- Fund-raising for infrastructure and scholarships (can be done from any location):
- Become a ‘Patron’ of Isha Vidhya. We will help you create your own page with links to the Isha Vidhya website and all other critical information about Isha Vidhya Schools, which you could share with your network of friends, classmates, colleagues, relatives or even companies, to raise funds to build-up our existing and new schools.
- Provide leads to the right people in Companies whom we could then contact for sponsorships/ partnership with Isha Vidhya as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives.
- Help us write proposals for grants from Grant providers and register with Payment Gateways.
- Volunteering opportunities for individuals and companies that can be done from any location:
- Visiting the schools, meeting the children.
- Mentoring – taking a child under your wing. Spending time visiting their home and understanding their educational, economic, social and family situation. Communicating through email with the class teacher to understand where the child needs additional coaching. Based on this, guiding the child in his education and also assisting in the learning of lessons during weekends.
- Providing guest lectures to the school children on a Saturday – on topics that would provide practical exposure in areas that may be useful to the children. Eg: A banker explaining what a bank does, how it works, savings, etc. A product manufacturer describing how a product is developed, manufactured, benefits people, etc.
- Curriculum based activities: Developing/compiling, modularizing, documenting & storing in the following areas:
- Class-wise, period-wise teaching content, material, methodology and teacher training requirement.
- Teacher training program modules for each class, subject & general.
- Student evaluation – setting of objectives class-wise, subject-wise & developing tests to evaluate where each student stands viz-a-viz these objectives.
- Providing / Creating technology platforms and programs for storage, retrieval and usage of the above.
- Developing IT based systems for school management such as
- Student admission, scholarship and progress information
- Accounting for fees, expenses & capital expenditure incurred
- Payroll & t eacher attendance
- Student evaluation, marks & report card generation
- Library management
- Fee collection management
- Donor feedback management
- Transport management, etc.
Volunteer engagement in any of the above would depend on the availability of a certain minimum commitment of time and also specific skill sets. Isha Vidhya is not be able at this time to train people in these requirements due to our own resource constraints.
- Volunteer opportunities for those living in close proximity to a school (20 Km) or willing to periodically travel to one of our schools:
- School bus route optimizing
- Recruitment of teachers & staff – recommending teachers and staff, spreading the word about our school and encouraging teachers to apply to our school.
- Building local corporate contacts for sponsorship for creating school infrastructure and for scholarships
- Creating tree bank and herbal gardens in each school and conducting nature awareness programs on Saturdays
- School festivals & functions – organizing, sponsoring & participating
- Scholarship – making house visits to document & evaluate scholarship applications to determine the genuineness of need.
- Fee collection – parent volunteer teams could assist with this –especially for bus & meal fee collection
- Weak child adoption for teaching – at child’s home during holidays or after school hours.
- Local help for accident or hospitalization, police.
- Identifying & documenting student success stories to share in our website, newsletters and donation appeals.
- Any other areas which we may not have thought of, but you have, which could help our schools / children.
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