BlogI'm excited to write this blog entry. This is my first entry in a series of 3 entries i will make about my volunteer experience at Nai Disha. I will describe my daily experience of all 5 days of teaching i did at Nai Disha.
I will start with a brief description of what is Nai Disha and how it functions. Nai Disha Education and Cultural Society is a registered school, which admits and nourishes students from economically weak sections of the society. The school runs from 1pm to 5pm in a government school. The government school has regular hours in morning from 9am to 1pm. Improper and irregular teaching is a big problem in government schools and often the parents from economically weak sections feels that it’s not worth to send their children to school. Child labor is a big problem in India when it comes to economically weak sections and their parents find it more worth that their child works rather than study. This is where Nai Disha is different as it provides free education as well as it also tries to retain the children to studies by letting the parents know how important it is to send their children to school.
In India, the children from under-privileged background are highly under-nourished. Nai Disha also provides a mid-day meal which consists of nutritious rice and Dal (protein) and teaches them about what is good to eat and what is not.
