“My head was spinning when I first saw shoes with wheels..but now I can skate around wearing these..I feel so proud!” says 10 year old Raghuved,
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School to School builds a relationship of empathy and dignity between urban and rural children, on two opposite sides of a big divide of resources and opportunities. Urban children learn to value their abundant resources as they become more aware about another India. Rural children learn about achievement as Goonj’s school material brings together all stakeholders; teachers, parents and village community.
For Urban Children
Nurture empathy by encouraging urban schools to make it a part of their curriculum.
For Rural Children
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https://fundraisers.giveindia.org/fundraisers/khushiyon-ka-pitara
‘Pratibimb’ was born in 2005 and has evolved as a coming together of children from two very different worlds; villages and cities, engaging in a unique exploratory dialogue, learning from the lives of each other.
The workshop is thus built on co- learning among children through interaction and dialogue, cultural exchange and Seeking Solutions sessions (to better understand some core issues of urban and rural India.The guiding principle is equality,empathy and co- learning.
For children coming from villages, it’s a space to express and showcase their talent and get exposed to cities’ new and different world of opportunities. For children in cities, living a life of abundance, this is a bigger opportunity to learn the true value of all that they have, about empathy, dignity and equality, sharing and learning from their counterparts from another part of our country.
The last ‘Pratibimb’ was organized in 2017 at Mumbai. It was a four-day union of the urban and rural students to provide them a platform to learn and unlearn about each other; show their skills and bridge the gaps in their perceptions of each other.
It was a great opportunity for the urban students to learn and know about rural India, not from books but through human interaction. Throughout these four days, a series of activities were conducted to facilitate inter learning between the city and village students as well as intra learning amongst the city students from various backgrounds.
There is an enormous inequality in access to quality education in India, resulting in massive inequality of opportunity for children in the villages. There are many unmet basic learning material needs in small village schools.
Urban school children on the other hand buy and discard a lot of learning material regularly. They know little about valuing their abundant resources or the environmental risks of their practices. Most importantly as future citizens of our country city children have little awareness and empathy about rural issues and rural education.
In urban schools, Goonj actively works with school children by engaging them in exposure visits, awareness sessions and collection drives through volunteers and school partners.
Goonj creates School kits from urban surplus. These are used in rural schools, to encourage and motivate schools, parents and children tocollectively work towards creating a supportive environment for accessible education by building schools, making boundaries, kitchen garden, playground etc and their efforts are rewarded with school materials and basic essential fulfilling familial needs.
Pratibimb is an opportunity for the urban students to learn and know about rural India, not from books but through human interaction.It’s a platform for students to come together, interact and learn from each other.An event organized by Goonj.. for 2 – 3 days, where Goonj.. facilitates inter learning between the city and village students as well as intra learning amongst the city students from various backgrounds, through some well designed activities.
A network of schools working in partnership with Goonj on different campaigns throughout the year. To know more, write to us at [email protected] Students forum Students forum is a group of student volunteers actively leading different campaigns in their schools and locality throughout the year. To know more, write to us at [email protected]
Nothing compares to learning from hands-on experience. Students and teachers will travel to Goonj’s area of implementation to witness how developmental works are carried out using local resource and wisdom. This visit will be guided by Goonj.. along with its visit partner Empathy connect.