Members of the social service club enthusiastically sprinkled bleaching powder around the school campus to keep the environment clean.
The
Nature and Social Service club of National Gems Higher Secondary
School has been christened “Vasudha” .The target of the club is to
instill among the students environmental awareness beyond the
school. At present, Vasudha
consists
of 40 members.
Aims and Objectives:
· The objective of the club is to create awareness and consciousness about our surroundings in the minds of the students.
· The various social service programmes undertaken by the club aims to eliminate the sufferings of the underprivileged and deprived section of the society.
VASUDHA Social Service Club Report
Vasudha is an appreciable attempt of our school to extend help to the unprivileged children. They are not only helped academically but also they are taught to take part in different extra curricular activities. In Different occasion like Saraswati Puja they were provided with bags books and other accessories. Our teachers also provide them with clothes. New clothes were given to them on the Durga Puja eve. They were also encouraged to take part in our various school activities like our Inter-House Fest. Our students brought old newspapers which were sold and the money was used for these unprivileged. Our children also gave them old bags, exercise copies and writing materials to help them. The member of the social service club cleaned the precincts or neighbourhood of our school. They visited the nearby slums in order to make the people aware of the ever increasing importance of education. Besides they also made an attempt to spread awareness in the neighbourhood about keeping the environment clean from pollution by collecting the garbage in proper bins and using paper bags instead of plastic bags. Adult education was stressed upon giving of old books and clothes to an orphanage.
Mithiva Purakayastha
Teacher in Charge
Activities 2008-09:
Junior Section:
· Our
students joined hands with ‘Help Age India’ in their fund raising
drive for the old and the needy.
· Orphans from ‘Save the Children’ and ‘Voice of the World’ were invited to the school. An entertainment programme was put for them and they were gifted sweets and clothes.
· Students visited old age homes like ‘Shanti Niwas’ at Oxford Mission.
Our
students participated in the ‘Kids for Tigers’- A mission to save
the Big Five. The students of the school were judged as the best
performing group in the Skit Section. In the Banner Competition,
we bagged the 1st prize in the North-Eastern Zone. The
banner has been taken to Mumbai for the All India Competition.
Middle and Senior Section:
· The members of the club check the cleanliness of the classrooms and assist the class IV staff in cleaning activities along with keeping a record of leakage of taps, keeping the corridors, halls and field clean and switch of the lights and fans when not required.
· Raba, a gardener, has been contacted to spend time on a regular basis to tend to the garden and all the potted plants within the school premises.
· The club regularly visits nurseries in and around Behala.
· The adverse effect of plastics on the environment was realized and a complete ban was imposed on the use of plastic bags and substandard pet bottles. Eco-friendly alternatives like jute and paper bags are being encouraged and students have enthusiastically switched over to the better and hygienic materials.
· Students help to control the traffic in the morning so that it becomes convenient for the children to cross the road during peak hours to come to school.
· Grand-parents’ Day was another function celebrated through cultural programmes which was completely the brainchild of our Principal.
· During
the Carnival NGO’s like Divine Smile, Naba Prayash and Maitreye
were contacted. They set up stalls selling gift items and food.
Children from these organizations performed on stage. At the end
of their cultural programmes every child was gifted blankets,
clothes and food packets by the Principal, Headmaster and
Headmistress.
· At present 20 children from the nearby slums of Behala are being taught English, Bengali and Mathematics every Friday. The children are also being trained to sing, dance and recite.
As an incentive the children are given snack packets after their classes.
· Old
newspapers and magazines are
collected
and then sold. The money collected is utilized for buying exercise
books and stationery for the under-privileged children.
· Students have been requested to donate their old clothes which will be collected and after washing and mending them, it will be distributed to the under-privileged children.
Scholarships:
Based upon their academic excellence, economic backgrounds, some students in the school have been awarded scholarships and some even get free text-books.
· 44 students get academic scholarships.
· 3 students get special scholarships (owing to Thalassemia).
· 17 students get free text-books.
Activities outside the School:
· Senior students along with the juniors visit the old-age homes under Oxford Mission and spend time with the inmates.
· Senior students on a regular basis, every Friday, fan out in different directions to create mass awareness regarding proper disposal of household garbage and those of local eateries.
· Handbills in the Vernacular language and English have also been distributed.
· A walk involving a number of students was organized in the locality. Placards and verbal requests were the medium to make the people aware of the environment.
Collection and Distribution of Funds and Articles:
· Visually impaired and other physically challenged children were helped with funds.
· Gifts were distributed to the poor and needy children of the locality as a part of Saraswati Puja Celebration.
· Students donated old clothes and money for the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund for the Tsunami victims.
· The amount collected for the fund was
Rs. 1, 77,190.00, the third highest raised among the schools in West Bengal.
· An amount of Rs. 33,443 was collected on behalf of ‘Global Cancer Concern India.’
· On the 15th of August, clothes were distributed at ‘Nirmal Hriday’ and ‘Mother Teresa’s Shishu Bhavan’.
