Early Childhood and the Pandemic – How an NGO for Education Steps Up
[vc_row nav_skin=”light” consent_include=”include”][vc_column css_animation=””][vc_single_image image=”1094″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Early child development sets the foundation for lifelong learning, behaviour, and health. The experiences children have in early childhood shape the brain and the child’s capacity to learn, setting the pace for school readiness and eventual adulthood. However, the COVID-19 pandemic through a spanner in the works with closure […]
Students teaching each other: Peer Learning as seen in an NGO for Education
[vc_row nav_skin=”light” consent_include=”include”][vc_column css_animation=””][vc_single_image image=”1072″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row nav_skin=”light” consent_include=”include”][vc_column css_animation=””][vc_column_text] With nearly two years of closure of schools, our children were reliant on lessons they would get virtually, through Zoom, WhatsApp or YouTube. Children were longing to meet their teachers and classmates for quite a while. In November 2021, schools reopened, which brought some […]
Scholarship for Students – Support all the way
[vc_row nav_skin=”light” consent_include=”include”][vc_column css_animation=””][vc_single_image image=”1056″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row nav_skin=”light” consent_include=”include”][vc_column css_animation=””][vc_column_text]Seeing the world around us, we draw inspiration from people who make a difference – no matter how small or large that difference is. Oftentimes it takes a little more than the drive to excel; one needs to be empowered with the knowledge and education that […]
The Importance of Schools Reopening
[vc_row nav_skin=”light” consent_include=”include”][vc_column css_animation=””][vc_single_image image=”1038″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row nav_skin=”light” consent_include=”include”][vc_column css_animation=””][vc_column_text]November 2021 brought with it some mixed emotions as our children returned to schools and Anganwadis. One could observe the feelings of joy, excitement, confusion, and nervousness among the children and their parents. A child’s first day back at school – whether after a short vacation […]
Volunteering – A Key Part Of Makkala Jagriti
[vc_row nav_skin=”light” consent_include=”include”][vc_column css_animation=””][vc_single_image image=”1027″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text] Archana is a software engineer at a leading multinational corporation in Bengaluru. One Friday, she received an email. It was an internal one sent across the organisation, one from its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) team. She had only been at the company for four months, and this was […]
Why I work at Makkala Jagriti
[vc_row nav_skin=”light” consent_include=”include”][vc_column width=”1/2″ css_animation=””][vc_column_text] Hi, my name is Nikhil Vasuki, and I manage communications at Makkala Jagriti. This account is a story of how Makkala Jagriti’s story and my story met. The first 15 years of my career have been widely varied. My ties with the corporate world began in finance, moving on […]
Online Learning With Makkala Jagriti During The Pandemic
[vc_row nav_skin=”light” consent_include=”include”][vc_column css_animation=””][vc_column_text] What Children, Parents and Teachers Thought [/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”930″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text] The years 2020 and 2021 so far have been challenging beyond comprehension. This holds for everybody… having to combat an unprecedented worldwide occurrence calls for a special strain of resilience. At Makkala Jagriti, a challenge we have observed closer to home was […]
Ushering New Opportunities for Children in Child Care Institutions
[vc_row nav_skin=”light” consent_include=”include”][vc_column css_animation=””][vc_column_text] Ushering New Opportunities for Children in Child Care Institutions [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Dev (name changed) is a little boy of twelve from Koppal district in North Karnataka. Circumstances have been difficult for him. Coming from an unstable family, he spent his life as a rag-picker when Childline’s frontline team rescued him. He was brought […]
Rallying Together – Community Support During the Pandemic
[vc_row nav_skin=”light” consent_include=”include”][vc_column css_animation=””][vc_column_text] We’ve been amid the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects for over 18 months now. It is rather hard to reminisce about life before then. So much has happened in these 500-odd days that they feel like a lingering dark and dreary cloud. It has been particularly hard on the socio-economically marginalised […]
Exploring Creativity
[vc_row nav_skin=”light” consent_include=”include”][vc_column css_animation=””][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”839″ img_size=”1024×768″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row nav_skin=”light” consent_include=”include”][vc_column width=”1/2″ css_animation=””][vc_single_image image=”840″ img_size=”1024×768″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″ css_animation=””][vc_column_text]When we think of the word creativity, our minds tend to gravitate towards forms of art and artistic pursuits. But if we were to break the word up and dwell on the word create, it is quite simply a conversion – conversion […]