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Children’s Poster Painting Competetion : Rotary Delhi South West

Feb 2nd, 2010 | By Colrama | Category: Literacy Campaign, Vasant Kunj School

31 Jan 2010
Rotary, Delhi South West,  had arranged fora Poster Painting Competition for children Civil Services sports Ground.
Rotary South – West organizes this event every year for  motivating the children.
Our Children from Vasant Kunj also participated in the event.

It was a wonderful sight to see hundreds of children from 4 years to 17, in colourful [...]



Warm someone’s heart today

Mar 6th, 2009 | By Colrama | Category: Education, Issues of Interest, Literacy Campaign

Mr Watwani has sent this.

ONE OF THE BEST STORIES I HAVE EVER HEARD!

As she stood in front of her 5th grade class on the very first day of school, she told the children an untruth. Like most teachers, she looked at her students and said that she loved them [...]



Unsung :Girl tops exam, beats disability

Feb 27th, 2009 | By Colrama | Category: Articles, Education, Literacy Campaign, Religion

Girl tops exam, beats disability
Visually Impaired Is An Ace
Ikram Khan | TNN
Bangalore: She can’t see but is showing the way. Sumaiya Khan, 15, topped the exams at St Michael’s High School (RT Nagar) and promises to continue her sterling performance in college next year.
Sumaiya was adjudged the best student after securing 94% in [...]



Mohan Kedkar: Mumbaikars express gratitude for selfless service

Aug 18th, 2008 | By Colrama | Category: Articles, Governance, Literacy Campaign, Projects, Security

Help for Bandra braveheart’s kin
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Mumbai: “He was always a quiet boy. He was always the first one to rush and help people,’’ said 55-year-old Pandurang Redkar about his 20-year-old son Mohan who died while saving a couple from drowning at Bandra bandstand four months ago.
He seemed oblivious of [...]



Kolkata student Tops: Offers galore from US ‘Varsities

Jun 10th, 2008 | By Colrama | Category: Issues of Interest, Literacy Campaign

KOLKATA: From prestigious Princeton to MIT, city boy Rik Sengupta can pick and choose where he wants to study — for free. The South Pointer has bagged full scholarship seats at seven top universities in the US.
Princeton, the top ranking university in the US, has offered him a scholarship of $52,990 a year. His [...]



Dedication: Nurturing rural talents

Jun 1st, 2008 | By Colrama | Category: Issues of Interest, Literacy Campaign

Tutor who sold pappad guides all 30 kids to IITs
 
Pranava K Chaudhary | TNN
 
Patna: When Patna’s maths wizard Anand Kumar, who once hawked ‘‘pappad’’ to earn a living, started his noble initiative, Super-30, to coach 30 economically weak students for IIT-JEE in 2003 free of cost, 18 of them made it to IITs. 
   The [...]



Children: Treat them with Kindness

Apr 30th, 2008 | By Colrama | Category: Articles, Issues of Interest, Literacy Campaign, Projects, Religion

Treating Children With Kindness
Adil Salahi, Arab News
Children were always certain of kind treatment by the Prophet (peace be upon him). Whenever he saw a child, he received him/her with a smile and said some pleasant words, even when the Prophet was preoccupied with something very serious. Anas ibn Malik, who served the Prophet [...]



UP:Education:3.5 lakh students bunk Hindi test in ‘ anti- English’ UP

Apr 14th, 2008 | By Colrama | Category: Articles, Issues of Interest, Literacy Campaign

3.5 lakh students bunk Hindi test in ‘ anti- English’ UP
Absenteeism rises in Class X & XII board exams
Strict Vigil against copying keeps students away
 
By Piyush Srivastava in Lucknow

      IN AN irony of sorts, over 3.5 lakh students in the country’s Hindi heartland failed to appear for the Hindi paper in the state’s board [...]



UK: Illiteracy in UK

Mar 2nd, 2008 | By Colrama | Category: Articles, Issues of Interest, Literacy Campaign

        Illiteracy in UK More than a million adult Britons have a standard of literacy no better than that of a seven-year-old. For them, reading road signs, writing their names or understanding instructions on pill bottles is a hardship. Anuskha Asthana reports on how beating illiteracy can cut poverty and restore dignity 
       By the time [...]



Bengal students best at maths: NCERT survey

Jan 24th, 2008 | By Colrama | Category: Issues of Interest, Literacy Campaign

Bengal students best at maths: NCERT survey  
Akshaya Mukul | TNN  New Delhi:
     One of the country’s most stringent surveys of learning abilities of class V students by NCERT has found that West Bengal is on top, followed by Karnataka, Gujarat, Jharkhand and Tripura. Uttar Pradesh has also made rapid strides making it to the [...]