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INDEXTopic Page NoFrom the Founder’s Desk 3Board Members 4

I About us 5II Our First Intervention 7III Starting of CSC Community Centre 8IV Participants Profile and Assessment 9V Programme and activities at CSC 16V.a Celebration of Important Days 16

International Women’s DayWorld Environment DayInternational Day of YogaInternational Youth DayIndia’s Independence DayTeachers’ DayGandhi JayantiInternational Girl Child Day

V.b Eye check up camp 21V.c CSCs Initiative :Better vision 22V.d Ma ki pathsala 22VI Inauguration of Khilta Bachpan Centre 23VII People’s participation at CSC 23VIII Visual display of CSC activity moments 28IX CSC Winners 31X CSC Volunteers 32XI Annual members 33XII Donors 33XIII Present Staff 34XIV Annual Sports Day 35XV CSC’s First Foundation Day 36XVI Summary at a glance 37

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From the Founder’s DeskThe very existence of human being is change. From birth till death, each and every moment of breath comes with change. In-spite of its constant existence, the factors that affect life seem to remain the same for those who need to constantly occupied with their fighting for survival. The survival that demand fulfilment of basic needs like food, shelter and clothes. And thus important aspects of growth, both physical and mental remain side-lined for most part of their lives, which most of the time continues from generation to generation. To make the process of growth happen and to bring a sustainable change to a person’s life, the person should be in a position to the avail the privilege of quality education, skills that grooms a pleasant personality and enhances employability and awareness about the self, surrounding and society from a very young age .This age is defined as 6 years, when a child is ready to start formal schooling. However, parents struggle for survival many times keep a child away from school till the age of 8-10 years. Frequent migration deprives a child from continuing formal schooling and having too many younger siblings made it necessary for the elder ones to stay back and look after the younger ones, so that the both parents would be in a position to go out and work. Such family scenario creates another generation of almost illiterate labourers and thus the vicious cycle of poverty and il-literacy continues. Centre for Social Change (CSC) aims at breaking the vicious cycle of poverty and illiteracy through people’s participation, co-creation and values. It’s mission is to create neighbourhood, where people collectively con-tribute towards relief of poverty, improved socio-economic environment and bring positive change to the lives of marginalized people.CSC started its first intervention at village Barola, in February,2018. Barola is located in the heart of Noida, U.P, surrounded by upcoming multi-storeyed buildings. With the fast growing urbanization, Barola has become a rented residential abode for a huge number of migrated workers. We started our first intervention in the open park with five children and five ladies. It was the best place and comfortable weather to meet community peo-ple and create rapport. We continued our community interaction in the park for nearly a month and slowly we reached to the government schools of Barola. After our interaction with the principal and teachers of the schools and after a random sampling survey of children’s education level at Primary school, we decided to start our first community learning centre at Barola only. We took one room in the midst of the village on rent and started Khilta Bachpan programme for children and Swabalamby Hum programme for the youth and women. The journey which we started on 5th February,2018, had a smooth sailing, in-spite of few challenges here and there. Unconditional support and trust of members, donors, team members and most of all community accep-tance encouraged us to dream us bigger and develop a road map and action plan to reach bigger community in the years to come. Our constant effort is to keep monitoring and evaluating the change process and take immediate measures to make things happen in a positive direction.While we express our deep gratitude to our contributors and supporters, we invite one and all to join us to make change happen and become visible.With warm regards,

Dr.Bani BoraCSC-Noida

18 June, 2019.

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CSC Board Members

Dr.Bani Bora Nayana ChowdhuryFounder & Trustee Trustee

Jhula Baruah Mohammad NavedTrustee Trustee

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Centre for Social Change:CSC

CSC activities at a glance: February,2018 to March,2019

About usCentre for Social Change, CSC, is a charitable organization, registered under Trust Act on 5th February, 2018. It is designed as a hub for people and organizations where thoughts assimilate to create amalgamation of re-sources so that need based actions could be taken to make change sustainable. We, at CSC, come together and contribute towards a most needed positive social change by engaging communities creatively and effectively to co-create a better future. We uphold the principles of secularism, transparency, and accountability in all of our activities.

Our VisionCommunity empowerment through peoples’ participation, co-creation and values.

Our MissionOur mission is to create neighbourhood where people collectively contribute towards relief of poverty, im-proved socio-economic environment and bring positive changes.

Our approach of working with the communities is influenced by first hand understanding of community needs and techniques of experiential learning obtained from the field of development and social change which gen-erate well-being of people in a community.

Our WorkCSC believes that everyone in this world is looking for a positive change. To make the changes happen as the way we wish to see, CSC focuses on its activity based on community need. To instil the feeling of belonging to a community, to imbibe the thoughts and values of social responsibility and to focus on self-development, CSC intervenes in communities through following programmes: 

Gaon Mera: Green and Clean Community - Environment building

• To live life in a beautiful village is the dream for many of us and it always remains as a dream as we are constantly in search of livelihood, from better to best.• More than thirty percent of rural youth migrates to metro cities and nearby urban towns in search of livelihood. As they come with a purpose to earn livelihood, they come with a vision to earn money and go back to the village once they earn enough. However, they never earn enough to go back to their village and in the process they remain as a migrant in a small town or in a big city throughout their life. Gaon Mera focuses on bringing all shareholders of a community to one platform and co-create the dream of living in a clean and green environment a reality.

Ajeevan Siksha : Lifelong learning

• Ignited Minds: Focuses on children, adolescents and youth in building up their self-esteem and training them to be socially responsible.

• Khilta Bachpan: The programme aims at helping children to enhance their learning abilities through focused intervention and playful activities.

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• Health for life: A healthy body with a healthy mind, focuses on people’s awareness about health care, emotional and psychological well -being, counselling and change towards positive thought process. • Learn and teach: To encourage adults and senior citizens to learn new skills as well as excel in the skills they have. A certification of prior learning to such skilled persons to facilitate teaching to the younger generations.

