Ngo Final Report.docx

PGDM IFM (BATCH 2017-19) NGO INTERNSHIP Name & Roll No: VISHAL KUMAWAT (1719PGFM 2536) FACULTY GUIDE: PROF. CHAYA PANDEY

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SUMMARY As we are living our daily life we Observes each thing and even want to change certain things of society so that we can make a better tomorrow. As ITM along with the help of MAGIC BUS gave us an opportunity to interact with children which I expressed as “A step to get closer with society”. As the days passed, we became a part of the school which we were Assigned and we shared a very good relationship with the students. The students are so Bright and they just need little encouragement in order to become the shining stars of tomorrow. After the end of our journey we realise one thing that “Nothing will give us inner satisfaction and happiness more than doing a selfless job”, and this is what is practiced by MAGIC BUS . I salute the spirit and the path MAGIC BUS is following of EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND EMPOWERMENT which are the most strong pillars of our society.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS PARTICULAR’S

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Title page

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Summary

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Table of contents

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Introduction

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Background /History of NGO

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Vision & mission of statement

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Aim / objectives

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Activities undertaken by NGO

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Student project activities

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Major activities

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Pictures/photos of the internship

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Project Objectives

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Outputs/ Outcomes/ Results

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Recommendations

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Findings

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Conclusion

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Learning’s accumulated

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References

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INTRODUCTION MAGIC BUS is a non-profit NGO. It is a charitable organization that specializes in the education and empowerment of less-privileged children, youth and women through working with them at an individual level. Their nationally-recognized programmes include schools, remedial education, computer training, adult literacy, skills training, microfinance and social entrepreneurship. It was founded in 1985 by Ms. Rashmi Mishra, it began with her teaching a class of five girls in her home on the campus of IIT Delhi. MAGIC BUS now offers programs in five major cities across India, in some of the poorest neighbourhoods of Delhi, Haryana, Mumbai and Bangalore. Their team of about 350 people includes local and foreign volunteers, teachers and staff and a large circle of committed friends, donors and well-wishers. MAGIC BUS has made a difference in the lives of more than 220,000 families over 29 years, over 2,500 women have been empowered to earn their own living, and more than 120,000 people across 20 rehabilitated slums in Delhi and Mumbai have benefited from their programs. Sponsors span across India, the US and Europe, some providing constant support to them, and thousands of volunteers have worked with them over the years. India is home to a multicultural and multiracial population of 1.2 billion people (that’s 17.5% of the world’s population)– over 50% of them under the age of 25. It’s the world’s largest democracy, and its third largest economy as nation that regained independence just 60 years ago, India faces many challenges, one of which is the wide disparity in income, education and exposure among the population. While there is steady improvement every year, at MAGIC BUS they think that ensuring a high quality of education, practical knowledge, and enough opportunities to get into skilled vocations makes a significant difference to the lives of the individuals affected, and empowering them. A now common approach to empowering first-generation learners is a combination of basic statelevel education for children and improving basic welfare. But education needs context and applicability to harness individuality and diversity, without which it may simply contribute to more disillusionment within underprivileged communities. Moreover, MAGIC BUS believes that education should involve not just the child, but the family and community, as well. Educating mothers is the cornerstone of our method, as the mother is usually the main caretaker of the family, and has the most influence over her children.

Background/History of Ngo It has been three decades since MAGIC BUS undertook the task of transforming lives of thousands of people. The changes we see in people, in communities, in students continue to surprise us. A multitude of people have contributed selflessly to the founder’s vision and helped MAGIC BUS grow. It was 2011, the year MAGIC BUS Mumbai started its journey from inside IIT Powai into the communities outside. This journey continues with success stories of students who now confidently face the world with renewed awareness, knowledge and aspire for careers in law, banking, medicine, writing and many more fields. There are new beginnings each day as MAGIC BUS continues to bring about social reforms through education. They know that their Mission has been successful when their beneficiaries return to MAGIC BUS as mentors and volunteers. They know that they are making a difference when their efforts manifest in their students’ efforts to be agents of social change. If you enter Phule Nagar in Powai and you will see students rushing to classes, greeting teachers, exstudents awaiting their scholarship formalities, volunteers armed with ideas for classrooms, saplings making their way to the PAGE 4 0F 24

