Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

The Isha Foundation And Its Social Work

A tremendous amount of work has been put in by the Foundation so far. These are just some of the praise-worthy initiatives that I know of are ...

Rural Health Clinics


- Operating mobile health clinics reaching over 2.2 million rural people

- Rural health clinics treating on an average 60+ patients each day
- Health awareness campaigns conducted through the state




To know more about this project, go through https://isha.sadhguru.org/social-outreach/rural-rejuvenation/


Disaster Support


- Disaster relief measures for Cuddalore Tsunami region, Chennai floods, Kerala floods, etc.




To know more about this project, go through https://isha.sadhguru.org/social-outreach/rural-rejuvenation/


For Rural people


- Livelihood generation programs for rural people
- Isha Gramotsavam to restore dying village arts & sports in Tamilnadu and Andhra Pradesh




- Free yoga classes in rural areas
- Free housing in the villages surrounding Isha Yoga Center in Coimbatore, etc. 


To know more about this project, go through https://isha.sadhguru.org/social-outreach/rural-rejuvenation/


For Tribal people


- Providing many tribals skill based job training and job opportunities in various domains

- Providing free medical support to surrounding tribal villages
- Providing free education to many tribal children
- Construction of houses and toilets in the tribal villages

To know more, check: bit.ly/IshaTribals


For Environment


- More than 3 million saplings distributed, planted and tracked 
- More than 35 nurseries across Tamilnadu and Pondicherry




To know more about this work, go through https://www.ishaoutreach.org/en/project-greenhands


For India's Rivers


- The Rally For Rivers awareness campaign in 2017 was a huge success with 16.2 crore people supporting it across India

RFR policy document has already been shared to the state Governments as an official recommendation by NITI Aayog
- The project proposed to rejuvenate Waghari river in Maharashtra has received the state cabinet nod on 5-March-2019 and work started on it
Cauvery Calling is the action phase of RFR to revive Cauvery river through AgroForestry model by enrolling farmers in Cauvery river basin




To know more about this project, go through: cauverycalling.org


For Farmers


- Dozens of Free Organic farming training sessions for farmers in Tamilnadu
- Thousands of schools engaged in tree plantation and nurturing




A recent news in media: https://m.dailyhunt.in/news/bangladesh/english/the+covai+post-epaper-covaipos/best+fpo+in+tamil+nadu+achieves+record+turnover+of+rs+7+91+crore-newsid-97887862


"Farmers Producers Organisation (FPO) registered as Vellingiri Uzhavan producer Company Ltd (VUPCL) has achieved a record turnover of Rs 7.91 crore during the last financial year, increase of almost 100 per cent compared to previous year. 

The FPO was formed in 2013, guided by Isha Foundation, following the loss being incurred by coconut farmers in the village surrounding Thondamuthur area, as the buyers were giving prices based on the size of the coconuts, which were very low comared to market, VUPCL Head, Kumar told reporters at Isha Yoga Centre today. The company was started with 400 members and now has 1,603 members."


This in itself seems to be a phenomenal achievement to bring struggling farmers of Tamilnadu out of their troubles.

For Education


- 8000+ students provided scholarship education in rural Tamilnadu and Andhra Pradesh
- Training 1000s of teachers in Government schools for providing better education




To know more about this project, go through https://www.ishaoutreach.org/en/isha-vidhya


Indian media does not publish much of such positive information but will publish immediately any allegation, however fake it may be.

I hope people who are sincerely interested in finding the truth about the Isha Foundation will search and find it on their own.

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Friday, March 10, 2017

Essence of Isha GSAP

What is GSAP - Government School Adoption Program

Reach so far: 516 rural schools

School Statistics: 56 schools in Tamilnadu and 460 schools in Andhra Pradesh

Schools in Coimbatore: 14 Government schools in Coimbatore district covered

Total student reach so far: 1.46 lakh students


Why is intervention needed?

  - Very high student-teacher ratio now
  - Lack of basic facilities such as toilets, benches, library books, etc.
  - Lack of inspired teachers and a high absentee rate
  - High drop-out rate among students in government schools


What is being done as part of GSAP?

  - Teacher training for teachers to handle difficult children and to also keep the teachers updated in latest teaching methodologies
  - Appointing additional volunteers & teachers for conducting remedial classes for children
  - Free yoga classes for students & teachers
  - Free sports and extracurricular training for students
  - Providing free nutrition supplements
  - Tree plantation in the schools
  - Free sapling distribution to the students


My take on it

This seems to be one of the least spoken about projects in Isha and among Isha volunteers I know. Having had extensive discussions and debates as a boy with some of my uncles who studied in a Government school, I know first-hand (rather second-hand) the debacles of such a schooling system. Trying to infuse life into a system that is almost dead is a humongous task.

My congratulations to Isha for even attempting such a thing! I really wish this takes off on a big scale and lakhs of children benefit out of it.


References:


  1. https://www.slideshare.net/ishafoundation/government-school-adoption-program-isha-outreach-13725684
  2. https://www.clintonfoundation.org/clinton-global-initiative/commitments/government-school-intervention-program-isha-vidhya
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKXDlwSIG1w
  4. www.ashanet.org/projects-new/documents/933/Isha_Vidhya_presentation.ppt
  5. http://www.academicresearchjournals.org/IJPSD/PDF/2015/December/Chittoor.pdf
  6. https://www.noexperiencenecessarybook.com/agdlv/government-school-adoption-program-isha-outreach.html
  7. www.karadipath.com/downloads/Magic_English_SLL_Assessment_Brochure.pdf
  8. http://www.ashanet.org/projects/project-view.php?p=933
  9. http://www.globalgiving.org/pfil/14516/projdoc.pdf
  10. http://www.ishaoutreach.org/gsap/faq-2/



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