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Insight Walk

A COMMON VISION

Working in extremely marginalised and disadvantaged communities, to empower women & children through learning opportunities, that can help them break the cycle of poverty.

WHat THEY DO

Insight Walk works in villages that have no direct access to basic facilities, where parents work very long hours and where average household incomes are lower than INR 5,000 – 6,000 per month.

 

The Innovation and Passion Lab: A community centre that offers programs for children to learn through practical application and develop ways to express themselves. The curriculum includes exposure to subjects like farming, basic electronics, stitching, crafts and product design and also involves bringing artists & musicians from the communities to share their skills.

The Insight Walk Fellowship: A program that engages local women to be inspired into agents of change, thereby strengthening the community ecosystem. Typically, a fellow is someone who couldn’t complete her education for reasons beyond her control. Insight Walk trains the fellows on the Door Step School curriculum, which focuses on basic literacy, practical experiments and hobby development. The fellows also receive weekly mentorship to address their challenges at the lab as well as at home.

Local women of the Insight Walk Fellowship

Local women of the Insight Walk Fellowship

The Innovation and Passion Lab

The Innovation and Passion Lab

Science: Windmill

Science: Windmill

Science:	Geometry

Science: Geometry

Science: Magnets

Science: Magnets

Science: Pulley system

Science: Pulley system

Basic electronics

Basic electronics

Product design

Product design

The science of farming

The science of farming

Farming experiments

Farming experiments

Agricultural equipment

Agricultural equipment

Agricultural structures

Agricultural structures

Learning craft

Learning craft

Reusing materials

Reusing materials

Lettering

Lettering

Artwork

Artwork

Learning to stitch

Learning to stitch

Making stuffed toys

Making stuffed toys

CORNERSTONES

The curriculum is focused on hands-on learning, innovation, scientific curiosity and engaging the child’s immediate surroundings. Parents & families are frequently engaged at the lab so they feel invested in their child’s progress.

Through the program, both the children and the fellows develop communication skills, interpersonal skills and self-awareness. They are encouraged to address local problems pertaining to their communities and to use materials readily available to them for their solutions.

Students conserve both financial and environmental resources by creating non-breakable & reusable diyas for Diwali using natural materials.

Students learn organic farming hands on and create sustainable solutions by working as a collective.

ADDING VALUE

Bansuri incubated Insight Walk with seed funding to test their unique model and provided mentorship on areas like organisation structure, leadership and financial systems

Bansuri funding and support has helped scale the program from the pilot project of 3 villages in 2018 to 9 villages by 2020.

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MAKING A DIFFERENCE

  •  About 270 children & 12 fellows have been part of the Insight Walk program across 9 villages in the district of Kolhapur, Maharashtra over the 2 year period.
  • Children have shown improvement in reading, their ability to grasp new concepts and sensitivity towards the environment. The products they have created through the lab reveal an impact on their creative thinking and problem solving skill
  • Women who have been part of the fellowship program have shown a boost in confidence, developed a sense of ownership and commitment towards the lab and even take the initiative to problem solve in areas relating to implementation of the program. These women have been involved in training new fellows successfully. The fellows have also received support & encouragement from their husbands & families.

HIGHLIGHTS

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The children made eco-friendly rakhis and Ganapati idols, where even the dyes were made from vegetables and flowers. These were then sold, and the money collected was gifted to the Gram Panchayat towards flood relief.

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While the children are learning to organically farm the patch of land near their school, they have begun to develop practical solutions to problems of farming – such as an electronic grass cutter and farm umbrellas to ease their farming efforts.

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