Orientation seminar for engineering course

On 12th April, I attended an orientation seminar for engineering course held by Bharath university (http://www.bharathuniv.com/) and Hindustan newspaper at a hall in Gaya with 16 ex-students and 5 teachers.

Bharath university has 93 % job placement including famous companies as Microsoft, Oracle, etc.

We were invited by Hindustan newspaper that was a co-organizer of this seminar.

I thought that it is like an advertisement of the university, though the title was "Orientation seminar for Engineering course".  But after listening to professors' lecture on engineering, for example, they told us on what points students should focus when they select their occupation etc, I found it was not only an advertisement.

3 of the professors graduated IIT.

The points were:

*If you want to become engineer, you should know what is "engineer" and all the types of engineer.
*IIT is not an only choice. There are lots of private universities and colleges having engineering course, producing brilliant students, and they have lots of offers from foreign companies.
*When you select university and college, you should research about job placement % of them.
*If you want to earn more money, you may go for private company. But you will have to remain in the company till midnight.  If you want to work only in fixed time, you may get government job.
*First, find a thing which you are interested in.  And think about going for the related job of it.  For example, I phone, smart phone, and its application software developing etc.
*You may get out of busy competitions, and you may find your own way.
*Computer science has huge potential in future, but to be an expert on it requires being genius or lots of efforts.
*Getting a job in company is not a only alternative. For example, Facebook and Microsoft.
*When companies come to scout at your college or university, you show good performance and then you can get a job.
* Foreign companies also come to scout. http://www.bharathuniv.com/placements.htm

I asked a question about job placement of Japanese company.  They told me they have and saying about Nissan etc for example.

Our ex-students of Surya Bharti School are children from villages.  I asked them what they thought after the seminar, they said that they understood mostly. I felt that they understood what the professors told in Hindi literally, but I wondered whether they could imagine what the professors told about exactly or not.  I think our ex-students are aiming to become engineers but they don't know what kinds of job it is in detail.  They might have ambiguous image of engineer.  I thought that I should tell and show them real work of engineers, so that they can have clear image of the ways to go toward the future.

Test for Super 30 (scholarship of an Institute aiming for IIT engineering)

On 8th April, our students who finished Surya Bharti School went to Patna to take a second test for Super 30 (a scholarship of an Institute aiming for IIT engineering).


I was busy with another work, and couldn't go with them.

I don't know what result will be, but it is a miracle that they got the chance to proceed to the second test.

If a student pass the test and selected as a Super 30 student, he will be exempted to pay the total tuition fee ,  boarding fee and food fee also, and he can spend his full time to study in the institution.

IIT is what we call it Indian Institute of Technology, which is the most difficult university in India, and only top level students in engineering test can be permitted to study there.  Although the number of collages affiliating with IIT are increasing recently, only brilliant students can enter in  IIT delhi and IIT kanpur.

This "Super 30" was established for students who are brilliant and poor to giving chances study for IIT.

There are 2 "Super 30" in Patna, and the test our students took was "Super 30" established by Mr. Abhyanand.

There are caste system still in India, sometimes a person can not get job because of his caste, but engineer is a new job and people can become engineer with their talent and technique no matter what their caste are.

I support our students hoping that they study hard and many of them will become engineer in the future!

Japanese special class : story of "Going to buy gloves"

On 9th March, we had a Japanese special class, we studied about a story "Going to buy gloves".  Of course, it is very difficult for the students to master all the Kanji appearing in the story.  My aim of this class was at imaging the story of mother fox and child fox, learning basic words, and being familiar with the Japanese pronunciation through the story.   Firstly, I explained story line, and then started to explain the sentences one by one.  Lastly, I drew pictures about the words which appeared on the story on blackboard.  I gave Japanese class teacher an audio data so that the students can listen to it anytime on the computers in our school.  I would like to give them more opportunities to come in touch with Japanese language.

