Youth group conduct annual tour for rural students

NASHIK: A group of youngsters from the city have for the last decade have been visiting nearby villages and teaching tribal students. This year, they have started bringing the students to the city.
The youth under the Adhaar Foundation would visit rural areas every Sunday. In the tenth year, they changed the way to educate the students from rural areas.The members, including school and college students, organize annual study tours of the youngsters from rural areas to Nashik city.
“This is the tenth year of our programme of going to villages and teaching tribal students in Ghoti and Trimbakeshwar. We have a group of school and college students, who volunteered for the activity. Now, we bring the children from these areas once or twice a year to the city for a study tour,” said Yatin Deshpande, an engineering student from the city.
During the annual visit, the students are taken around the major business developments and also plan industrial visit, besides taking them to agriculture offices and the ITI also to make them understand the city, the atmosphere, the career available,” Deshpande said.
The Adhaar Foundation was started with the student volunteers from the city travelling every Sunday to villages and hostels in Ghoti and mingling with them, taking their lessons and also gathering help for them from the city – as and when required.
“We started when these students were in Class V to Class VIII. Few of them have now completed school education and we have brought three of them to study in the city,” Deshpande added.
The group does not make all arrangements for the students but tries to help in whatever possible manner it can. “We do not give direct monitory benefit to the students but pitch in with aid like contributing for part of the rent for hostel, travel to home and back to city, mess etc. We try to make the students comfortable here and provide all educational help required,” he said.
The group currently has three students who stay in Nashik – either at relatives’ place or even in the hostel.
“We are sure that when these three youths will go back to their place with degree in their hand and start using better farming techniques or fetch better market price for their produce, they will promote more youth to come to city and we will be able to help more of the youngsters from these tribal areas,” he said.