THE FIG TREE LEARNING CENTRE

Project Brief: In April 2018 the team consisting of four people started a small library in the village ofKasaghattapura, Bangalore North. Regular sessions have been held twice a week from 4.00.pm to 6.00.pm. Typically about 25 children come between the 5-13 yrs age grp.
Project Type: Alternative Education (description)
Primary Focus: vocational training (description)

Secondary Focus: creating resources

Area: Rural
Supporting Chapter Contact: Bangalore
Status: current / ongoing
Project Steward: Swapna Manjunath
Project Partner(s): Jane Sahi
Other Contacts: Padmanava Sen
Project Address: , 115 VISHRAM HSG EXGE BG,SILVEPURA, SOLADEVANAHALLI,CHIKKABANAVA,Bangalore,
KARNATAKA  560088
Tel: 011 91 9902985284
Stewarding Chapter: Bangalore
Jul 2023BangaloreINR 207600
Oct 2022BangaloreINR 330000
May 2022BangaloreINR 300000
Dec 2021BangaloreINR 334000
Apr 2021BangaloreINR 300000
Apr 2020BangaloreINR 510000
Mar 2020BangaloreINR 42500
Feb 2020BangaloreINR 42500
Jan 2020BangaloreINR 42500
Dec 2019BangaloreINR 42500
Nov 2019BangaloreINR 42500
Oct 2019BangaloreINR 42500
Sep 2019BangaloreINR 42500
Aug 2019BangaloreINR 42500
Jul 2019BangaloreINR 42500

Total = $51537.38

More details on the project:

From June three of the team have been going to the local Government Primary School in Tarabanahalli for standard 1 to 4 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Language classes are conducted and two small classroom libraries have been set up. In addition we do work in the nearby Government aided Kannada medium school with the first and second standard children and take language classes on a Monday morning. We plan to extend the work to two more Government primary schools in the locality and set up two more libraries in nearby villages.

After the school closed we have been thinking how best we could share some of the resources including he collection of books we have with a larger number of children.In the Fig Tree Learning Centre work has been done to cover the books and catalogue them in a systematic way. The books have also been stamped with the Fig Tree Learning Centre logo. It may be premature to describe this as a success but it has certainly been an exciting beginning. In the last four weeks we have started a small library in the village of Kasaghattapura, a village on the outskirt of North Bengaluru.
"Fig Tree Learning Center" is the new avatar of "Sita School" that was started by Jane Sahi, when she moved to Bangalore from England in 1972. The re-booted Fig Tree supports children within their own contexts and villages (Kasaghattapura, Tarabanahalli, Shivanahalli & Kumbarahalli). A dedicated team has worked hard to start a small library in each of these villages, either within the Govt schools, or at local Panchayat facilities and have been working to make learning meaningful, ensuring functional literacy and more.
In April 2018 the team consisting of four people started a small library in the village of Kasaghattapura, Bangalore North. Regular sessions have been held twice a week from 4.00.pm to 6.00.pm. typically about 25 children come between the ages of 5 to 13 years. Previous efforts by this groupis documented in an earlier Asha project. (https://ashanet.org/project/?pid=926)