Awards And Recognitions

 

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This nightschool is a result of the hard work of the founder. These awards and honors are the visible proof of his sacrifices. Mr. R. Harigaran, Founder of Swami Vivekananda Sevai Maiyam/School4Change. He helped many students to get holistic education from his part.  He received many rewards for his social activities, he also recognized by newspapers/article's. He is the biggest inspiration for many students.

Receiving Award from Mr. U. Sagayam, IAS Award of Good Social Activist.

 

 

Rotary club of east madras honored the Founder Mr. R. Harigaran with the title of Unsung Hero.

Receiving award from Doctor Jeyachandran.

He received the HOPE award with the hands of C. Sylendra Babu IPS.

Receving award from IAS L. Raja.

The news article about the Founder and Nightschool in Anandha Vikadan.

Receving award in MSW College, Award of Good Social Worker.

Article about the nightschool in Hindu.

Article about the nightschool in Times Of India.

 

Article and little bit of information about nightschool in Deccan Chronicle.

In the eve of teacher's day celebration we held a guest lecturer event in which the reporters of All India Press Media Association, Police Magazine and Tamil News took part and awarded our President with the Award of Best Humanity. 

 

 

 Competitions of School4Change

Warm welcome to all the students!!

Thank you for your support for all the competitions that School4Change conducts, because of your involvement and interest we are so motivated to come up with new competitions that helps the children to break their boundaries and create more new things and ideas.

School4Change is now up with the new set of creative competition to students. we are planning to make our student society aware of their potential through simple activities. We welcome all the students to take part in this competition and grow your creativity more.

*Paper size : Quater chart only / A4 sheet 

(Recitation, Drawing, Narration, Dialogue Writing & Photography).

*Any medium of colors or pencil shading.

*9th to 12th std students Story writing about the Deforestation.

*6th to 8th std Writing about Dream. 

*1st std to 5th std show us your Drawing skill on My Hero.

*Each School / Institution can submit any number of entries.

*Entries should reach us before 30th September 2022.

*Students can write either in Tamil or English.

*Student’ name, school, class and email address should

  be mentioned in A4 sheet and chart.

*Google Form Link : https://forms.gle/5Zi3eTTbKxp2CLWdA

*Paper size : Quater chart only / A4 sheet 

(Recitation, Drawing, Narration, Dialogue Writing & Photography).

*Any medium of colors or pencil shading.

*10th to 12th std students Draw about the Culture Of  Farmer's Festival.

*6th to 9th std Write a story about Paddy. 

*1st std to 5th std show us your story telling skill by Draw image on Pongal.

*Each School / Institution can submit any number of entries.

*Entries should reach us before 30th September 2021.

*Students can write either in Tamil or English.

*Student’ name, school, class and email address should

  be mentioned in A4 sheet and chart.

*Paper size : Quater chart only / A4 sheet 

(Recitation, Drawing, Narration, Dialogue Writing & Photography).

*Any medium of colors or pencil shading.

*College students should capture the representation of Good Will*10th std to 12th std write a conversation between the two

  freedom fighters about freedom.

*8th to 9th std students Narrate about the Student Life

*6th to 7th std Draw an image which represents the 

  Mental Health. 

*1st std to 5th std show us your story telling skill by recitating

  Happy Fictional Story.

*Each School / Institution can submit any number of entries.

*Entries should reach us before 30th September 2021.

*Students can write either in Tamil or English.

*Student’s name, school, class and email address should

  be mentioned in A4 sheet and chart.

* 6th std to 12th std share your experience and learning from your teacher or Guru.

* 1st std to 5th std students can draw your favorite Hero using your creativity.

*entries should reach us before or on 31st August 2021.

Hope to receive more entries than before. Show your talent to us and we’ll show your talent to the world. The Google form link is given below and the link will be open from 21^st August 2021 to 31^st August 2021.The winners will be announced on 14^th September 2021.
Thank you.

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*9th std to 12th std enunciate your creativity to develop a story with the topic ‘Silent worship’ or drawing with the topic ‘Don’t GIVE UP’.

*For Class 6th std to 8th std, draw an image with the topic of ‘Learn to say NO’ or write a story with the topic of ‘Why Fear?’

*1st std to 5th std students should draw the image under the topic ‘My Hero’.

