Name: Manek Madhuben vidhabha
Gender: Female
Age: 18 Yrs.
Occupation: Student
Village: Vasai Vadi
District: Devbhoomi Dwarka
State: Gujarat
Volunteer Background:
Ku. Manek Madhuben Vidhabha, 18-year-Old, at Vasai Vadi-1 from marginalised community. Her parents struggled a lot to support her education due to the financial crisis. In her family, she has 2 sisters and two brothers along with father and mother. Her father is a farmer who works in the field. She is the only girl student who has passed 10th (Vasai High School) and 12th class (PVM Girls School Dwarka) in her village.
The Facilitators of CSPC contacted her through her secondary school and approached and convinced her to start volunteer class at Vasai vadi vistar. She happily showed her interest to teach students of her surroundings.
This was her first assignment to teach primary-grade students. Madhuben had no prior experience of teaching. Initially, she had no clue how to teach Maths and Gujarati language but soon she received training from CSPC team and gained specific skills of teaching Maths and language with the help of TLM. Madhuben now, has been teaching students since pandemic and still continues teaching students with passion. She has regular students coming to her class. Vasai Primary School No-1 teacher also visits her class with another teacher and keeps monitoring her class and provide valuable feedback. It is a pride to see Madhuben enjoying the training provided by CSPC and her eagerness to learn new teaching learning methods.
The process adopted by Madhuben along with CSPC facilitator was that she visited the parents to enrol students for her volunteer class. Madhuben daily maintains her attendance sheet in order to track the students. She oftens visits the houses of those students who miss the classes sometimes. For the improvement of learning a baseline assessment prepared by CSPC was conducted in her batch at the beginning of the class to check the learning level of the learners. After evaluating the response sheet, CSPC developed a curriculum based on home learning video. Age and grade appropriate TLM used in class for improvement in the learning level of students which is being implemented through the Volunteer classes. Students are also provided with worksheets for practice in the volunteer classes on a daily basis.
“I have a dream to become a teacher after my graduation. I feel every girl child must study and should get married at the proper age. Girls do have immense potential as Boys, but they do not receive proper platform due to lack of support from the parents. I am fortunate enough to get parents’ support.”
Manek Madhuben vidhabha
She wants to educate society on the importance of education in life.