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Submitted By: ARNAV GERA (A020) JASKARAN SINGH (D051) NAMAN KHANNA (HR027) SUBHASH KAPOOR (A034)
We Care Internship 2015 Disha NGO (Society for Rural and Urban Community Development) New Delhi
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PREFACE
DISHA is a NGO working for socio-economic development of urban and rural
communities. Inspired by Mahatma Gandhis ideology of serving the downtrodden,
poorest of the poor and marginalized sections, DISHA works with children, adolescents,
women and their families in the area of education, health, gender equity, skill
development, Self-Help Groups, micro finance, water management, sanitation, livelihood,
peaceful conflict resolution for restoring justice, dignity and human rights. It has field
schools in various areas that serve the underprivileged children of society by giving them
elementary level education and helping them with school admissions. As part of We Care,
our project was to teach the students and do their assessment as per the ASER standards. The
project also taking involved continuing their activities in primary school that aimed at
improving the reading proficiency of students. Additionally we were also responsible to
digitize all the records of the assessment details that shall help them to track and analyse their
performance.
Place: New Delhi
Arnav Gera
Jaskaran Singh
Naman Khanna
Subhash Kapoor
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We would like to thank the General Secretary of DISHA, Mr. Ravi Chopra and the CEO,
Ms. Shobhana Radhakrishnan providing us the opportunity to make this little difference to the
society. We would also like to thank the field staff that included Mr. Ramesh Kumar, Ms.
Sunita Sharma, Ms. Meena Kaushik and Ms. Sunita Kakkar, for their valuable guidance and
providing us the facilities to gain an incredible experience, the entire team for their time and
support which made our internship tenure insightful. We would also like to thank our faculty
mentor, Mr. Chandan Dasgupta, for being there as a pillar of support in case of any need.
Lastly, we would like to thank the SRF team, Ms. Anjalika Gujar and Dr. Meena Galliara for
being the guiding force behind this program that has provided us with invaluable insights and
life changing experience.
Arnav Gera
Jaskaran Singh
Naman Khanna
Subhash Kapoor
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Our project aim was to assess the level of understanding of students in the subjects of hindi
reading and arithmetic ability at different municipal primary schools in the area of New Delhi.
As part of this assignment, we had to make use of ASER tool that was provided which had a
properly designed flowchart kind of assessment module that needed to be followed while
assessing each and every child in the allotted classes at the school. After the assessment had
been carried out, the students who lacked proper knowledge, for them teaching sessions were
held so that they could learn and understand the concepts. The students who could not read
hindi, for them a hindi reading camp was organized whereby proper reading and pronunciation
of letters and words of hindi was taught through innovative techniques. At the field school, we
took up the responsibility of teaching elementary level English, Mathematics and computer
lessons. The data collected in the assessment exercise over the past two years was also digitized
that helped the organization to track the students performance and analyse their track record
of the past two years.
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION..5
ABOUT DISHA..5
KEY PROJECTS AT DISHA ..6
OUR ROLE...7
ASER ASSESSMENT...8
ASSESSMENT TOOLS..10
HINDI READING CAMP.12
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS...13
LEARNINGS FROM THE INTERNSHIP14
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INTRODUCTION
About DISHA
Disha was founded in 1992 and since then their initiatives have helped people on the path of
self-reliance and empowerment.
DISHA is an NGO working for socio-economic development of urban and rural communities.
Inspired by Mahatma Gandhis ideology of serving the downtrodden, poorest of the poor and
marginalized sections, DISHA works with children, adolescents, women and their families in
the areas of:
Education
Health
Gender Equity
Skill Development
Self-Help Groups
Micro Finance
Water Management
Sanitation
Livelihood
Peaceful Conflict Resolution For Restoring Justice
Dignity And Human Rights
DISHA field school
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These development programs are based on the felt needs of people with an effort to mobilize
participation for their individual and community development.
In the last seven years, the foundation has touched the lives of more than 20,000 boys and girls
from the slums and streets of Delhi and students studying in the municipal corporation schools.
Most of them are working and face sexual abuse, economic deprivation, and harassment and
are addicted to drugs. We also work with the families of the little ones to enable their children
to live their dreams.
In Bihar, they work for the empowerment of rural women who are at the bottom of the pyramid.
Since the past fifteen years they have helped women by establishing 825 Self Help Groups and
cluster groups to start micro- financing activities, skill development for sustainable livelihood
and micro enterprise development. Their children are provided education and adolescent girls
are given accurate and correct information on issues of adolescent reproductive health. DISHA
has also helped the marginalized communities to adopt rainwater harvesting for water
management and sanitation.
Key Projects at DISHA
Education: DISHA has been holding alternative educational classes for
approximately 1800 school going, school dropouts and non-school going children
every year. The focus is on enabling children to gain knowledge and skills through
participatory actions suitable to their needs. DISHA has aimed to use innovative
pedagogy like puppetry, creative theatre mime, photography, storytelling and
singing and using need based teaching learning material in education for enhancing
the artistic bent of the childs mind and help in increasing the technical ability.
