{"id":605,"date":"2019-04-02T08:57:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T14:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beliefforchange.org\/?p=605"},"modified":"2020-04-25T11:02:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T16:32:15","slug":"belief-diary-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beliefforchange.org\/index.php\/2019\/04\/02\/belief-diary-1\/","title":{"rendered":"BELIEF DIARY 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BELIEF is a not-for-profit organization, recently started by a few young professionals who passionately want to change the existing condition of slums. We regularly visit some slums in Pune. Here are the glimpses of our observations in the last month.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">In a Marathi medium municipal school, students having different mother tongues like <\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Marathi, Hindi, Lamani, Odisi and Kannada are in one classroom. In such situation, it is very <\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">difficult for teachers to communicate while teaching.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\">\u201cI don\u2019t like to learn history and languages. Kuchh samajata nahi hai !\u201d \u2013 A 10 year <\/span><span style=\"color: #008080;\">old student from an immigrant, non-Marathi family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Parvati is migrated from a north Indian state. She is literate and very enthusiastic to work and <\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">earn for her family. She wishes that her children get better education than what she received. <\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">But her alcohol addict husband doesn\u2019t allow her to work. \u201cThere are so many women in the <\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">slum just like me\u201d Parvati adds further. Can Parvati get an opportunity to work ?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Both of the parents of some students do labor work whole day and there\u2019s no one in the <\/span><span style=\"color: #008080;\">house to take care of them, take them to school regularly and keep them away from <\/span><span style=\"color: #008080;\">addictions. Some children smoke and even drink even in school premises.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">\u201c We are really confused about which language to be used in the classroom. Ours is an <\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">English medium school where all classrooms are multilingual. No one has even asked for the <\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">problems we face while teaching!\u201d \u2013 Almost all the teachers in schools responded like this!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While visiting the slums and talking to children living there, one question constantly comes in our mind, \u201cIs this their fault that they are deprived ? Is this their fault that they can\u2019t experience the joy of learning ? Those innocent faces drag our feet towards their small vastis and motivate us to experience the beauty of co-learning, the beauty of<br \/>\nsharing. We believe that this journey is definitely going to be meaningful.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s be a part of it; by wishing, blessing and supporting !<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-606 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/beliefforchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/baby-girl-donation.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BELIEF is a not-for-profit organization, recently started by a few young professionals who passionately want to change the existing condition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beliefforchange.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beliefforchange.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beliefforchange.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beliefforchange.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beliefforchange.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/beliefforchange.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/beliefforchange.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beliefforchange.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beliefforchange.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beliefforchange.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}