Dictionary Distribution

Our first event was the distribution of dictionaries to the sixth, seventh and eighth grade students of a municipality school.

Date    : 23/11/2011

Venue : Pallavapuram municipality high school, Jamin Royapettai, Chromepet.

Chief Guest : Mr. R.Ravindran, 

                      Correspondent, Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Chromepet.

“It is not healthy to swallow books without them”

After a discussion with the Headmaster, Mr. Saviour, of the Municipality School, Jamin Royapettai, we at Kanaa planned for the improvement of government school students' English knowledge by inculcating in them the habit of using a dictionary.

To implement this process, we targeted the sixth, seventh and eighth grade students of the school.

We also planned for a motivational speech by a speaker who could evoke the students’ thoughts towards the present educational process.

We chose Mr. R. Ravindran, Correspondent, Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Chromepet, and approached him regarding this. He complied and we scheduled the function.

Even though it was a usual hectic working day, KANAA volunteers and guest Mr. R. Ravindran, Correspondent of Vivekananda Vidyalaya Matriculation school, reached the school premises around 9 A.M with the warm welcome by busy students, caring teachers and principal along with the chill welcome by our ‘Varna Bhagawan’.

Mr. Ravindran presented a good, motivational thought to the students. He spoke about the ancient system of education and compared it to the current system. He started with the story of zero, pie and algebra and went into mathematics by asking few simple questions to interact well with the students present over there. Later, he concluded by explaining the current educational system and their learning process.

Finally, he distributed 105 dictionaries to the sixth- and seventh-grade students.

Mr. Saviour was very excited about this event as no student made a noise or disturbed the function, which in his experience was new. Also, he requested Mr. Ravindran to provide 100 more dictionaries for eighth-grade students.

Mr. Ravindran accepted his request and handed over the cost for dictionaries to Mr. S. Renu Karthick of Kanaa team and 120 dictionaries were again distributed to the eight-grade students on 26 January 2012.

This was the first feather in the cap for our team.