-Team leaders Mansi & Aditi When we started the ICT Seagulls project, we were not very sure what we (a group of high school students) can do to help others.
Then we started using some QC tools, and under loving guidance of our facilitators and mentor we realized everyone has lot of potential, if we can use right channel and work together we can do wonders beyond our imagination.First step we visited the “Atma Jyoti- Home for Blind Girls”. We spoke to them and found out about their likes, dislikes and aspirations. Then we did some brainstorming to get all our ideas together. Then we did survey among the visually challenged girls to find out what challenges they face. We spoke to 30 girls and put their feedbacks in a matrix. Then we applied Pareto Analysis to the collected data and found out that if we work on few vital problems, most of their difficulties in studies will be solved.Then we used fishbone diagram to do Why-Why analysis of problems to find out root causes of the problems.We then thought of some strategies and tried them. Suddenly they needed writers for exams, so even it was not priority in our strategies we put everything aside and helped them write exams.Then we finished our exams and started promoting “Donate Vision” campaign to create awareness about eye donation.
Then came summer vacation, but before that we planned to raise funds to donate a Braille printer to our friends at “Atma Jyoti”.
The project is not yet closed, it is ongoing, our next step is getting the Braille printer and make sure that they get all subject notes in Braille. We will also make audio lessons for them, so they can listen to audio tapes at their own leisure. They will get their new books in August, so we will start that in August.
