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Mountain View Nursery and Primary School

S•H•E (Services, Health, Education)

Educational Programs Nursery SchoolsAwareness ProgramsMedical Camps

pupils at Mountain View Nursery and Primary School

Sports Day at Mountain View School

Mountain View Nursery and Primary School

Mountain View School for the rural poor opened in June 2015 to bring quality English-medium education to impoverished villagers for whom such education is usually out of their reach.

Education has the power to transform children’s lives, now and for generations to come. It is one of the principal routes out of poverty. It gives children and young people a chance to gain valuable knowledge and skills, and to improve their lives. A good education can also be a powerful tool to address serious social issues.

Our educationl activities aim to foster the child's love for learning, build their self-esteem, teach good values, and build a strong foundation for their future. Our school activities emphasise providing a nurturing environment conducive to positive learning experiences. Learning should and can be made interesting, enjoyable, fun. We use modern and innovative early-learning techniques and activity-based learning that fosters the blossoming of the child’s natural development. “Drill and kill” approaches have not been found to be effective for engaging children actively in the learning process.

At the beginning of the new school year, 2016, we added 1st Standard (grade 1) and added 2nd standard and a second LKG class at the beginning of 2017. 3rd standard was added in June 2018, at the beginning of the new school year. We shall continue adding a new grade level each year.

We gratefully accept donations for the construction of additional classrooms which we will need.


S•H•E (Services, Health, Education)

In 2011, we started the SHE Program, to bring health, education and awareness to poor villagers.

Attendees of one of our tuition centres.

Evening Study Centers

We work in a poor, rural area. We identified this pressing need for educational assistance for the village children, and established evening study centres in several villages. These centres create a healthy environment for children to do their homework and get additional support in learning from the tutors. The children are motivated to study well, and encouraged when they receive praise from their teachers and their grades improve. In addition, we provide extra Saturday tuition in maths, English and computer skills.

children enjoying our anganwadi activities

Assistance for Government Nursery Schools

The foundations of a good education are laid during the preschool years.The Tamil Nadu govenment has set up nursery schools where a nutritional midday meal is provided. Good preschool activities and resources are still lacking in some of these village 'anganwadis' and resources are limited. We are providing educational items, such as flashcards, story books, puzzles, blocks etc for the 'anganwadis' and we regularly send a volunteer to the local preschools to do extra activities with the children and to train the staff. Co-operation between government programmes and NGOs has been encouraged by the government in India and can help extend the effectivness of government programmes. We presently assist 5 anganwadis.

healthy baby awareness programs

Awareness Programs

We regulary conduct awareness programs in different villages to address serious and common health issues that affect the villagers, such as diabetes, HIV, and TB. (India is seeing a resurgance of drug-resistant TB. This is aggravated by the fact that illiterate and poor villagers often don't finish their course of medecine or don't take it properly.)

We also conduct several activities to improve the health of mothers and babies in the area, to address the common problems of poor nutrition, anemia, and low birth-weight babies. These meetings help to make sure mothers get their medical check ups, register their births to avail of government support that is offered, such as cash gifts for female babies, and to make sure they give birth with medical assistance. We hold regular health-for-mothers programs and we also hold 'healthy baby' contests, where the health and progress of babies is monitored, encouragement given to breast-feed and follow good hygiene..

healthy baby awareness programs

Medical Programs

Eye Camps

We work with the world-famous Aravind Eye Hospital to conduct free eye camps once a year. The Hospital provides the medical staff and treatment while we organise the camp and take care of advertising and logistics. As a result many villagers have had their sight restored through the free cataract operations conducted by Aravind Hospital.

We also conduct haemoglobin testing camps for adolescent girls, in conjunction with local primary care health centres, as anemia is a very serious problem amongst women in India. Appropriate treatment and advice is provided for those who are anemic.

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