SmallChange | Power e-classrooms in govt schools

Power e-classrooms in govt schools

35% Funded

TO support Meghshala, Fourth Partner’s social impact initiative – Power @ 1 will help them install solar enabled e-learning classrooms for schools in rural Karnataka to power sustainable, long-term change.

With its multimedia lesson plans, the Meghshala TeachKits are helping make classrooms a fun and engaging space for students. But irregular electric supply or power cuts hamper this learning experience. Power @ 1 will ensure uninterrupted supply of electricity at a highly subsidized cost for the school.

Help us support Meghshala to provide a sustainable source of energy to the rural and semi-urban schools they serve.

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"Fourth Partner wishes to have a lasting impact on schools with students from below the poverty line. Power @ 1 will help schools tackle a key component of operating costs - electricity - and enhance the quality of education through Meghshala’s intervention."

- Vivek Subramanian, Founder

About the NGO

Meghshala Trust

Focus: Education, Children and Youth

Location: Bengaluru

Founded: 2013

MEETING the huge demand for primary education in India has led to under-trained teachers and poor quality learning experiences for the student. Meghshala are addressing both with their in-class TeachKits.

Newly qualified primary school teachers with just basic training are being rushed into government schools to accommodate the growing number of children exercising their Right To Education.
To empower tutors to inspire their young wards, Meghshala’s TeachKits - which are multimedia lessons plans on a “cloud” - ensure that they can continue in their classrooms while acquiring innovative training to supplement their teaching skills.
As Ramya, a teacher at Government Higher Primary School in Belathur Colony in Bengaluru said, "Before using Meghshala, I was a common teacher, but now I feel like a special teacher!"
Based on the content of state syllabus textbooks, but supplemented with projects, videos, stories and discussions, the TeachKits - available online and on the Meghshala app - are designed by Meghshala’s master teachers to enable children to become critical thinkers.
And, with the activities in the kits directing children to solve real-world problems, the impact of Meghshala - literally 'school on cloud' - is going beyond the classroom.
For instance, a teacher delivering Grade 8 maths lessons on 'simple interest' created a space for students to empathise with struggling farmers and farmers’ suicides due to mounting debts.
Or, take Mallikarjuniah M.R., a teacher at Government Higher Primary School in Kodathi. He recounts how a TeachKit was able to turn the otherwise sombre topic of pollution into a lifestyle changing lesson for his students.
He said: "They had cleaned up their homes and made it free from plastic and other environmentally polluting materials. After listening to them, I realised that this change happened because of the lesson 'Pollution' which I did a few days back using Meghshala's TeachKit."
Close to 3500 new TeachKits in English and vernacular languages were created in the past year, with 15,000 teachers using them to transform their classrooms in more than 200 schools in Karnataka, Telangana and Tamil Nadu.
Support Meghshala so they can multiply their impact in more schools, for more teachers and more children at the beginning of their educational journey.