Swabalamby Hum: Economic empowerment

• Empowerment comes along with the economic independence of self. This could be achieved by en-hancing one’s skills and knowledge. To facilitate youth to learn skills to produce and earn livelihood, thereby, contributing towards a sustainable economic growth of the self and family, CSC supports a training cum pro-duction centre at the Community.

Action Research:

• This area is mainly responsible for conducting research and providing policy feedback and inputs to policymakers. Publishing books, reports, policy briefs and promoting innovative development techniques and approaches are also part of its responsibilities.

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Our first intervention:CSC started its first intervention at village Barola, in February,2018. Barola is located in the heart of Noida, U.P, surrounded by upcoming multi-storeyed buildings. With the fast growing urbanization, Barola has become a rented residential abode for a huge number of migrated workers. We identified the following needs in the village:

Visible Needs:

• The village needed improved waste disposal system and better drainage facility.• Government Primary school 1, Barola, was worst sufferer of unplanned drainage system, which need intervention on priority.• Government Middle School, Barola, had a dilapidated look.

(CSC took initiative to bring these needs to the notice of the administration in February,2018 itself and immediate action was started. Garbage dumping places were better maintained and the Government Middle School was repaired and paintings and maintenance were completed by May end).

Felt Needs:• Many of government school children had difficulty in identifying alphabets and their reading writing skills needed immediate attention. • Women were interested to learn such a skill which would help them to earn while staying at home.• Women came forward to learn reading and writing, so that they could read religious prayers and also use mobile phone efficiently

Unfelt Needs:• Awareness about the clean surrounding and being socially responsible to practice it• Channelizing the energy of adolescents and youth so that they learn to be creative, with a skilful mind

Our activities:

• Conducted informal group discussions with women and youth on cleanliness of the street and avoiding usages of plastic bags as well as damages caused by plastic bags in our environment.• Interacted with the students of Government Middle Schools to understand their wishes to learn different skills apart from academics. • Started adult education classes in Hindi and English with women in the community park.• Initiated regular interaction with the students of Primary School to identify those students who were unable to identify alphabets even after studying at the school for a year or more.

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Starting of CSC Community Centre at Barola:

We started a CSC community centre at Barola on a rented accommodation. Khilta Bachpan and Swabalamby Hum, both the programmes were initiated at the centre. Children were taught through playful activities like hand printing, and training on skill based activities were organised for adolescents and youth. A total of forty children and fifteen youth joined the centre and actively participated in its programmes.

Ajeevan Shiksha:

• Ignited Minds: Short term English speaking sessions were conducted by a visiting faculty Rausanara Ahmed with the students from class VII onwards. While teaching English, the sessions focused on developing self-esteem of students by encouraging them to speak with self confidence.

• Khilta Bachpan: Forty children were enrolled under Khilta Bachpan programme. The programme aims at helping children to enhance their learning abilities through focused intervention and playful activities. Rima Borthakur and Tanzia Ahmed were our volunteers for this programme. Chunnu Kumari and Anamika Pandey were teaching facilitators of the programme. Khilta Bachpan infrastructure were supported by Fair and Sus-tainable Support Foundation (FSSF), New Delhi.

• Health for life: BMI (Body Mass Index) was calculated for all the forty children by our volunteer Tanzia Ahmed and it was observed that nearly 40% children were underweight. CSC initiated awareness about nutri-tious food and correlation between a healthy body and a healthy mind amongst children and youth. CSC also started an awareness campaign on mental health at the centre and the community.

Swabalamby Hum:

• The programme started with fifteen young girls in the age group of 14-20 years. The girls were inter-ested to learn cutting and tailoring. To begin with they were trained to make newspaper bags and sale it in the neighbourhood market. It was an interesting activity for them as they earned money for the first time from a product they made by themselves. The activity also helped in team building and developing interpersonal relationships, while sharing responsibilities for a group income.

• Six month cutting and tailoring course was started at the centre from June,2018. Pooja Sisodia, a Di-ploma holder from USHA Silai School imparted the training. A certificate of completion would be provided by CSC on satisfactory completion of the course.

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Participants’ Profile and Assessment

Enrolment for Ajeevan Shiksha (Education Programme)List of Children

S.N Name Class/School AssessmentAt the time of enrolment and present **

At-ten-dance Status

Ajay (M) I / Govt 1 2 RegularNitin (M) I / Govt 1 2 RegularRadha I / Govt 1 3 RegularChaya I / Govt 1 2 RegularRajrani I / Govt 1 1 AverageAnjali I / Govt 1 1 AverageMeera I / Govt 1 1 AverageDishu(F) I/Pvt/ drop out 1 2 RegularTanish(M) I/Pvt 1 1 AveragePradeep(M) I/Pvt 1 1 AverageKrishna(M) II/Govt 1 2 RegularVishal(M) II/Govt 1 2 RegularNisha II/Govt 1 3 RegularKhusboo II/Govt 1 2 RegularManisha II/Govt 1 2 RegularSameer(M) II/Govt 1 2 RegularSunny(M) II/Govt 1 2 AverageAnuj(M) II/Govt 1 3 AveragePuspendra(M) II/Govt 1 3 RegularSumit(M) II/Pvt 1 3 RegularAarman(M) II/Govt 1 2 AverageSneha III/Govt 1 2 RegularPayal III/Govt 1 2 RegularShristi III/Govt 2 4 RegularRashmi III/Govt 1 2 RegularPriyanka III/Govt 2 3 RegularRahul(M) III/Govt 2 2 RegularKhushi III/Govt 1 2 Regular

