June, 2020: During the lockdown period, while our Satya Bharti School teams were promoting virtual teaching, they were also creating awareness among the students and their parents about the safety measures to be taken to prevent the spread of the pandemic. We conducted virtual Senior Management Committee meetings, Parents Teachers’ Meetings on digital platforms and online Orientation Sessions for the parents of our newly enrolled students. In this virtual connect with parents, community members and Panchayat members, we sincerely focused on issues related to the safety of our students, and promoted precautionary guidelines to fight COVID 19.

The Satya Bharti Schools are located in remote villages and the children coming to the schools mostly belong to underprivileged families. Many of these children are not in a position to afford precautionary supplies to fight against the coronavirus. In consideration with that, many of our school students, parents and community members came together and initiated a campaign to make masks at home for the children of the schools who can’t afford them. They made a lot of efforts to prepare homemade masks and virtually aware others parents to do the same.

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This article is contributed by Mr. Jitender Arora who is working with Bharti Foundation as a District Coordinator in Punjab.