MAGIC BUS green corner etc. The ‘MAGIC BUS Lane’, as it is fondly called by Team MAGIC BUS has an atmosphere that is both infectious and inspiring. Now the real story begins. UMANG Beyond School Program in Communities: MAGIC BUS Mumbai’s flagship program, umang, which started with 60 children at Chaitanya Nagar 8 years ago today spreads education to 450 students across 4 communities in Powai. The program helps with Academic Enrichment, Reading Proficiency, Life Skills, English Speaking and Digital Empowerment. Saturday Clubs, DEAR Time, Circle Time as well as Excursions are an essential part of the curriculum. The MAGIC BUS umang child is physically healthy with a curious mind, environmentally conscious, respectful of diversity and filled with confidence and aspirations to compete in the outside world. Our “Beyond School” program in Communities and schools across Mumbai The ratio of girls & boys in the Beyond School Centres is 45:55 difference to the lives of 2000 children across Mumbai since 2013 Centre name

Age group

Number of beneficiaries

Chaitanya Nagar

Age group: 10 to 16 Class 5 to 10

180

Gautam Nagar

Age group: 5 to 13 Class KG to 7

80

Phule Nagar

Age Group: 5 to 13 Class KG to 7

80

Milind Nagar

Age group: 5 to 14 Class KG to 7

70

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Vision & mission statement: Vision: MAGIC BUS believes in an integrated approach to empowerment and education. To be a significant force of change for India’s less privileged

Mission: Educating and empowering the less privileged through integrated methods and initiating and implementing progressive social change; MAGIC BUS UMANG: ENRICHING EDUCATION BHAVISHYA-YAAN: FILLING IN THE GAPS

Strategy: ‘Educate – Empower-Transform

Methodology: ‘Begin with self – Begin today – Begin small’

GOAL: We want to see an India where every child gets an education, every youth an opportunity to succeed, and every woman the right to equality.

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Aim/objectives MAGIC BUS makes stories like this happen. They are a 30-year old NGO based in India that believes in social change through empowering the most vulnerable members of underprivileged communities: the women, youth, and children. MAGIC BUS create peerless programs with our approach of holistic, practical education and vocational training. There’s more to educating a child than academic knowledge What a child can do with good education is limited only by opportunity, attitude and exposure.

There are many successful initiatives in India that aim to increase school attendance in less privileged communities, but very few that enable children to discover where they can go from there. MAGIC BUS works to fill this need. Their flagship program, the MAGIC BUS School in Gurgaon, was founded on the principle that true education requires head, heart and hand, and that less-privileged children should receive the same exposure and facilities available at the country’s best schools. It is accredited to the CBSE syllabus, and our students achieve grades that compete with some of the best schools in India. They expose them to ideas that make them think about the world around them, and many of our students here have dreams of social change and entrepreneurship. They use creative methods in their classrooms, and incorporate a system of learning values and spreading knowledge to family members and their communities. The Bal Vihar School, their first project, continues to enrich the community it resides in. The children look forward to each day of learning, and no teacher has left since the schools’ inception. Other programs for children include the Bhavishya-yaan and Beyond School programs, where they augment the syllabus taught at government schools with classes on computer skills, life skills and spoken English. They believe these are pragmatic skills that increase a child’s ability to communicate confidently, focus on tasks and take initiative in finding information– and it continues to help them once they’ve finished school.

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Activities undertaken by the NGO Run Run Run The Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon (SCMM) 2014 had a huge MAGIC BUS participation. Thirty five students and five staff members went for the Dream Run. Ganesh Khirsagar, alumni turned teacher ran the Half Marathon. Pradeep Deshpande- a true blue mentor, and veteran runner raised 1.7 lakhs as the MAGIC BUS Dream Maker. He ran the Half Marathon for the 4th time for MAGIC BUS finishing in just close to 2 hours! In Addition Mumbai Core Management team raised an online handsome donation. MAGIC BUS is grateful to Founder and Chairperson, Rashmi Misra for fuelling the spirit of participation in the Marathon. A shout out for all our donors and pledge raisers who made this wonderful opportunity even more beautiful with their participation

LITERACY MONTH International Literacy Day is celebrated every year on September 8, as declared by UNESCO. They started by participating in the Pratham event. Soon after they took the stories in Big Books and pen drives to neighbouring schools and non profit organisations. Team MAGIC BUS with its teachers and volunteers was able to reach more than 500 children across communities in Powai and Milind Nagar. Roshni Vishwakarma, an eight year old, self proclaimed bookworm says, “I love reading. This was the best activity that MAGIC BUS could come up with. I absolutely loved it.” Surveys suggest that when an adult reads to a child in a Non threatening environment and allows for exploration of the story, the young reader learns to mimic the adult, develops a huge comfort with the print. It has rightly been said that reading opens the doors of our imagination and lets us think beyond. One of the objectives of the event was to allow students the opportunity to become bookworms because there is nothing as amazing as being one!

