RJ, a retired corporate executive, committed to education sector
Under privileged children belonging to known households
Children were facing huge learning gap as they had been studying in unrecognised schools with poor learning outcomes. All of this with parents unknowingly spending their meagre earnings and assuming learning was taking place.
Method– Using Zoom and Whatsapp, the mentor and his partner assessed the current learning status of 15 children studying in various primary and middle school grades .These children were located in Noida, Gurgaon, Bangalore , Village in Ranchi. Initial efforts focussed on teaching Maths and Science thrice a week.
Later the Noida children were admitted in a Delhi school to attend online classes during covid followed by admission into a Noida recognised school post covid.
Achievement- Within a year of attention and online teaching all students learnt basic English vocabulary and adjusted well to their virtual classrooms.
After the pandemic, when schools reopened, all 10 children from 5 households, 6 of them girls, with a history of broken education found places in a respected CBSE English Medium school where the mentor took the single point responsibility of being the Education Guardian.
This story underpins NextStep story of bringing kind hearted mentors together to navigate the young learners who are at risk of losing their path of realising their full potential.