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1. Briefly Describe your project .
[Ans] Phase 1: Research and Targeting- students should have the freedom
to choose the subject of their interest, Identify the school with
insufficient resources and target them to fill the void by conducting a
survey (online/offline).
Phase 2: Collaborate with local NGOs- Collaborating with the NGOs

working for a similar objective, further collaboration with pmkvy, Skill
India mission and make in India. The objective is to help with the
learning of self-employment skills and vocational skill.
Phase 3: Visits and Vocational exercises- Identify underprivileged

schools and students who are willing to learn essential skills that could
also be converted into economic skills eg. IT training, email drafting,
stitching, etc., according to their ages.
Phase 4: Conduct seminars and workshops- To educate the needful
about their basic rights in respect to their issues. awareness about the
policy can also be spread through webinars and seminars by teacher
Phase 5: Report to and collaborate with the Education Ministry-

We would share the report of various research and assessment to the
education ministry in order to show our efforts towards the
implementation of NEP.
Phase 6: Assessment- Finally, we would conclude our project and

assess its success by conducting the survey across the same sample
space to see if there were any alterations in the results of the previous
one.
Phase 7: Developing a modern education model- including devising

a skill-inclusive curriculum.
2. How will you measure your impact during these 4 months? How do you
know you’ve been successful?
The most significant strategy for assessing the impact of our initiative is to
conduct follow-ups and observe minor visible improvements in the
youngster.
We will administer a general test that covers basic knowledge about their
academics, extracurricular activities, cultural sensitivities, and rudimentary
stereotypes (for children aged 10 to 15) to assess the improvement.
We will hold web lectures and classes on a weekly basis.
We'll limit ourselves to 40-50 students per session in order to focus more on
the children. By addressing curriculum gaps.
We will provide timely updates on each child's progress and will identify
where we are and are not making progress.
Finally, we would conclude our project and assess its success by conducting
the survey
By addressing curriculum gaps, we aim to improve the lives of at least 500
students and will visit schools every two weeks, possibly weekly.
3. Social entrepreneur Bryan Stevenson has emphasized the power of

proximity - that you are close to the people you are trying to help. As
Stevenson shares, It's actually “in proximity to [injustices] that we hear
things that we won't otherwise hear, that we'll see things we won't
otherwise see.”
With this in mind: Are you part of the community you are trying to
help, or have you built meaningful relationships with community
members? If this is not possible, please explain the research and
preparatory work you have done to feel confident that you understand
the complexities of the issues you are addressing.
[Ans] I could not be in more proximate quarters with the group I wish to
help, i.e., the students. Me and my peers have faced the very vices we wish
to tackle throughout our lives. Most kids we interact with within our family
are also facing the same struggles to find a unique path for themselves.
Moreover, the sheer focus on academics drives them away from spending
time on learning basic life skills to lead a respectable independent life. Like
every other student in India, I too have been prodded and directed directly
and indirectly to exercise my “freedom” of choice to pursue any of the
extremely limited career and education options. The only job streams on the
lips of any parent in our country when it comes to discussing the future of
their kids would be engineering, medical, and civil services. Even law is
only an up-and-coming alternative presently, and there is no short of
surprised faces when children express their wish to pursue the same as a
priority, voluntarily, and not as a last resort. Hence, I am very aware of the
pressures faced by any person hoping to pursue their actual talents or
dreams, especially if they lie outside the purview of academics. It pains me
to see potential wasted in crores of numbers as students in the most
populated nation of the world are forced to compete and struggle with these
limited options simply because of the societal stigma proclaiming the
necessity to excel in academics to fulfill their lifestyle aspirations.
4. Fast forward to the end of the Fellowship in December 2023. If your

local newspaper was summing up why your Project mattered as it
relates to UN goals, what would they say? The Project, in this case, is
the one you are leading prior to and during the Fellowship."
[Ans] Some students at National Law University, Lucknow clearly had the
sweetest dreams of the entire student community in mind as they began to
work on their UN Fellowship project 4 months ago. Inspired by the ideals
seen in the New Education Policy (NEP, 2020), they developed a practical
approach to bring these ideals to reality and positively impacted the lives of
500+ students directly. Departure from Silos mentality is clearly visible in
NEP as it aims to break off the strict division of arts, commerce, and
science streams in high school and follow a multi-disciplinary approach. A
laudable step of the policy that the students took upon themselves to
actualize is the introduction of vocational courses. One of their underlying
inspirations was to incentivize the vulnerable sections of society to send
their children to school. Their model seeks to leverage the huge potential of
online pedagogy and learning methodologies for increasing gross enrolment
in higher education.
On speaking with the team, they reiterated that their model seeks to
combine practical skills with bookish knowledge. Their belief that “once
the basics of any skill or subject are taught, most inquisitive children with
interest in the same can, in this technological era, find their feet by
searching the path they should ideally follow and where it would take
them” stands firmer than ever as they hope to take their project to the next
level and increase their impact from city to world level.
5. Given the global spread of coronavirus, we want to be prepared for the
possibility that the Fellowship will be entirely virtual once again this
year. With this in mind, please share in detail how your proposed
project may be affected if you are required to stay at home and what
changes you plan to make to achieve the goals you have set for your
project. (for example: Could you deliver your project virtually? Do you
need to set new goals? Is it already built to operate virtually? Etc...)
[Ans] The physical presence of Fellows or participants on the university

campus is not necessary for our project:
The team includes members from several intra-college committees,
including the Seminar Committee and the Legal Aid Committee:
Basic vocational training for students at the elementary school level can be
achieved easily through digital means and via video modules.
We will partner with community organizations and local NGOs that work
with underprivileged children and have access to digital devices and internet
connectivity
For our last objective, we will focus on teaching kids in their local dialects
and making learning easier through visual representations and drawings. We
were using digital devices and recorded lectures in physical mode anyway,
so if we have to work from home, we won’t face any problems because we
can stream those videos on their mobiles directly through virtual classes via
online platforms like zoom and G-Meet.
In short, our Project is already built to operate virtually.

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1. Briefly Describe your project .

Phase 2: Collaborate with local NGOs- Collaborating with the NGOs

Phase 3: Visits and Vocational exercises- Identify underprivileged

Phase 5: Report to and collaborate with the Education Ministry-

Phase 6: Assessment- Finally, we would conclude our project and

Phase 7: Developing a modern education model- including devising

3. Social entrepreneur Bryan Stevenson has emphasized the power of

4. Fast forward to the end of the Fellowship in December 2023. If your

[Ans] The physical presence of Fellows or participants on the university

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