A literacy club by the NSS Unit of Institute of Excellence in Higher Education (IEHE) was inaugurated in the Ishwar Nagar slum on Sunday. Interested college students will every day teach the slum children one hour after the college 365 days.
Notably, as many as 35 slum children have shown their interest, and they are majorly from class 1 to class 8. The inaugural event was graced by the presence of the director Ml Nath, Indira Barman, Govind Rai and special guests from the Barkatullah University Anant Saxena and Rahul Parihar.
During the event a special study kits were distributed to the financially weak children that also included stationary items and books which they would be able to use to for a year. Apart from this, another club will soon start for the women of the slum who are uneducated and they would be briefed about the various government schemes, nutrition, self-help groups.
Rahul Parihar said, “Before teaching we will check their habits like whether their hair is combed properly or not and are they neat and clean or not this is very important because we are teaching them so that they can become like us.”
Head student coordinator Farzana said, “Through this club we are focusing on the all-round development of the kids we will not only help them with the academics but with that, we will also teach them about personal hygiene, yoga, manners, spoken English and more. We aim that the parents who are spending money and are sending their kids to private tuitions should send their kids to us because we will be teaching free of cost. Due to the efforts of the literacy club, some students have also got admission in Navoday School.”