With Principal’s ‘Blackboard Mannequin’, Village Youngsters Train The Aged

When the first lockdown was introduced in March 2020, academic establishments throughout the nation shut down. Whereas youngsters with entry to telephones and the web might proceed studying by means of on-line courses, the case was a stark distinction in lots of villages.

One such village was Dumarthar, in Dumka, Jharkhand. 

The truth that youngsters of this village didn’t have entry to training because of the lockdown gave sleepless nights to Dr Sapan Patralekh, a trainer and principal on the Dumarthar Utkramit Madhya Vidyalaya (upgraded center college).

To assist these youngsters, he arrange blackboards outdoors each home in Dumarthar. 

“I used to be very frightened, because it had taken quite a lot of effort to get these youngsters to high school. I used to be scared that these youngsters would drop out, get married, or worse, go to work. That’s once we arrange blackboards on the skin of the mud homes. We have been capable of proceed every baby’s training from 2020 to 2022,” says Sapan. 

After faculties reopened in February 2022, the blackboards have been not getting used. So Sapan started pondering of how to make use of them till he had his ‘aha! second’. Throughout a survey within the village, he discovered that a lot of the elders have been illiterate. 

He then requested the youngsters to educate their elders, be it, dad and mom or grandparents, utilizing these blackboards. 

“My goal is to make dad and mom realise the significance of training in order that they too drop their youngsters off proudly,” says Sapan, who has gained many accolades for his initiative. 

Watch how Sapan helps Dumarthar entry training, age no bar: