Two girls aged 11 and 14 from Pune teach migrant workers’ children in Bhiwandi
Eleven-year-old Divija Darekar’s visit to her sugarcane farm at Bhokari village in Padgha, Bhiwandi resulted in her turning into a teacher of 20 children of migrant workers who are deprived of primary education as they keep migrating with their parents for livelihood. She now plans to carry forward this initiative in the future too.
Divija, a resident of Pune and a student of class 5, came to the sugarcane farm with her parents as her school was closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. She started to interact with the migrant children at the 14-acre farm. These children used to wander in the farm with their parents all day. On learning that these children were deprived of basic education, Divija started teaching them. Later, she took help from her 14-year-old friend Sejal Pawar, a student of Class 9. Sejal too started to take classes with her and together, they named the teaching sessions as sakhar shala or sugar class.
They would both to teach the group of children aged between 3 to 13 for two hours in the morning and two hours in the evening. The teaching and learning process comprise of basic learning such as alphabets, numbers and crafts and paintings. They also encouraged the children to do stone painting, drawing, colouring, mud modelling and physical exercises, and explained to them the importance of cleanliness and hygiene, health care and education to the children.
Two girls aged 11 and 14 from Pune teach migrant workers’ children in Bhiwandi
564 total views