*Entries should reach us on or before 31st July 2021.

 

Hope to receive more entries than before. Show your talent to us and we’ll show your talent to the world. The Google form link is given below and the link will be open from 21^st July 2021 to 31^st July 2021.The winners will be announced on 14^th August 2021.

Thank you.

 

 

The first competition that school4change hosted was All India level Art Competition – 2021.

Since that was our first time conducting an online competition we were anxious and expected only hundred entries but for our surprise we got 1003 entries from various places. Majority of entries came from Islamic model metric school and learning links foundation. Within Tamilnadu we got entries from Neelagiri, Thiruvithamcode, Thiruvallur, Avadi and Manali. From India level we got entries from Karnataka, Andra, Kerala and Kolkata. Also entries from Singapore, Canada, USA we received. Thank you for all your enthusiasm.

 

Since  the massive success of our first online competition, we are here with the whole new level of competition. This competition is completely based on Thisrukkural.

 

All India Level Thirukkural Competition – 2021 June

Thirukkural is a called as a ‘Global Public Domain’. It contains all the Social knowledge and the Life Morals in just seven words and two lines. So observing the Thirukkural meaning and giving it your own creative form is a captivating skill to be proud of.

Swami Vivekanandha Sevai maiyam conducts the All India Level Thirukkural Competition – 2021 June. This competition is held not just to relieve the student society from the stress of this pandemic situation but also to show that if we have truth in what we do and in our process then we can achieve anything and everything despite this current scenario and to feed students knowledge with the creative and developing skills. While taking part in those kinds of competitions students will have the chance to pour out their creative skills in the paper.

Student’s portrait their state of happy mind and colorful soul in their art works which made us feel pleased to evaluate their works.

In this All India Level Thirukkural Competition – 2021 June, all the participants will receive the participant certificates

*9th std to 12th std enunciate your creativity to develop a story by using the meaning of given Thirukkural.

*For Class 6th std to 8th std, draw an image with the meaning of a given Thirukkural. you can also tag your entries @school4change2007 in Instagram with the Hashtag

  #1thirukkural1pic

(Still need to submit the work in google form)

*1st std to 5th std students can tell as much Thirukkural as possible within one minute of the Thirukkural video. You can share the video to the given number in Whatsapp (7200218214).  you can also tag your entries @school4change2007 in Instagram with the Hashtag

  #1minthirukkural

*1st std to 5th std students can attach their require-informations at the end of the video.

*Entries should reach us on or before 30th June 2021.

 

Hope to receive more entries than before. Show your talent to us and we’ll show your talent to the world. The Google form link is given below and the link will be open from 21^st June 2021 to 30^th June 2021.The winners will be announced on 4^th July.

If you want to show your talent to the world also then you can share your art work and recitation skill, you can tag @school4change2007 in Instagram. 1^st STD to 5^th STD students can use #1minthirukkural  hashtag to share. 6^th STD to 8^th STD students can use #1thirukkural1pic hashtag to share (still need to submit the entries through the Google form for evaluation).

Thank you.

 

Celebrations Of Nightschool

 

Celebration blog

 

Celebration is the essence of human life. We leant to celebrate specific things in life and learnt to show condolence to some things in life, but no one taught us how to celebrate every day and every moment in life. In this nightschool students are learning how to live every moment as if it’s a greatest celebration of cosmos.

 Founder of this nightschool Mr. Harigaran has the vision to make students to understand that all the opposite phenomena like good and bad, sad and happiness, past and future. We always live in the between that’s were celebration lies, in the present.

Every day is a celebration and every day is learning. Students learn new thing daily, search every day and teach that to others. In this process they became aware of the power of searching. In the process searching they find the happiness of celebration.  

 

 

Traditional day in our nightschool.

India is a Country with Unity in diversity. We have many cultures and tradition in our India. To motivate our enriched culture with the current generation youngsters this school4change community celebrates the Traditional Day once in a year.

Teachers day celebration in our nightschool.

In this world every profession has its own uniqueness but this one profession has a lot infact. A teacher is the only person who makes lots of engineers, doctors, scientist and many more. A human as a teacher plays a huge role in children’s early age. In nightschool students makes all the surprise arrangements for the teachers.

Children’s day celebration in nightschool.

