What TAGE does
TAGE is an organisation of high school students from Bangalore, that provides underprivileged children with the means to gain a more effective education. TAGE hopes to create social awareness amongst the youth and instil in them a sense of compassion and responsibility, which will also serve the purpose of giving back to society.
The TAGE model relies solely on students and their involvement in this interactive approach to solving issues:
Step 1: Adopting a Beneficiary School
Each urban school adopts a rural school run by the Akshara Foundation, based on convenience, number of students, etc.
Step 2: Paper Collection, Generation of Funds & Stationery Purchase
Volunteers collect newspapers, used notebooks, textbooks and recyclable paper from all the school students, faculty as well as from their communities, segregate and store neatly. TAGE has tied up with ITC to help with responsible recycling of the collected waste paper. With the funds generated from recycling, adequate stationery is bought from TAGE licensed sellers.
Step 3: Notebook Making Competition
It is very often seen that the last few pages of notebooks are left unused. TAGE volunteers separate out these blank pages and use them in biannual inter-house notebook making competitions which are a part of the academic year. The notebooks are of good quality and are made using guidelines given to the students by us.
Step 4: First School Visit
Donor schools organise a field trip to their beneficiary school for high school students, which gives students from both sides of the spectrum the opportunity to interact. Through the interactions, the issues faced by the underprivileged children are brought to the notice of the donor school students. It is during this visit that the stationery purchased as well as the handmade notebooks created by the urban school students are handed over to the beneficiary school students.
Step 5: Consequent School Visits
During the next visit, the issues raised during the previous visit are solved - this can be done only after weekly discussions between students studying in the donor schools; during these discussions, innovative as well as practical ideas are put forth to solve the problems at hand.
Our eyes are also set to give away plenty more than stationery - in the future, we aim to give underprivileged children opportunities to showcase their knowledge and talents through events and scholarship programmes. We are also working towards creating multimedia based educational content in local languages, which can be made a part of the government school curriculum sometime in the future.
It's been a great journey so far, and we can't wait to go further!
We'd love it if you could do a paper collection in your community and use the funds generated to buy stationery for the underprivileged. If you're unsure about how to get started, feel free to reach out to us at [email protected] and we'll be happy to help!
The TAGE model relies solely on students and their involvement in this interactive approach to solving issues:
Step 1: Adopting a Beneficiary School
Each urban school adopts a rural school run by the Akshara Foundation, based on convenience, number of students, etc.
Step 2: Paper Collection, Generation of Funds & Stationery Purchase
Volunteers collect newspapers, used notebooks, textbooks and recyclable paper from all the school students, faculty as well as from their communities, segregate and store neatly. TAGE has tied up with ITC to help with responsible recycling of the collected waste paper. With the funds generated from recycling, adequate stationery is bought from TAGE licensed sellers.
Step 3: Notebook Making Competition
It is very often seen that the last few pages of notebooks are left unused. TAGE volunteers separate out these blank pages and use them in biannual inter-house notebook making competitions which are a part of the academic year. The notebooks are of good quality and are made using guidelines given to the students by us.
Step 4: First School Visit
Donor schools organise a field trip to their beneficiary school for high school students, which gives students from both sides of the spectrum the opportunity to interact. Through the interactions, the issues faced by the underprivileged children are brought to the notice of the donor school students. It is during this visit that the stationery purchased as well as the handmade notebooks created by the urban school students are handed over to the beneficiary school students.
Step 5: Consequent School Visits
During the next visit, the issues raised during the previous visit are solved - this can be done only after weekly discussions between students studying in the donor schools; during these discussions, innovative as well as practical ideas are put forth to solve the problems at hand.
Our eyes are also set to give away plenty more than stationery - in the future, we aim to give underprivileged children opportunities to showcase their knowledge and talents through events and scholarship programmes. We are also working towards creating multimedia based educational content in local languages, which can be made a part of the government school curriculum sometime in the future.
It's been a great journey so far, and we can't wait to go further!
We'd love it if you could do a paper collection in your community and use the funds generated to buy stationery for the underprivileged. If you're unsure about how to get started, feel free to reach out to us at [email protected] and we'll be happy to help!