BRAHMAPUR: Students of Texas University
are spending their valuable times with children of fishing villages at
Gopalpur-on-sea in Ganjam district, teaching them computer basics and internet
skills for external exposure towards digital world and leading a sanitation
drive to make the village peoples aware about the benefit of cleanliness of the
environment.
The students including Jhon,
Reanna, Nessa and Lauren of the US University are here for a period of two
months as part of their summer internship project. They are providing training
to the village students about access the web to get better study materials and
ready information on anything they wish to know. Apart from this, they give
training to the teenagers in spoken English and basic communication skills.
During the visit, they have also
decided to conduct a training programme for teachers that will help them
improve upon their teaching skills and make learning much more interactive and
interesting for the students. Besides this, the students will launch a
sanitation drive in the village to help the village keep clean.
“The students are amazing and
they are fast learners. Many of them are now able to prepare power point slides
by themselves,” said Lauren.
“I never knew that computers were
so interesting. It’s really fun. In fact we have the capacity to search for
anything and everything with just a click,” said Gayatri, a student.
Apart from this, the group is
also conducting a village assessment programme that would help the community
identify their own resources and problems in education and helping them out
with some feasible solutions.
The volunteers of Divya Jyoti
Mahila Vikash, VIEWS and FMM Social Service
Society are assisting the students in various programmes.
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