Report from Sonamukhi and Rakhalgeria Village Units

The month coming to an end, the report from individual units working at villages and slums have been received by NSS Central team. In spite of this being a mid-semester exam. week, the central team volunteers collated all the reports and sent it to NSS Regional Office at Kolkata, Program Adviser's Cell, Delhi and other officials before the month ends. We would like to continue with this team spirit and make our NSS engagement part and parcel of our life, a responsibility which is no less important even if termed extra-academic. In this and subsequent posts, we present glimpses of reports received from various units.

Sonamukhi Village Unit

The volunteers were busy actively teaching the students and training them for the Prerana scholarship test scheduled on 6th Oct., 2012. They also organised an essay writing competition for the students and gave them valuable feedback.

They have continued with their plantation programme in the school, and have identified and made it known to the Headmaster the need for a part of the compound wall to be repaired so cows do not eat the shrubs.

They took the initiative to teach people there the basics of computer softwares like MS Word and MS Paint, which was received very well by the students.

Rakhalgeria Village Unit

This month, drawing competitions were held in multiple schools, with prizes for the winners.

Educational movies were shown to the students using laptops and projectors. This was met with a very positive response by the children in the schools.

As per the request of the villagers, a number of books were donated to the local library for usage. Moreover, the monthly Prerana scholarship was distributed to the recipients, as well as students being helped for the test.

(The pic.s in the side bar are from Sonamukhi Unit and the ones at bottom are from Rakhageria Unit)