ASEEMA

The Aseema Charitable Trust is a non-governmental organization with a mission to equip children from marginalized communities with high quality, value-based education, enabling development of their limitless potential. Over the past 25 years, Aseema has worked extensively with children living in slum communities in Mumbai and remote tribal communities in Igatpuri, Maharashtra.

As a CAS initiative, DAIS students worked with Aseema. We taught students of grades 3 and 4 English, Mathematics and the Sciences through 45-minute sessions every Friday, making them as meaningful as possible, with regular discussions of academic topics to get to know the students’ level of learning in order to monitor the difficulty level of topics we taught. Additionally, the sessions were made interactive through playing games at the end of every class to test their learning. This method of teaching helped them learn effectively as well as understand the importance of what they are learning.

Overall, this service initiative not only helped the students of the NGO, but also helped DAIS students learn various skills through the planning, managing and conducting of these sessions. During CAS sessions, working in teams to solve problems we faced made us better collaborators and critical, creative thinkers. The joy we experienced when the students learnt and understood what we taught is something we would never forget from this CAS experience.