Current Activities

MUMBAI URBAN SCHOOL PROGRAMME

BMC (BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation) School Programme

Activities conducted:

• Conducted several child rights education sessions with the children in Dongri and Worli B.M.C Schools and formed 9 clubs from these two schools.
• Organized school level camps in eight B.M.C schools, 357 children participated in the school level camps. Objective of one day school camp was to enhance participation of children, to enhance communication skills of children, to understand the importance of financial education and to provide children with hands-on experience on the democratic processes by facilitating school council election. The details of date and venues is given in the table below

• Conducted Pre-test in two schools (Worli and Culaba B.M.C School). Individual and school Pre-test questionnaire forms for 100 children have been filled-in.
• Acquired permission from BMC authorities for conducting Aflatoun social and financial education program in four B.M.C primary schools (Gilderlane, G.K Marg, Globe Mills Passage and Byculla B.M.C School).
• Completed translation (from Hindi to Urdu) of Std. 1st and 2nd books with layout design etc.
• Organized two days Zonal camp for six B.M.C schools.35 children and 5 teachers participated in zonal camp. The objective of zonal camp was to provide social and financial education to and finalize the plan of action for culmination event. It is worth mention that students of all the schools came prepared with their respective home work for the camp. Play India Group (Street play by team of 12 artists) performed a play on Terrorism and a team of two senior officers from RBI team conducted sessions on Financial education, including savings. The participating schools were as below

Schools programme in M-Ward: Meljol organized a meeting with HUM (Humanity United in M-Ward) team on 10th December to discuss the progress of the Aflatoun programme in the M-ward schools. It was found that the programme is running smoothly in one (Kumud Vidya Mandir) of the six selected schools for Aflatoun programme. MelJol team conducted meeting with the principals and the teachers in charge of the Aflatoun programme in the 5 schools where the programme was yet to start and worked out plan of action. As a result, the Aflatoun programme started in two schools {Abhinav Gyan Mandir (Marathi Medium) and Trombay English School (English Medium)} in the third week of December. Basic sessions (on Mel, Jol and Aflatoun) have been conducted by using joyful methods like songs, games and different activities. The students showed interest in the programmes. All other ground work has been done by the MelJol team to implement the programme in other 3 schools by third week of January 2009.

Teacher’s Training Workshop for private schools outside M Ward: During December 3-4 MelJol conducted Teachers’ Training workshop for the selected 4 schools from Mumbai Central and Byculla (Hume High School & Junior College, Anjuman-I_ Islam Girls High School, Bhausaheb Hirey High School and Jacob Sasson School). The TTW was attended by 2 students from TISS and 6 teachers from these 4 schools. Teachers enjoyed the workshop and appreciated the concept of banking and saving.