I enjoy teaching the Tent School children – Sharavathy, Baikady Tent School Teacher

I enjoy teaching the Tent School children – Sharavathy, Baikady Tent School Teacher

I have been working at the Baikady Tent School for the last 10 months, along with with Felix, FSL-India’s Long Term volunteer, from Germany. The older children of the tent community have to look after their younger siblings, so they are unable to go to regular school. So, FSL-India started their Tent School initiative to provide basic education in English and Maths, and healthcare to the children.

First, we go to their houses and convince the parents to send the children to school. Whenever the parents are not available, gone to work, we talk to the children directly and ask them to come to our school

We start the school at 10 am. I go to the children’s houses, get them ready and bring them to school. First, we have a prayer, then take attendance and sing some English rhymes. I teach them the days of the week, dates, English and Kannada varanamale (alphabets), numbers 1-10, names of different vegetables with the help of charts. The children enjoy learning and I enjoy teaching them.

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