Maid of Honour

The Adhyapana team has launched a new scholarship scheme for students whose parents work as domestic help and cannot afford the education of their children. The scheme is targeted at the urban poor who are often neglected and who need help to educate their children. We have come across a number of single mothers whose children are unable to attend english medium schools due to economic constraints.
The Adhyapana trust will fund the complete education of the child which will include the school fees, books and uniform costs.We have currently identified 4 students who will immediately benefit from this scheme.
Donations towards this initiative are welcome.Anybody interested in sponsoring any part of a child's education can contact us through our email id.

Ethics

After a lot of postponement we finally conducted a class on Ethics for the students of Katalyst last Sunday.This was a tough class to plan for us as a team;As much as we understand the importance of the topic, we were also skeptical about whether we can make such a class interesting and whether the students would be able to easily relate to what we were saying.

The idea was to not have another moral science class where everyone just gets bored. We planned instead to discuss ethics through case studies.We selected a number of interesting cases on ethical dilemmas from different domains such as education, NGO sector and consumer affairs and encouraged the students to come up with various ways to solve the dilemma. this proved to be an effective way to discuss various similar situations in our everyday life and how we need to ethically handle them.

The most interesting part of the class was the sharing of our personal experiences on the topic. We were able to discuss our Adhyapana experiences and how we selected those alternatives that were ethical but did not make business sense.Mahalakshmi shared her experience about the day to day activities in Katalyst and why ethics is very important to her. Many students discussed their own experiences.There were some discussions on ethics in student life and why it is wrong to use another person's work and not give due credit.

We wound up the class with some ways in which we can identify which alternative is ethical. We also discussed to need to prioritize and the need to give ethics the highest priority. We hope that the class has had some positive impact on the students and that they would be able to take decisions keeping ethics in mind.

Nokia lends a helping hand

Nokia Helping Hands and the Diversity and Inclusion Team of Nokia chose to donate to the Adhyapana Trust as a part of their International Women's Day celebration on March 8th. A number of stalls and activities were arranged in the Nokia campus on this occasion. The proceeds of the sale was then contributed to us. We thank Nokia for this noble gesture.This donation will be utilized for our initiatives in the domain of Girl child education.