{"id":2865,"date":"2019-04-30T14:10:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T08:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.educategirls.ngo\/?p=2865"},"modified":"2023-09-05T10:32:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T05:02:16","slug":"gyan-ka-pitara-gkp-helps-little-sheela-catch-up-with-her-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/blog\/gyan-ka-pitara-gkp-helps-little-sheela-catch-up-with-her-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Gyan Ka Pitara (gkp) Helps Little Sheela Catch Up With Her Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sheela* was very young when her parents left their village to look\nfor work in the city. They have a small farm in the village but it hardly generated\nany income to sustain the family of eight members. So they left Sheela and her\nyounger sister along with their grand-parents and took the eldest and youngest along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After they left, Sheela did go to school for a few weeks but subsequently became irregular because she had to take care of her younger sister and help her grandparents with household chores and menial tasks at the farm. Although, her school was hardly 100 meters away, she dropped-out while in Grade 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Educate Girls<\/a><\/strong>\u2019 Field Coordinator named Geetika identified Sheela as an out of school girl during a door-to-door survey. To convince families of out of school girls and emphasise on the many benefits of educating girls, Educate Girls\u2019 team makes several home visits. But in Sheela\u2019s case, it was a bigger challenge, since they had to convince her grandparents who belonged to an older generation. They did not believe in the power of education and did not consider it important for the future, especially for girls. \u201cOur children have survived, \u2018WE\u2019 have survived without an education so our grandchildren can most certainly survive without it!\u201d says Sheela\u2019s grandfather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After many failed attempts to convince\nher grandparents, Geetika took the help of the school teacher and the\ncommunity. After everybody\u2019s combines efforts, they finally agreed to send\nSheela to school and she was enrolled in Grade 5 in accordance to her age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although returning to school was fun for Sheela, catching up with studies had become difficult. She had completely lost touch with her studies and found it difficult to cope up. With her friends now in higher grades, she felt a little out of place. This is when Geetika came to her rescue. She paid special attention to her and taught her using the Gyan Ka Pitara kit. It has various tools that helped her gain her foundational skills, and also made it fun while learning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Geetika teaching Sheela using the GKP kit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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When Sheela was re-enrolled, her Grades were C, D and C in Hindi,\nEnglish and Math respectively (As per a baseline evaluation conducted by the organisation).\nShe had trouble recognising alphabets in English, reading words in Hindi and\nrecognising double-digit numbers. But after several months of hard work and\nteaching through the GKP kit, she is now able to read words in English, form\nand read sentences in Hindi and do addition in Math. Her Grades have now\nimproved to, B, C and B in Hindi, English and Math respectively. **<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*name\nchanged to protect the identity of the minor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

**Baseline\nand Endline assessments are conducted internally by Educate Girls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sheela* was very young when her parents left their village to look for work in the city. They have a small farm in the village but it hardly generated any income to sustain the family of eight members. So they left Sheela and her younger sister along with their grand-parents and took the eldest and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories-from-the-field","category-beneficiary-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5765,"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions\/5765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}