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Mamta III/Govt 1 2 RegularSuraj(M) III/Govt 2 2 RegularPriyanka Gupta III/Govt 2 3 RegularRockey(M) III/Govt 2 2 AverageHarshit(M) III/Govt 2 3 AverageDiya III/Pvt/drop

out2 3 Regular

Shivam(M) III/Pvt/drop out

2 3 Regular

Payal IV/Govt 3 4 RegularChanda IV/Govt 2 4 AverageRiya IV/Govt 2 3 RegularKumkum IV/Govt 2 3 RegularMuskan IV/Pvt/drop

out3 4 Regular

Rajkumari V/Govt 3 4 RegularMadhuri V/Govt 2 2 RegularRohit Verma(M) V/Govt 2 3 RegularDeepak(M) V/Govt 3 3 RegularNagesh Kr(M) V/Govt 3 3 RegularRavi(M) V/Govt 3 4 RegularRitik(M) V/Govt 3 4 RegularAshu(M) V/Govt 2 2 RegularAbhisekh(M) V/Govt 3 3 AverageArjun(M) V/Govt 3 3 AverageNarendra(M) V/Pvt 4 4 RegularJyoti VI/Govt 4 4 RegularKajal VII/Govt 4 4 RegularSneha VII/Govt 3 3 AverageRashmi VII/Govt 3 3 AveageChetna VII/Govt 3 3 AverageAnjali VII/Govt 4 4 RegularAman(M) Out of School 1 3 RegularSahil(M) Out of School 1 2 RegularShabana Out of School 1 4 RegularKajol Out of School 1 3 RegularChandni Out of School 1 2 RegularKumkum Out of School 1 2 RegularAslam(M) Out of School 1 1 AverageRashi Out of School 1 2 Regular &

MigratedLaxmi Out of School 1 2 Migrated*Wahid(M) III/Govt 1 Opted outLavi II/Govt 1 Opted outPinki IV/Govt 2 Opted outTuba III/Govt 2 Opted out

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Mehek III/Govt 2 Opted outMonu(M) III/Govt 1 Opted outSaneel(M) III/Govt 2 Opted outNaman(M) III/Govt 2 Opted outShiv(M) III/Govt 1 Opted outGauri III/Govt 1 Opted outAnkit(M) V/Govt 2 Opted outRaj(M) V/Govt 2 Opted outSatyam(M) V/Govt 2 Opted out

Summary:

• A total of 79 students enrolled for after school support classes.(8 children were from Pvt schools, out of which 4 opted out of school due to inability to pay fees) , 9 children were out of school and 62 children

were from Govt. school). • There were 38 boys and 41 girls (48% boys and 52% girls)• 16% students (14) opted out of the programme at various point of time.• There were 11% children (9) who were not going to school. Four more children, studying at private school had to drop out of school due to inability to pay fees. • Out of 65 children who continued with the programme, 74% (48 children) were regular in attendance. One child migrated to another place in January 2019.• At the end of 10 months of teaching at the centre, a highest of 39% (25 children) reached level 2, fol-lowed by 34 % (22children) reached level 3, whereas 18 % (12 children) reached level 4 and 9% (6 children) remained at level 1.• At the time of registration a total of 52 % ( 34 children) were at level 1.• One child who was in level 1, reached level 4.• Six children who were in level 1, reached level 3 and five of them were regular in attendance.• Nine children who remained in level 1 were average in their attendance.• Children from class III onwards desired to learn English. All the children needed to learn English from basics.

** Assessment was made in the scale of 1-5 for Hindi and Maths. 1 => not able to identify alphabet, numbers 2 => able to identify alphabets and only one matra, numbers upto 503 => able to identify all alphabets and matras, numbers, simple addi-tions and subtractions4 => ability to read and write, ad-ditions, subtractions and one digit multiplications5 => fluency in reading and writing, additions, subtractions, multiplica-tions and divisions

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CSCs out of school children enrolled into Government School in the new session :2019-20

A total of 13 children were out of school, out of which 4 were studying in private schools but could not continue with the formal schooling due to parent’s inability to pay fees and continued their learning at CSC. Two (2) children migrated to other place in January and March,2019 respectively. No information could be collected on where about of one child. A total of ten (10) children (79.6 %) were admitted in Govt. Primary Schools (PS I & II), Barola for 2019 session. Two more out of school children who joined the new session of CSC from April,2019 were also admitted in Govt. Primary Schools (PSI) Barola.

Class V (PS II) Class IV (PSI) Class III (PS II) Class II (PS I) Class I (PS I)Muskan Shabana Diya Kajol Dishu (PS II)

Shubham Aman ChandniShahil SudhirKumkumBobity

Enrolment for Swabalamby Hum Programme (Total Youth/Women)

List of participants

S.No Name Age/Education Course/ Activities Status1 Aasma 15/ IX C&T Certificate

(Six months, June-No-vember,2018)

Completed

2 Neha 15/VIII (drop out)

C&T Certificate(Six months, June-No-vember,2018)

Completed

3 Sunita 15/VIII (drop out)

C&T Certificate(Six months, June-No-vember,2018)

Completed

4 Rinki 15/IX C&T Certificate(Six months, June-No-vember,2018)

Completed

5 Firdos 15/IX C&T Certificate(Six months, June-No-vember,2018)

Completed

6 Anchal 15/IX C&T Certificate(Six months, June-No-vember,2018)

Completed

7 Pushpa 26/XII C&T Certificate(Six months, June-No-vember,2018)

Completed

8 Aradhana 13/VI C&T Certificate(Six months, June-No-vember,2018)

Completed

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9 Mohini 16/IX C&T Certificate(Six months, June-No-vember,2018)

Dropout

10 Nisha 16/V C&T Certificate(Six months, June-No-vember,2018)

Dropout

11 Neha 15/IX C&T Certificate(Six months, June-No-vember,2018)

Dropout

Asso-ciation with Art &Craft and other activities

12 Roshni 16/IX Art & Craft Associated13 Aditi 14/V Music & Dance Associated14 Puja 15/VIII Dance & Teaching Associated15 Kajal 17/XI Craft Associated16 Kumkum 15/IX Art, Academic Associated17 Aarti 18/X Community Mobilization Associated18 Pooja 15/IX Craft & Drama Associated19 Kajal 15/IX Craft Associated20 Anjali 14/VII Art & Craft,Dance Associated21 Sekhar 14/VIII Art Associated22 Anjali 12/VI Art& Craft, Dance Associated23 Kusum 13/VIII Art, Craft & Dance Associated24 Manisha 13/VIII Dance AssociatedMa ki pathsala : Adult literacy initia-tive for mothers/sisters25 Sehjadi 22/Illiterate Interested in