Students celebrates every day as a celebration in this nightschool but still teachers arranges a special events for students to enjoy their selves and to share their happiness.

 

Black day celebration in our nightschool.

Generally people in this society condemn this color black because they believe that black brings bad luck. But that’s not true, that’s a myth. To break this superstition belief this nightschool celebrates Black Day when students wore black cloths and celebates that day of black.

Celebrating the birthday of Osho Rajneesh.

So far Osho Rajneesh is the biggest misunderstood person in his time. Now many people are in a place where if they understand him they can understand life in its subtle way. Here students are motivated to read all kind of books which can give them life lessons. That’s why every student in this nightschool knows about him and tends to read his books.

Celebrating the birthday of Swami Vivekanandha.

As big followers of Swami Vivekanandha every year we celebrate his birthday as a big event by inviting gust to celebrate with us.

 

Celebrating the birthday of Founder of this nightschool.

He is inspired by all of his students and he is also the biggest motivator and Guru to them. Every year students arranges the surprise event for the founders birthday to show him their gratitude and how lucky they are to have him.

Honorable guests Of Nightschool

 

Guest lecturer blog

In nightschool every month the founder arranges the guest lecturer event. Many entrepreneurs and social workers and many more people were invited to this guest lecturer event as guest to share their thoughts and experience to enlighten the students. This way students gain lots of new learning and this gives them the better understanding over their next move to go forward with the clear knowledge.

Sidhambara Murugan, Inspector of TVT paid his visit as a guest lecturer.

He gives students some law based advices and motivations.

Our guest lecturer ms. Srimathi Vice President Of Bant of Newyork.

She took motivation class to all the students to dream big and achieve big.

The well known You tuber Mr. GK

As a famous youtuber he taught students About some science fact and motivated them to learn more science knowladge

The food director In DPro Ms. Dhanupriya.

She gave us a wonderful speech about food and its important to our day  to day life.

Mr. Vishvam Founder of  Vaanam Vasapadum.

Gave a good motivational speech about the technique that how we can reach the sky with our hard work and smart work.

Mr. Alagappan, Agriculturist.

He took class about agriculture and economical status of agriculture in this society.

Mr. Vikram Suryavashi from Ashok layland.

He gave an awesome motivational speech to the students for their future plans.

 

Students from Italy, Iran and China visited the nightschool.

These students of MSW visited the nightschool to know more about the culture and tradition of India and nightschool. They got to interact with students and had a good time.

Birth Of An Empire

 

INTRODUCTION

 

      'People who are able of making significant sacrifice are the one making a difference '

 

   This blog is all about a man who is the reason of many students hope and holistic knowledge. Mr. R.Harigaran the founder and president of Swami Vivekananda Sevai Maiyam. This NGO is running since 2007 in Thiruvottriyur, Chennai. For 14 years he is educating students without any expectations.

                                                                                                                                                                                                        

    Now their current project is School4Change which is started in the motive of providing holistic education and learning to the students. Now I'm presenting you  The outline of the nightschool.

 

SINGLE MAN

 

Q  "How and from when you started the service works?"

A  "I started this service activities after I joined my first year college in 2005. At first we saved rice and accumulated that at the end of the month we used to distribute the rice to the orphanage, elderly people homes and blind people orphanage.

       And I've took part in the entire medical and blood donate camps as a volunteer in Saturday and Sunday's and I also used to donate blood once in six months."

Q  "Can you please explain about your experience when you were doing the rice collecting service?"

A  "When I first began, me and my friends joined hands to this service. Everyday when parents prepare rice for cooking we exclude one hand full of rice from that and at the end of the month we saved like 1kg to 1.5kg per person. And we distributed rise to orphanage and all.

    First 4 years we approached many people for rice, cause the people who were in need of rice was high but the quantity of rice we had at the end of the month was comparatively low.

     Every people we reached out were ready to contribute, but they didn't actually.  The reason was our age at that time. This society has lots of trust issues with young adults and teenagers.

     First 4 years we just collected 15kg to 20 kg of rice at the end of the month. But after that at some point we've got around 200kg and more of rice per month.  I know it's a massive shift in numbers but because of our consistency, we gained trust from many people. The more people that trust you, the more responsibility you need to carry.