Mobile clinic, visiting a village

Continuing from the previous blog.

The staffs of mobile clinic go around the entire village to persuade patients who should be checked up by the doctor to visit the clinic and let villagers noticed the mobile clinic has come.

We went around the village with them.

I found the village was cleaner than other villages, almost of all the houses were made of mud but maintained.  Although there were many mosquito larvae in ditches filled with black water. I understood why the NGO staff had explained about the infectious diseases by mosquito to the patients lately.  There was no cemented ditch but natural one in the village.  Some big ditches looked like ponds with less black water and many mosquito larvae were there.  I saw some ladies were washing dishes beside hand pumps where were surrounded by moss grown by dirty stagnant water.

I talked with the NGO staff about lots of matters while we were walking through the village.   He told me that they have meetings with the committee members of the village frequently, to know the situation of villagers' diseases and what kind of problems they have.  He said that they can't understand the real situation of villagers by visiting the village sometimes.  He said "Well communication with villagers is necessary to understand their real situation.  We always try to listen to their voices.  Though it is impossible to improve something about village, if all the villagers co-operate together to improve it, it will be possible.  Our aim is not only giving medicines but also enhancing villager's awareness on health."  I thought that's the way they explained about the solution of mosquito related problems.

I've been given lots of knowledge this time too.  I appreciate to the NGO staffs for telling me many things gained through their experiences. We will go forward for Mothers & Infants health care project with what we have learned form them.

A training of social workers in a village (visiting mobile clinic)

8th March 2013, we visited a village with a mobile clinic team for a training of the social workers(a lady and a gents) from a village of the Mothers & Infants Health Care Project by NGO Children Aid.

(Mobile Clinic means that doctors and medical staffs go to check up patients in villages where there is no medical facility there. Long experienced NGO Root Institute (Saxena clinic) co-operated us to visit the mobile clinic)

The village we visited this time is in a area of Bankebazar, it took an hour to get there from Bodhgaya by car.  The village is very near to the border of Bihar - Jharkhand States.  This area is very famous of Maoist Guerrilla  activity.  We asked the medical team whether it is safety or not for foreigners to visit there, and the team told us that the village is adjacent to main road and safer, then we decided to visit. 

The building been used for the clinic is a government school in the village.  A staff said to me "we are using this building since last month.  Before then, we used a building as a clinic opposite the main road.  Suddenly, the building was destroyed by explosion and then we had shifted here." 

In these few years, Bihar state has been very peaceful.  I thought the situation became very stable, I have noticed that there are still dangerous areas by hearing what the staff was saying.

Bihar state government fought very hard against the guerrillas and it became very peaceful here.  But, it is easy to hide in jungle, and easy to move between another state for guerrillas, so they are hiding in the areas where it is near the border of both states. 

After many patients gathered in the building, the NGO staff started to explain about the common diseases and sanitary matters to them.  Our project is focusing on health of mothers and infants.  We also have health education class about diseases and sanitary matters. Our aim of bringing our social workers who were selected by village leaders last time is let them learn how to organize and how to explain by seeing the activity by themselves.

The theme was "About prevention against being infected by mosquito bite" this time.  The staff explained the symptoms of malaria and told that person should bring the patients to a government hospital when he have found the patients have been in the symptom immediately. He asked some questions about the prevention, how people can prevent from mosquito bite.  And he explained that using mosquito net is very effective, and adding kerosene oil into puddle around house makes it possible to prevent from breeding of mosquito, and burning neem leaves that has an effect of insecticide is effective for making mosquito death.  

I'm always admiring when the staff explains about the prevention of diseases by using usual and common things for villagers for it, because villagers don't have much money and electricity too.  

The two of social workers were listening to the explanation by the staff seriously.  After that, I asked them what they felt and found, the lady social worker told me that she knows about the Kerosene oil effective and she actually uses it for cleaning her house. I thought she can learn more things in future.

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.