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Academic Adoption – A program “Educate to Employ”
India holds an important place in the global education industry. On the other hand, there are many students who hold back their educational aspirations due to lack of financial assistance. Many potential bright careers are nipped in the bud owing to the lack of funds.
By 2030, India will be amongst the youngest nations in the world, with nearly 140 million people in the college-going age group.
Despite a robust education system, it is likely that India will struggle to meet the demand of skilled workforce. Pivotal to the discussion is the paradox that a significantly large number of graduates are unemployed or under-employed along with an acute shortage of skilled workers in the knowledge-intensive industry.
There is a huge scope of improvement in the education space. One major reason behind this is lack of financial assistance. There are corporates who want to reach out to such students in need but there is a huge gap.
Many supports as scholarship based on the merits of students. Many a time beyond the merits of students, family situations force the students for not able to pursue their aspirational goals.
Although private, urban schools in India were better adapted to new circumstances, government schools have struggled to transition from traditional in-person learning to an online ecosystem, especially in rural India. The challenges faced by the Indian education system were amplified during the pandemic and include A divide based on technology and access.
Uninterrupted education relies on the availability of and access to digital infrastructure including the Internet, laptops and phones. While students in urban schools tend to have better access than those in rural schools, inequalities across class and gender still impact who can and can’t use these tools. What’s more, access issues are further compounded by other constraints such as unreliable electricity supplies, home environments and study spaces, etc.
The response to the coronavirus has demonstrated how technology can help transform how we teach and learn. But the push for change started long before the pandemic struck, and it will go on long after the threat subsides. For years, policymakers have been exploring new transformative approaches to K-12 education that go far beyond just online lessons at home.
Vama has a strong belief that “Education is the only way to end generational poverty”. Every child we educate, is one family rescued from generational poverty.
At VAMA, we strongly believe that the future of our society depends on the younger generation. Their development starts right from basic education. Poverty, the predominant factor, is still a bottle neck for the young generation in pursuing their studies.
In addition to a sponsorship support in a small way, VAMA believes to focus on academic adoption model. Under this, deserving students from the rural are selected and adopted for pursuing their education until they shine in their life.
Youth welfare has always been a priority of VAMA Trust under this program. VAMA has taken various efforts at a regional level to promote youth’s health, education, and socio-cultural interests, by providing computer training & helping youth to pursue for professional courses. An action plan is out as a skill development program to provide training to the underprivileged youth at VAMA, so that beneficiaries can pursue their dream courses.
Supporting education and imparting training to underprivileged youth is to ensure sustainable economic and social development.
Vama is keen to make a positive impact on the life of some of the rural students who are identified through its Digital Facilitation Centre program, Academic Adoption, Youth Empowerment Programs and recent Summer Camp program and their success stories have been heartening. This is only a testament to the difference the gift of education can make in a person’s life.
Focus will be more on practice as it is more important in the case of Maths and English while social science, History etc can be learnt with the support of videos.
In the Digital Liabrary, Vama’s focused team would support for:-
Teachers to ensure students feel inspired, safe, valued, able to learn in way previously not possible.
New learning tools are able to adjust to the needs of individual students without instructions/ without intervention (learning apps).
It created a technology friendly learning environment with eboards, smart class rooms, digital teaching equipment such as AV screen, projectors etc.
Our focus is
Below is the program outline. It is our base for planning. We will start with one area to focus – Digital Literacy with English Language improvement. After some time, we will plan to add additional curriculum and it will be our endeavour for the next three years to bring cultural change in our place.
We have set up two Digital Learning Centres one at Mannarkoil, Tiruneveli District and another at Sivasailam, Tenkasi District. With the success of these two centres, we propose to extend our support to more villages like Papakudi, Mukkudal, V.K. Puram, Kallidaikurichi and Alwarkurichi and Vallanadu, Tuticorin.
With the blessings of our donors and trustees, the classes at Digital Facilitation Centre, Mannarkoil and Sivasailam are conducted successfully for the last 120 days.
