[Assam] [asha-dc-projects] Re: Parijat Academy project- Marathon run to create awareness on education

[umesh sharma]

www.parijatacademy.org

umesh sharma <umesh.sh05 at post.harvard.edu> wrote: To: umesh.sh05 at post.harvard.edu,
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From: umesh sharma <umesh.sh05 at post.harvard.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 10:14:47 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [asha-dc-projects] Re: Parijat Academy project-  Marathon run to create awareness on education

                             Here is the link
http://www.assamtribune.com/may1408/state.html

umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com> wrote:
 We just approved this project in Jan 2008.

Umesh

Ankur Bora <ankur_bora2000 at yahoo.com> wrote: To: AssamSociety at yahoogroups.com
From: Ankur Bora <ankur_bora2000 at yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 08:51:13 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Assam Society] Marathon run to create awareness on education

                           
Dear friends ,
  Please find this Assam tribune article below.  Thanks to support from ASA Foundation Parijat Academy is able to provide education to around 500 students. Most importantly , it has created awareness  about the importance of education in the whole region.
   
  Ankur 
   
  Marathon run to create awareness on education
By A City Correspondent
 GUWAHATI, May 13 – Not for all a run assumes significance, but for the tribal students of Parijat Academy located at Pamohi, Deepor Beel who have started realising the importance of education, a forthcoming run is turning out to be the most looked forward event of their academic calendar.

The marathon run scheduled on May 18 and organised by Parijat Academy has also become important for the school authorities as  the run is aimed at making  the local tribal people aware about the value of education and the need to send their children to school.

In this area dominated by tribal people who largely depend on agriculture, making liquor or on selling their  labour for livelihood, sending their young children to school was a never considered idea till a young man, determined to make the tribal children literate started a school. Uttam Teron’s Parijat Academy now attends to 478 tribal students of the area.

“Our mission has just started. We are yet to reach out to each child in the area,” said Teron adding that 25 per cent of the children in the area are still deprived of education.

Though the people are gradually realising the need of educating their children, poor living conditions has been in the way of sending the children to school. “Parijat Academy provides free education to the tribal children, but the parents prefer to employ the children in chores that  increase the family income,” said  Teron.

Teron said that the dream of making every tribal child literate was not an impossible task and that the academy was concentrating on garnering the support of the women folk in the matter.

What has  encouraged the school authorities to target the women folk is the fact that it has been the mothers and sisters of the students of the academy who have been religiously attending the parents- teachers meet held after every two months. 

“We have noticed that mothers are particularly keen to send the children to school,” said Teron.

The excitement triggered by the coming event has been great with more than 100 students from class V to VIII getting ready to participate in the run. The participants will start from the Garchuk point and the race will end at the Deepor Beel point covering a distance of 6.5 km. The starting time of the run is 7 am.

           
     
               


Umesh Sharma

Washington D.C. 

1-202-215-4328 [Cell]

Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of  2005

http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info)

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info)




www.gse.harvard.edu/iep  (where the above 2 are used )
http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/



http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/           

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