C&T26 Munni 24/illiterate Domestic helper Interested in

C&T27 Parminder 30/Illiterate Mother of Annandi28 Sunita 29/Illiterate Mother of Rashi29 Ruby 23/Illiterate Mother of Sonu (Domes-

tic helper)30 Geeta 22/illiterate Mother of Rupa (domestic

helper)

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31 Lalita 28/illiterate Mother of Shekha & Anja-li (cook)

32 Reena 28/illiterate Mother of Anjali (cook)33 Manisha 26/illiterate Domestic helper34 Smita 31/illiterate Mother of Aradhana35 Munni Devi 28/Illiterate Mother of Sneha (cook)36 Gomti 26/illiterate Mother of Radha (Domes-

tic helper)37 Mona Singh 25/illiterate Interested in

C&T38 Rekha 28/illiterate39 Anjali 20/illiterate Domestic helper Interested in

C&T40 Sarla 23/illiterate Interested in

C&T41 Shilpa 22/VIII Interested in

C&T42 Laxmi 20/VIII Interested in

C&T43 Meena Chaud-

hury24/VIII Interested in

C&T44 Uma 24/X Mother of Kajol,Ritesh45 Sandhya 18/X Interested in

C&T46 Kiran 23/X Interested in

C&T47 Rinki 25/XII Mother of Diya,Di-

shu,Sidhant48 Priya 20/XII Interested in

C&T

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• Out of eleven (11) students enrolled for Cutting and Tailoring course, 8 students successfully completed their course. Course completion rate 73%.• Thirteen (13) students were associated with extra-curricular activities such as art, craft, dance, drama, street play etc. and all the students continued with their activities through group learning and one to one teach-ing.• Twenty four women expressed their interest to learn a skill which will help them to earn by working from home. Out of 24, 16 were illiterate mothers/sisters (67%), who expressed their willingness to learn basic literacy. Eleven (11) of them (46%) were interested in Cutting and Tailoring course.

• Out of those who completed the certificate course in cutting and tailoring, Sunita started to assist CSC in its Cutting and tailoring course, Neha and Ashma started taking orders at home from neighbourhood, and all the others were given opportunities to practice at CSC. Cut pieces were provided to improve their skills as well as develop creative products by using cut pieces.

• Six best students were to be taught and guided by famous artist Dr.Col J.Hazarika to develop skills in art and craft field.

Participation at Swabalamby Hum Programme

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Programmes and activities at CSC

V.a. Celebration of Important Days

CSC celebrated few important days with the children to help them understand the importance of such days as well as to understand their thoughts about the themes of the days through informal talk and group discussions.Days at a glance:

S.No Days Total no ofParticipants

Observations/Learnings

International Women’s Day: 8th March,2018at the Govt. Middle School, Barola

120 Active participation by both boys and girls. Boys were aware of the importance of respecting women and shared their thoughts.

World Environment Day: 5th June,2018 45 More awareness will be re-quired on the theme.

International Day of Yoga :21st June,2018 38 Continuation of the practice would help in actual benefits in the long run. Children en-joy the activities.

International Youth Day: 12 August,2018 52 It was summarized that nearly fifty percent of youth/ado-lescent girls did not feel safe at home because of alcoholic tantrums of their fathers. They felt safe with friends.

India’s Independence Day: 15th August,2018 45 For children it is a day for enjoyment. Sacrifices behind India’s independence need to be discussed more frequently.

Teachers’ Day: 8th September, 2018 35 Children loved to shower their love and respect for teachers.

Gandhi Jayanti:2nd October,2018 60 Children needed to know more about Gandhiji and his work. They knew less about Lal Bahadur Shastri ji

International Girl Child Day : 11 Octo-ber,2018

68 Nearly 40 per cent children said that their sisters were getting married  after comple-tion of class VIII education, which  indicated a community scenario, where early marriage of girls left them with a status of almost uneducated and unskilled.

Children’s Day :14th November,2018 42 A day for fun activities and creativity

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India’s Republic Day: 26th January,2019 100 Day of art, creativity and en-joyment.

International Women’s Day: 8th March,2019at the CSC centre at Barola

60 The day was celebrated with the students and mothers. While mothers talked about using every opportunity to learn when there was time, girls of class VIII shared their wishes to make their parents dreams being fulfilled. A be-ginning to “ Think equal, build smart, innovate for change”, theme for the day. 

XIII. Celebration of first Annual Sports Day of CSC : 27 January.2019

120 A day of unlimited fun and team spirit. Sports to create healthy, competitive personali-ty in a child.

XIV. Celebration of first Foundation Day of CSC:5th February

110 The day for CSC. A day to acknowledge and appreciate every single contribution of CSC children, parents, donors, teachers and team members.

International Women’s Day: 8th March

International Women’s Day was celebrated on 8th March,2018, with the students of Govt. Middle School, Barola. A talk on the importance of the day and activities like plant a tree in the name of the women you love and respect were part of the celebration aiming at instilling the concept of gender equality in the young minds. About hundred and twenty students and teachers participated in the programme. Refreshments were distrib-uted to all the students and teachers and copies were distributed to all the students of class VIII. A total of ten flower saplings were planted at the school entrance.

World Environment Day: 5th June

We celebrated World Environment Day on 5th June,2018 at the CSC community centre, Barola. Mrs. Neelam Gupta, President, Lioness Club ,Roshni, Ls. Manjula Dhar and senior most member Ls. Kamla ji were present on the occasion and interacted with the children to create awareness about not to use plastic in our day to day life. Children were also encouraged to share such information with their parents. Ls. Neelam gave a demon-stration on recycling of vegetable peels to make floor cleaner, odour repellent and drain cleaner. Ls Manjula and Ls Kamla ji encouraged girls to continue their and education expressed their willingness to support them with teaching extracurricular activities.

Students of the centre actively participated in the discussion and shared their learnings from CSC centre. Anjali, student of Swabalamby Hum programme, shared about her experience on newspaper bag making and marketing of the same in the neighbourhood shops. Anjali and her team sold newspaper bags worth 70/- Rs in two days time and able to receive regular order from four shops. Another Anjali, student of short term summer course on English Speaking, beautifully gave her presentation in English on how plastic destroys the environ-ment. A total of forty two students were present on the day. Cleanliness kit comprising of Soap, tooth brush and paste and refreshment packets were distributed to each child at the end of the programme.

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International Day of Yoga: 21st June

CSC celebrated international Day of Yoga at the Centre on 21st June,2018 with all the children and youth. Importance of Yoga through story-telling, learning Yoga by doing it and distribution of fruits to help kids un-derstand the importance of nutritious food for our healthy body and mind, were the activities focused at CSC on this important day. Nayana Choudhury mentored the programme with the support of Hiranya Kumar Das. Thirty eight children participated in the programme.

International Youth Day :12th August

International Youth Day was celebrated on 12th August,2018 focusing on the theme ‘Safe Spaces for Youth’. While introducing the theme, Dr.Bani Bora discussed the need for safe spaces for youth to empower them to enhance their growth, development and potentials to the fullest so that youth can contribute their best towards creating a better community. The theme discussion was followed by focused group discussions, led by youth from diverse background. One of the outcomes of group discussions was not only shocking but also alarming and painful. It was summarized that nearly fifty percent of youth/adolescent girls did not feel safe at home because of alcoholic tantrums of their fathers. They felt safe with friends. They didn’t like to walk alone on the street. It’s not just because of eve-teasers, but also neighbourhood aunties, who would not hesitate to pass on disgraceful, humiliating comments on them. If given an opportunity, majority of girls would love to make their family a peaceful, happy and safe place to stay. Boys felt safe at home and they would like to contribute towards safe and clean community. It was summarized that while providing safe spaces for youth, it was important to create safe spaces by the family, the adults and the seniors, where our children would feel safe to grow up as happy and healthy youth, both physically and mentally. Youth mentors for the day were : Geetanjali Joshi, Shivangi Tomar, Saranga Dev, Varun Goswami and Shravan Goswami. Guest members present on the day were Hiranya Kumar Das and Hemen Goswami. A total of fifty two youth participate in the celebration which ended with working lunch, followed by music and dance activities by the participants.

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India’s Independence Day: 15th August

72nd Independence of India was celebrated by forty five children at CSC. Children wore tri colour caps, hand bands and decorated the centre by drawing of images of India’s National Flag. Importance of India’s Indepen-dence was discussed with the children by Dr.Bani Bora. They shared the stories of freedom fighters, their brav-ery and martyrs. Children also presented musical performances to the tune of patriotic songs.

Teachers’ Day: 8 September

There could not be another better day for teachers then this day when their students expressed their love and respect for their loving teachers by organising activities full of fun and frolic. Thirty five children participated in the programme and conveyed their gratitude to all the three teachers, namely Chunnu Devi, Anamika Pan-dey, Pooja Sisodia as well as to Dr. Bani Bora.

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Gandhi Jayanti : 2nd October

This important day was celebrated by organising drawing competition, extempore speech and quiz sessions. Pooja Sisodia talked about childhood days of Gandhiji and the importance of the day to the present scenario. Children were aware that 2nd October was also birthday of India’s 2nd Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. Dr. Bani Bora shared the life story of Shastriji, his simplicity and honesty and his love for people with the children. Sixty children were present on the occasion to celebrate the day.

International Girl Child Day : 11 October

Centre for Social Change celebrated this important day on 11October,2018 at its centre.Theme for this year’s International Girl Child Day was “With her: A skilled work force”. While celebrating the day, Dr. Bani Bora initiated discussion on students understanding about girl child and encouraged them to talk about girl child from their family scenario. While majority of girls said that they felt discriminated at home , majority of boys said that they would like to help their sisters at home. However, nearly 40 per cent children said that their sis-ters were getting married  after completion of class VIII education, which  indicated a community scenario, where early marriage of girls left them with a status of almost uneducated and unskilled. Navasha Khanna, representative of Fair and Sustainable Support Foundation, Delhi, also joined the celebration. Through role play, Navasha depicted the importance of family’s support towards a better future for girls. Sixty eight students attended the programme.

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India’s 70th Republic Day : 26 January,2019

CSC celebrated India’s Republic day by organizing art competitions amongst the children. Seventy children participated in the competition. Dr. Col Jiten Hazarika, artist of excellence and international repute honoured our invitation to help us in selecting top nine art work by the children. Dr. Col Hazarika proposed to train and guide top six children in learning art from professional perspectives. Presence of CHILDLINE India Foundation’s team members and their interaction with the children to make children aware about 1098, was another highlight of the day. The number 1098 is operated by CHILDLINE India Foundation, a project by Govt. of India for safety and protection of destitute children. Mrs. Manjula Dhar, Ms. Poonam, Mr. Ritesh and Mr. H.K Das were the respected guests on the occasion. A total of hundred children, guests and parents were present on the day.

List of winners in art competitions:Sections NamesSenior Group 1st Prize Mahesh

2nd Prize Anjali Vemar3rd Prize Kusum Kumari

Middle Group 1st Prize Anjali2nd Prize Shekhar3rd Prize Pooja

Junior Group 1st Prize Pradeep2nd Prize Kajal3rd Prize Diya

V.b Eye Check up Camp:

Fare and Sustainable Support Foundation (FSSF) in collaboration with I-Care and Rotary International organised a two days eye check-up camp on 25th & 26th September,2018 at the CSC centre for stu-dents and community people of Barola. A total of hundred and sixty people got their eye check-up done. About twelve children found to have eye problem. Four of them were referred for further check-up. Spectacles would be provided to the remaining eight children.

