{"id":3677,"date":"2016-10-03T03:19:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T03:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/?p=3677"},"modified":"2016-10-03T03:19:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T03:19:39","slug":"learning-camps-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/?p=3677","title":{"rendered":"Learning Camps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lack of education has always been one of my deepest concerns. I can&#8217;t help but wonder about the number of children whose lives and dreams are sacrificed because of lack of education.<br \/>\nThis issue really bothered me and I just wanted to do something about it. Rather than waiting to grow older to take some action, I decided to initiate something. Learning camps.<\/p>\n<p>The idea was to teach underprivileged children English, ICT and Character Building through student volunteers from our school. This meant, I had to gather Underprivileged children, devise a plan, a syllabus and take approval from school authorities, and gather student volunteers. I knew from start, that this would take up a lot of time and effort, and so a few of my friends suggested me to not continue with it as my &#8220;CAS Project&#8221; was already over. But the fire in kept me going.<br \/>\nI was confused of where to start. After a lot of thinking, I came up with the idea of orienting the didi&#8217;s and Bhaiya&#8217;s in my school about the learning camps and gather their kids and teach them. In order to communicate with them effectively, I had to use their native language, Gujarati, for all communications. Though I know Gujarati very well, it was a challenge for me to type and create presentations and forms online in Gujarati. It took me about 3 hours and lots of google translates to finally come up with a presentation and a participation form.\u00a0Slowly and steadily everything fell into place. Volunteers and kids were all ready. After about a month of planning, the day had finally arrived when we began the learning camps.<\/p>\n<p>The learning camps were after school. Which meant, that after 9 hours of school, we had to stay back in school till\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">7:30<\/span><\/span>in the evening and teach these children. The challenge in the start was that there weren&#8217;t enough student volunteers for 5 days. So in the first two weeks, I stayed back thrice a week, went to school and studied for my 12th. Despite the extremely busy schedule, I kept going on and stayed committed to this project.<\/p>\n<p>Through this project, I learned about the difference children can make. I learnt about my level of commitment to something I so dearly loved doing. And I learnt about the extent to which I could work hard, and keep going.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-3678 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-11-300x247.png\" alt=\"unnamed-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-11-300x247.png 300w, https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-11.png 832w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-3679 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-21.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-3680 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-21-300x247.png\" alt=\"unnamed-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-21-300x247.png 300w, https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-21.png 832w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-31.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-3681 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-31-300x180.png\" alt=\"unnamed-3\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-31-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-31.png 832w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lack of education has always been one of my deepest concerns. 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