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Every Saturday from 2-4 PM, Idhant Sustainable Education Foundation conducts sessions at Aadhar Bal Angan Sanstha, Viman Nagar, Pune in partnership with Aadhaar Samajik Sanstha, an NGO whose major focus is to create awareness among the marginalized about the importance of education, personal/community health and hygiene, and conserving the environment. They value people-centered development through the conduction and execution of programs with a strong base in social work and work for the protection of the rights of women and children.​
In these two hours, we teach English to a group of 40 children studying in grades ranging from the first to the ninth. We also conduct fun and enriching events like festival celebrations as well. To volunteer with us, click the “Volunteer Now” tab or DM us on Instagram at “@idhantnonprofit”!
Here are some glimpses of our sessions!
Monsoon Event
2nd July 2022
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Our session on 2nd July was a themed event - Monsoon! The children learned all about rainwater harvesting, the water cycle, and various water bodies. It was followed by an exciting game of Tambola and making cute little paper boats. We also celebrated the birthday of Ms. Soniya, who donated umbrellas and provided tasty food for the children!
Painting Workshop
23rd April 2022
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"On our session on 23rd April 2022, we conducted a Painting Workshop! Organized by Ms. Madhura and Ms. Tanvi, the session yielded beautiful drawings and paintings! Refreshments for the session were provided by Mr. Sushant. Team Idhant also donated drawing books, rulers, pencils, erasers, and necessary stationery items!
session 29: 23rd april 2022
On our session on 23rd April 2022, we conducted a Painting Workshop! Organized by Ms. Madhura and Ms. Tanvi, the session yielded beautiful drawings and paintings! Refreshments for the session were provided by Mr. Sushant. Team Idhant also donated drawing books, rulers, pencils, erasers, and necessary stationery items!
session 30: 30th april 2022
Our final session in April was a continuation of our session on 16th April. It was based on pictures and depicting them in English. We also covered poem recitations, three-letter words, numbers, and homophones - similar sounding words with different meanings! Finally, to end the session with some fun, we played Pictionary!
session 31: 07th may 2022
Our session on 7th May was based on a fun activity! We showed the children pictures and asked them to depict them in English. We also covered sight words, simple three-letter words, and revised introductions, shapes and colors, vowel consonants, and numbers. Finally, we ended the session with a poem recitation!
session 32: 21st may 2022
Our session on 21st May consisted of English lessons! The children continued the last session’s activity of viewing pictures and learned how to describe them in English. They also learned compliments and complaints, revised vocabulary, days of the week, and odd and even numbers!
session 33: 29th may 2022
session 34: 04th june 2022
session 35: 11th june 2022
Our session on 11th June was delightful and rather yummy! It included a story recitation session along with flashcard lessons on 3 letter words, different shapes, fruits, and vegetables. The kids also learned a series of compliments to exchange with each other. The session included special kulfi treats sponsored by Ladachi Kulfi.
session 36: 18th june 2022
Our session on 18th June was supported by volunteers from RCVM! Our session included fun learning and games! We spent the first-hour revising topics like the basic introduction of oneself, colors, and numbers. The kids also learned new topics like "How to take a compliment," three letter words, talking on the phone, and even currency! The next hour was spent playing fun games conducted by members of the Rotaract club, followed by some snacks!
session 37: 25th june 2022
Our session on 25th June was dedicated to English lessons! The children learned about the parts of sentences and read from passages! We also revisited familiar topics and revised the curriculum previously taught to them
session 38: 02nd july 2022
Our session on 2nd July was a themed event - Monsoon! The children learned all about rainwater harvesting, the water cycle, and various water bodies. It was followed by an exciting game of Tambola and making cute little paper boats. We also celebrated the birthday of Ms. Soniya, who donated umbrellas and provided tasty food for the children!
session 40: 30th july 2022
session 39: 23rd july 2022
Our session on 23rd July 2022 was a fun-packed, exhilarating session! The children enjoyed playing several games, including Heads-up, card games, one-on-one conversations + Q/A, and more! The highlight of the session was Dolly and Nilesh’s contribution - yummy khakras, chocolates, and laddoos for the children!
session 43: 27th august 2022
Our session on 30th July was spent revisiting previous topics with the children based on their progress and taught a few new things along the lines of conversation starters, introductions, vocabulary, spellings, shapes, colors, and numbers! We also conducted a very special activity in association with RCVM in anticipation of Raksha Bandhan on 11th August - A Rakhi Making Activity!
On August 27th, our budding Grammar nazis learned all about prepositions, articles, and punctuations! Virtually travelling the world, basic Geography lessons were taught to students in grades 9-10. Our tiny tots, 4-5 year olds, drew art on the upcoming favourite festival, Ganesh Chaturthi. Ganpati Bappa Morya!