- To train the students to move closer to rural life
- To organize Vanamahotsvam with school community participation
- To create awareness on climatic changes and hazards
- To organize awareness programmes relating to sanitation, water, soil fertility management etc.
- To promote adult literacy
- To conduct field visit for gardening and agriculture work
Practicum Details:
Every Saturday for 6 Saturdays or continuously for a week students should engaged in the rural community to take up the following activities:
- On field learning : Nursery raising and kitchen gardening as plantation
- On field learning : Waste audit and compositing to learn the important aspects of resource conservation activity
- On field learning : Water audit and budgeting with water harvesting to learn the important aspects of conservation activity
- On field learning : Participation in agricultural/craft operations in village to learn the process components
- Studying and participating in the capacity building programmes with self help groups and government officials for different and learning necessary locally relevant learning skills.
- Participating in orientation of school education committee members in the village with the help of village level officers.
- Conducting and facilitating school – community workshops and health camps.
- Studying and reporting the health concerns of the school village, drainage system of the school village and health habits of the school students – villagers to the concerned authorities
- Growing kitchen gardens
- Participating and promoting vanamahotsvam with school community participation a fest for creating awareness of trees and planting of saplings
- Creating awareness on climatic changes and hazards with the help of students in the villages and also inputs on how to address the same
- Visiting public places and farms for studying and participating in awareness programs relating to sanitation, water, soil fertility management, biomass energy and means of producing solar energy
- Promote adult literacy, awareness on various government programs
- Rapport building and connecting with community leaders for creation and maintenance of school facilities and programs