Support an underprivileged child with remedial classes by Center For Social Security Action & Research (CSSAR)

CSSAR provides quality education to our children from urban slum community at New Shyam Nagar jhuggi, New Delhi and with continuous efforts has managed to reach 67 beneficiaries. We have reached 67 beneficiaries at our primary study centre in New Shyam Nagar slum, Delhi. Apart from conducting remedial classes, they were also provided school stationeries as per their requirements. The fourth quarterly test was conducted on March, 2022 and the children scored quite well. Children having excellence academic score both in school and CSSAR were awarded with some beautiful prize items. An art workshop was held for our children organised by a local artist and some volunteers on June, 2022.

During Covid-19 pandemic some of our beneficiaries stopped attending classes as their parents started taking them at their work places and some dropped out from schools as well. In spite of those difficulties, our trained teacher and the program manager could have managed to reach most of the children to attend classes. We conducted door step surveys to make the parents understand the importance of attending classes for their children. Apart from regular tests, the baseline survey will be conducted to assess the learning level of our children by September, 2022.

Shivangi lives in a small room in New Shyam Nagar jhuggi, New Delhi and is studying in 2nd standard in local Govt. primary school. Her father Govind works as a construction labourer but could hardly meet the daily expenses of his family as he is the sole earner of the whole family. When Shivangi was enrolled at CSSAR, she was very inattentive in her classes and irregular in school. But our trained teacher’s dedication and individual effort makes her grow interest in studies. Now, she is studying very well as she scores on an average of 74% marks in regular tests held at CSSAR. Her family has been through a lot of hard times. She, though, wants to study further and aspires to be a sincere teacher in future to help her family. CSSAR has given Shivangi that direction she needed to achieve the goals.

Due to the Pandemic the past year has been quite challenging time for all of us. Despite the impediments faced, we at CSSAR continue to strive forward in our mission to provide support to children for their educational mainstreaming and development. We have reached 65 beneficiaries at our primary study centre in New Shyam Nagar slum, Delhi. Apart from conducting remedial classes, they are also provided school stationeries as per their requirements. On November 2021, an event was held on the occasion of Bal Diwas and children were given school bags with stationery kits including notebook, colour book, pen, pencil, eraser, sharpener, colour crayon, pencil box, lunch box and food packets. The children performed dance, recitation etc. Two of our honourable board members attended the program. For the first time in CSSAR's history, computer classes have been introduced to our children. The results of our second quarterly test held in September 2021 as well as our third quarterly held in December 2021 showed impressive progress of our children.

During Covid-19 pandemic some of our beneficiaries stopped attending classes as their parents started taking them at their work places. But with continuous efforts, our teacher and the program manager managed to reach most of the children to attend classes. We conducted door to door surveys to make the parents understand the importance of attending classes for their children. Apart from regular tests, the fourth quarterly test will be conducted to assess the progress of our children in March, 2022.

Gudia lives in a small rented house in New Shyam Nagar jhuggi, New Delhi and is studying in 3rd standard in local Govt. primary school. Her father Ratilal Paswan works as a security guard but could hardly meet the daily expenses of his family of 6, as he is the sole earner of the whole family. Upon her enrollment in CSSAR, our primary teacher started paying intensive attention to her studies. Now, Gudia is studying very well and she scored more than 65 % marks in our past three quarterly tests held at CSSAR. Her family has been through a lot of hard times. She, though, wants to study further and aspires to be a teacher in future to help her family. Children like Gudia have been benefitted immensely from our remedial classes and emerged with the hope to fly high and curve out a niche for themselves and their families.

At CSSAR we have provided remedial education to our underprivileged primary school children even at the toughest time of the Covid-19 pandemic second wave. Due to the lockdown situation in Delhi, our classes were going online again. Our teacher-created different WhatsApp groups for the primary children and conducted classes through them. When the lockdown was relaxed, our physical classes were resumed in a local park to maintain the social distancing.We have reached 65 beneficiaries at our primary study centre which is situated in New Shyam Nagar slum, Delhi. They were provided remedial classes on the regular basis and also provided with some stationeries like notebooks, pen, pencil, eraser, sharpeners as per the requirement.On January 2021, a special annual event was held and our children who were given prizes like pencil box, geometry box etc. based on our writing and painting competitions held on Bal Diwas. The children performed dance, recitation etc. on that occasion. Three of our honourable board members attended the program and awarded the children.1st quarterly test result which was held in June 2021, showed massive progress of the children in their studies as most of the children acquired 75% of marks.

This year during the second wave outbreak of Covid 19, the situation in Delhi was grim. Most of our children here come from migrant labourers' families. So, during the lockdown in Delhi, most of them ran to their native villages. At that time, it was really challenging to manage to conduct the classes as there were lots of network issues and other issues also. But our teacher and the program manager tried rigorously to connect with every child possible and could have managed to reach most of the children to conduct the online classes.Apart from regular tests, a second quarterly test will be conducted to assess the progress of our children. A cultural program will be held in November for Bal Diwas and there will be some competitions among the children.

