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
Training
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 people on both … [Read more...] about Leadership for Life Program
Striving for Full-Potential: Building Confidence Through Sport
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
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
First aid training in Thamarai
Learning to manage small accidents and first response Small accidents can happen at any time so we invited the first aid training team Phillipe and Tenzin from youth link to take us through the basics with our 14 facilitators who work regularly with children. We learned how to handle everyday accidents including shock, burns, snake bites, car and bike accidents, and … [Read more...] about First aid training in Thamarai