In the schools that we have studied we rarely realise that many of the support staff in school have not studied much. One school in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand has come out with a unique programme wherein students of the school have become teachers and are conducting a crash-course to impart literacy to this support staff.
Kaushalya Devi dropped out in Class VI as she was married young. Today, the 50-year-old is trying to learn English alphabets.
It is because of women like Kaushalya that 25 students of Interact Club in Motilal Nehru Public School, Jamshedpur, are spending a summer to remember.
Students from Classes IX to XII are coming to school, which is now closed since May 6 for summer vacation, to conduct a 10-day voluntary adult literacy programme for 15 support staff, including nine women.
Students conducting the classes have divided their duties and come in rotation. They use smart boards and audio-visual study materials from their own smart classes to teach their didis and bhaiyas whom they have seen in school since their childhood.
This excellent report of Antara Bose has been published in The Telegraph. May be others also get motivated and start such classes for the needy in their respective schools. Read more of this in The Telegraph....
