Volunteering opportunity

Collect teaching and learning materials

Balwadi units require a variety of teaching and learning materials including educational toys, charts, flash cards etc. These can be purchased separately by HUL from non-profit organizations that specialize in creating learning tools for pre-school children. There are several such NGOs including Sutradhar (www.sutradhar.com) and Maya Organics located in Bangalore. Moreover, employee collection drives can be held on an ongoing basis to collect items such as children’s toys, unused stationary, one-sided paper, books and several other goods that prove very useful in the learning environment.

Art and craft and singing and dancing sessions
An active employee-volunteering programme could be developed that would be based on fun activities that can be done with children. Volunteers can conduct special sessions like art and craft, singing and dancing etc.

This plan can include visiting a Balwadi one Saturday every month and:
• Interacting with the children
• Organizing localized events like painting competitions and craft activities
• Conducting English speaking classes

Organising Quiz
Employees can conduct other activities in the library like arranging a small quiz for children, slide shows on some topic of interest, conducting some small scientific demonstration, painting competition, story telling, craftwork e.g. Puppet making / puppetry, Origami, Papier Mache.


Visits / Trips
Organising visits / trips for Children to:
a) Planetarium / VITM (Physics / Astronomy)
b) Lalbagh / Cubbon Park or any of the Forest Dept / Horticulture Parks within Bangalore (ecology, birdwatching, botany, insects.)

Organize collection drives
For our libraries in your office.
Your collections can include:
• Books for children between the ages of 4-14.
• Reference Books like Tell Me Why, World Book
• Magazines such as National Geographic
• Comic books like Amar Chitra Katha
• Toys and Games such as carom, monopoly etc
• Educational CD Roms
• One sided computer paper
• Unused note books
• Art items such as crayons, paint, colour pencils
• Unused stationary such as pens, pencils, sharpeners, erasers

Akshara Foundation
No. 633/634, 4th “C” Main,
6th “B” Cross, OMBR Layout,
Banaswadi, Bangalore - 560 043
Karnataka

Akshara Foundation
Betadur Compound
Behind Govt Primary School
No 11 Malamaddi
Dharwad - 580 007
Karnataka