The Parish Magazine June 2022

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feature — 5 The Breakthrough Trustees would like to thank everyone at St Andrew’s for your prayers, encouragement and continued financial support during the uncertain and difficult period of covid. Your support enables us to make a difference to the lives of children and young people at Karun. Karun School was closed for over 19 months during covid but is now finally open again. Many children have had no formal schooling for nearly 2 years. In this academic year alone because of a general lockdown in the state, children have missed more than 6 months schooling. This has had a devastating effect on their education. Covid has led to many changes in schools and children's homes. Karun School has yet to return to its precovid strength. At present, children come to school by a bus funded by Karunand they have breakfast, midday lunch and a snack before returning home. Families very much welcome this provision. HOME VISITS Karun children are from disadvantaged backgrounds and many have poor basic skills. The long school closure has meant they have fallen even further behind in their work. Although the government provided some online lessons, most families have no internet so the children were unable to follow them. Karun teachers tried to help them with reading and writing by visiting them in their homes. This year the government is providing refresher classes and after school catch up classes and there are plans to shorten the summer vacation to make up the lost time. Teachers have welcomed these initiatives and have found that after school catch up classes are of great help to the children. The school is very fortunate to have a dedicated computer room that was kindly donated by the Rotary Club of Loddon Vale and a new specialist IT teacher has been appointed to give the children more opportunity to develop their IT skills and access the internet to support their learning at school. Sewing and IT classes for the local community continue to be very popular and the numbers enrolling have been steadily growing. Sewing classes take place three times a week and the IT class is at the weekend. Many of the girls have become very competent and some are looking to apply for jobs in textile companies. The Trust has also funded girls for nursing and teaching degree courses. The professional qualifications they have gained has enabled them to get jobs very quickly and to earn a good salary. We are also funding two girls on degree courses. One boy, the Trust sponsored to train as an electrician at a technical college, is now an apprentice in a large firm. The Parish Magazine - June 2022 27 Your support is helping Karun emerge from Covid An update from Leslie Stephen From growing and harvesting cotton to teaching IT and internet skills and sewing, Karun continues to help the disadvantaged families in South India We continue to explore different ways to fund opportunities that encourage girls to access higher education. Two high achieving girls’ schools approached us to fund students from disadvantaged single parent families who were badly affected by covid and we now fund two girls with mentoring so they will hopefully continue to higher education. The garden project started by the ancillary staff during lockdown continues to thrive with good harvests of vegetables, and a cotton crop proved to be very successful. Both provide a good income for Karun. The children have been using the garden to support their work on the environment. Thank you once again!
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