Vidyarambam Trust Vidyarambam Trust

Overview

There are FIVE programmes that are currently being conducted by Vidyarambam:

  • Balwadi - providing literacy to pre-primary children
  • Remedials Junior - Improve the reading ability and doing simple arithmetic for students of class II & III
  • Remedials Senior - providing support classes for students of Class IV to VI
  • Libraries - More than 200 children story books as further reading materials made available at each centre
  • Mobile Toy Library - About 200 toys and games stored in a van that travels village to village and allows children to play with games for 2 hours

While the Balwadi programme is the initial programme that Vidyarambam started with, the Remedials and Libraries programmes are being conducted with the help of Pratham India Education Initiative, starting from April 2004.

After Tsunami a Mobile Toy Library has been introduced with toys to play more than 700 games. The unique feature of the Van is to have painting of multi-coloured games on the body of the van itself which could be played with multi-coloured magnetic game counters. Curriculum based quizzes, games and worksheets are made available. Attractive and memory power packed toys are included.

Read the news article in Dinamani Kadhir about the Mobile Toy Library.

We aim to ensure that in each village where a centre is opened, there will be:

  • Balwadi for the age group 3-5
  • 3-month Remedial Course (Junior) programme for Class 2 & 3 students
  • 10-month Remedial Course (Senior) programmes for Class 4,5 & 6 students
  • A library consisting of more than 200 children-story books
  • A Village Development Group to monitor the Vidyarambam operations in the respective village

It is our aim that every child in a village that has a Vidyarambam centre will attend school.

Vidyarambam's initial aim was to get children started on their journey through literacy but now, the Trust continues to provide support classes through the L2R and R2L programmes for the children already in Class 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 but weak in their mother tounge (Tamil) and simple arithmetic.