Project Managers Adrian and Celestina Cavinder. Bangalore, India Family Focus Project No: I11 Project Managers: Adrian & Celestina Cavinder Contact Info: andest@vsnl.net Family Focus’ contributions in the field of education include the running of a learning center where school-aged children are educated, coupled with a teacher training program, seminars and workshops. Additionally, a vocational training program provides educational solutions for high school students. They also assist youth from poor backgrounds by imparting metalwork and carpentry skills through an apprenticeship training scheme, in an effort to help meet the rapidly growing demand for such skilled workers within the Indian economy. Family Focus also hosts seminars and workshops, and publishes and disseminates written and audio-visual materials offering teachers and parents advice in the difficult job of raising young ones. In India, traditional values associated with the homes and school for centuries are now being challenged or replaced by new, unfamiliar and oft questionable ones. Helping to support parents and teachers through this difficult transition is one of the main goals of their Childcare program, at the same time giving Family Focus a contributing voice to the ongoing debate of what the Indian education system of the future should look like. Other activities undertaken by Family Focus include: Business seminars, addressing such topics as: Team-working, Motivation and Unity in the work place Pre-natal and post-natal classes and instruction Visitations to local orphanages; performing shows and organizing outings Bible studies and classes Children’s musical programs

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Family Focus Learning Center

Our contributions in the field of education include running a learning center for students ages 6 through 18, taught by teachers conducting daily classes in all core subjects.

The center supports a Teacher Training program, where trainee teachers can receive instruction and first-hand experience in teaching various age groups, accompanying the regular teachers to gain firsthand experience in teaching various age groups.

Innovative teaching methodology is encouraged to enhance the M.I. (multiple intelligence) concept of learning.

Family Focus also publishes a regular newsletter, Childcare. This is a free-of-cost publication intended to assist and support parents and teachers in their difficult task of raising and educating children.

We address a large variety of related topics, questions and problems. The material is drawn from book reviews, newspaper articles, and personal experiences.

Vocational Training

We conduct vocational training courses for high school age students, as well as provide a platform for the training of young people from the local community in basic metalwork and carpentry skills.

Our Vocational Training program began in a small industrial work shed, and later expanded into a larger, better-equipped facility. Presently, a 5-storey building houses the metalwork and carpentry sections of our program.

In addition to four floors designated for these sections, a separate floor is reserved for classrooms and a training workshop, where specific R&D initiatives are used to train the high school students attending the program.

The set-up allows us to provide young people from the local community with practical training in the production of furniture. The sale of this furniture in turn generates income for the young people and their families. Besides design, manufacturing and marketing, we place a strong emphasis on entrepreneurial development.

Seminars and Workshops

Social Work

Adrian leads a sing-along at one of the orphanages that we have “adopted”.

Celestina delivering a donation of children’s clothes to orphans at “our” orphanage.

We work closely with a number of orphanages and regularly spend time with the children.

We assist the administration the orphanages by soliciting volunteers to assist in the improvement of their infrastructures, as well as provide food, clothing and toiletries for the orphans.

On various holidays, we organize special outings for the orphans, as well as other children from poor backgrounds. These usually take the form of a carnival presentation, with games and activities, including prizes fro the winners etc. and an out-of-the-ordinary holiday meal for all.

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