About Tuition Center
The tuition center in St. Alphonsus High School was initiated by The Seeds Foundation, when they found that the underprivileged children found it difficult to cope with their studies at home. Also, The Seeds Foundation in collaboration with Grace provides Educational assistance to the underprivileged children residing in Bagalur layout and Deshiya nagar (Lazar Road). The Bagalur layout tuition center was called Sagaya Madha Padipagham (SMP1) and The Deshiya nagar (Lazar Road) tuition center was called Don Bosco tuition center. There were a lot of challenges that these children faced, like struggling to do their home-works and continuing their studies at home. In St. Alphonsus High School, the tuitions were mainly conducted for students from class 8th to 10th. Classes started in the first week of July. Each class had almost 30 children. They used to stay back to do their daily home-work that was given during class hours. The classes used to start at 4:30 pm and end by 6:30 pm. The students really benefitted from these classes.
Revisions were taken before each examination and the teachers made sure that the students were thorough in their studies. A new system was started where the class leader had to write down the daily home-work and get it signed by their respective evening class teacher. Through these classes the grades of the children gradually improved. We also received positive response from the parents. The Seeds Foundation identified teachers from St. Alphonsus’s English Medium Primary School and Tamil Medium High School. When it came to paying the salaries for the teachers who volunteered to conduct these special classes, Rev.Fr.Anthony Samy, the parish priest of Holy Ghost Church came forward to take care of the expenses of this project for a year. A Christmas program was conducted on the 21st of December in St.Alphonsus’s School Auditorium where all the three tuition centers came together to celebrate. More than a 100 children were gifted with new clothes. The Sagaya Madha Padipagham (SMP1) tuition center, which is being funded by Provincial of Bangalore Alphonsian Society supports around 21childeren in giving them extra coaching from Std 1 to VII. The classes commenced from the 1st of July 2019 from 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm.
Initially the teachers monitored the home-works of the children and later the students were given tasks such as to revise a module from the syllabus. Dictations, comprehension solving and other various activities were also conducted. A Personality program was conducted by Rev.Fr. Peter for 18 children in the month of July. Children’s day was celebrated on 14th November, 48 children participated in the program. The program began with a prayer and later the children had sessions on Child Rights, they also discussed about the National Leaders. A Cultural program was conducted in which prizes were distributed. The Christmas day celebration was conducted on the 19t h December, Rev.Fr. John Mathew gave a small speech and spoke about the significance of Christmas. Mrs. Glory, a member of Seeds was also present for the celebration.
SEEDS Foundation undertook a Christmas project called “Secret Santa” wherein more than 100 sponsors came forward to help the underprivileged of our tuition and St. Alphonsus High School in gifting them new cloths for Christmas. Due to the pandemic of the Corona virus all the tuitions classes were called off from March, once the government announcement was made. The last tuition classes were conducted on 13-3-2020. A warm word of gratitude is extended to Rev Fr. John Mathew, the Manager and Correspondent of St. Alphonsus High School and Rev Fr. James who helped in the growth of the tuition centers, without their support it would have been impossible. A heartfelt thanks is also extended to Rev Fr. Anthony Swamy, the parish priest of Holy Ghost Church and Rev. Fr. Edward, Provincial of Bangalore Alphonsian Society and Fr. Ivel, Vice Provisional of Mumbai Province, for taking care of the expenses of this humble project for the year 2019-20. We look forward for your continuous support in future too. The credit also goes to the members and staff of The SEEDS Foundation who have toiled hard to make this project a grand success.