An introduction to DEVISE’s Reading Room
We are delighted to introduce DEVISE’s Reading Room! What exactly is it? As a concept, the Reading Room provides infrastructural facilitation and instructional aid to lesser privileged students studying in government schools of rural Telangana. On the infrastructural side, we…
CuBE (Community Base for Learning)
CuBE (Community Base for Learning) CuBE is DEVISE’s most recent initiative. As the name suggests, the idea is to provide adequate space for children to explore and learn beyond their regular school hours. We teach them basic English so that…
3rd April 2019
3rd April, 2019 Our sessions are being held regularly at the Community Model Room, Muneerabad. The number of children attending these sessions has increased from 12 to 25 and students from 2nd to 8th standard are attending them. Considering the…
25th March 2019
We conducted the first session through our community model approach today. Students from the 3rd to 7th standard attended it. We began by telling them a story about Tenali Ramakrishna while focusing on improving their vocabulary. We thank Nishanth Austin…
7th March 2019
7th March, 2019 ZPHS Pudur and Muneerabad After a 3 week break, we resumed the sessions at both ZPHS Pudur and Muneerabad today. Our volunteers administered a writing exercise in which the students were required to write down the sentences…
31st July 2018
31st July, 2018 ZPHS Muneerabad As the students have already been introduced to interrogatory words in two earlier sessions, this session was used for revision. They were given sheets which were comprised of the interrogatory words in both English and…
30th July 2018
30th July, 2018 ZPHS Pudur and Muneerabad “Connect the dots” – The students were given a sheet of paper with various words written on it using dots and they were made to connect the dots to complete the words. This…
19th July 2018
19th July, 2018 ZPHS Pudur and Muneerabad We continued the Tenali Ramakrishna story at ZPHS, Pudur. While Vamsi explained all the words to the children, Apoorv sat down with them and saw to it that they were able to read…
16th July 2018
16th July 2018 ZPHS Pudur and Muneerabad A story on Tenali Ramakrishna was told to the children. Initially, the volunteers explained the story to the children in Telugu. Following this they were made to read small parts of the story.…
12th July 2018
12th July, 2018 ZPHS, Pudur To get the students more interested in learning English and to encourage them to be more active and involved in the activities conducted during the sessions, we had a Colouring day for them on the…