Just keep Reading

by Teach For India in Maharashtra

  • 280

    Books Goal
  • 280

    Books Received
  • 0

    Days to go
Raised Percent :
100.00%
The fundraiser is successful.
Pune
Impact: 250 Children

Who we are

We are a team of 250 students and 2 Teach For India fellows from Saraswati Vidyalay EMS, a low-income PMC school in Pune. We love reading and dream of setting up a library in school thus exposing ourselves to the beauty of reading. We envision ourselves to be voracious readers and want to enhance our comprehension skill and develop our questioning and reasoning skills through reading. Hence, we need more books to quench our thirst for reading. Please help us to Just Keep Reading.


Our work and its impact

We are TFI Fellows placed in a PMC school in Pune. I am Ashwini. I have completed my post-graduation in Bioinformatics and Biotechnology. I love working with kids, listening to their stories. Rajat is another fellow in our school who is a Mechanical Engineer by profession. He too is passionate about kids and teaching. Despite our diverse backgrounds and experiences, we are united in our vision to transform, in our own small way, the alarming reality of India's educational crisis. Teach For India is an organization that recruits motivated individuals from all walks of life and places them in low income government or private schools, where reading and writing levels of students are way below their actual grade levels. TFI fellowship provides fellows with an opportunity to be a guide and a friend to the children in school and community and also to learn from them in many ways.


How we will utilise these books

We work with kids in low income government school in Pune. We envision our kids to become future leaders who are capable of making well informed decisions for self and for others around them and to work towards making our society a better place to live in Being teachers in school, we try to integrate our lesson plans with values and exposure of different things along with the academics for the students. We believe that the problem of educational inequity can be solved only by the means of education. At school, we focus on a holistic development of our students by encouraging them to learn everyday via different activities. We also visit the community they live in and work in parallel to ensure that our teachings from school permeate into their community. Our school faces an acute shortage of funds and space for an exclusive library room. We aim to set up a library in school and create a safe space for kids where they can enjoy reading books and stories in English, Hindi and Marathi. Every penny of your donation will be utilized to buy/get books for this library. By setting up the school library, we want to evoke a thirst of reading good books in students, which will help them to build their logical, reasoning, questioning skills along with improving their English fluency and comprehension skills.



Supporters

Name Donate Amount Date
Chryselle DSilva Dias 1,650 August 30, 2016
Sneha Pasuparthy 250 August 29, 2016
Anjali Gour 2,500 August 28, 2016
Palash Jadhav 1,500 August 22, 2016
Anonymous 250 August 21, 2016
Darpan Raghav 500 August 08, 2016
Rajat Sharma 250 August 07, 2016
Sneha Gour 1,000 August 04, 2016
Anonymous 500 August 04, 2016
Ratnakar Mishra 1,000 August 03, 2016
Ashwini Patekar 100 August 03, 2016
Abhishek Nair 2,500 August 02, 2016
Nidhi Wanjari 500 August 02, 2016
Greeshma Girish 1,000 August 02, 2016
Amit Rajbhar 500 August 02, 2016
Name Donate Amount Date
Chryselle DSilva Dias 1,650 August 30, 2016
Sneha Pasuparthy 250 August 29, 2016
Anjali Gour 2,500 August 28, 2016
Palash Jadhav 1,500 August 22, 2016
Varun Wakpainjan 250 August 21, 2016
Darpan Raghav 500 August 08, 2016
Rajat Sharma 250 August 07, 2016
Sneha Gour 1,000 August 04, 2016
Deepak Talapagala 500 August 04, 2016
Ratnakar Mishra 1,000 August 03, 2016
Ashwini Patekar 100 August 03, 2016
Abhishek Nair 2,500 August 02, 2016
Nidhi Wanjari 500 August 02, 2016
Greeshma Girish 1,000 August 02, 2016
Amit Rajbhar 500 August 02, 2016