The classes are happening regularly and the students are supported with evening classes between 4.30 P.M. to 8.00 P.M.
Around 28 students of 9th Grade and 22 students of 10th Grade from the local Government school are regularly benefited at Mannarkoil centre and around 22 students of 9th Grade and 16 students of 10th Grade at Sivasailam Centre. They are supported for their computer skills, enhancement of their English knowledge, support to revive and revise their Maths. Now for maths classes in addition to our Government School, students from another School also joined and the number of IX students increased to 41 at Mannarkoil.
Classes are organised in such a way that it is 30% learning and 70% practicing. We also arrange to support their evening snacks and refreshments to enable them to concentrate rightly on their studies.
Apart from the above, as the school has mandated to have one study hour everyday from 4.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m. for 9th standard, our teachers have volunteered to be in the school from 4.00 P.M. to 5.00 P.M. to support students. We have also offered to provide the refreshments to all the students in Class XI and X in the school. We have also planned to extend half-an-hour till 8.30 p.m. for maths students as the number of students has increased in Class IX and planned to use the place in the upstairs.
We are happy to inform you that with a little support from us the students could make a good difference in their quarterly exams. Five of them secured above 90 marks in Maths. On the request of the teachers, we now also requested our team to help students to spend some time on other subjects like Tamil, Science and History & Geography. It will help the students to secure good marks holistically.
We had a meeting with parents of the students of Tenth and Ninth yesterday at our centre. 8 Mothers and 1 father of the children were present and discussed. We shared the purpose of our centre to enable the children to rightly focus on their education and counselling the students to opt Group and school/colleges not as per just their wish but based on their understanding of their real interest.
We are in the process of identifying agency for the Counselling, Mentoring, Training, Additional Language and Fitness requirements for the children to develop holistically. Lot of effort is required to equip the children. We are blessed to have our team who are dedicated and more children friendly.
The trust organised sessions in colleges for a substance free, whether it is habitual or occasional in the student community. There was overwhelming support from the colleges. More than 200 students from each college – Sri Paramakalyani College, Alwarkurichi and Thiruvalluvar College, Papanasam participated. They had an amazing experience and take away was very good. Colleges requested to have this program in a sustainable way and at least on a monthly basis.
Understanding that the technology-based learning is the order of the day and Learning is no more a straight path. It is not a royal highway with many deviations leading to the success destination. It is evident that in today’s world, there is hardly any job or a career that does not require any usage of technical jargon or technological stuff. A kid who can operate a PC easily today could perform better during his days of becoming a Software Engineer, or a child who grows up looking at better educational AV visuals turns out to be a great dreamer. Technology gives wings for their imagination and prepares them for an obvious tomorrow which includes the compulsion of using smart gadgets.
With individualized testing using technology becoming the norm, proctoring tools will supplement traditional investigation of exams as students access tests remotely. Personalised adopt learning to be focused to ensure credible learning.
Basic English is not understood. The stakeholders NGOs and Edutech Players push digital learning but NGOs can only teach students but not parents and Edutech players need to focus on how to teach parent. Further, the role of the parent to know how is the child learning and what is the child learning. There is a nigh need for assessing the level of knowledge with the age of the child. For example a 12 years old child should be assessed based on the level of knowledge required for that age.
Vama will set up Digital Library in Villages with fixed no.of devices for enabling rural children to learn digitally.
60/120 minutes training through edutech partners to complement the class room learning.
To give the training on computers to all-village school and college students, dropout children, housewives, middle-aged women, and those who are willing to get the computer knowledge that will be useful for their day-to-day lives and employment support.
Mrs. Subbulakshmi and Miss Sugabharathi mother and daughter are both coming to our place and getting training. Mrs. Subbulakshmi completed 12th grade, and she lost her husband six years ago. She is struggling for her survival and taking care of two girl children. When she approached the local shop and office for employment, they demanded computer knowledge for all basic-level work. So that she wanted to join and get training for her employment. Her daughter has dropped out of college studies during the first year since her mother faced financial problems with her education. Now she is also getting training to search for local employment for her bright future.
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