You know those students who can sit through long lectures or read incredibly dense books and remember every single detail of it? Yeah, I wish I was one of those people. I’m a visual learner—I need to see pictures, graphs, and have hands-on activities to capture my attention or else 1) I lose interest 2) I get distracted 3) I forget everything I just heard.
I’ve seen different primary schools in Hyderabad’s slum communities, and to say they are lacking is an understatement. Envision one room, mostly barren walls, and lots of cute Indian kids. One of our partner NGOs, SAPID, expressed the need for educational murals to assist in the classroom learning process. Given my love of bright colors and artsy things, I decided to head up this project. In the past few weeks, we’ve complete two schools and will be completing one more before the summer ends, and I’m so happy with how they’ve turned out.
The district education leader saw the first school we painted and liked it so much that he wants all the schools in the slums to have similar murals, no matter how long it takes. He also said the children were so excited about it that they showed up at the closed school on Saturday to learn.
It’s been fun designing and painting the murals, but even more rewarding to know that hundreds of kids will be affected by this project. It has been reaffirmed to me of the importance of educating children, especially if they want to have opportunities to have a better livelihood in the future.
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