Healthcare: DISHA is the Mother NGO for New Delhi district under RCH program
of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India since 2004 and
also provided direct services of family planning and reproductive and child health
to underserved and un-served population. DISHA undertook IEC activities for
increasing awareness and eerily health seeking behavior regarding Maternal and
child health.
Womens Empowerment: DISHA has undertaken activities for empowerment of
8850 poor women by organizing them into 825 Self-Help Groups, building their
social and economic assets and enhancing their status in their communities, training
them in micro-credit/finance, legal literacy, reproductive health, functional literacy
and raising their awareness of their rights. Through this forum women are involved
in implementation of preventive health care, education, legal aid, water
conservation and sanitation programs and are being capacitated to work towards
grass roots democracy for housing and land rights.
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Our Role
In Delhi, our work was with children and youth, to encourage creativity through innovative
pedagogy in the area of education and skill development. We interacted with boys and girls
from the slums and streets of Delhi and students studying in the municipal corporation schools.
It gave us a lot of exposure into the education sector and also into the lives of underprivileged
children and hardships they face for gaining education. The staff and the children were
absolutely amazing and very helpful and cooperating.
During the course of our internship we were made to work on two projects, viz.-
1. ASER assessment of students
a. Do the assessment of students at school and NGO
b. Use the previous year data available
c. Analyze and draft a report of the findings
2. Participate in ongoing Hindi Teaching Camp at MCD schools
Each of these, with our contribution, have been explained in detail in this report.
Also, during the course of our internship, we conducted various activities such as:
Field visit to see the areas from where most of the students of NGO come from, and
have a first interaction with them and their parents
Drawing day at school where students were encouraged to draw anything that feel like
drawing and all students were made to come in front of the class and narrate 3 lines
about what they have drawn and why. This was to ensure that everybody is given an
opportunity to speak, express themselves, and applauded for the same so that they gain
some confidence
Taught English and Maths at NGO students and helped them clarify the basics and
strengthened their foundation in both the subjects
Attended the Discover Japan Conference, which taught us the power of Song. We also
implemented the learning from their in our days post the conference
Made students watch a movies at both NGO and at the school and made them identify
the key learning from the movies
Conducted various extra-curricular activities at the NGO and students were made to do
group activities and were taught importance of teams and how to work in teams
Conducted a quiz in school on varied topics across different subjects being taught to
them at school
Made students well versed with the concept of solar system through engaging,
educational videos
Celebrated painting day at NGO
Gave them guidance over planning their careers in life and the subjects they need to
take at school level.
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ASER ASSESSMENT
The word aser means impact in Hindustani. If development programs are to lead to desired
outcomes, their impact on the ground needs to be regularly assessed.
ASER 2014 marked the tenth year of the Annual Status of Education Report. Each year since
2005, ASER has reached almost all rural districts in the country with three basic questions: Are
children enrolled in school? Can they read? Can they do basic arithmetic?
ASER is the only source that makes current data on schooling and learning available for all
states in India. Using a household survey methodology, ASER collects data for a representative
sample of children from every state and almost every rural district in India. On average ASER
reaches over 560 districts each year, surveying an average of 650,000 children in more than
16,000 villages in the country. This is about twice the size of the rural sample of the NSS
surveys, which provide estimates for poverty, employment, and other socioeconomic indicators
in India.
ASER seeks to use simple yet rigorous methods to generate evidence on scale on the outcomes
of social sector programs. It also aims to strengthen the link between evidence and action by
building the capacity of individuals and institutions to design, conduct, and understand
assessments that focus on key outcome indicators.
For Disha, the assessment was conducted at:
MCD schools at Inderpuri, Naraina, and Shadipur
Mayapuri Centre
Rewari Line Centre
Target Student Group:
Students of class I, II, III, IV and V from Inderpuri, Naraina Village, Shadipur and JJ Camp
schools were assessed on the hindi reading tool and arithmetic ability tool.
Hindi Reading Tool:
All the students were assessed on a simple reading tool that includes reading varna, shabd,
anuchhed, kahani. It follows a flowchart approach and tests the students capability level by
level.
Reading of varna
Reading of shabd
Reading of anuchhed
Reading of kahani
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Testing using the tool:
Start with reading of anuchhed:
If the student is able to read anuchhed, he/she is asked to read kahani.
If the student is not able to read anuchhed, he/she is asked to read shabd and if
unsuccessful, then asked to read varna.
Then accordingly the student is marked.
Arithmetic Ability Tool:
The students from all the four schools were assessed using a tool that followed a flowchart
pattern whereby students were tested on their ability to:
Recognize digits 0-9
Recognize numbers 10-100
Perform subtraction of 2-digit numbers
Perform division with 3-digit dividend and 1-digit divisor
Testing using the tool:
Start with performing subtraction:
If the student is able to perform it, move to division.
