity.

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