Vidyanjali - (School Volunteer Program) is an initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of School Education & Literacy to enhance community and private sector involvement in Government run elementary schools across the country under the overall aegis of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.
This program has been envisaged to bring together people willing to volunteer their services at schools which really need them. The volunteers will act as mentors, confidantes and communicators with children. In consonance with this objective, MyGov, in collaboration with Ministry of Human Resource Development, has developed a mobile application for schools and other educational institutions to engage interested citizens in volunteering for such on-ground engagements.
The application will enable interested volunteers to connect with government educational institutions including schools to mentor students. This mobile application would act as a nexus between the volunteers and government bodies under a Volunteer Management Program. Through this mobile application, mentors can interact with institutions directly and can contribute in the institution’s activity with relevant knowledge and skill set.
The application is an interactive mobile platform which facilitates communication between the two stakeholders helping institutions to post their academic and non-academic requirements seeking suitable volunteers for the specified role. The prospective volunteers, users of the application, would be able to show their interest based on the available volunteering opportunities viewing the list ordered basis fetched user location. The application would boast of a separate dashboard for institutions and volunteers both, which would be inclusive of a map enabling feature of locating both the institution and the volunteer. The exact locations of volunteers and institutions would be view-able through pin markers on the map.
There five types of activities in which volunteers can interact with pupils:
1)Reading to Children 2)Public Speaking 3)Play acting 4)Preparing story books with Children 5)Helping children with creative writing
Process of Registration: Download the App from the store.
Step 1: Register at the home page
Step2: Allow the push notifications and set the radius of your choice
Step3: Go the Vidyanjali option in the home there you can find map view and list view of schools and select the school of your choice
Step 4: After selecting the school select the activity of which you are interested and click on that then you will go the. Soon the school will contact you.
