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To empower underprivileged rural students with education and values.
They Care, Do You?
Here is how you can get involved and make a change.
Pledge For A Cause
To convert backward areas into self-sufficient empowered society through educating and mentoring the children.
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To convert backward areas into self-sufficient empowered society through educating and mentoring the children.
Volunteer With Us
To provide guidance in all ways to the child through a dedicated mentor.
Partner With Us
To eradicate gender bias in rural areas and provide equal educational opportunities to female children and make them independent.
Help us for Educational
To provide guidance and syllabus to NGOs/other volunteer groups who wish to implement our mentoring model.
WITH YOUR CARE
We’ve mentored more than 200 students in and around Ananthapuram part of Villupuram district.
This location is looking for more volunteers as Number of students in Vazhai is directly dependent on the number of mentors, since we work on one-to-one mentoring model. We need more mentors to support more number of students.
SEE MORE OF OUR IMPACTHow We Works
Vazhai is a registered trust under The Co-operative Societies Act, 1912 with the registration no. 296/05 with a vision to empower underprivileged rural students with education and values.
We prove every project
We track every rupee we raise, and show the projects that you helped fund with photos.
We’re an open book
We’ve consistently received the highest grades available for accountability.
100% goes to the field
Private donors cover our operating costs so 100% of your money can fund core Vazhai projects.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Vazhai empowers its core concept of Mentorship through the below core activities
Like a plaintain tree that nurtures its sapling, Vazhai attempts to nurture school children in the remotest parts of Tamil Nadu by conducting.,
- Workshops : Workshops are the real platforms for mentoring where the mentor and the ward meet. These workshops are conducted with an interval of about 2 months on weekends (6 workshops - a year). Workshops are structured with contents on academics, personality development and life skills. These workshops are designed by Vazhai with the help of experts, wherever necessary. It is necessary for every mentor to attend the workshops.
- Students selection Process: Vazhai selects the students at the beginning of every academic year. List of students satisfying the basic criteria of Vazhai are collected from government schools in Ananthapuram (Villupuram district) and Eriyur (Dharmapuri district) of Tamil nadu.
- Academic Munnetra Kazhagam (AMK): AMK employs ABL (Activity Based Learning) methodologies where subjects are taught with practical illustrations and through games. Vazhai also has a good rapport with other educational & research institutions, which help us to adopt, customize and use their best concepts.
- Post Mentoring: One to One Mentoring ends when the child completes his/her tenth standard. After tenth, we monitor students at frequent intervals and help in following areas: Career guidance & Finding sponsors to pursue their higher education
Blog & News Updates
People around the world who got on as a Volunteer at Vazhai workshops talk about their experiences. Wanna see them in action ?Join hands with us
Planting hope
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The hearts of these former Chennai Presidency College students beat for village kids
A group of friends with rural roots, who studied together at Presidency College in Chennai, decided to give back to society by motivating underprivileged children in the villages to aspire for a better future...
MENTORING
Every child in Vazhai will have their own mentor who is perceived as their own brother/sister.
We at Vazhai follow mentorship program aiming at guiding each child in general & social awareness, academics, personality development and life skills. It also involves understanding their potential and encourage continuously. More importantly understanding their problems and providing emotional & psychological support.
- Mentors will meet their wards (mentee) regularly during workshops. Six workshops (during weekends) will be conducted round the year with an interval of about 2 months.
- Mentors develop confidence in the wards to make them speak up on their personal issues and wards over a period of time will look up them as one who they can look up to for any guidance.
- Mentors interest doesn’t stop with educational improvement but will strive to improve the overall personality in terms of developing self confidence and courage to face the competitive world.
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