{"id":62,"date":"2016-04-19T17:15:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T17:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinksharpfoundation.org\/blogs\/?p=62"},"modified":"2016-04-19T17:19:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T17:19:23","slug":"studymall-at-village-vangani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinksharpfoundation.org\/blogs\/blog\/2016\/04\/19\/studymall-at-village-vangani\/","title":{"rendered":"StudyMall – Digital classroom for village vangani childern"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do you picture an second\u00a0year engineering student studying in metro city like Mumbai? Attending classes, struggling with studies, keeping up peer pressure by attending movies, Whatsapp, Facebook,Instagram, showing his art in annual functions? Yes i thought too. But dimensions changed when we, ThinkSharp Foundation team met Saurabh.<\/p>\n

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Saurabh Mangrule- dearest Dada for vangani children<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Saurabh is an youngster who goes beyond only educating himself. He is educating 200 \u00a0children by bringing better educational resources in their school at Z.P.School vangani village. But his social work is not limited to this but covers a lot of things like working for water shortage in drought areas , spreading social message via videos etc.<\/p>\n

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Vangani is a village which is in close proximity to Mumbai, 1.5 hrs only and next to Badlapur station. So we expected this village to be hi-tech or developed than other remote villages.This was our team’s reaction when Mr.Saurabh Mangrule contacted us. We thought we help only remote villages which are actually in need of better rural education infrastructure. \u00a0Vangani might not be the correct place to start of our third StudyMall as it is so close to Mumbai.<\/p>\n

But as its said motivation is contagious, Mr.Saurabh was very enthusiastic for starting StudyMall and he was very much sure that Vangani \u00a0children are very bright and in need of StudyMall. His mother is already helping \u00a0Vangani children by \u00a0being there loving teacher, and Saurbah has developed a close bond while visiting Vangani with his mother. He also wanted to help his mother and his little buddies by providing them in better education infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Charged up with Saurabh’s \u00a0motivation, we decided to visit Vangani in August 2015 and we were greeted by shower of rain at Vangani village. \u00a0An equal amount of shower of enthusiasm from Z.P.School teachers and students awaited for us as we entered school premises.\"1\"<\/p>\n

As soon as we entered school premises, we saw Saurabh was surrounded by all students and they were very much connected to him treating him like there big brother. Students were so bright they instantly connected to Thinksharp Foundation team as well. \u00a0A 6th standard young enthusiastic girl said to me “are you doctor, didi? i want to be doctor as well” .\"DSC_0448\"<\/p>\n

Z.P school has 200 students from 1 to 7th standard and with 5 teachers and only 4 classroom. There is no library, sports material or any additional learning infrastructure.Teachers were passionate, students were bright. \u00a0But for \u00a0them to help each other more educational infrastructure was missing.<\/p>\n

We decided within our team to help this amazing school. And thus began our journey of\u00a0StudyMall our third project and first digital project at vangani village.But was this an easy journey ? Maybe not. Was this journey really helpful? Definitely yes as this is \u00a0helping 200 children of 1 to 7th std read, learn and play . They are \u00a0overall enjoy learning everyday.Was this journey possible because of us only? off course not without our supporters \u00a0especially Mr.Saurabh and YVO.<\/p>\n

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We began our funding campaigns to raise funds to provide books, sports, arts and craft, digital projector, smartboard, e-tablets on BitGiving (https:\/\/www.bitgiving.com\/<\/a>), Milaap (https:\/\/milaap.org\/<\/a>)\u00a0 and our own website in Sep 2015. As usual we constantly urged \u00a0through our Social media to\u00a0our supporters and once again they responded to us. The best part was when Young volunteer organisation (YVO) http:\/\/www.yvorg.in\/<\/a>\u00a0 committed to support us in Dec 2015. They committed us that they will be bearing 80% cost of our \u00a0StudyMall.<\/p>\n

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In Dec 2015, this StudyMall was ready with digital projector with kind help of E-Prashala company (http:\/\/www.eprashala.com\/<\/a>). This projector \u00a0has 500 GB data which includes 1 to 7th standard syllabus, extra curricular syllabus including poems, stories, geographical,mathematical data etc. The smartboard \u00a0with it is interactive as well, geometrical figures, drawing etc can be taught on this board. Educational tablets from Classpad company (http:\/\/www.classpad.in\/<\/a>) were distrubted five in number as pilot project. This\u00a0\u00a0 has again interactive learning 1 to 7th std syllabus and many more added knowledge repositories . \u00a0And the most\u00a0important part of our every StudyMall is\u00a0Pratham books ( http:\/\/prathambooks.org\/<\/a>) . These \u00a0were added with 2 Library kits and having 500 books approx. \u00a0Voltas Company (http:\/\/www.voltas.com\/<\/a>)\u00a0 provided us with Arts, crafts material through their CSR.<\/p>\n

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To create awareness on opening of StudyMall \u00a0we conducted drawing competition on 22 Dec 2015. This was to \u00a0attract students to attend school. It also \u00a0motivated parents to send children to school as now more better infrastructure was available at\u00a0school. This drawing competition prizes were \u00a0distributed on StudyMall opening day.<\/p>\n

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On 9 Jan 2016 we gathered for StudyMall opening at Vangani village . Saurabh kept his word of helping Vangani village children by being there \u00a0responsible big brother.Many dignitaries graced this occasion like Mrs Meena Narula, a renowned educationist. Mr. Anand Chedda from YVO , Mr.Waghmare, Block education officer. Also our supporters who graced occasion despite their busy professional schedules like Dr.Fatima, Mr.shetty, Mr.Khanolkar, Mr.Jadhav, Durva, Saurabh’s enthusiastic and socially active young friends etc.<\/p>\n

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What do you like best about StudyMall? I asked students after opening ceremony. Before i finished my question, answers came in chorus from children “projector where we can watch animated stories, e-tabs where we can learn maths, books which have funny stories of animals, drawing material” the answers were never ending.<\/p>\n

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The best answer was which made us all smile was from a 4th std student “my teachers do not get throat pain now because they can play poems on projector and they no longer need to shout”.
\n\"DSC_1697\"<\/a>“Madam lets take one picture in different pose, lets take selfie, \u00a0Boys are always taking pictures with saurabh dada\u00a0and we do not get chance, so lets take all girls picture today” this was request in afternoon once girls of Vangani school got acquainted with us.<\/p>\n

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We are seeing benefits of this StudyMall helping Vangani tremendously since 9 Jan 2016 continuously. Increased attendance, increased love for learning , increased spending time on study or learning activities at StudyMall etc.<\/p>\n

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Launching StudyMall here is just the beginning, we are long way to better education resources here. We still need lot of support to \u00a0add more educational infrastructure.<\/p>\n

You can donate and support us to help Vangani\u00a0and many other villages too, our current campaign is for Chikatgaonvillage, Aurangabad\u00a0donate now to help_click on this<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks and keep your Human side up that will keep you smiling\u2026.<\/p>\n

Written by -Dr.Shraddha M Bhange<\/p>\n

Volunteer and Writer for Thinksharp Foundation.<\/p>\n

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