“Akanksha class is niceeeee and didi is very niceeeeeeee.” - Shanobar, 7

 

 
Team: JJ
Teachers: Masuma Didi and Dhwani Didi
Education co-ordinator: Deba Didi
Social Worker: Rakesh Bhaiya
Volunteers: Namrata, Rajesh,Chaya, Zinobiya
Helper: Rani Didi
No Sponsor

Our goals for our children are:

  1. Speak in English
  2. Try and Implement things which they have learnt outside class as well
  3. Become bold and confident

Students learn phonics, poems, stories, new words and simple sentences and values and how to listen, think, and ask.

Our Favorite Thinking Question:
You want to go down a slide but there is a muddy puddle at the bottom. What would you do?
“We would go down and then wash”

Our Favourite Song:
"When you're Happy and you know it clap your hands."


Programs and Special Events:

  1. Art class
  2. Sports. Program
  3. Interactive Activity Day where kids performed actions with phonic letters
  4. Color day
  5. Animal day where each child’s face was painted like that of an animal.










Padmini Maniangpachare, 8

 

 

Padmini Maniangpachare, 8, goes to Modesty School and is in class 2. She has been with Akanksha for 2 years.

Padmini comes from the P D’Mello community and her family comprises of grandmother, father, mother and 2 brothers. She is the middle child. Her father works with the railways while her mother sells vegetables.

Masuma Didi says she is a bright child who has high confidence. Sometimes overpowers the others, wanting to lead all the time even if it’s the class line! She enjoys herself thoroughly in class.

Padmini likes coming to Akanksha because the Didi’s are nice and sometimes in the other school they hit on the kid’s back. She has three best friends.

Her best day at Akanksha was when Dipshika Didi took them to the zoo. ‘I saw lots of animals there I saw lion, monkey, dinosaur and elephant!”
Firdos Fam Ali, 8

 

Firdos Fam Ali, 8, goes to the Bangalipura Urdu School and is in the third standard. She has been in Akanksha for a year.

Firdos’ family lives on P D’Mello Road with her parents, grandfather, an elder brother and a younger brother and sister.

Masuma Didi feels Firdos tends to be very moody but bright, participates in class and is ever ready to lead a group. She loves to have a good time.

Firdos says, “I went to the zoo and saw lion, monkey, alligator, elephant and horse. I like the monkey because he was looking like my brother.”