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Training

Christmas Holiday Camp

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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 final trick worked! The show was followed … [Read more...] about Christmas Holiday Camp

Telling compelling stories with Action-Cams, Smartphones and Tabs

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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 help Thamarai’s students and staff to … [Read more...] about Telling compelling stories with Action-Cams, Smartphones and Tabs

Striving for Full-Potential: Building Confidence Through Sport

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A Challenge:Girls face significant challenges in relation to access to sports rooted in social norms of fears that sports grounds are not safe for girls. This greatly impacts the self-confidence of girls. One of Thamarai's first projects in Annai nagar was to create an enabling environment for sports so that parents would be at ease and that girls could play easily. We also … [Read more...] about Striving for Full-Potential: Building Confidence Through Sport

Child Protection Training

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The Child Protection training team in Thamarai Auroville Child Protection team, Honor and Pavithra have been frequent visitors to Thamarai in recent months, mentoring our youth facilitators in the subject of child protection and conducting programs directly with the children to build their awareness and ability to respond. A training for 22 youth facilitators These … [Read more...] about Child Protection Training