Possibilites being explored under outreach.

The Outreach area has been conceptualized with two main recognitions.

1. The school is ready to share with the environment what it has learnt in its journey. This involves sharing of educational practices, material and pedagogy with schools in the rural and urban settings.

2. Having the privilege of an urban and rural presence we also experience the responsibility of engaging with the issues of poverty, education and environment. Our moves under Outreach are exploratory.

Possibilities that have been explored and those under explorartion.. a rough picture is given below

RURAL OUTREACH POSSIBILITIES

1. Nutritious supplement for the neighbourhood schools, along with the 2 in Kilapakkam Panchayat - 4 or 5 more based on the model at Kilapakkam, augmenting the nutriton for about 1000 more children
2. Non directed learning opportunities for junior school students - along the model established at Kilapakkam and other Govt schools in Chennai - The Junior Resource Centre. This activity has been underway in a small way for the past several years. We have helped in setting up the JRC, Junior Resource Centre, in Kilapakkam, Damodarapuram and Aanoor schools.
3. Mobile lab for enlivening and supporting the active learning in schools - Under exploration with SSA-TN, as part of MS-ALM. Our proposal has been favourably received, and the first lab will roll by March 1st, 2008. A team of teachers of the school, scientists and mathematicians, led by Dr. Rajaram Nityananda, Director, NCRA, are currently engaged in this endeavour.
4. Partnership wih agencies for setting up tailoring and other skills for self employment and income generation. Discussions are on with a private trust interested in setting up a livelihood generation mechanism for the village of Kilapakkam, It is hoped that training and opportunities for earning will lead to a few individuals finding regular income and viable opportunities without having to migrate to cities.
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6. Spreading of organinc agriculture practices through workshops and demonstration plots including millet cultivation and use for enhancing land produce and for increasing nutrition.
7. Setting up internet kiosks - in the villages around the school to enable elearning possibilities and also open doors to communication and commerce.

URBAN

1. Arranging Experiencing Nature workshops for children from city schools, including Government schools and special schools such as Vidya Sagar, School for visually impaired. This work has been in progress for the past two years and more than 30 schools in Chennai have participated in these programmes. This work happens in collaboration with the `theosophical Society under the Aegis of The Holistic Learning Centre, situated on the campus of the International Headquarters of the Theosophical Society at Adyar.
2. Affirming the child - a series of workshops for teachers bring forth the importance of an education that affirms the child. The