August 2012 Newsletter

The month of July kept the Sopan volunteers busy preparing for the upcoming academic year since we set the goals and planned our activities for the year. Four French students visited along with one student from Ohio University, and participated in Sopan activities during this period.
A section of Sopan students spent some time making Rakhi, along with making Science Kit for rural schools.

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July 2012 Newsletter

Sopan Vidyalya were closed because of Summer vacation during this month. The summer camp of Pratibha Poshan Yojna culminated this month. We also published the results for the Gahan Adhyayan Kendra. We also represented Shiksha Sopan at the Senior Resource Meet of HBCSE Mumbai which among other things prepares the Indian team for International Science Olympiads.

Please click on the following link to read the full July 2012 Newsletter. 

June 2012 Newsletter

The Summer Camp of Pratibha Poshan Yojna for senior children was the focus of activities during the month of May. The National Workshop of Physics Teachers hosted at IIT kanpur also saw involvement from Sopan volunteers.

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May 2012 Newsletter

The special events during month of April were examination for Dr. V. N. Kulkarni Merit scholarship, paper art workshop, nukkad natak at Ratanpur, play on Ramanujam's life by NSS students, making of Solar cloth drier and water distillor.

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May 2012 Newsletter

April 2012 Newsletter

The month of March witnessed a mega competition “Ramayan Ko Jaanein” (lets know Ramayan) on the Ramayana. The month also had the regular activities of evening centers, Sopan Vidyalaya, Science team's preparations for the forthcoming annual workshop, NWUPT-2012 etc.

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March 2012 Newsletter

During the month of February, we organized two health camps, our students participated in the science day celebration. A science show was given to a local college Post-Graduate students. Our students also participated in “Walk for Kanpur”organized by the NGO Parivartan. 

Please click on the link below to view the full newsletter for this month. Your comments and feedback will encourage us. Full view of March 2012 newsletter

Contribution Receipt (Sept 2011 to Dec 2011)

Attached is the receipt of contribution made during the months from September to December in 2011. A constant contribution of Rs 2500 was made on the first day of every month. Only one receipt was generated just for the convenience of the treasure but it represents 4 individual contributions in these 4 months.

This was affected jointly by Saurabh Dayal, Nimisha Srivastava and Amrendra Narayan

February 2012 Newsletter

Shiksha Sopan hosted a couple of competition on the occasion of its annual function of on January 8. The following week had games-day (khel-divas) , social-awareness-rallies along with several competitions with participation from over 200 students. There were events which villagers from around were also positively affected.

In January, we had a republic-day celebration at Sopan center. Since we transitioned to Spring (Vasant), there was a special hawan organized for sopan students.

January 2012 Newsletter

With this edition, Sopan Newsletter has completed 4 years. All 48 issues were brought out without any discontinuity and all are present at our website www.shiksha-sopan.org giving a history of this initiative.

We are thankful to all volunteers for taking this initiative this far and to all our readers. Please click on the title above to see the entire newsletter. It has been uploaded to Google docs this time.

December 2011 Newsletter

There were no major centralized event organized during November. All the units concentrated at their regular activities in addition to the program on Children’s day. NTSE, PPYJ, Evening centers and school, actively pursued their programs. Please click on the title link to read the detailed newsletter of December 2011.

November 2011 Newsletter

Traditionally the month of October is a festive month. We packaged the festivities together with academic activities. Among others Shiksha Sopan celebrated Bapu's birthday, Dussehra and Deepavali. The Sopan Vidyalaya conducted special cultural and academic activities while some evening centers conducted visit programs. NTSE, PPYJ as well as Higher education Cell actively pursued their programs. Please click on the Title link to read the detailed newsletter.

October 2011 Newsletter

With blessings of all our well wishers, we have developed an excellent team of committed workers, most of whom come from the section of society which is still struggling for their livelihood. With the heroic efforts of this team, Sopan activities are expanding and people are keen to know and adapt these models. In September, there were two outreach activities, one at a remote village Muskara and the other at IITK, organized by NERD, where people keenly interacted with Sopan to know about its educational models. All centers conducted their activities efficiently and there was an increase in participation from the society. The newsletter gives a brief description of the activities in September 2011.

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Contribution Recipt (Apr to Aug)

Hello contributors,

Recently I received a receipt of the contributions that were made since April to August.

This is a combined receipt of five months together, but I want to mention that a contributions were made individually each with the amount of 2500 INR made on the first of every month.

This was made possible by contributions from Saurabh Dayal, Nimisha Srivastava and Amrendra Narayan.

September 2011 Newsletter

August is special for all neighboring villages of IIT kanpur, since they get to participate in the independence day celebration grandly organized by Shiksha Sopan.

Keeping the flow of national sentiments, Sopan volunteers also took out anti-corruption rallies in the neighboring villages. A 2-day camp for Pratibha Poshan Yojna candidates was taken up this month. We also took a drive for NTSE awareness and preparation amongst our PPY students apart from other programs and regular activities. Please click on the title link to view the full newsletter depicting the activities in August 2011

August 2011 Newsletter

In order to take the work of social reconstruction ahead with greater pace,

Shiksha Sopan volunteers had several rounds of discussion in the month of

July. With several reshuffle and restructure, a new energy has been enthused

in the team. Here is a description about this month’s activities.

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July 2011 Newsletter

The June Month of Shiksha Sopan was started with the outgoing performance of

Shiksha Sopan children in the High school and Intermediate Results. Sopan

Vidyalaya and Evening centers of Barasirohi and Ratanpur were closed most of the time in this

month. However, the team of Sopan had enough work to do. It involves the various activities

for the upliftment of the volunteers, like Volunteer Development Programme. Anti

corruption bill meeting to fight against corruption was also held. Here is a description about

this month’s activities.

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June 2011 Newsletter

This month we at Shiksha Sopan organized a summer camp for children of Pratibha Poshan Yojana (PPY). A two-days counseling session was also organized for PPY 2007 batch. Shiksha Sopan’s science team managed successfully 5-days workshop “National Workshop of Utashi Physics teachers (NWUPT-11).

Please click the title link to read the full description with relevant photographs of the jubilant and enthusiastic participants during the events.

May 2011 Newsletter

During April Shiksha Sopan was busy with VNK Merit Scholarship Examination was held at five different schools. An Awareness lecture on environment and Discussion meeting on corruption

were some of the special events in this month. Please click the above title link to view the full detailed 5 page newsletter.

April 2011 Newsletter

The month of March was focused on Second Level examination to select new batch of PPY (sr) was conducted in IIT Campus, followed by evaluation of answerbooks. Holi Millan Programmes, Saheed Divas were conducted at Evening centers. PPY (J), GAK, Library and Swavalamban Kendra were running very smoothly. Please click the above link to see a detailed description about this month’s activities.

delay in contribution receipt

We apologize that we have not been able to produce the contribution receipts in the same month. Due to some operational changes in Shiksha Sopan in kanpur the available volunteers are pressed for time and hence the receipt of a few months are bunched together and scanned. Hence the receipts are not coming very promptly.

We will continue posting the newsletters regularly as we receive them, but the receipt scans will be posted after maybe 2-3 months of the actual receipt.

The actual contribution remains steady and continuous on the first of every month. If a person is interested further, the actual bank statement showing the contribution to to the Shiksha Sopan bank account can be made available for viewing.

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