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V.c CSCs initiative : Better vision

Small initiatives, little bit support, a bit of follow up...leads to bigger changes in life. Such small initiatives of CSC helped Mamta, Khushboo and Rahul to see the world in a better way. Mamta, 8 year, has vision in one eye, which we came to know during general eye camp at CSC, we followed it up and got it checked at ICare eye Hospital. For other two, it was our observations during the class, we felt that they need proper eye check up. Khushboo, 6 year, has defective vision due to side effects of medicine as a baby. Rahul, 5 year, could hardly see his book with -13.3...and other added power. Now, they all are enjoying smart look with prescribed spectacles. Thanks to you all for making it possible, specially team CSC, who took time to guide the kids as well as family.

V.d Ma ki Pathsala : Ajeevan Siksha

No one could be more successful than willing learners. CSC is putting its efforts to bring mothers to the centre by offering literacy and skill development hand in hand. The only challenge is mothers put their priorities to the last. However, 15 mothers gave their first steps and entered CSC. Now, our focus is on sustainability and result oriented output of the project.

L-R: Mamta, Khusboo and Rahul

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Inauguration of Khilta Bachpan Centre

Fair and Sustainable Support Foundation (FSSF) supported infrastructure of the Khilta Bachpan centre and signed an MOU with the founder Dr. Bani Bora. The centre was formally inaugurated on 14th September,2018. Navasha Khanna, Saurabh Kumar and team FSSF attended the programme with CSC team and children.

People’s Participation at CSC:

It’s people’s participation which ensures sustainable development and changes in a community.

President : Parul Bora, Vice President : Anjana Roy, Secretary : Binapani Dutta, Executive Member : Sadhna Sarma and Jayashree Chandrasekharan from Dishang Ladies Club, Sector 15, Noida, visited CSC community centre, Barola on 13th July,2018. They extended financial support of Rs.10,000/- for CSC activities and encour-aged CSC team members to strengthen their efforts in this endeavour.

People’s participation: Representatives from Dishang Ladies Club at CSC

Team FSSF at CSC centre

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CSC appreciates very kind and thoughtful gesture of Mrs. Sunita Joshi who celebrated her birthday as well as birthdays of her twins (Geetanjali and Gaurav) with the children of CSC on 14th July,2018. Children prepared birthday greeting cards and celebrated the day with joy and cheers. Mrs. Joshi donated 10 study tables to the children.

Holding hands by friends:

Reeta Kaur, Indrani Medhi Sharma and Indrani Saikia extended whole hearted support to CSC when they visited the centre on 4th September,2018. It was like friends holding hands to bring positive changes to the community, which seemed to be so possible.

People’s participation: Birthday celebration at CSC

Social Inclusion of Transgender Representatives:

Centre for Social Change facilitated mehendi sessions on 26th October,2018 by transgender representatives, supported by Transgender Resource Centre, University of Delhi and Community Empowerment Trust at Aditya Celebrity Home, a residen-tial society in Noida. Three transgender representatives designed mehendi to nearly sixty residents. A step towards social inclusion and sharing happiness by the resi-dents. The mehendi designs and price, both were outstanding.

Reeta Kaur, Indrani Medhi Sharma and Indrani Saikia at the centre

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Mr. Dipankar Sengupta, Senior Technical Director and Head of Division at National Informatics Centre, New Delhi spent quality time with children on 24th November, 2018, sharing his personal experience of school days, including maths phobia and ways to overcome it.

Mohammad Naved, Programme Manager at GAP-USAID project also visited the centre on the same day and looked into the future road map of CSC. Md. Naved suggested that while we are focusing on children’s immediate learning need, the same may be studied with a bigger community, so that fact based outcomes could be assessed to plan actions for CSC.

A brief interactive moment with children at CSC on 26th December,2018 by Mrs. Piyali Acharya, Life skill trainer and management professional of repute. Mrs. Piyali thoughtfully taught the young ones one lesson for life..that was how to say the names of our parents with respect. Thank you Piyali ji for your time and support. Learning to respect our parents is the first lesson of learn-ing to respect self. We learn to care and respect at CSC. Change is possible.

Mrs. Rajni Dhar, a teacher per excellence for nearly three decades, created those magic moments with the children at CSC on 1st January,2019. The year began with prayer, laughter, caring and sharing. Mrs. Dhar distributed warm clothes and refreshments to the children. The day happened to be birthday of four kids of CSC. Blessings and gifts from Mrs. Rajni Dhar, Mr. H.K.Das, Rajneesh and Bobita made s great beginning of the year. Thank you all for your support and concerns to the well-being of CSC kids.

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Visit by German Professors and Students

University Professors from Germany , Prof. Dr. Regina Egetenmeyer, Professor Adult Education, Julius – Max-milians-University Wurzburg and Prof. Dr. Sabine Schmidt-Lauff, Professor Continuing Education and life-long Learning, Hamburg University, alongwith Sir Hans and Jenny Fehrenbacher visited Centre for Social Change on 12th September,2018.  Centre for Social Change is a community based organisation which focuses on bringing change in people’s life through education, skill enhancement and entrepreneurship development training. The visitors had interac-tions with youth and children of the community and tried to understand their expectations from the centre in bringing changes in their lives. Dr. Bani Bora, Senior Fellow-IIALE is the founder of Centre for Social Change. The centre is based at village Barola, Noida. Professors opined their visit to the centre as outstanding experi-ence and expressed their desire to support the centre in achieving its vision.

University students of Education Science from Germany, visited Centre for Social Change on 21st Septem-ber,2018 to have an exposure of community teaching and learning. The students started with non-verbal com-munication methods and encouraged children to exercise in a playful way.  The activity made children com-fortable with the international visitors. The non-verbal session was followed by an interactive session with children through drawing and art. Children were divided in seven groups, each group having a six-seven members. Each group was led by one International student and they would draw what they speak. Finally, the children ended up learning few English words and tried to teach couple of Hindi words to the International students.The children enjoyed their time while sharing and learning. It was overwhelming to see mutual learn-ing taking place at the Centre for Social Change by crossing the barriers of language.

