The General English High School
Adult Literacy Programme
Mumbai, 15th September, 2013.
About 50 students of Std X from “The
General English High School, Dharavi, along with 5 of their teachers, went to
the nearby locality, and contacted about 25 adult illiterate men and 6 women
from the slums, and planned a programme to educate them.
According to their syllabus, they
planned to teach them the alphabet in English and Marathi, reading and writing,
numbers 1 to 100, addition and subtraction, and environmental studies related
to health and hygiene, The method adopted to teach the above mentioned syllabus
was through skits, T.V. Shows, Personal teaching and storytelling.
At first, they had only
40 adult men, but later on, impressed by the interesting manner of teaching the
team attracted a total number of 250 people. The students find it extremely
rewarding to see the number of adult literates on the rise. 