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Support Students Overcome Learning Challenges
  • Kruthika

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    Kruthika Mani
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    Kruthika Mani

    from Chennai

Roughly half of our grade 8 students aren’t able to read books that are beyond grade 3 level - That’s 5 years below their grade level!
And, around 40% of our total students cannot understand the basics of writing and speaking English, in spite of being exposed to the language for a considerable time period.
This is the unfortunate reality of the classroom, that Shyam Prasanth and I, as Teach for India fellows, teach at a low-income private school at Tondiarpet, North Chennai.

Our HOPE:
We've contacted several organizations and finally found a trained special educator, with 12 years of experience, who'd be assessing our students bi-weekly (twice a week).  

She specializes in Special Education, Dyslexia, ADHD, Autism & Developmental Disabilities and has been working therapeutically with children since 2005, using a variety of techniques such as Play-Therapy, Brain Gym, Social Stories, Eurhythmy, TEACH NILD Program and more.  

She will be observing our teaching strategies and techniques, assessing the children’s retention abilities, their behavioural patterns etc. and helping us conscientiously track their progress. 

She’s agreed to do ALL of this FREE of charge; the only expense being her transport cost.

Since she’s from Madipakkam (South Chennai) and my school is at Tondiarpet (North Chennai) which covers a total of roughly 50km back and forth (Madipakkam to Tondiarpet = 25km), the total cost for 6 months is expensive.
Here's the estimate:
One way = Rs. 480 (Rs. 100 for 4 km, Rs. 18 for every additional km)
To and fro = Rs. 480*2 = Rs. 960
Twice a week = Rs. 960*2 = Rs. 1920
Total Charge per month = Rs. 1920 * 4 = Rs. 7680
Total Charge for 6 months (Oct to Mar) = Rs. 7680 * 6 = Rs. 46,080  

100% of the money donated would directly be used for the designated expense listed above. Anything additional would also be used for the students such as buying books, stationary etc.

I and my co-fellow Shyam will be solely in charge of it.  For more details on Teach for India (TFI) and its fellowship program, please visit www.teachforindia.org/

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