Wednesday, March 31, 2010

 

Cyber-Assignment

While we waited for our guest to arrive we watched a New Heroes segment featuring: Inderjit Khurana

Please respond to the profile answering the following questions in your response:

What problem did Inderjit Khurana identify?
How did Khurana address the problem?
How did she get by in from her constituents?
What population does Khurana target?
What are the measurable results?

Project: Ruchika School Social Service Organization (RSSO), Train Platform Schools

Location: Orissa, India


As a schoolteacher, Inderjit Khurana used to take the train to work. And each day, in the stations, she would come into contact with dozens of children who spent their days begging from train passengers rather than attending school. She learned that it was not a rare or isolated problem and that millions of children in India live on the streets.

Convinced that these children would never be able to escape their conditions of poverty and homelessness without education, and realizing that it would be impossible to enroll these children in school, Inderjit decided to create a model program for "taking the school to the most out-of-school children."

Khurana's "train platform schools" aim to provide a creative school atmosphere and equip children with the basic levels of education necessary to allow them to work productively, enjoy many of life's pleasures, and become positive contributors to their communities.

Khurana's ultimate goals reach far beyond the 20 platform schools she and her colleagues have created in India's Bhubaneswar region. She is determined that her program become a model for effectively changing the lives of the poorest children throughout India and the world.

See Visit http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/

Comments:
Nseke Ngilbus
ms.Sabir
eng 1a
10 april 2010

Inderjit Khuran is a women who goes to the slums of india to educate the childern. This is a revolutionary idea that attacks the poverty problem in india. The indian Government refuse aid her in this indevor; they believe it is just to expensive. She is only able to help these people by smart spending and donations. Inderjit usually can only reach the children before they go into prostitution. Girls have to be reach by ten because they will become prostitutes or commit suicide. Boys have to be reach by the age of fourteen. For students that are late starters are put into trade schools where they develop a skill so they can make a living. This program that she implement was able to save alot of students by educating them. She made alot of schools along the trains and was able to change alot of people lives.
 
Shyann Kinzer
Professor Sabir
English 201 B 10-1150
Inderjit Khuran educates children in the areas struck by poverty in India. This gives the kids more of a chance than they ever had had. The expectation for then is to go into prostitution or commit suicide for girls, but she gives a sense of hope that would have never been there without the education. Because she was not funded she has to do this program based off of donations and cautious spending of her money. By her still doing this though it could be hard because of the lack of spending it gives her the credit of saving so many peoples lives in her own way.
 
Shyann Kinzer
Professor Sabir
English 201 B 10-1150
Inderjit Khuran educates children in the areas struck by poverty in India. This gives the kids more of a chance than they ever had had. The expectation for then is to go into prostitution or commit suicide for girls, but she gives a sense of hope that would have never been there without the education. Because she was not funded she has to do this program based off of donations and cautious spending of her money. By her still doing this though it could be hard because of the lack of spending it gives her the credit of saving so many peoples lives in her own way.
 
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