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It happened at school!
Diwali celebration
Diwali is one of the biggest festival of Hindus, celebrated with great enthusiasm and happiness in India. On October 17th, our students celebrated Diwali at school. They prepared a cultural program with traditional songs and dances. The school was decorated with beautiful rangolis (a form of sandpainting decoration) on the floor. And as per the tradition, there was a lot of "diyas" (small oil lamps) everywhere and fireworks all day long. To finalize the celebration, students and teachers shared food and sweets.
Pardada Pardadi 9th Anniversary
On November, 15th PPES celebrated its 9th anniversary. Students prepared a cultural program with colorful dances and happy songs. Parents and friends were invited to celebrate this important occassion with us. Mr. Siraj Hussain, IAS, Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Food and Mrs.Rashida Hussain, IAS, Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Finance honoured us with their presence and an inspiring speech about the importance of education. The celebration ended with the distribution of Laddu, one of our students’ favourite Indian sweet.
Wendi and Aarti’s Weddings at Pardada Pardadi
On November 22nd, PPES had the pleasure to celebrate two amazing weddings: Wendi’s (from US), who volunteered at school in 2006 and Aarti’s, one of our graduates currently working at Rags to Pads. It was a grand celebration with color, food and music. Students, family, friends and staff had a great time! We wish them a happy married life!
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Education
Rizwan – our new English teacher
We would like to welcome our new English teacher, Rizwan Khan. Rizwan would focus on developing our students’ spoken English. He brings a wealth of experience from his previous assignments. He would also focus on “train the trainers” – improving the spoken english of our teachers and staff.
Half Yearly Exams
The exams time is here! Till December,12th our students will be busy studying and preparing for their half yearly exams
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Team news
Mr Jose at Praxis
Jose Shajan – better known as “Mr.Jose”, our school manager, attended a training on “Participatory Methods and Approches”, organised by PRAXIS. The training took place in Kerala, from September 30th to October 10th 2009. It was a great learning experience for Mr.Jose who gained a better understanding of how important it is to envolve the community in shaping a change. He plans to start implementing what he learned by increasing the participation of the school staff with more regular meetings with the school staff.
Soni and Nitin at Perot Systems
Since September, Perot System has been training our librarian – Soni – and one of our English teachers – Nitin, to improve their English Communication skills. This training will happen once a month for six months. The second session happened between October 5th and 9th in Noida. “I really like the training. Anjali, our trainer, and Minnie, the training coordinator are really great with us. In this training we worked on our pronounciation and we also learned interactive teaching methods. I really liked this training: Anjali taught us how to read a text aloud with the correct enunciation.” Soni.
Renuka at IFC Holland
Renuka, our CEO, received a bursery to attended the 19th International Fundraising Congress, the world's leading education and training conference on fundraising. This congress was organized by Resource Alliance in Holland, between October 20th and 23rd. “It was really a unique opportunity! There were around 900 professionals from the non-profit sector, coming from over 55 countries. I was really lucky because, apart from the bursery from Resource Alliance, Think Consulting Solutions (UK) sponsored my plane tickets. A big thank you to both those organizations”. Renuka
Lindsay has her own tree!
Lindsay has been volunteering at school since January 2009. She has been doing a remarkable work in teaching English and improving our library. Our little girls will never forget her. To thank her for all her love, we planted a tree in the garden of the school with her name on a plaque.
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Rags to Pads update
Ladli Mela
Since February 2009, our Rags to Pads project (named Ladli, which means "Beloved") is up and runing and every month about 300 students receive a pack of pads.
Our next goal was to reach the women of the communities surrounding our school. Therefore, on November 8th, PPES organized a mela at school. Parents, friends and villagers were invited. About 1000 people came and enjoyed the live music, dance performances by PPES students, stalls with food and drinks. During the event, women were informed about the problems an unappropriate use of rags could cause to their health. They also had the chance to purchase pads produced at the school.
More affordable pads
Most of the women do not use pads because they do not have the financial means to buy it. In villages such as Anupshahr where many families live under the poverty threshold, every rupee counts. Therefore, since November 2009, PPES is selling the pack of 10 pads for Rs.5 each. We believe this measure will help us to reach more women in the community.
Bigger Production Capacity
Our goal is to multiply our production capacity by a factor of 10 over two years. This way, we would be able to reach 5000 women per month. In November 2009, DuPont has kindly helped us making a step towards this goal by donating a second machine, along with enough raw materials for the coming year. This will enable us to increase the production capacity to 400 to 500 pads per day.
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