Category Archives: Life Skills Course Diary

The Thulir Life Skills Course is a full time course for School drop outs above the age of 14. This Diary is a record of the course during the year 2009 -2010.

10 March 2010 diary

Science Day in Sittilingi Govt. High School The local Govt School headmaster requested Thulir to help their students put up a science exhibition in the school, 2 days before the event! Thulir students decided to take it as a challenge and after hectic preparations, prepared exhibits/ demonstrations and taught the school children how to demonstrate […]

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09 February 2010 Diary

Bamboo and LED torch making workshop in Rishi Valley school Perumal and and vijayakumar went from Thulir along with Anu and Krishna to conduct a 5 day workshop in the Rural Education Centre run by Rishi Valley School. The aim was to introduce hands on work to class 6 students. The workshop focussed on making […]

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08 January 2010 diary

Time for Harvest and Harvest Festival [Pongal!] The paddy test plot is finally ready for harvest. We get 4.5 kgs of paddy from half a cent land. This means we would have got an yield of 900 kgs of paddy per acre.  Close on heels of this harvest came the Pongal festival and in the […]

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07 December 09 diary

Measuring areas: Having learnt basics of measurements and calculating areas and volumes, it is time now for learning to apply to real life situations [also to understand the concepts better!]. So we started with measuring the Volleyball court [see pic below]. The next stage was to measure the paddy field that we are levelling and […]

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06 November 09 diary

Organic Farming: In September we had reported the enthusiastic work that started on a test plot for growing rice using alternative methods. The plot is doing well and the paddy growing healthily. Cow shed repairs: The onset of monsoons meant we had to prepare ourselves against the rains but also hope that we get enough […]

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05 October 09 diary

Building Construction Part 9 – completing the cycle shed work! The much awaited cycle shed, finally got ready this month! A few minor works like floor levelling and finishing the walls by pointing were undertaken and the shed is now operational. This also means we have more workshop space now as cycles were being parked […]

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04 September 09

Building Construction Part 8 –Construction of the Cycle shed. Further progress was made this month on the completion of the walls and putting up of the roof of the cycle shed. As the structure took shape there was excited anticipation of parking all the Thulir cycles. In the meantime, more students have aquired cycles, so […]

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03 August 09

Balu [left extreme] and Balaji [third from left] have made significant contributions to the course this month. After three weeks of teaching Balu left this month. Balaji, an enthusiastic volunteer came again this month to help in the course. He plans to spend more time at Thulir in September. Building Construction Part 5 — Time […]

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02 July 09

July 09 Balaji’s visit: Balaji, a volunteer with Asha visited us and spent a few days. He had come to Sitttilinig ona a bicyle and this generated a lot of interest in biking and bicycles. Balaji explained how gear bicyles work and showed our students how to use the gears. Building Construction Part 1 – […]

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01 June 09

June 09 Plumbing line for irrigation Since the organic vegetable plot is slowly expanding, we decided to lay PVC irrigation pipes to take water from the open well for the plants. This work was executed by the students in the first week of June     Making Torches with White LEDs and bamboo For the […]

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