Tega Education Foundation empowering the community

We care for our community by making it stronger. Education empowers and we at Tega create opportunities for accessible education as a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) priority. Tega Education Foundation supports multiple initiatives across India to make Education more engaging for young learners and teachers.

A recent project covering three schools in Duttapukur (a village in the vicinity of Kolkata) offers a wonderful example of how a humble initiative can create meaningful impact in times such as the recent pandemic. While it may not be apparent to many, it has been sufficiently established through research that the socio-cultural-economic impact of children losing access to education can be devastating for a society. Not allowing time to run idle during the pandemic, Tega Education Foundation has facilitated a series of workshops in October 2020 for awareness building and skill enhancement for teachers in these schools. The objective was to come up with effective mechanisms of delivering education amidst the challenging circumstances. The workshops were conducted in collaboration with Learners Confluence. So far, 4 sessions have been hosted for training the teachers.

The workshops fulfilled a dual purpose:

• To utilize the time productively and not let the pandemic slow down the learners and the teachers.
• To Bridge existing skill gaps and make room for heightened awareness and deeper insights for the teachers.

The details of the four sessions are as follows:

• Session 1 was an Interactive session with the teachers and school leaders to serve as an ice-breaker and set the context for the subsequent workshops.
• Session 2 was a virtual awareness building workshop, presided over by Dr A Senthil Kumaran, Chief Confluence of Learners Confluence. This covered 22 teachers and school leaders from the 3 schools.
• Session 3 explored games as a medium of learning.
• Session 4 Workshop on how to connect with the surrounding effectively and apply it to the learning process.

The Training workshops helped to beat the Pandemic blues and bring back energy and positivity into the schools. We hope to continue our good work and push the envelope of our role and actions for the community.