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On August 6th, 2024, Don Bosco’s Konkan Development Society organized a session on Healthy Relationships at St. Joseph High School, Aquem, Margao. The session, attended by students of standards 9 and 10, aimed to equip young minds with a deeper understanding of healthy relationships and their significance in personal growth.

Through interactive discussions the session delved into the essential characteristics of healthy relationships, including mutual respect, trust, and effective communication. The students gained valuable insights into how nurturing such relationships can positively impact their emotional well-being, self-esteem, and overall development.

The session was a great success, leaving a lasting impact on the students.

Don Bosco’s Konkan Development Society recently organised an orientation programme at Carmel College for Women, Nuvem, with the attendance of 305 enthusiastic students!  This exciting day was all about helping students from the Arts, Science, and Commerce streams develop essential life skills through fun and interactive activities. From tackling communication challenges to participating in team-building exercises, everyone was actively engaged, learning, and having a great time!

Bosconet and Don Bosco’s Konkan Development Society of Panjim Province, organised a four-day
training on ‘How to Write Better Project Proposals,’ at Don Bosco Provincial House, Odxel from 5th
to 8th March 2024.

The training, conducted by Mr. Luis Manohar from Bosconet, Delhi, aimed to teach participants the
skills needed to write strong and systematic Project Proposals.

During the training, Mr. Manohar shared his expertise in professionally writing Project Proposals.
The sessions were interactive, with practical exercises to help participants understand the key
components of a good Project Proposal.

Each day focused on different aspects of writing. Day one covered analyzing problems, conducting
baseline surveys, using data collection tools, writing problem statements, and setting objectives and
strategies.

Day two focused on setting goals and objectives, understanding SMART objectives, and creating a
results chain.

Day three introduced participants to the log-frame approach, scheduling activities, and monitoring
and evaluating projects. The final day covered budgeting, risk assessment, engaging stakeholders,
the Theory of Change, and common reasons why projects often fail.

Participants found the training helpful and appreciated its hands-on approach. They felt more
confident in their ability to write compelling Project Proposals, by the end of the programme.

Our Pre- Primary students returned to School after the summer vacation, on 12^th June 2023. A Special Assembly was organised to welcome the students back!

The Assembly began with the Morning Prayer led by an LKG student Disha, followed by a welcome dance by the Teachers. The In-Charge of the School, Mrs Tracy Fernandes gave a short welcome speech, after which the Teachers and students danced and sang some popular rhymes and songs, while Tracy Ma’am played theguitar. The Parents of the Nursery children were also seen enjoying the programme!

The NRSTC morning Centre at Zuarinagar, South Goa has re-started on 19th June 2023.

30 children were mobilised from the Zuarinagar area and are attending the classes, which begin at 8:45 am and end at 12:30 pm. There are two Teachers at the Centre teaching the children competencies in English & Maths and Kannada. The children are also provided with a nutritious snack at the end of the class.

A Parents’ meeting was held on the 3rd of July, which was attended by our Executive Director Fr. Joel D’souza, along with the two Teachers and the Supervisor of the Centre. It was a productive meeting with positive feedback from the parents.
The children are very excited to begin the new academic year at the Centre.

As the new academic year 2023-24 has commenced from the month of June, we also have begun preparing for the DISAC project which is aimed at bridging the ‘digital divide’ in the capacity which we can do so. This year at the request of Connexus we have introduced the basics of Coding in our syllabus for which we conducted 2 full days of training for the teachers. The Training was held on the 10^th & 12^th of June 2023. Mr Clinton Fernandes was the Trainer for both the days.

Day 1 began with Jose(Project Coordinator) welcoming  the teachers after the summer break. This was followed by our new Executive Director Fr Joel D’souza leading all of us in prayer and addressing the Teachers. He encouraged the teachers to give in their best and put in efforts in all that they do.

Mr Clinton conducted the first day’s training on Scratch Programming which is a block based form of Coding.  The Teachers were eager to learn and picked up the concepts quite well. The training for the day ended at 5pm.

Day 2 started with a Prayer led by Mrs Nirmala Rebello from the KDS Team. Ma’am Nirmala spoke to the teachers on the importance and the need for practice what the teachers were learning through the training.  Mrs Rebello also suggested that subsequent to the training we have exercises put up on the google drive which each Centre had to complete for the day and upload back on the drive, which was a very fruitful exercise.

Mr Clinton spent the next couple of hours with revision of Day 1 and solving any doubts / difficulties which the teachers had to clarify. He then introduced the teachers to the next Coding software called Kojo which is a text based Coding program. He explained the concept of the Coordinate System. The day ended with an activity on Tangram (origami paper + graph paper) which was a good way to understand the coordinate system to build various designs(shapes). The training was well conducted by Mr Clinton who extended his support even after the training to checking the exercise files uploaded by the teachers and guiding them with their practice.