I've always had a burning desire to help people and make a difference in the world. I didn't know how I could do that in modelling when it can be such a fake world, but the CAS gave the opportunity to help some underprivileged
kids by teaching them the basics of what they are going to gain in their
further future which is none other than KNOWLEDGE. We had visited a
construction just besides our school boundary line, there we noticed a small
cottage which had been transformed into a school. Watching this we had a talk
to the site in charge regarding this and we were told that these children
belong to the workers working at the site. As they cannot carry their kids
along with them as it is dangerous so we they take care of the kids and also
educate them at no cost.
After
returning to the school an idea clicked into our minds, that, what if we also
lend them our helping hand, so we had a talk with our CAS co-ordinator about
this and they approved the idea and had a talk with the site in charge, they
allowed us to teach them. So we set up a time table for the kids with reference
to our time table and adjusting our CAS lectures in the week. The kids used to
come to our school twice a week and we had divided the two given lectures into
parts and went t teach them time by time. The kids were from the pre-primary
till the 5th standard. So before the activity started we had made a
plan listing all the all the names of the kids according to their classes. We
had decided many activities to be held for the children for their learning
process. The activities consisted of learning and recognizing alphabets for the
pre-primary students. I had taken up the lower classes because I like to be
with the smaller generation.
We
had prepared and also performed successfully many activities. These activities
included-
1. Completing worksheets of colouring and basics of letters and
alphabets.
2. Showing them different animations without sound and asking them to
explain the stories as they understood.
3. Decorating small candles for the occasion of diwali and many such
more.
When
we were introduced to this activity by our CAS coordinator, I was a bit scared
to take up the duty of teaching because i wasn’t confident enough to teach the
toddlers. The first day i met the kids and started to teach them, I was
completely blank, but somehow I managed it and after that i was feeling very
relaxed. Gradually, as the activity continued further I overcame the phobia and
was able to teach the kids really easily. Also I got really familiar with the
kids and the kids were not at all hesitant to talk to me.
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| Me helping the kids to decorate the diyas(candles) |
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| Me and Tanmay helping colour one of the little kid's own handprint |
