SUPPORT ONE PROJECT

Anybody wishing to support one project can wonder what are his funds used for in the end. We believe this wonder is legitimate and we have developed for this reason a system of project sponsoring. In this system, your funds will be allocated to the project of your choice.
 

First, you are sure of your donation's allocation, but also you become an actor in the Nangal project: by chosing a project depending on its relevance, or on its linkage to your own vision of solidarity, you allow us to develop more in depth the contents and the structure of this project.

Here are the projects we propose you to sponsor:

> Tuitions
> Interculturel exchanges
> Pedagogical activities and summer camp
> Trainings of our pedagocial team

We strive to work in total transparency : you are welcome to ask us about our activities fundings, and this especially concerning the project you will choose to sponsor.
 

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TUITIONS

The tuitions project comes first when considering IDES fundings allocation, essentially because it concerns around 200 children, depending on the year’s period, but also becase it is the first project we have developed. The tuitions are led by a pedagogical team of 6 to 8 Indian teachers each evening between 5.00 pm and 7.30 pm, and involve children between 7 and 16 years old (standards 4th to 12th). They follow the governmental syllabus, but bring to the children a more practical understanding of what they have learnt during the day.

Why supporting this project?

More means would help us to hire more teachers and to offer better learning conditions to the children. Especially, more “specific classes” for children who have big difficulties in fondamentals -such as reading and writing, maths...-would be organized.

INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGES

This project is now becoming one of the organization’s priorities. We indeed believe in a Solidariy which goes beyond the simple frame « nothern donators » / « southern beneficiaries». According to us, International Solidarity should be based on exchanges as well as mutual understanding values. This is why we have been organizing, since the beginning of 2006, exchanges between groups of children from a French school and Thazhanguda children. Those exhanges are based on sequences during which the children are asked to lead a reflexion on specific themas (environment, local economy, festivities...) and to produce a workshop which will be send to the other group.

Why supporting this project?

By supporting this project, you allow us to extend this exchange to other children from different French and Indian schools (post fees, material expenses for the workshops, computers acquisition in order to develop e-mail exchanges...). We also wish to develop and extend this project to two new partnerships, especially with the “Youth Regional Concil”of Bourgogne in France, but also with Mali in Africa.

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PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITIES AND SUMMER CAMPS

We believe that the knowledge gained by the children during academic times becomes really interesting for them as soon as they get opportnities to apply and implement this knowledge out of school.The organization of pedagogical activities thus answers to a double objective:

1) Offering to the Thazhanguda children specific leisure and funny moments, knowing that those children do not benefit from occidental leisure facilities.

2) Provide Thazhanguda children with concrete and practical fields of implementation for the knowledge they get at school,-which means also motivate them to study when they are at school! – and transmit them sharing, solidarity and group spirit values.

Pursuing the same goals and values, summer camps are organized during holidays –May month in Tamil Nadu. During this time broader actvities, such as media workshop, drama, street and fine arts...are developed with the help of professionals.

Why supporting this project?

Supporting this project would permit us to raise the quality of our activities by developing partnerships with professionals of children animation and by purchasing more specific pedagogic material (pedagogical and sport material, cameras for media workshop, games, books, ...). We particularly would like to continue some of the summer camp activities during the year in order to strenghen the children competencies in those fields.

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TRAININGS OF OUR PEDAGOGICAL TEAM

Education is seen and developed in India in an inflexible way, with very few exchanges between teachers and children. On the contrary, we aim at promoting with our French and Indian partners values linked to education for all, as well as to child-centered education which takes into account children’s aspiration and interests. Willing to integrate in a more systematic way this approach to our activities, we will dedicate the two coming years to the training of our Indian team. The final goal of those trainings is that some of them are able to become trainers themselves and thus promote those values in other child centers and schools in Tamil Nadu.

Why supporting this project?

Supporting this project is giving us the possibility to develop our vision of education, to offer to Indian children a chance to learn in an adapted and child-friendly environment where they occupy a central place, in non governmental as well as in governmental organizations.

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