EDUCATION IS THE FIRST STEP…..
Illiteracy is the worst worm engulfing a vast area of our country and extracting blood from the veins making a person crippled. They are handicapped because of meager resources and cannot afford to send their children to schools and provide them better education with books and stationery. These children also do menial jobs to augment the family resources. The Government has enacted laws to culminate child labour and provide education within the reach of these people. Unfortunately, laws and rules have no significance for these people who are themselves illiterate and do hard labour throughout the day, leaving no time to look after the family affairs. Therefore we have undertaken and initiated a programme to teach these less fortunate children..
RAWAT had undertaken and initiated a programme to teach children of these colonies. It had established 21 learning centres in Kirby Place, Old Nangal Raya, Sagarpur, Jharera village, Mehram Nagar, Durga park, Nasirpur, Dabri, Sitapuri, Mahavir enclave, Syndicate Enclave and Brahmpuri in southwest district of NCT of Delhi. There were over 847 children in these centres. They were imparted education by qualified and experienced trained teachers through LBF methodology. They were taught Hindi, Mathematics, English, Social Science and General Knowledge from 1st to 8th standards. In last three years, we have been imparting classes for secondary and senior secondary levels also with aims to motivate and mobilize dropped out children for higher education. We enroll them with NIOS and take all responsibilities from enrolling to results. There was no fee and even books and stationary were distributed to the children free of cost at primary and upper primary level. But secondary and senior secondary levels approx. 70% aspirants are bearing their admission fee and NGO is helping them in other manner. The progress of the centre is evinced from the fact that the number of students are rising steadily as compared to the previous year and it may rise substantially in the coming year necessitating in creating more and more learning centre.
The age and quality has no end to education. Along with the normal, lessons were given in physical and moral education, which were vital in character building. And it had its direct impact. Health had been dealt with earlier. Periodical camps were organized practically and periodically in all the venues covered by RAWAT during the year. Medical and health checkup were undertaken spread through out the year. Preventive measures were advised and medicines were distributed wherever necessary after the checkup. Serious and urgent cases were referred to the hospital catering to these territories. Yoga is another source healthy living irrespective of the area one lives in. it was apprised to all in frequent meeting that everyone does some physical exercise in one form or another. Breathing walking etc. were in fact part of Yoga and if practiced regularly every day keeps the disease away. Demonstrations by a Yoga expert were given time and again and looking at the interests of the people, Yoga classes were organized in some of the colonies it also had moral and spiritual impact.