If the student is not able to perform subtraction, then he/she is asked to recognize two
digit numbers, and if unsuccessful, then asked to recognize single digit numbers.
Then accordingly the student is marked.
The assessment data was then digitized for future references and also the data from previous
years was recorded in the electronic format that helped to analyse the efficacy of the assessment
at different schools, compared with data from past years, the improvements taken cognizance
of and the areas that were lagging behind were also taken note of so that they could be
improved.
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The tool for hindi reading and arithmetic ability assessment have been added for ready
reference.
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HINDI READING CAMP
A Hindi Reading camp was organized as an initiative by DISHA NGO to improve the reading
capability of 3rd and 4th class students and assist them at reading hindi correctly and efficiently.
This year innovative techniques were used to help students learn better, for example students
were taught by way of Poems and role plays and quiz, this type of methodology was used
because by this way the students would be able to learn better and focus on the subject. The
camp was undertaken at 4 different schools and each camp coordinator of Disha had used
different ways to teaching. An important objective of conducting this type of camp was to
analyze how different techniques and way of teaching can help students and the successful
methods would then be applied to the rest of the schools.
The whole exercise was conducted for a duration of 10 days at four different schools for
students of classes 3rd and 4th. The text was taken up from their course-book.
The topics and words that were mentioned in the story as well as in the poem were
explained and discussed with the students, to improve their understanding of the new
words.
To make them aware of the correct pronunciation, the text was read aloud.
To help them correctly pronounce the words, students were asked to keep their finger
on the word being read, so that they could start recognizing the word.
The difficult words that were mentioned in the text were written on the blackboard and
the students were asked to recognize and locate the word in their textbook.
Individually the students were asked to read the text and others followed the student
who was asked to read and accordingly any corrections were made, if required.
An activity of Shabd Antakshari was carried out.
Counting from 1-20 was written in words in hindi.
Some of the songs were taken up and written on the blackboard, which the students
were taught to pronounce and write correctly.
Students were asked to write the text in their notebook, so as to improve their writing
skills.
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Overall more than 170 students were part of this camp at different schools and they were
then assessed. After the assessment when the results were compiled, a considerable
improvement was seen in the hindi reading proficiency. The graph gives an analysis of the
complete activity.
Comparative Analysis of Hindi Reading Camp schools under Disha Foundation
As per our assessment of the Hindi Camps undertaken at various schools under Disha
foundation we have seen that students of the MCPS Shadipur School have performed better
throughout as the percentage of students who could read fluently was the highest. It was
suggested that the methodologies adopted by the camp coordinators at MCPS Shadipur
School should be adopted by the other schools as this would lead to a better result across
all other schools.
The point of concern is the result of JJ camp and Inderpuri-I as we see that there are still a
few percentage of students who cannot read , so special focus would be given to these
students in order to help them learn and make them able to read fluently.
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
120%
Number of children who
could read varna
Number ofchildren who
could readwords
Number ofchildren who
could readsentence
Number ofchildren who
could readfluently
Number ofchildren who
could not read
MCPS, Shadipur-I JJ Camp, Narayana-I
Inderpuri-I MCP School, Naraina Village
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LEARNINGS FROM THE INTERNSHIP
Internship at DISHA provided us an opportunity to learn explore beyond the academics and
books. As citizens we are aware of the problems in the country but most of us are not sensitized
towards them and do not understand the gravity of the problem. But We Care, the social
internship programme at NMIMS, provided us a platform where we could get some insights
into the problems faced by certain sections of the society, the root cause of the problems and
what can we do to improve the situation.
The diligent effort put in by all of us at teaching primary students in turn gave us a new learning
as to how we as individuals can contribute towards brighter future of our country. It also gave
us a peek into the operations involved in successfully running an NGO of which we had no
idea whatsoever. We now value the part played by voluntary service towards improving the
society. Through this we realized that how with little support the unprivileged children and
youth can be trained to become independent and earn a livelihood. The key is to focus on
sustainable growth and to ensure all members of the society progress.
The complete activity of teaching students and assessing their level of learning gave us the
opportunity to understand the education system and how some improvements in the form of
pedagogy and discipline can improve the learning standards of the students. It was quite
heartening to see how children despite facing such hardships are interested in studying which
is awe-inspiring in itself. This was a new experience for us and learnings were immense. The
digitization of the collected assessment data of this as well as the past years has helped the
organization to keep an electronic record of each and every student. This has helped in
generating comparative analysis reports comparing the performance of students across schools,
previous years and even across classes giving a clearer picture of the results obtained at macro
level. Additionally, it can help chart out any corrective actions that might need to be taken.
Working at DISHA was overall a very rich experience and it gave us an opportunity to
understand issues of society, something we may have never got otherwise. These learnings will
help us grow into more responsible managers in the future.
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