{"id":16815,"date":"2019-08-12T14:14:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T08:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/?p=16815"},"modified":"2019-08-14T10:14:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T04:44:20","slug":"i-enjoy-teaching-the-tent-school-children-sharavathy-baikady-tent-school-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/i-enjoy-teaching-the-tent-school-children-sharavathy-baikady-tent-school-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"I enjoy teaching the Tent School children &#8211; Sharavathy, Baikady Tent School Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_7906-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16833\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have been working at the Baikady Tent School for the last 10 months, along with with Felix, FSL-India&#8217;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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_7966-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16839\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>First, we go to their houses and convince the parents to\nsend the children to school. Whenever the parents are not available, gone to\nwork, we talk to the children directly and ask them to come to our school<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_7950-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16837\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_20190711_120547_resized_20190813_021323724-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16867\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We start the school at 10 am. I go to the children\u2019s houses,\nget them ready and bring them to school. First, we have a prayer, then take\nattendance and sing some English rhymes. I teach them the days of the week,\ndates, English and Kannada varanamale (alphabets), numbers 1-10, names of\ndifferent vegetables with the help of charts. The children enjoy learning and I\nenjoy teaching them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_7948-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16835\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been working at the Baikady Tent School for the last 10 months, along with with Felix, FSL-India&#8217;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. 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