German Professors visited CSC

University students from Germany had interactive sessions with children at CSC

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Visit of Priti Shah: Social Justice Activist, Canada

Priti Shah is an educationist, facilitator, social justice activist and humani-tarian from Canada. For her, the pursuit of justice and peace is simply a way of life. An immigrant community leader who has been involved in too many humanitarian initiatives over the last 30 years to count, Coquitlam, B.C.-based Shah has built a reputation as a “mover and a shaker” in all things related to equity. Priti Shah visited the organisation on 17 October, 2018  and had a first hand understanding of organisation’s work area as well in-teraction with its beneficiaries. Priti Shah very much appreciated the idea of setting up the centre in the midst of the community and suggested that reg-ular mind stimulating sessions with youth would help them to change their mindset towards empowered personal growth. Her visit added strength to organisation’s journey towards social change.  

Priti Shah with the children at CSC

IAEA Chairman and IIALE Director’s Visit:

Shri Kailash Chaudhury, Chairman, Indian Adult Education Association and Prof. S.Y. Shah, Director, In-ternational Institute of Adult and Lifelong Education, New Delhi visited Noida based charitable organisation, Centre for Social Change on 31st October,2018. Both the stalwarts of Adult Education and Lifelong Learning had a fruitful discussion with Dr. Bani Bora on developing a plan of action for the organisation, so that max-imum benefits could be provided to the community, specially adult women. To initiate its implementation, Prof Shah proposed to support a three months project for community women. Under this project community women will be mobilised and weekly meet up programme would be organised to develop self awareness, team building and identify common issues of concern amongst women. Shri Chaudhury had a brief interaction with the students of stitching class and encouraged them to learn and develop their skills to the fullest. Students were also encouraged to study well and not to stay out of higher education because of financial reasons. They were assured that there would be scholarship for deserving students.

Chairman Shri Kailash Chaudhury and Prof.S.Y.Shah at CSC

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VIII. Visual display of CSC activity moments

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Diwali Celebration

Home visit of children : Dr.Bani Bora An exhibition stall of Diwali products at Arun Vihar Institute, facilitated by AVI club

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Happy Learning at CSC

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IX. CSC WinnersThirteen children from CSC participated at an art competition organized by Motherland Hospital, Sector 119,Noida on 17th November,2018. Class VIII student Shekhar got the first prize.

Fifty five children participated in twelve different competitions organized by Youth For Seva at Loyd Law College, Noida on 2nd December,2018 and won prizes in five different competitions. While all the children performed their best in the competitions...few did it even better and thus, our winners of the day were: 1. First prize in creative writing: Preeti Singh, Second prise in rangoli :Aradhana and Gudia, Second prize in recitation : Kusum Kumari, Third prize in recitation: Kajal, Third prize in quiz: Shivanshu, Mushkan, Rehan, Third prize in street play: Anchal, Rinki, Aasma, Neha, Sunita, Puja and Kajal.

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X. CSC VolunteersWe value our change fellow, interns and volunteers for their generous contributions of time, skill, knowledge and spirit. We are always eager to work with dedicated individuals from India and abroad and believe that we can all benefit from a multicultural work environment that provides each of us with a wider perspective on social change. Following is the list of volunteers indicating their volunteering hours at CSC.

S.No Name Programme Hours of volun-teering per day

Total Volunteer-ing hours

1 Rima Borthakur Khilta Bachpan 2 hours per day for 8 days (March & April)

16

2 Rausanara Ahmed

Ignited Minds (English Speak-ing)

3 hours per day for 10 days (May & June)

30

3 Tanzia Ahmed Khilta Bachpan/Health for life

2 hours per day for ten days (May & June)

20

4 Hiranya Kumar Das

Khilta Bachpan 2 hours per day for 5 days (May)

10

5 Bili Bora Swabalamby Hum

3 hours per day for 2 day (June, July)

06

6 Geetanjali Joshi Ajeevan Siksha 3 hours per day for 5 days (June, July)

15

7 Akshara Juneja Khilta Bachpan (Art and Cre-ativity)

2 hours per week for 4 weeks (Ju-ly,August)

8

Total Vol-unteering Hours

105

Session on Indian Psychology & meditation by volunteer Geetanjali Joshi

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XI. Annual Members CSC India has the following Annual Members who associated themselves by contributing Rs.2000/- per person as annual membership fee.

S.No Name Date of Enrol-ment

Membership No.

1 M. Karim 21st May,2018 CSC001/05/182 Rupam Barua 04th June,2018 CSC002/06/183 M.P.Saikia 13th June,2018 CSC003/06/184 Prof.S.Y.Shah 27th June,2018 CSC004/06/185 Dipankar Sengupta 28th June,2018 CSC005/06/186 Kalpana Hazarika 19th July,2018 CSC006/07/187 Ruhi Karim 20th July,2018 CSC007/07/188 Sharmila Saikia 26th July,2018 CSC008/07/189 Neelam Gupta 27th July,2018 CSC009/07/1810 Khiraswar Bora 01st August,2018 CSC010/08/1811 Khagen Saikia 06th Sept,2018 CSC011/09/1812 Basanta Bora 11th Sept,2018 CSC012/09/1813 Binapani Dutta 12th Sept,2018 CSC013/09/1814 Akash Chaudhury 04th Octo-

ber,2018CSC014/10/18

15 Amar Gupta 15th Novem,2018 CSC015/11/1816 Indrani Barua Bordoloi 14th Dec,2018 CSC016/12/18

XII. DonorsS.No Name Donation

Received in Kind

Total donation received in Rs.

