Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself

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 5^th 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.

                    

                     

Me helping the kids to decorate the diyas(candles) 

Me and Tanmay helping colour one of the little kid's own handprint

    At first i was hesitant about, what if I teach the little kids something wrong? But now I am confident and I can say that “what it may be the situation forward of me, i will always teach and spread the right knowledge in the right way.”