Our students attended "the celebration of second anniversary of Master's visit"

6th March 2013, Our students attended "the celebration of second anniversary of Master's visit" to Bodhgaya organized by Happy Science Bodhgaya.

6th March 2011, Master Okawa who is a founder of Happy Science which supports our school visited our school to see the students.  The celebration was to commemorate the day.

All the teachers and students practiced in their performance hard everyday for this day.

They performed with the gratitude.

Happy Science has started the support of our school since Nov.2007, and it helped us to provide everyday meals and uniforms and textbooks for students.

Before starting everyday meals, the health of the students were bad because of malnutrition, and they couldn't concentrate to their study too.

After starting everyday meals, their health were improved with nutrition and they were able to concentrate study and the result became better miraculously.

Last year, all of our ex-students (11th class now) got their marks in the matriculation test higher than the average of the students in private schools.

The children who live in the house made of mud and were afraid of less food, now the same children have their own future dreams and try hard to make their dream come true in future.  They have hopes in their future.  We believe that if the children get a chance to take education, through their efforts, they can make their life in better direction.  

This time, some teachers also participated in a drama, traditional dance, fork dance, and western dance by students were also great performance!

I appreciate all the teachers to spent their time for the preparation of this program.

Health education class in a village (child marriage)

25th Feb.2013, We held a Health education class of Mothers & Infants health care project at a village.

Since the day, we used a room of a public building (that was ex-building of our school before shifting) there and we kept all people outside the room so that we can talk with the mothers about them and their babies in detail by calling them one by one.

Till last time, we called a mother to check up her and her baby in front of all people and asked her surrounded by all in the veranda, so they couldn't say anything, because they felt hesitation to talk about their internal problems in front of many people.

After all, in spite of using the room, it became congested with crowd gradually, and Reika madam scalded them to get out of the room many times, and children run away each time.

That day, two ex-students came there.

One of them was a brilliant student who was top in her class and we had expected her future very much at that time. All of sudden, when she became 13 years old, her parents forced her to marry, and after her marriage, she had some babies dead before birth few times in a few years, now she became a mother of two children.

She brought her children who are 4 years old and 1 year old.

When I saw her children I recognized them as her children because of their faces were similar to herself.

She came to ask me "Please allow my child to study at your school" as a mother.

While we check the babies weight and height, we talk with the mother and her baby to see their situation.

And we recommend them to go to clinic when we find some problems in their health by their growth.

Then, we made a map by hearing them one by one where their houses are so that we can visit their houses in near future.

After checking weight of babies, then we check the blood pressure of pregnant women.

Another ex-student was in the line of them.

Reika madam asked her questions while checking her BP.

She told that her first baby was dead in 4 months after being pregnant.

And this time is second pregnant for her.

I was surprised when her elder sister married early few years ago, and I noticed that I have never seen her these days at our school, and she married too.

She was forced to marry by her parents.

When parents find their child became taller as same as them, then they think the child have to marry.

Actually, the law in India does not allow marriage below 18 years old for girl.

But, the customs of child marriage continue in rural areas still now.

When the girl is small, her parents make her engaged with her future husband, and the girl stays with her parents until her menstruation starts and after that the girl will be sent to her engaged husband's house, this is common in village.

Marriage itself is not a bad thing, but I think that the one's decision when and whom to marry is ignored, and in the child marriage case, the mother's body is not mature to be pregnant so it might be some problems with pregnant and delivery for both of mother and child.

It is very difficult to change the thinking of villagers.

Our power is very small but I'd like to help mothers in village to live better and happier life through this project.

Japanese special class (Parts of Kanji, Map of Japan)

On 23rd Feb., We had a Japanese special class. I taught parts of Kanji form, and map of Japan.

This time, new other students joined the special class. And I explained why do they study Japanese language, and future plan.

I teach students Japanese language not only Hiragana and Katakana which are easier to write but also Kanji.

Kanji are unlimited and very difficult to remember many of them because they have complicated shapes.

For native user of Kanji like me, it is more easier to read the sentences with kanji comparing to without Kanji. Kanji are pictorial form of written style, so if you can understand the meaning of essential Kanji shapes, you will be able to understand complicated Kanji too. Difficult Kanji are made by being jointed with some essential Kanji shapes.

I taught the students parts of Kanji so that they can understand more complicated Kanji in further class.

Having taken much time for teaching the parts of Kanji, time for teaching map of Japan became very short.

And we had a dictation test in Japanese. They did good!

12 students passed the first exam of super 30 institute aiming for IIT

I was so happy and surprised to hearing the news from a principle of our school.


12 students passed the first exam of super 30 institute (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhayanand#Super_30) in patna aiming for IIT. (IIT- Indian Institute of Technology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institutes_of_Technology)


20 students took the exam, and 12 students passed including 4 girls!


Great!


They will take second exam and interview, after that if they passed all the exam, they will get a chance to be selected for super 30. The selected super 30 students will study in the institute to prepare for Engineering exam and IIT for free!


I don't know how to express what I am feeling and how excited...!

Mobile clinic and meeting with villagers

We visited a village with a mobile clinic team on 7th Feb.2013.

The doctor explained us that they have changed villages to consult within 5 or 6 years.

Withing those years, the villagers were trained and obtained all the knowledge.

Then they change village to visit.

The pharmacist showed us how to compound medicines.  

The patients register their name and address, then they take doctor's check up.

All the symptoms and diagnosis will be written on the register note,

and doctors note too.

They use homeopathy medicine mainly but also they use western medicine.

The medicine especially given for women are Irons and vitamins.

When they found more serious patient, they advise him to go to clinic or hospital introduced by them.

Mobile Clinic

After seeing clinic, we attended a meeting with villagers.

The mobile clinic team (doctor and NGO staff) and local social workers and villagers discussed many things.

The topics were:

* Toilets

*Vaccination for children

*Care for pregnant women

Women are very shy and they merely spoke to, but sitting there and listening to the discussion.

A villager said that there is a big change after the mobile clinic has come to this village.

The change was thinking of villagers about vaccination and medical care through the health education.

Before the mobile clinic came, some villagers kept their children hiding from nurse who came to give the vaccination. The villagers were afraid of children getting fever.

Now, they understood and make children take vaccination.

They have decided to select and convince some villagers to build their toilets with the government service within a month.

The local social worker will research and make lists of pregnant women, and children who are seriously malnutrition.

Meeting(1)

Meeting(2)

Meeting(3)

Japanese special class(science)

We had a Japanese special class on 9th Feb. at Surya Bharti School in Bodhgaya.

We learned about science (3rd grade in elementary class in Japan) in Japanese.

It was "The components of the plants".

I explain in English and Hindi.

The structure of sentences of Japanese are very similar to Hindi, so it is easy to explain in Hindi.

We studied Kanji (difficult form) too.

In the next class, which subject will be chosen to teach...?

Visiting villages with mobile clinic (Health Education)

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On 7th Feb.2013, ladies teachers of Surya Bharti School went to villages with a mobile clinic team run by NGO Root Institute in Bodhgaya. It was about one hour by car to get to the villages where it is located near the border of Bihar and Jharkhand state.

Dr.Sanjay sir explained to the teachers about the activity and what is the purpose of his team. It was very interesting for me and lots of wisdom as a social worker has given us.

Before starting the mobile clinic, NGO facilitator and a social worker from the village explained about diseases. This time, TB (tuberculosis) was explained. The facilitator said that they came here not only for giving villagers the medicine but also giving them knowledge of the diseases so that they can prevent being ill by themselves.