Events

On the occasion of World Environment Day

we have organised Essay Writing and Painting Competition among the children at our Gram Shiksha Kendra at Bhabhniyawan village in Baharaich district in UP.

Children have informed about the importance of this day, major challenges our earth is facing and most importantly about this year's theme "Air Pollution".

All students have taken pledge to use environment friendly products as far as possible and to work as "Agents of Change" by telling their parents and all people of the village to do the same. 

A light of hope in the darkness : Visit Report

Darjipurwa, a remote village situated in the Bahraich district of UP. The literacy is below the national average. The majority of the population follows Islam and are depended on agriculture. A major percentage of men population migrate to Saudi Arabia for livelihood as labourer, helper etc. The girls are married at an early age as conventionally they are considered to do household works only and education is not considered essential for them as evident during field visit of AGAM team, team met a young girl of about 12 years old who was doing some household work and upon enquiring team got to know that her little sister of about 7 years old was coming to our Shiksha Kendra but she was not attending classes for no valid reasons. Although her little sister is attending classes at our center but who knows the future that she might have to leave her study as she will attain the age of her elder sister.

Similar situation exists for boys as well. We rarely met any boy of age more than 15 studying at our centre mostly because they help their family by earning some money doing part-time job. In the village there is only one primary government school and one urdu school. Some of the little faces who attend urdu school don't know how to write their names in hindi/english they lag behind others who goes to primary school in terms of modern education.

In the above all hardships, there is still some hope, some of the parents understand the importance of modern education and they were very much eager to communicate with our team. We got to know about a student Afzal, studying in class 4 at our center and amazingly, he is preparing for Navodaya Entrance Exam. Then a little face, Ashfaq, popped out saying sir, I too want to prepare for Navodaya, upon questioning he told he is studying in class 2 and got 84 % marks in his final term of class 1 exam.

Apart from little boys, there were some of angels there who were so much excited to talk to team e.g. Rajia, Gulfisa, Salmona, Parmina etc. studying in primary classes accompanied team during the village visit and they are also regular in attending classes. All these little faces especially girls, students preparing for Navodaya and all others are being given proper mentoring and guidance.

Some parents understand and are aware of the importance of education while others don't. The Parent-Teacher Meeting serves the purpose of counselling of parents and villagers making them understand the importance of education in everyone's life and encourage them to send their wards to primary schools and our centre.

At the end, there is a hope on the little faces studying at our centre that they will do better in their future life and a hope in us that we will strive for the best for them.