This best practice comes from the Ashram School in Kamkeda, which is in the Komna Block, Orissa. The Ashram school is residential but also has day scholars. The school has classes from 1st to 5th standards. The total number of students is 364 out of which 247 are boys and 117 are girls. There is a dominant population is the Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes students. The total strength of schedule tribe students is 322. The school is extremely remote and is a great distance away from any of the major villages. The parents of the students are mainly employed in cultivation during the monsoon season. During the months of November-December a number of the families migrate to neighboring Andhra Pradesh for bonded labour work.
The Aflatoun Program was started here on the 16th of December 2008. Prior to this, the Headmaster of the Ashram attended the teachers training workshop helped by ASHA Orissa, our partner NGO in Orissa, where he was introduced to the objectives and purpose of the Program. Presently the totally number of student savers is 122 and the total savings is Rs 3037/-.
Other than the savings, another definite plus point, as stated by teachers, has been a reduction in the student’s guthka (Chewing tobacco) and bhang (addictive substance) consumption.
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