Ali Akbar CM - Nominee - Social Volunteer Awards 2021

Myself Ali Akbar CM chavakkad, doing my PG in societal development in Darul Huda Islamic University. As a social work student, my project work is related to the educational development of Majgama panchayat, Kishanganj, Bihar. I could visit the place, while I was selected for intership of the Prayaan foundation. I could participate in this project as project assistant with Mr. Shuhaib Pullath who is doing social studies in TISS Mumbai. Majgama Model Panchayat, a project for developing a community from Kishanganj, Bihar. As a basic project on creating a model panchayat, my team want to show others what is a model village. We chose Majgama as our model panchayat because it was our NGO Center and the people will response fast on our project. Considering the exact educational background, the survey through door to door showed us that 90% of families are educated below 7th grade. And those who are rich, sending the children to school to Degree. Moreover, every children of each families are compelled to do job in field or tea shop. While this time their names are attending in school class rooms. In the time of survey the translator gave us severe information that the teachers say : "students are not coming school" and students say:"the teachers are not teaching in school". This fact helped us to find the importance of coaching centres in Majgama. Those completed 7th class, are going to coaching centres, even they are too short in numbers. The school teachers spend an amount for all students as their names exist in register. After problems are found, we started to collect students for Majgama panchayat School. Walking through door to door, helped to councel the parents about the importance of education. And we could collect above 100+ students to the reopening school ceremony titled as "school chale hum". Now, the project is going on with the help of some natives who are working with projects of Prayaan foundation. We created an starting goal that to make 75% attendence of each students in that school in a year.

VOLUNTEERING FOR ME It is an individual's social duty. It includes the social welfare of community and help to maintain the way of livinghood. Especially, if someone don't know to improve themselves, we should guide them to achieve the dream. That may be educational guidance or cultural improvement. Volunteering should be a passion, not a give and take procedure. Everyone have a passion that should be the volunteering style like designing or project designing and etc.

VOLUNTEERING STORY According to my character the volunteering is a born gift. Even I was and an arrogant, the continuous talking and hearing gave me so patiences. The ability to hear is my inspiration. As my friend's sister thanked me for helping my friend in the time of her divorce. Thanks to God for returning her life. After this incident I started to hear my entire family and helped them to correct their misunderstandings. After enrolling to PG studies I focused volunteering in educational area in North India as it is my project for PG completion. I started focusing this project for one and half years, studying the old projects on this Hadia Moral School (as my project topic) and I collected the data myself collaborating with the Prayaan foundation ( who gave me Intership).

VOLUNTEERING JOURNEY Majgama Model Panchayat, a project for developing a community from Kishanganj, Bihar. As a basic project on creating a model panchayat, my team want to show others what is a model village. We chose Majgama as our model panchayat because it was our NGO Center and the people will response fast on our project. Considering the exact educational background, the survey through door to door showed us that 90% of families are educated below 7th grade. And those who are rich, sending the children to school to Degree. Moreover, every children of each families are compelled to do job in field or tea shop. While this time their names are attending in school class rooms. In the time of survey the translator gave us severe information that the teachers say : "students are not coming school" and students say:"the teachers are not teaching in school". This fact helped us to find the importance of coaching centres in Majgama. Those completed 7th class, are going to coaching centres, even they are too short in numbers. The school teachers spend an amount for all students as their names exist in register. After problems are found, we started to collect students for Majgama panchayat School. Walking through door to door, helped to councel the parents about the importance of education. And we could collect above 100+ students to the reopening school ceremony titled as "school chale hum". Now, the project is going on with the help of some natives who are working with projects of Prayaan foundation. We created an starting goal that to make 75% attendence of each students in that school in a year

PROJECT Majgama Model Panchayat ORGANISATION Prayaan foundation MISSION & VISSION Mission

∆ To educate Majgama panchayat Children until +2 (at minimum qualification)

∆ Stop child labour

Vision

∆ To educate the Majgama community to develop themselves

∆ To make assure that the stakeholders are aware of students educational improvement PROJECT DESCRIPTION Majgama Model Panchayat, a project for developing a community from Kishanganj, Bihar. As a basic project on creating a model panchayat, my team want to show others what is a model village. We chose Majgama as our model panchayat because it was our NGO Center and the people will response fast on our project. Considering the exact educational background, the survey through door to door showed us that 90% of