Hailing from Kash Gunj village in Uttar Pradesh, Anjali and her family live in a rented place of one room in TC Camp, Raghubir Nagar Slum, Delhi. Her father Rambir migrates to Delhi a few years ago for a better living. He works as a scrap dealer and is the sole earner of the family. Her mother Meera is a homemaker. Rambir and Meera have 6 daughters and all of them are studying. Their financial crisis has even increased in this ongoing pandemic situation. There is only one mobile phone in the family in support of which all of the 6 sisters attend their online classes. Despite all those hurdles, Anjali shines brighter with her extraordinary sincerity and urges to learn. She is studying in class 3 in JJ No. 1 MCD Primary School, Tagore Garden. She is studious and never misses her CSSAR classes. She scores continuously well in CSSAR’s quarterly tests and her school as well. Anjali dreams to become a Teacher (AS IS IT TRULY SAID "MAKE YOUR FAITH LARGER THAN YOUR FEARS AND YOUR DREAMS BIGGER THAN YOUR DOUBTS"). Her elder sisters are also studying at CSSAR. Moreover, it’s a proud moment for us as one of her elder sisters has just cleared the 10th CBSE board with 74.20%. It's a literal dream come true situation for their family.The belief in Anjali’s eyes for the power of education has developed by looking at her elder sisters and she knows that she has to face a lot of difficulties in her life but she is ready to feel the taste of victory by facing all those barriers. She is determined, courageous and passionate.

This year, amidst Covid-19 worldwide outbreak, CSSAR has managed to conduct remedial classes online. The teacher conducts door step surveys and parents’ meetings on regular intervals to help the children overcome the shortcomings they usually face from the online classes. In spite of all the hardships, our children take interest in online classes and attend classes regularly. We also conduct some fun-filled activities to avoid the monotony of online classes. We have awarded our primary children with outstanding scores in our quarterly tests.

Classroom activities and event celebration

At CSSAR, apart from regular classes quarterly tests were conducted among our primary children and those who scored outstanding were awarded. They also participated in annual sport activities and won prizes. We arranged fun based learning program for the low performance children and it helped them overcome their fear over learning .

Children enjoying fun activities

Program Update

CSSAR provides remedial education to the underprivileged slum-dwelling children in Delhi, Haryana & Bihar. Our educational program targets children from classes 1 to 10 studying in government schools. The teacher student ratio is 1:15. This program complements the gaps in school education and sustains the interest of children and their parents in formal education system. The teacher also helps the students grow their self-esteem and assertiveness. We also emphasise on extra-curricular activities to bring out the skills and the talent of the children. On every Saturday, the children engage in activities like painting, singing, dancing, yoga classes, rubber clay modelling and other crafts, story book reading etc.
Thanks for supporting us for the remedial education to the underprivileged children since long. Here is the overall update in brief:
In average, our children scored 70% in the annual exam in school. In total, 14 children secured positions in the annual school exam in 2019.

Story from the field

Ankush, our bright-eyed boy has been promoted to class 6 this year. He was attending classes at the CSSAR centre in New Shyam Nagar, Delhi. His father works as in Keshavpur vegetable market and earns while his mother is a homemaker. His uncle, a fruit vendor, is the other person to contribute to the family’s earnings. There are, in total, 11 people in his family, making it very difficult for his father and uncle to manage the house’ finance.
His grandparents came to Delhi in 1984 from a remote village in Uttar Pradesh named Jalali. Since then, they have been living in New Shyam Nagar. Four decades have passed since then, yet it seems that their lives stuck somewhere in time. They haven’t been able to break free from the chains of poverty over these forty painful years.
As a student of SDMC Prathmik Vidyalaya, Ankush has won a gold medal in a Mathematics Olympiad and scored 382 out of 600 in his class 5th. He gives credit for his improvement in studies to our CSSAR teacher, Sardeep Kaur. The environment and the teaching methods used here have helped him reach to new heights. In his words, ‘my desire to study well brings me here every day’. He is not too far behind in other activities too.

Program Update

CSSAR provides remedial education to the underprivileged slum-dwelling children in Delhi, Haryana & Bihar. Our educational program targets children from classes 1 to 10 studying in government schools. The teacher student ratio is 1:15. This program complements the gaps in school education and sustains the interest of children and their parents in formal education system. The teacher also helps the students grow their self-esteem and assertiveness. We also emphasise on extra-curricular activities to bring out the skills and the talent of the children. On every Saturday, the children engage in activities like painting, singing, dancing, yoga classes, rubber clay modelling and other crafts, story book reading etc.
Thanks for supporting us for the remedial education to the underprivileged children since long. Here is the overall update in brief:
Quarterly Test Result: 2nd quarterly test result which was held in September, 2018, showed massive progress of the children in their studies as most of children acquired 75% of marks.

Story from the field

Chandni and her family lives in a rented place of one room in New Shyam Nagar jhuggi. Her father Mukesh is a labourer and her mother Usha goes to work in order to support their family financially. Mukesh and Usha have 4 daughters. You can simply feel the responsibilities upon father of having 4 daughters. He works day and night so that his daughters get what they need. CSSAR’s free remedial classes have supporting the family a lot by giving them free and quality education.
Chandni who ranked 1st in annual school exam of class 2 and also got 2nd position in drawing competition wants to become a Police Inspector. Her elder sisters have studied from CSSAR classes for the period of 10 years. Moreover it’s a proud moment for us as one of her elder sisters is now earning. It's literally a dream come true situation for their family.
The belief in Chandni’s eyes for the power of education has developed by looking at her elder sisters and she knows that she has to face a lot of difficulties in her life but she is ready to feel the taste of victory by facing all those barriers. She is determined, courageous and passionate. Sardeep mam always treated them as own daughter and guides them in every aspects of their life and will continue to provide the same. CSSAR has changed the mindset of Chandni and her sisters and they are ready to break this vicious circle that is binding upon them since childhood.

On 29th December 2017, the children visited National Bal Bhavan, New Delhi and they enjoyed the day-long educational trip very much. They engaged in various activities conducted by Bal Bhavan.

On 14th November 2017, various competitions and a cultural program were conducted for the children on the occasion of Bal Diwas.