Lend a Hand for Education

Date: 17 Feb 2013
Venue:  People’s Trust Campus, Sri Ramanahalli

People’s Trust runs a school in its campus which provides quality education to the neighboring rural areas.  It also runs a residential program called TREP (Total Residential Educational Program) where   underprivileged children are given free accommodation and education.  It is not just any other hostel for poor; the emphasis is more on values and confidence.

Every year,   admission session is conducted for the TREP program.  It involves written tests and oral interactions.    People’s trust invited us to lend them a supporting hand in the selection process.   This time there were around 150 applicants.  Team of volunteers from JCI Bangalore Horizon and other well-wishers  of People’s Trust  supported the  students and management of  TREP.
 

It was such a well-organized event, the various steps fell in place one after the other. One batch was busy conducting the written exams, another batch collecting the answers, another batch correcting them and yet another batch in totaling them. The outputs were fed into computers to get consolidated results. The oral interactions followed next. 

 

In between all these well synchronized events, we were all served with the very cooling and soothing buttermilk by the TREP volunteers.  The management also ensured lunch was served to all the guests

When aspiring students were busy with their tests, there were separate sessions going on for the parents/guardians on various school programs and important social awareness opportunities and how they can participate and improve our society.

We felt happy to be part of JCI and doing whatever we could do to help People’s Trust.