      Many people also told us they knew lots of families who were all poor and in need of the basic necessaries. Back then all we could provide was rice, so we thought to do what we could. We visited their places for an inspection to know their needs and helped them out in possible ways that we could."

 

JUST A DREAM

 

Q  "First you were just providing rice then how you thought about giving education?"

A  "It came up as a simple question, but that changed the whole thing. The question is 

'Now I'm here to provide them for dining and what if I'm not here to give them anymore?'

      After giving it lots of thoughts the conclusion I met with was if they happened to get the proper education then they can feed themselves. That's why I decided to start a nightschool and educate the students who have no awareness of education."

 

Q "What was your vision for the distanced future before you start this nightschool?"

A "I wanted to make our next generation to stand for themselves. I thought that academics alone won’t do any good to students and I still think so. I dreamed to teach them life skills to make our next students society a bold, self discipline and self reliable one. Bold enough to face the obstacles and fear. Discipline enough to change there life to the better."

HIT OF THE REALITY

 

Q "From where you started your mission?"

A "Yes, mainly I decided that I need to give education then I was in a search of whom I need to educate. I chose 3 bus stops in Thiruvottriyur where students would eventually gather after school hours. I asked many students that why they were getting education some of them said they want to become something because they like it or their parents like it. Some of them said they just enjoy meeting with friends.

     Then most of them said they didn’t even knew why they were getting education and these students were from government schools, after lots of studies I decided to educate the sea shore side people of Thiruvottriyur. "

Q  "What you found so difficult in teaching to those students?"

A  "On the first day of nightschool there were only 7 students. The first hindrance was to gain parents trust and the other one was to teach the students self discipline.

    I was a single teacher at that time. After we moved to the Vivekananda School, students were divided and seated in 3 classes. I was the only one that handled all three classes so that was a really hard task but still that's a great experience. "

 

Q  “What were the problems you faced in this society?"

A "As I said I was a single man handling over 100 students, because of that I couldn't get a job which would suit for my schedule. I was jobless for 7 years. Not because that I couldn't get a job, I even rejected the job offer that I got from US. Because of that I faced a lot of mental pressure from this society. At all cast my mom stood by my side even when everyone was against me."

 

 

VOLUNTEERS OF THE FUTURE

 

Q "What do you think your biggest asset is?"

A "My teachers are the biggest asset to me"

Q  "Okay, then how the first batch of teachers approached you?"

A  "They just came front and asked me, that's it."

 

Q  "Just because they asked you, you let them come as a teacher?"

A  "To be honest I motivated them to become a teacher cause when it comes to service everything is about voluntary skill. Here they are teaching the students so we call then teachers but actually they are volunteers.

      Even though I motivated them, it all happened because of their self interest.  When they asked me I just welcomed them whole heartedly. After that many batches of students volunteered as teachers so I started to conduct interview from 2013."

 

Q  "Any reason for interview and what kind of questions will be in the interview?"

A  "Yes there is a reason. This nightschool is all about growth. I need volunteers who have growth mind-set, who will improve students and themselves as well. That's why I decided to conduct interview. The question will be like

       "If I give you responsibility over 50 students and what will be the improvement that you make in students"

     These kinds of questions will show the point of view of the volunteers."

BATTLE OF SURVIVAL

 

Q  "The problem you happened to encounter after all this time?"

A  "After all this time has passed but even then some people muster the courage to say that I was doing all this for nothing and it's a waste of time. Even after many years passed since the beginning lots of my relatives discouraged me and some of my friends backstabbed me. At the end I overcame all that and now no one can say this is waste, I just proved them that this is worth a jump."

 

UNSHAKEABLE EMPIRE

 

Q  "What is the biggest pillar of this nightschool?"

A  "The confidence and courage that I held in myself.  These are the true things which kept me going and still keep me in this path. I started this nightschool without expecting anyone to stand by my side and now I have teachers here with me. Even if they left I can and I will stand alone and run this nightschool towards its biggest vision and the greatest future of the students. So it's me, I'm the pillar of this nightschool."

 

 

CONCLUSION

 

     From this nightschool over 3000 and more students have passed out. They became their own brand than the product of this society. Dream of Mr. R. Harigaran the founder president of Swami Vivekananda Sevai Maiyam is to build a school that gives a holistic education. 

As a common human being in this society I wish all the students gets this kind of education to understand everything in a better way.