DIKSHA is an NGO that runs a non-profit school in Palam Vihar, Gurugram, Haryana, India established to provide free and quality education to children from low-income families in the neighbourhood.
A core group of volunteers and paid teachers with the support of donors from the community have created a safe, stimulating learning environment that allows over 400 children from disadvantaged families to develop a healthy body and mind. Children are nurtured with respect and taught to be responsible citizens in today’s world. CBSE based academic education is provided by our teachers who receive ongoing professional development and are mentored by experienced volunteers. DIKSHA supplies a nutritious mid-day meal (prepared on the premises daily) and a snack for each child in addition to uniforms, shoes, and books.
In addition to above the School also started SOLE lab in 2017. SOLE (Self Organized learning environment) is to enhance the inspiration and positivity of learning. ‘School in the cloud’ is the brainchild of Prof. Sugata Mitra. A Self Organized Learning Environment (SOLE) is a program designed to support self-directed education. Sugata Mitra, an education scientist, first popularized the term in 1999, referencing an approach he developed following his Hole in the Wall experiments. Mitra's experiments demonstrated that groups of kids could learn to navigate computers and the internet by themselves, and "research since then has continued to support his startling conclusion that groups of children, with access to the Internet, can learn almost anything by themselves."
Starting in 2014, he's worked with and through he School in the Cloud project to support the development of SOLEs around the world, adding "Beamers” mentors and Big Questions as key components of such programs. The LightBeam Project is an independent team of volunteers that reaches out to children with limited educational resources around the globe, in a variety of settings, and provides them with the opportunity to experience worlds far removed from their own.
SOLE was started in Diksha in 2017 with the help of the Concern India Foundation who used to support this programme financially. Now we have no support to run this programme and it is becoming very hard to sustain. We need your support to educate and visualize these children so that they may have a bright future.
As a Beamer (teacher via the internet); I wish to raise money for a decent monitor for the children.