Teach for India is a world-renowned not-for-Profit organization with a mission to improve the quality of education in India. They work as fellows placed in schools across India and run intervention classrooms. What started five years ago with just 1 city and about 50 fellows has now spread across 5 cities with a team of 700 fellows started at Aya Nagar MCD School, New Delhi where 31 brilliant girls are studying. This year, network has reached 209 schools and is still growing strong.GDGWS is a part of this noble cause that Teach for India Team is working on. Our students from PYP to IB-DP contributed immensely for this noble because .These students donated books, chart papers markers, crayons, stationery, glue sticks. Craft materials, pencil boxes and stickers. The students visited the school in Ayanagar on Thursday, September 12, 2013 and interacted with students and came back quite enlightened and motivated after experiencing the cause personally and shared the same with Head of School Dr Neeta Bali. They were all praises for the mission and their students.We GDGWS family wish Teach for India good luck in taking this mission to greater heights.!
From a student’s pen
Along with my few other fellow schoolmates and Sujata Ma’am , I went for the Teach India program today on behalf of GD Goenka World School. It would be a tasteless understatement if I say that I learnt and watched life at Aayanagarvidyalaya. To brief you about Teach India program- it is an elementary school for approximately two thousand young Indian impoverished kids teaching them in the best possible manner. They take two sessions in morning and evening for boys and girls. I was happy to see our government taking such respectable initiatives towards the betterment of the country.
The school premises were not upright but student’s enthusiasm to learn concealed it. There were quotes written on the wall as we passed by them, one of them which struck my mind; said- ‘jiske paas vidya roopinetranhi; voaslisamaajmeinandhekesamaanhai’ meaning ‘An uneducated person is disguised as a blind in the real world. Most of the classrooms didn’t have a teacher and students were sitting in pin-drop silence when I went to them and asked- what happened? What are you guys sad about? And to my surprise the girl replied- “Even today our teacher didn’t come, I want to study” and she got silent again but her eyes spoke. Now, as we were passing by another classroom- I noticed everyone sitting silently and studying without any teacher in the room. I looked towards their Blackboard and saw that the whole board was filled with some English to Hindi translation written in calligraphy. I thought that it must be their teacher who would have written this and had gone for some work, so I ordinarily asked them- Where’s your teacher? And they replied- No teacher today, Bhaiya. I was amused but I couldn’t believe them so I asked them another question- who wrote this on the board? And a little 9-year-old girl raised her hand; I thought she must have been joking because it was impossible for a nine year old to write at that height. But then that little kid proved us that ‘Nothing is impossible’ as she came in front and beautifully wrote- ‘My Name Is Aanya Pandey’ on the board. I couldn’t believe my eyes as she wrote better then most of us and she’d need a chair to write on that board. These are just a couple of occurrences, which took place, I can’t describe all of them here becauseI would need much more than the space here to describe my whole experience.
Early in the morning, after breakfast when we boarded our buses for the ‘AayanagarVidyalaya’; I thought we would go and help those kids but in the true sense- they helped us much more then we did. They opened a whole new segment of life in front of me, I never thought about it this way. It was surprisingly wonderful to say the least. When I entered the school I never expected those kids to speak in English, so I asked one of them- aapka name? And she vigorously replied- Bhaiya, speak in English or I’ll tell my teacher. When we entered the classroom their teacher asked them- who are we? And ‘We are innovators’ they shouted. Those few moments made one major difference in the way I used to think, i.e. if this is the future of our country! Then I’m definite enough that the day is not far when we will be one of the Developed countries of the world.
‘’Moments from our Movements’’ –
Rohit Mukul
IB-DP , Year II