Reading and Film Club Corners This summer in the various community centres during the month of May, the much waited Reading Corners and Film club came alive. With a significant increase in the number of students that enrolled this year in comparison to last year, more than 60 community children along with the 86 in house children enrolled in the program thus bringing this number to a whopping 146. The books read by the children cover a wide range of topics, in three different languages: English, Hindi and Marathi. The teachers in the centre were amazed to see the thirst for reading amongst the children. MAGIC BUS is especially thankful to the teachers and dedicated mothers who manned the reading corners with great responsibility and enthusiasm despite the heat.

TEACHER DEVELOPMENT AND UPGRADES: Who Am I workshop MAGIC BUS Mumbai had its first ever offsite workshop for teachers and staff during the skill upgrade week! A two day workshop titled “Who am I.” It was held at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Mumbai! We believe that a teacher creates magic like none other and holds the key to unlocking a child’s potential. MAGIC BUS believes that nurturing a teacher is the key to everyone’s growth. The workshop was designed to align personal goals with

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organizational

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objectives. To do this they took the help of a multifaceted trainer /educator Anand Pendharkar who understood the teachers and helped facilitate this wonderful workshop. It brought out the hidden skills, talents, aspirations and best practices which will facilitate growth, both of the individual and the organisation. “It helped us bond and reflect, as we explored ourselves and tried to connect the dots with our personal potential and organizational roles. Yes, not all was fun and games, the hard questions and the attempt to find answers and concrete takeaways was the meat of the program

Awareness against Child Sex Abuse A training of teachers on the sensitive issue of child sexual abuse was conducted by Rihaee, a non profit organisation working on such issues in holistic ways. The awareness session on child sexual abuse was an eye opener for all the teachers. It helped them clear the myths on child abuse and get a fair idea on recognizing and reacting responsibly towards instances of child abuse. Such training is invaluable in the current scenario of rampant reports of sexual abuse of women and children. Thanks to Team Rihaee for helping MAGIC BUS build a sturdy safety net for children against sexual abuse

English speaking MAGIC BUS ’s dedicated volunteers Vaishnavi and Mallika tailored a 1week English Speaking module based on the demands of the teachers. It is well established that knowing English is a necessity to communicate globally. The session was made enriching and interesting with the help of videos, participating in role plays, conducting mock interviews and by singing songs. The teachers immensely benefitted from it along with having fun!

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STUDENT PROJECT ACTIVITIES Description of the project theme & area (location) MAGIC BUS create peerless programs with our approach of holistic, practical education and vocational training. There’s more to educating a child than academic knowledge What a child can do with good education is limited only by opportunity, attitude and exposure. Volunteers divided in two parts:

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Bhavishya yaan: In partnership with Rotary Club of Bombay, this program runs in eight municipal schools for 120 selected students in each school from standard VI-IX. It provides guidance for computer skills, life skills and English with a view to enhance educational and employment opportunities for students of regional language schools. In addition these students also take part in specially designed camps and go on field trips conducted by MAGIC BUS and Rotary Club. The beneficiaries of BhavishyaYaan are regional language municipal schools students.

2. Beyond school: Beyond the regular academic classes, effort is made to improve computer efficiency and adult literacy. Extra -curricular activities also include art and craft, dance and music, storytelling, yoga and meditation. Health and hygiene issues are discussed. Regular sports and spoken English classes are also conducted. Cleanliness is an everyday activity and each child is motivated to follow simple health and  It is felt that without a certain level of English education, the children of these schools will not be successful in life.  During our Survey, one of immediate needs expressed by children at almost all the learning centres was to “Learn English”.  The focus of this programme is thus on teaching spoken/ functional language and numeric skills.  The emphasis would be on USE of English WORDS and not teaching English GRAMMAR.  The programme is run in selected schools with the help of volunteers.  The duration of the programme is 2 hours of Teaching English, maths, science preferably on Saturdays.  The syllabus prepared by is taught by volunteers. It can be covered by volunteers in 12 weeks-16 weeks.  Each volunteer has to commit for at least 25 hours of Teaching spread over 12 weeks.  Besides, there are Orientation classes for volunteers at the beginning & Review meetings in between.  Volunteering is an act of love and rewards are great and priceless. Seeing the underprivileged blossom under your tutelage is a rewarding experience. We also contribute in improving the educational standards of the schools of our country and thus serve our motherland.

