Vadodara / Anand: For the past 20 years, he has cycled into slums in Anand to teach children the basics of Gujarati, Hindi and England through open schools.
Nitin Prajapati, a resident of Chikodhra Anand Village, continued this practice even during the covid-19-induced pandemic after the key open phase began.
Now, Prajapati has started another mission to teach children the basics of Sanskrit while he himself learns Japanese so he can teach students from a bad financial background.
“My target is to learn and teach 11 languages to these children,” said Prajapati, Indigenous Vagosana Village in Gandhinagar’s Mansa Taluka.
Prahapati who is now more than 50 years old has developed 1.008 teaching and learning material including flash cards, images, numbers, sketches, among others to educate slum children in four places in Anand.
“To learn Japanese, I will go through the tutorial and talk to my friends abroad.
I want to develop learning material in Japanese even to be disabled visually so that I have to develop material in Braille format too,” said Prajapati, who departed to provide education to these children to fulfill the wishes of his father who has retired as a teacher in 1998.
“When my father – Atmaram Prajapati, who is a government teacher at VJ School retirement from the service as a teacher drawing, he wants me to continue the tradition of teaching What I do is religiously, “said Prajapati, a graduate from Sardar Patel University Affiliate NS Patel Arts College.
Prajapati if you don’t run a language center in Anand where it provides IELTS coaching for students and potential jobs that want to go abroad.
The teacher gives a slum language of hope
