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Happy kids queue up for their turn at Ek Tara Anondo Gari
Agrima Tikader
Posted on 22 Feb 2022
19:29 PM
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The Ek Tara Anondo Gari ready to roll with its team of Street Educators. Ek Tara is the first Indian organisation to bring the mobile education cart to the country by collaborating with Belgium-based non-profit Mobile School. The partners have targeted to combat the learning slide caused by the pandemic school closures by associating with Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) schools. The initiative was launched at KMC Primary School (D), Dhapa, Kachari Para, and will soon reach three other KMC schools. Source: Ek Tara
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Member, Mayor-In-Council (MMiC), Education, Sandipan Saha inaugurated the Anondo Gari initiative and interacted with the KMC school students. Source: Ek Tara
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The KMC school’s teachers, staff and students were in attendance at the inauguration. Students waited patiently for their turn at the mobile education cart. Source: Ek Tara
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Students were introduced to the colourful and interactive resources on the cart by the Street Educators. Some of the Street Educators are young women from low-income families in the Topsia-Tiljala area who have been trained by Ek Tara to become educators. Source: Ek Tara
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The cart comes with extendable blackboards that the children can use to play-learn. “The children kept coming back for more chalk as they enjoyed writing on the boards,” said Shuvasree Biswas, executive programme manager- communications, Ek Tara. Source: Ek Tara
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Resources on the cart are in three languages — English, Bengali and Hindi — to make learning accessible. Source: Ek Tara
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The simple, colourful and engaging resources of the mobile education cart encourage students to learn with the help of the Street Educators as well as by themselves. Source: Ek Tara
Last updated on 23 Feb 2022
20:01 PM
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