Puppet theatre with Mereille
Mireille, a puppeteer from France, worked with the children to teach puppetry. The sessions were held on Sundays and sometimes during our summer camp. In this class, students were learned to make their own puppets using art paper and sticks. They had so much fun drawing the characters and painting them. The main theme of the…
Christmas Holiday Camp
Magic Show with Juergen on Christmas-Eve! German volunteer Oscar invite Magic-man Juergen to perform a show for the Thamarai students and community. It was a non stop extravaganza of magic with the audience laughing throughout and excited to find out how Juergen created the tricks. The finale was exciting as Juergen showed us how the…
Telling compelling stories with Action-Cams, Smartphones and Tabs
Manu Bahuguna has brought his skills of commercial filmmaking to support youth with career opportunities beyond convention with a film making and communications course with the aims of 1) providing life-skills to young people to take-up film making as a profession or use it as an additional skill in their careers and lives and 2) to…
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India’s 1st Foroige Youth club
On Brian O’’Neill’s last day in Thamarai, the first Foroige, Indian club was born with the election of youth officers from the Leadership for Life graduates. Students stepped forward for the positions of chairperson, treasurer, communications officer and secretary. The club will provide a safe, enjoyable place for young people to meet, get involved in…
Leadership for Life Program
Brian O’Neill travelled 8,330km from Mayo, Ireland to deliver the Foroige Leadership for Life program to students at Thamarai and to start Foroige’s first youth club in India. Brian is a youth worker at the Bey project Ballyhaunis, Ireland. Both The Bey and Thamarai projects stand for equity and the full potential of youth. Since 2022, young…
Basic computer application and Artificial Intelligence session with Anando and Mitali
Why AI session?The students lacked a strong foundation in basic computer knowledge and were not exposed to current technology despite the fact that 11th standard students each received a free laptop from the state government. This was particularly noticeable among the girls, who were unfamiliar with even basic laptop operations. With today’s technology available to…