1 Rima Borthakur Yes2 Chanda Bhattacharya Yes3 Prarthana Misra 15004 Hiranya Kumar Das Yes 5005 Akash Chaudhury Yes 110006 Rupam Barua 110007 Mani Pranjal Saikia 20008 Bontee Kabra 5009 Bili Bora Yes 10 Prof.S.Y.Shah 700011 Dipankar Sengupta 1600012 Sharmila Saikia 200013 Neelam Gupta 500014 Ruhi Karim 2400015 Khiraswar Bora 2000

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16 Indira Srivastava Yes17 Monalisha Baruah Yes18 Shadab Jamal Yes19 M/S R.S.Engineering Works Yes 4500020 Disang Ladies Club 1000021 Kalpana Hazarika 1000022 Col.I.P.Singh 100023 Sunita Joshi Yes24 Nayana Chaudhuri 1055025 Momi Brahma 55026 Khogen Saikia 200027 Amar Gupta 500028 Basanta Bora 200029 Binapani Dutta 200030 Arun Vihar Institute 1000031 Indrani Barua Bordoloi 200032 Ritesh Yes33 Poonam Yes34 M.Karim 3000** Support from Fair and Sustain-

ableSupport Foundation, New Delhi, through a MOU with the Founder to pay rent for Rs.3000/- per month and spent Rs. 29,409/-to develop children Activity Centre at CSC.

XIII. Present Staff & Guest FacultyS.No Name Qualifications Designation Working

Hours1 Chunnu Kumari B.A (Final Year) Facilitator

(Khilta Bachpan)12.30 -2.30 PM

2 Anamika Pandey B.A Facilitator(Khilta Bachpan)

2.30-4.30 P.M

3 Puja Sisodia B.A (Final Year)Diploma in Cutting & Stitching, USHA Interna-tional

Trainer Swabalamby Hum

2.30 – 4.30 PM

4 Sunita Certificate in Cutting and Tailoring

Assistant, Silai Centre

12.00-3.00 PM

5 Reeta Kaur M.Sc (Home Science) Cut-ting and Tailoring

Guest Faculty

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XIV. Annual Sports DayThe best of our learnings take place when we play or participate in a sport. CSC children thoroughly enjoyed the first Annual Sports Day at the community park, Barola. Barefoot, uneven field and chilly weather... nothing could beat the spirit of sports in the open ground. Day full of fun and enjoyment. There were friendly Kabaddi match amongst girls and boys. Both the teachers Anamika Pandey and Chunnu Tiwari actively participated in the sports activities.Mr. H.K.Das, Mrs. Poonam Pathak, Mr. Ritesh and Mr. Pan-dey volunteered in organising the activities. List of Winners: Annual Day

Sports/Prizes Hundred Meter Race (Girls 6-8 years)

Hundred Meter Race (Boys 6-8 years)

Hundred Meter Race (Boys & Girls 6-8 years)

Two Hun-dred Meter Race (Girls 9-11 years) Group I

Two Hun-dred Meter Race (Girls 9-11 years) Group II

Two Hun-dred Meter Race (Boys 9-11 years) Group I

1st Prize Dishu Sahil Sahil Sneha Priyanka Rocky 2nd Prize Rashi Pushpendra Dishu Shifa Rajkumari Ritesh 3rd Prize Radha Atharba Radha Arya Mushkan

JyotiRavi

Two Hun-dred Meter Race (Boys 9-11 years) Group II

Lemon Race : Hundred meter (Girls 11+ years)

Sack Race: Hundred meter (Girls 11+ years)

Sack Race: Hundred meter (Boys 9-11 years)

1st Prize Ashu Anjali Pooja Aarman2nd Prize Abhisekh Sunita3rd Prize Shivam Rinki

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XV. CSC’s First Foundation Day:Formation of an organisation is almost similar to the beginning of parenthood. It involves not only planning, preparation and responsibilities but also dream, hope and aspirations. CSC is also no exception. And so it’s first foundation day on 5th February,2019, CSC family, friends and well wishers met and shared the joy of comple-tion of a year of existence. It was just the beginning of a baby steps but CSC has a long way to go, with change as inevitable object. Thank you dear donors, teachers, children, parents and friends. Thank you dear parents and children, let us support each other and move together for a better tomorrow for all of us.

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XVI. Summary at a glance:At the end of nearly one –year intervention in the community at village Barola, we have observed that, mi-gration and frequent trip to villages for longer duration hampers children’s learning at school. Alongwith this promotion without detention leaves them almost illiterate even at higher classes, if not taken extra care by the parents.Education for girls still limited to class VIII for many young girls, due to various reasons, but the main reason would be to get the girls married off early is parent’s priority than supporting them to continue their educa-tions. It was mentioned that nearly 40 per cent children’s sisters were getting married  after completion of class VIII education, which  indicated a community scenario, where early marriage of girls left them with a status of almost uneducated and unskilled throughout life.It was summarized that nearly fifty percent of youth/adolescent girls do not feel safe at home because of alco-holic tantrums of their fathers.There are numbers of NGO’s working in this community which provides learning facilities to children. Tuition concept is very popular amongst children, whether it is paid or unpaid. Children are in the habit of hopping at tuition centres to look for material benefits, rather than sticking on at one place for the sole purpose of learn-ing. Guidance from teachers and parents play a major role here. Parents who had atleast 15k Rs. Income per month, preferred to send their children to Private Schools, with monthly fee as low as Rs.200/-. In case of scarcity of money, boys would get preference to go to private school.Nearly 80% of the children have low self-esteem. “I can not do it” is the frequent phase they use when it comes to academics. Children need constant motivation to help them understand that they can actually do it.

Children Appearance Behaviour Learning6-8 years Improved in ap-

pearance, look neat and clean most of the time. However, frequent reminder is needed

Boys initiate fight most of the time, girls remain silent, but retaliate if needed.

Boys in general have less attention span then girls. Girls are more willing to learn.

9-11 years Improved in ap-pearance, look neat and clean most of the time. However, occasional reminder needed

Both boys and girls fight equally, not vio-lent but a tendency to hit each other

Boys are more willing to learn. They learn and concentrate better in a class of only boys.

12 + (mostly girls)

Look neat and clean Girls have their own groups and seemed to be comfortable in that group

Girls are eager learner and willing to go for higher education.

Change is possibleThank you for being CSC’s change agent

We care for change!

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