Last sunday, we all got together at co-veda - (it is an alternate school for young children that lets us use their school building and play ground on sundays) and played cricket, football, badminton, carom board...some of the children did painting, played drums, harmonium, tabla etc and ended the day with dance and songs. there were a total of 35 childen who showed up....some of the boys were from the bapu dham colony and the others were the ones whom i teach in sector 17. they all had a great time....here are some pictures from that day ..
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here is a copy of the email that i wrote to a friend about this experiment....hopefully, this will give some idea as to how our experiment is going - let me tell you more about this experiment. as mentioned in my blog, this started without any planning...i met a few children and i thought it would be great to connect with them and give them acceptance...teaching them to read and write was a way to connect with these children. so we started meeting in the rose garden...once a place was set, other people/children also joined us...the group dynamics really varied....there were rickshaw pullers, some children who make their living by begging or polishing shoes and a few ladies (who come randomly) who either beg or rag-pick...this group had never been to school and it seemed that they had never used a copy and a pencil before. Then there were some boys who used to sell maps etc in the market. these boys are quite smart and had some exposure to education...some of them had also done their 1...