Vidyanjali – A School Volunteer Programme

Vidyanjali – A School Volunteer Programme

Involvement of Community and Private Sector in Primary Schools:

The Vidyajali programme was launched on 16^th June 2016 by then Central Human Resource Development Minister Smt. Smariti Israni. The main objective of the programme was bring the people including community and private sector organization together for volunteering their services at elementary schools as mentors of the students.

Which Ministry comes for this initiative?

The MyGov in collaboration with Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) started and launched a mobile app to convince people for volunteering and connect with Government schools as mentors and guide the students. The Volunteer Management Program enabled the volunteers to interact with the institutions for contributing in the institution’s activity with their knowledge and skills.

Dashboard for Volunteers and Institutions:

The programme facilitated both the volunteers and institutions with the help of a dashboard, an interactive mobile platform facilitating communication. The prospective volunteers showed their interest in the available volunteering opportunities with providing the locations where they can serve the institutions. Similarly, the institutions were also able to seek the details of the volunteers who can serve them in delivering better educational services. Before providing the opportunities to the volunteer to serve, the institutions requested them to provide the profile followed by a meeting for further action.

Successful and innovative alternative:

The Vidyanjali initiative was successful as it brought an innovative approach with seeking the support of the volunteers to come ahead and contribute with their knowledge and skills for upgrading the students of elementary schools. It bridge the gap of scarcity of talented human resources for teahing the students of primary schools.

Source and Courtesy: Portal of mygov, Government of India.