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Major activities Day1: Objective for the day: The objective for the day was to take charge of teaching the under privileged students of MAGIC BUS ’s BEYOND SCHOOL program and to understand the school’s rules and policies followed by interaction with students. our group was assigned to teach the students of Phule Nagar which is one of the branch of MAGIC BUS . Objective accomplished: Our group successfully completed day 1’s target, we went to Phule Nagar and we interacted with the teacher in-charge Disha Jain. she explained us our respective duties & we also interacted with the students. DAY2: Objective for the day: As it was children’s day, so the objective of the day was to ensure that the kids are having fun. Objective accomplished: we played & dance along with the kids, we also played word games & musical chair with them and we distributed chocolates to them. DAY3: Objectives for the day: The objective for the day was to test the general knowledge of the students. Objective accomplished: We gathered all students from classes l to class Vii. We observed that there were few bright students but most of the students have very low general knowledge. Thus, we made them sit in a circular way & ask them basic general knowledge questions & the answers of which were unknown to them we wrote it on the board. Thus, we achieved our objective. DAY4: Objective for the day: The objective for the day was to make teaching aids for easy understanding of the subject for the children & also to teach them. Objective accomplished: We made number cards, expressions, charts of days, weeks and months, parts of speech & format of informal letter & we also taught kids maths. DAY5: PAGE 11 0F 24

Objective for the day: The objective for the day was to make charts of rhyming words along with their diagrams and to teach kids. Objective accomplished: We made charts of rhyming words along with their diagrams and we taught kids opposite words. DAY6: Objective for the day: The objective for the day was to make several charts of singular and plural words and to teach kids. Objective accomplished: We made several charts of singular and plural words and we taught about different features of tongue and about taste buds. DAY7: Objective for the day: The objective for the day was to make important glands of the digestive system, their secretions and their functions and to explain about them to kids. Objective accomplished: We made chart on important glands of the digestive system, their secretions and their functions and to explained it to them. DAY8: Objective for the day: The objective for the day was to make a chart on golden words & to prepare several question papers for standard I and II, and to teach kids. Objective accomplished: We made chart on golden words and prepared several question papers for standard I and II & III, and we taught kids. DAY9: Objective for the day: The objective for the day was to make a clock with card board, & to prepare several question papers for standard III & IV, and to teach kids. Objective accomplished: We started making the clock & we prepared several question papers for standard III & IV, and to taught kids. PAGE 12 0F 24

DAY10: Objective for the day: The objective for the day was to finish making the clock & to prepare several question papers for standard V & VI, to teach kids and to help teachers with official computer work. Objective accomplished: We finished making the clock and we prepared several question papers for standard V & VI, we taught kids and help the teachers with official computer work. DAY11: Objective for the day: The objective for the day was to prepare question paper for standard VII, to teach kids and to help teachers with official computer work. Objective accomplished: We prepared several question papers for standard VII, we taught kids & we finished all the charts which were told to made, we also helped the teachers with official computer work. We also received our NGO certificate on that day. DAY12: Objective for the day: The objective of the day was to take pictures with the children and the teachers. Objective accomplished: We took pictures with the children and teachers, and bid them farewell.

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PICTURES/PHOTOS OF THE INTERNSHIP

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Project Objectives  To create awareness amongst the students the importance of education and make them goal oriented. We try to bring new and fun way of teaching so that they take interest in studies.  To send overall day assessment report to the D.F. and respective faculty members.  To coordinate with the group members.  To make daily time plan to be followed.  To keep account of each activity from our side as well as from student’s side.  To help school for some extra activities.  To give value education to all.  To maintain discipline and decorum of classes.

Major activities The major activities were as follows: 1. Career Guidance 2. Exploring Talents 3. Helping teachers and outdoor activities

Results 1. Students interacted with us and we built a good connection with them. 2. We could remove fear of studies of subjects like mathematics, etc. from them. 3. They could learn and understood each concept very easy

Recommendations We would like to recommend this NGO activities to be help in every schools and colleges understood so that they can get into these activities which will benefit to those children who need our help.

Findings 1. Children are talented and if they’ll get platform and opportunities then they will get success Definitely

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2. It is not only about giving knowledge, it is also about how they will apply knowledge to the real world. 3. Each and every student is unique and have different skills and it is important to nurture their talent and to help them as they are the future of this country.

Conclusion It is a great initiative by MAGIC BUS as today it is necessity to help them because there are millions of such people who need us and it is our responsibility to help them, to support them in any way we can weather it is teaching, education, medical, financial help, etc. Last but not the least I learnt an important aspect from MAGIC BUS is always “Begin with self, Begin small and Begin today” then we can contribute our level best as human being to our society. This journey of two weeks was one of the golden times I ever had. As an individual I improved my skills of leadership, team work and cooperation from this internship. I wish and pledge myself that in future also I will love to work with MAGIC BUS so that I can add more value to our society.

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LEARNING ACCUMULATED      

Trained ourselves with the Life skills, Soft skills and Hard Skills. Got aware with the gamification platform. Ethical Sales. Training experienced by providing training to students and teachers. Management skills. Leadership skills.

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REFERENCES 1. http://MAGIC BUS -india.org/resources/ 2. https://www.facebook.com/MAGIC BUS EducationAndEmpowerment/ 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GetMAGIC BUS

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