India education divide – rural education come to a standstill during lockdown

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[caption id="attachment_942" align="aligncenter" width="840"] zoom session at Z.P School Ghore budruk, Haveli, Pune[/caption] Coronavirus Pandemic has made world come to a standstill. Even though it has been 3 months of lockdown, there is not complete recovery or change of situation. Every industry including education sector has stopped working. Considering that there is no immediate vaccine or treatment in near future, the option we are left with is to face the situation together and find creative and effective solutions. Usually in India the school reopens in June every year after summer holidays. However, considering this Coronavirus pandemic, restarting schools will aggravate the situation. But, on the other hand, keeping schools closed and children locked at home is also not a solution. Already the disruption of examinations and schools has affected children's…
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Rural education in India during and post CORONA/COVID-19

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Today, we all are fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic, it has costed us human lives, caused economic loss, loss of our freedom, motivation and much more. While every sector/industry is facing losses and challenges due to COVID-19, I am going to discuss about challenges and loss in educational sector especially rural education in this blog. And also open up a dialogue on how to address this challenges. Currently, due to COVID-19, exams are postponed, schools, colleges, universities are closed. In the beginning they were closed without further notice but it was assumed it will be for short period of time. However, looking at the bleak future, where we do not know when will we get cure or vaccine, everybody has started finding solutions in terms continuing classes via digital medium…
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Tips on usage of computer by Dr.Varsha for our ComputerMitra beneficiaries

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StudyMall is helping more than 5000 rural children read,learn and do better in studies. StudyMall has reached 33 schools in 33 villages of Maharashtra. Recently we launched computer learning program "ComputerMitra" with help of NIIT foundation, where our volunteer teaches computer  for period of 3 months to a batch of students from 6th and 7 th std at Z.P.School of village Jambargaon and at end of this course (once they pass exam), they get certified by NIIT foundation as computer literates. But with technology, comes few health disadvantages which are preventable and we decided to create awareness regarding same. Our volunteer Dr.Varsha, (Dr.Varsha contact page),  a well known respected medical doctor from Mumbai, decided to help us. On occasion of children's eye health and safety month, took a audiovisual presentation…
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Impact Stories of StudyMall- Better rural education in villages

Impact Stories of StudyMall- Better rural education in villages

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StudyMall is helping more than 5000 rural children read,learn and do better in studies. StudyMall has reached 33 schools in 33 villages of Maharashtra. While we do have many impact parameters and impact stories, today i would like to share 2 little recent stories about impact of StudyMall. This stories are shared from teachers of our StudyMall project with us. One of our respected and committed teacher is Mr.Prakash Rajput sir who shares his message regarding impact of StudyMall in Z.P.School of Village Murumkhedwadi, Dist Aurangabad as below. He shared his heartfelt thanks with  us for sending computer in his small village located in mountains. He shared the joy of happiness that he witnessed on children's faces when they saw the computer in their school. He is one of  our…
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Yoga Day celebrated by our little Yogi’s of StudyMall

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On occasion of International Yoga day observed on Friday 21 June 2019, our partner schools enthusiastically took part in Yoga Day. All of our 30 centres in rural areas, participated by conducting Yoga Session with our young students from 1st std to 10th std with their teachers. StudyMall promotes learning by providing various educational infrastructure in rural schools. Currently we focus on providing library and digital aids e.g. projector embedded with school syllabus and an option to link it to internet.With availability of such improved tools in rural schools, it fosters positive environment to conduct additional activities such as YOGA Day. We are very thankful to have teachers who support and carry out such activities while fully using the provided infrastructure. YOGA is our ancient practise which is accepted by…
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StudyFin- Financial support to reduce school dropouts in Maharashtra

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At Thinksharp Foundation, we are successfully running project StudyMall in 28 villages in 28 rural schools across Maharashtra,India . Through StudyMall we are helping approximately 5000 rural children by providing them books,digital learning and other better educational infrastructure. While working in rural areas, we closely observed lack of financial resource is one of the critical reason for discontinuing education. One of the major cause of dropouts in secondary schools in rural areas, is lack of financial support. This led us to launch our  new project "StudyFin". StudyFin project supports to financially disadvantaged children to pursue secondary education (9th to 12th Std) and vocational education. Special emphasis is for the girls who cannot pursue or have dropped out of the school due to financial constraints. This will help rural children for completion…
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TISS AESDII CSR conclave 2018

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Our founder Santosh Phad attended TISS AESDII CSR Conclave on 21 May 2018 at Mumbai.Many inputs and guidance from  Mr.Nadir Godrej (MD ,Godrej Industries Ltd), Ms.Shweta Shalini ED, Village Social Transformation Foundation , Mr.Batliwala (Financial Adviser, TISS ) Mr.Rohan Sarma (Head TISS AESDII), Mr.Balasubramaniam (Founder, GRAAM) was received and we had an opportunity to meet many corporate CSR partners who were present for this 3 days event. TISS AESDII (TISS Assessment & Empanelment Standards for Development Institutions in India) is an conference/event that was held between May 21 and 23, 2018, at Tata Institute Of Social Sciences.The TISS AESDII is an initiative to create a model to evaluate, assess, accredit and build capacities of Non-Profit Organisations (NPOs) and Social Sector Organisations (SSOs) through robust multi-layered processes that stress adherence to several parameters, a…
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20th StudyMall Launched at Ghore Budruk village,District Pune

20th StudyMall Launched at Ghore Budruk village,District Pune

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26th StudyMall Launched at village Ambivali, Dist Raigad

26th StudyMall Launched at village Ambivali, Dist Raigad

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Our founders interaction with “Mitti Ke Rang”

Our founders interaction with “Mitti Ke Rang”

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Our founder Mr.Santosh Phad had an opportunity to provide insigths regarding working in and for an "not for profits" or social enterprises at an event organised for team of interns of another social enterprise "Mitti Ke Rang" on 17 Oct 2018 at Mumbai. "Mitti Ke Rang" is an not for profit organisation who are doing excellent work for Advocating & Empowering the lives of 245 Million Widows and Their Children worldwide. You can check there work at https://www.facebook.com/mittikerangofficial Our Founder shared lot of ideas and thoughts regarding various questions the interns had. He also had a chance to learn few things himself from this enthusiastic social activists. Certainly it was an positive meeting that opened a door of collaboration between two organisations working for good of society. You can also become our…
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