RUNNING PROJECT...

Thazhanguda village authorities have authorised us to use the Thazhanguda's Community Hall to run our current projects. The building allows us to welcome a great number of children but we nowadays reach the limits of the capacity of the building. Furthermore, we organise classes for high school children who need to study in a quiet atmosphere.

We will thus build a proper education centre in Thazhanguda, it will allow us to provide good teaching conditions to the children and extend the number of our beneficiaries.

The future Centre  will be situated in the centre of the village, between the Thazhanguda school and a children play ground. It will be located at 100 meters from our current Centre. It will be composed of three class rooms, a computer room / documentation centre and a little garden (click on the following links to get a 3D view of the future education center, from frontside and backside).

The Centre will be built by our partner Architecture and Development (A&D), following an ecological chart. It also will be used as a case study for Thazhanguda's children. Throughout the building process, we will organise with A&D activities and classes linked with the construction: mathematics applied to the construction, awareness raising on the different ecological aspects of the Centre (water, waste management, choice of different materials, advantage of alternative energies…), classes on the process of life of vegetals (the garden will be managed by the children and used as a practical demonstration of the classes).

> The building concept, choice of materials and technologies
> A participatory meeting with Thazhanguda villagers
> The site, before the construction
> More information about the awareness raising activities

 

> Developping a training program for teachers from nangal and other organisations

In order to develop a children friendly approach in the education provided by our pedagogical team to Thazhanguda children, we will organise in 2007 and 2008 a cycle of training modules. It will be organised in cooperation with some of our French partners dealing with active and participative education, among which Solidarité Laïque and the Ceméa. We will invite teachers from other local organisations as well. In the long term, some of the Nangal teachers will themselves conduct trainings in Tamil Nadu schools and NGOs interested by these methods of active learning.