KREEDA is an education intiative that works towards enhancing the quality of basic education that children from economically or otherwise vulnerable sections of society receive.
To achieve this, KREEDA supports and woks with existing state sponsored schools and at-risk communities adding value to already existing educational and social systems.
KREEDA focuses on educating through creative-activity based experiential learning which while strengthening perceptual, analytical and problem solving skills, also import important life sustaining vocational Skills.
KREEDA program conducted in:
Schools:
- Municipal Primary School No. 2, Sector 24, Gandhinagar.
- Municipal Primary School No. 1, Sector 29, Gandhinagar.
- Municipal School, Sonipur Village, Gandhinagar District.
- Dholeshvar Vidya Mandir, Dholakuva Village, Gandhinagar
Anganwadis:
- Dholakuva Village, Gandhinagar.
- Sonipur Village, Gandhinagar District.
Slums & Villages.
- Rabari Vado, Memnagar, Ahmd.
- Dholakuva Village, Gandhinagar.
- Sonipur Village, Gandhinagar District.
Institutions for the Physically & Mentally Challenged
- Andh Kanya Prakash Gruh, Memnagar, Ahmedabad.
- Samarpan Mukh Badir Shishu Vidya Mandir, Gandhinagar
Primary School Teachers Training Programs
- Gandhinagar & Dahod Taluka (for BRCs under SSA).
Kasturba Gandhi Bal Vidhyalayas in Gujarat
- National child welfare program for marginalized, tribal girls
Our school program focuses on educating through creative activity based experiential learning, which while strengthening perceptual, analytical & problem solving skills, also imparts important life sustaining vocational skills.
Arts, crafts, dance, drama, music and literature are a very integral part of this program. Emphasis is on learning through exploring, experiencing and expressing, with the aim of ensuring adept individuals, capable of participating equitably and comprehensively in today’s contemporary world.
Each activity session connects an event or a concern into a holistic learning experience that is relevant and meaningful. Activities are tied up to multiple learnings, integrating creativity, communication and counting- so as to impart values, information and skills
Each activity session connects an event or a concern into a holistic learning experience that is relevant and meaningful to the lives of the children. Activities are tied up to multiple learnings, integrating creativity, communication and countingso as to impart values, information and skills. A few activity based session plans are outlined below.
Each activity session connects an event or a concern into a holistic learning experience that is relevant and meaningful to the lives of the children. Activities are tied up to multiple learnings, integrating creativity, communication and countingso as to impart values, information and skills. A few activity based session plans are outlined below.
Ganesh Chaturthi… On Ganesh Chaturthi, children make clay idols of Lord Ganesha, leading to discussions of our impact on the environment, as well as an insight into how the festival is integral to our history and independence struggle.
On Onam (Kerala’s New Year), children explore the festivities, food, vegetation, habitat, cloths and crafts of the region. They make floral rangolis and enact a story along with a song of King Mahabali that leaves them with values, morals and fun memories. Kerala’s geographical and cultural terrains are now clearly etched in their mind.
World Literacy Day is celebrated with a calligraphy or book binding workshop, followed by a discussion on a world without writing and how a simple innovation like writing impacted human development and progress – from the making of books, to the invention of the printing press.
Further, a visual exposure to the various scripts explores different world cultures and the diversity of organizational forms through the different writing systems (right to left in Urdu, top to bottom in Chinese, etc.)
SOACH seeks to connect different members of society – from children and women, to schools, creative professionals, scientists, farmers, panchayat members and craft persons in a dialogue of creative growth and self sufficient, vibrant livelihoods.
Above, violin maestros, brothers Ganesh and Kumaresh performing carnataki music in Sector 29 municipal school, Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
If today we feel that municipal school teachers are not doing their job, part of the problem lies in the fact that they teach as they have been taught…that their world is most of the time as limited in information and awareness as that of the children they teach.
In the teacher training we conduct for various Gujarat municipal school teachers, the focus is on methods of integrating academic learning with various creative or craft activities.