Ehsaas @ CYDA with kids from Patil Estate - 30th April

For those of you wondering about the new volunteer in the first picture, His name is Shawn lawyer, and I invited him to join us teach the kids English. He is spearheading the CYDA "Traffic Watch" initiative in Pune. ( I might be doing some street plays with the CYDA Traffic Watch people soon ;)).

We first checked the homework assigned to them yesterday, and then continued with the books that we used on saturday, having the kids read in English (and improve their diction and pronunciation along the way) and then translate the paragraph into marathi/Hindi or explain it to them in Hindi or Marathi. It was a fun class.

Parth took on the responsibility of teaching the fundamentals of english grammar to Hemant, Vishal and Sunil (in picture 3). If I was one of those kids, I would have been amazed at the patience and trouble with which Parth taught that module.

The kids were given varying levels of homework (from bringing 25 new English words to the next class, to completing english sentences in the Present, Past, and Future tense).

Compared to Saturday when 7 Ehsaas volunteers showed up, only 2 showed up Sunday.

I see the need for better coordination while running this program vis a vis"
1. Volunteer participation
2. Course structure for the kids (it's a little to ad hoc at present)

My thoughts: Split ourselves into a Saturday and Sunday group, and let the "spoken english" program run for an 8 week duration.Your

Feedback/ comments will be appreciated