Defining Success to children

[muqawwee123]

Re: Defining Success to children

@Southie

There will be negative examples always. To me it is simple. If kids have to work and then come to school they cannot cope. The money does not have to be given to the kids directly. Just by paying the kids’ family’s rent, money can be freed up so kids don’t have to work.

Will some parents abuse this. And still send kids to work? Yes. But will MOST parents do what is in kids’ best interest? A resounding YES.

It is high time we think about the disadvantaged families with respect t. And not be patronizing - and assume financial in-kind support (rent paid for in this case) will be abused.

They are looking to succeed. Up yo us to provide tools. Mere words, in the absence of PRACTICAL help, will make us feel better. But do nothing for the kids.

The organisation looks at the problem from different perspective. Its about making people realise whats their problems are and how to tackle that independently. The organisation was formed by a group of friends by analysing that all the problems exist due to lack of education and thats why they started schools in less priviledged areas to provide quality education.

They want to make children independent without loosing self respect. After matriculations, they try to give opportunity to the students to work for call centres, etc. We were given an example of girl to portray the philosophy of being independent.

The girl’s mother was chained at home on the context that she was haunted by a Jin / aaseb. The girl discussed this with her mentor and said that she read somewhere that its a curable disease and asked for help. The mentor alongwith organisers arranged for appointment of doctor, but asked the girl (class 8th student) to take her mother herself to hospital at a particular time to the xyz doctor. They could have arranged for transport and all that, but they wanted the girl to perform that herself to boost up her confidence. She took her mother from home in autorikshaw and visited the Doctor, who admitted her mother for few days. She was suffering from epilacy and was cured within a year. The girl shared her experience with a sense of achievemnet that she was behind the process of letting her mother free from chains.