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Rainbow Academy
Darjeeling, India
May 07, 2012
May 03, 2012
PROGRESS REPORT : 2011-12Children of today are the nation builders of tomorrow and therefore, the local handful social leaders of Gorubathan, a rural hill in Darjeeling (INDIA) founded a non-profit
January 13, 2012
PROGRESS REPORT - 2011As the children of today are the nation builders of tomorrow and if we neglect them now the nation will not have leader tomorrow. In the process
VOLUNTEERS FOR GRANT PROPOSAL WRITING & FUND RAISING
January 11, 2011
PROPOSAL FOR GRANTBackground: Rainbow Academy, a non-profit english medium secondary school started in the year 2007 by handful local like-minded people donating a 0.5 acre land and constructing a simple
My time at Rainbow Academy
Rainbow Academy, by Margaret Andrews
March 22, 2011
From October 13th to 25th I taught spoken English as a volunteer at Rainbow Academy, a small English-medium school in Gorubathan, a small centre in the Darjeeling district of West Bengal.Rainbow Academy is two years old and has about 50 students ranging from three to thirteen years of age. It currently teaches to the 6th standard, but plans to add a standard each year. The children's parents are poor and live in villages on the surrounding tea estates. The school is a project of the local Presbyterian church, which has about 35 members.There are six full-time teachers and a part-time music teacher who comes with his guitar on Saturdays. Three of the teachers have excellent English; the others didn't talk very much in my presence. Most of the teachers are...
Photography as a teaching tool
Rainbow Academy, by Sam Modest
March 04, 2010 | 1 comment
My name is Sam Modest, I graduated Bowdoin College in May of 2009, and I'm from Medfield, Massachusetts. I spent three months volunteer teaching at the Rainbow Academy in the Darjeeling district of West Bengal, India this past fall. While the main focus of my work was on spoken English, I sought to provide incentives to learn English through an interdisciplinary classroom environment, in which art and English education melded into one. Before I left for India, I received a seed grant from Omprakash to purchase eight compact digital cameras. While the children learned valuable technical photography skills, they also used the cameras to explore and reflect on their home, their culture, and their personal identities through a "Book About Me" project. I returned to...