In my view...

Jan 18th - baghawanala School

We visited a school with 71 students in total. Enough class rooms in school also have the problem because of funding crisis; they are not able to hire many teachers as well as good facility in school. There are only two classes where 1 and 2 study in same class with total 40 students and rest of the classes till 5 studies in same class room and the total students are 31.  Well, talking more about school, it is situated in Hukulgunj, bhagwan nala, Banars in 2001 which was established by PVCHR. PVCHR is an Indian non- governmental organization that fights for the rights of marginalized people in several North-Indian states, especially in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. It was founded in 1996 by Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi, his wife Shruti Naghuvanshi and the Sarod Maestro Vikash Maharaj. Nowadays the PVCHR has about 50,000 members including 3,000 former torture victims. Students from the school are belong to very poor family neither they can pay fee nor they can afford the good sanitation to their children. 

So PVCHR is helping them with the education but the most ridiculous part I heard was that when the school was started since 2001 to 2006 it was very difficult to find the children and they were in a single room where they used to gave class in evening and the reason of it was the children from 5 yrs to above spent whole days to income money working in factory of incense (dhupbattti) as a labor. The chemical that found in incense factory are so dangerous to the skin, cause backbone problem and many health problems. They used to work for whole day and they get money according to kilos, per kilo 10 to 15. They used to work for whole day and took class in the evening, irregular number of students and slowly PVCHR started to aware them about the risk and importance of education and since 2006 the class continues nicely. In 2010 Bhagwan Nala School officially get inaugurated. It was sponsored by Indo-German society, constructed and supported by PVCHR. From which school was able to keep principle and class wise teacher, at that time there was a funding of TATA as well but now there is a funding crisis and the school have 2 classrooms with only two teachers. 

We went to visit the school and the students, first of all I felt so good that the students are getting education through PVCHR. There were most of the students from OBC community (raajbhar). There are more than 37 castes in this community. The students are getting education through teacher is a huge achievement but also there is a lack of socialization, lack of good environment in the society that directly effects the children mental, physical and social environment, so how they are not getting quality education. 

As we are going to stay here for 4 months, I am planning to take a class, twice a week for English and once a week for sanitation. However, I would like to teach them a Basic English course.

-When I shared my opinion I want to teach the students. Lenin sir gave us all the duty to look after school and plan. And we visited to the school again, so going back to school

• We would like to do gardening in front of school because there is a space for it. (with prevention measures)

• There is a lack of the mat so we supposed to have thin matrix in the floor and (dariya) on it.

• Students are from the poor family and they cannot afford the school dress and also the founder of school does not want to have a school uniform as they look like armies. So I thought if they cannot wear school uniform then we can make a dress that will be comfortable for both summer and winter. It will be alike track suit with colorful t-shirts having school logo on it. House wise sports day.

• Dustbin and chart papers (according to class and subjects)

• Some indoors and outdoors game can keeps student physically and mentally healthy.

   For gardening

• Flowers

• Water bucket

• Mud

• Flowers pot    

For mat 

• Total area

• Thin matrix

• Dariya

                                                                                                                      

For uniform

• Number of students

• Sizes

• Cost of dress

• Design

For dustbin and chart papers

• Number of classes

• Number of students according to class rooms

• Big dustbin outside in the playground

Indoors and outdoors game

• Number of classes, students

 #INSEC #PVCHR #NOREC