Coimbatore: City-based Aram Foundation, along with HCL Foundation, will equip 15 government schools with online education facilities. The move, which comes close on the heels of reports on students’ hesitation to take board exams because of lack of confidence after they lost direct rapport with teachers, would benefit more than 1,150 students of classes X, XI and XII.
Aram and HCL Foundation hope the online education facilities would help students gain more confidence to take the exams.
Under the initiative, each school would be provided with Samsung Galaxy A21s mobile phones, a sim card with one-year net facility, a tripod with light, collar mike for teachers, white board, duster, marker and nails for hanging. It will help teachers conduct live classes as per their timetable from 9am to 12pm or from 10am to 1pm daily. Students would be able to access the lessons on laptops.
“The idea is to help reach children, who have lost direct rapport with their school and teachers,” said a press statement from the organizations. “There would also be teacher training sessions till the end of board exams by professionals.”
Both the organizations would also provide 10 litres of hand sanitizer, two containers, two sanitizer stands, nails for hanging sanitizers, one funnel and hand wash liquid to 38 government schools and 27 corporation schools.
It would benefit 56,500 students. In addition, motivational sessions will be conducted once a month for the students and teachers.