Children there....

The awareness and the understanding about the science is increasing day by day. This is not the scene only in cities, but also in villages where a very little exposure of information and technology is available. Parents there are taking initiatives to educate their child. Whether the child is a girl or a boy, it makes not much of difference now.

For a better India, what is now required is the right attitude in parents and teachers and this will happen only when they start realizing that good prospects ahead in life are only available to those who are literate.

What we see today is a population shift from thousands of different villages to a few selected cities, resulting in an over-crowded streets and exponential rise in the levels of pollution. This also effects those villages from where the youth continuously escape to the cities. These villages remain undeveloped and hence people sink into scarcity wells of money and other resources.

A few years ago, I visited a couple of schools situated in the villages of Kachchh, Gujarat. There I saw a striking difference in the facilities, study material, quality of clothes students wear, the way teachers teach, the level of knowledge teachers have, between the schools here and there. I noticed that the teachers over there are not well equipped with knowledge and other necessary tools to guide the students. Even though they are doing their best with utmost sincerity. Lack of benches and fans will be the first thing one notices, students have to sit on carpets or simply on the floor while in the class. Many children didn't even have adequate footwear and schoolbags. Amidst all difficulties, I could still see the desire, the hunger, and the thirst for knowledge in their beaming eyes.

if a person from city visits such a school then he definitely will get tempted to do something towards the betterment of schools and students. Only than can a person really understand about the imbalance of resources between city schools and the remote area schools. The situations might be less inviting, but parents are positive to educate their child, whatsoever the condition is.

Can we make any difference? Yes, we surely can make a difference. We can do something to educate more and more children. The children which are in the most remotest parts of the country.

Some of the ideas that I can think of are as follows. A couple of people can visit such schools to give brief talks / demonstrations in whatever field they are comfortable.

The situation is such that, even the dumbest city student can go and teach subjects like English and Science to the students, which are studying in very remote areas. Well, I am not under-estimating the capacity of remote area students, but just bringing out the point that they do not get enough chance to study these subjects.

Now it has also become possible to carry a laptop with Internet connection. A student there may become very fascinated by this and can be motivated to learn more. Solving queries and providing them with proper solutions and answer can satisfy their curiosity.

To do such noble activities, we do not require Government permission or support. Such things can be done as and when we have time. What we need is an urge from inside to do something for the children there.