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Bamboo Cutting Baboo Treatment

Manthan is the space for the Aarohi community to come together and churn our thoughts. Each time it is different. This time we began with pondering over ‘manthan’. “What is Manthan for you?” – Union, bonding, togetherness, chatting, understanding and clarity. “What we want to do in this Manthan?” – Portfolio, games, and activities for…

Gifting is beautiful! At Aarohi, we began with the need of gifting for our volunteers. Gift factory was born to cater to the needs. We started exploring handmade gifts, gifts which can be given to travelers (most of our volunteers are the traveler with tight spaces). The need of giving created space for us to…

As part of our health and hygiene, we explored ‘dental health’. Interviews were taken to simulate about this topic with few questions – How much time do you spend in brushing? Why do you brush When do you brush? Do you consciously brush each teeth? Do you brush in the night? Why? Why Not? Do…

Summer brings dry season at the campus and this also increases the possibility of forest fire around us. One of the tools we use for our safety is we make fire line. This also allows some of us to get trained in handling forest fire. Since the making of fire line is planned it allows…

Parent-child-mentor meeting is to add value to our ecosystem. For the benefit of the child, open and honest communication among facilitator, child, and parent is needed. Parent, children, and facilitator together review learning, challenges, expectations etc. At Aarohi we believe we all are learner and child can get immense benefit by knowing us and knowing…

Active WE at Aarohi bring us together and we experience the power of WE…making flooring for our courtyard to make usable flooring space or to collect plastic or clean tamarind of our yearly supply or repair our sports ground or re-organize our library space.

Do you wonder what does it means “Do what I want – I decide – I do?” Does freedom to choose means no responsibility of commitment? Life at Aarohi involves committing to yourself as well to the community. Contributing on a daily basis to all aspects of life like the campus, kitchen and resource care,…

One of the children who is taking his passion for chess at the deeper level, He shared,“Chess is a game if you plan to start you cannot come back and you have to really work hard and dedication. It’s not as easy but you do when you want to achieve. I have my own frustration…

Observe any object and see the lines, curves, shapes, size, colur, texture.Wonder why the pens are of this size, why nibs have those curves or why scales are if 6″ or 12″? Wonder why ink was invented or staplers were made? What are these simple machine?Imagine you are the inventor of the object you are…

This began with one thought “design your own outstation trip”. There was excitement to go for the outstation trip of their own interests. Bird Watching to B R Hills – One child who loves birds decided t o go for dedicated bird watching trip. The need was not enough, now this needed work. The search…

When do I know I have a concern? How do I deal with it? How do I express? What stops me from raising my voice? We prvoked this in Thought club. We began with pondering What is a concern? Bothering my emotions and constraining my working or life Not liking something Some actions are bothering…

All sessions at Aarohi are designed to add value in learning. The users add value by sharing their feedback. Alternate Fridays session feedback helps in adding value. And also bring clarity for all. Thanks to some of the tools like World cafe, Sociocracy and NVC we create listening in a safe environment. We are growing…

I have been doing art for many years now. I got this urge to learn from a teacher. I asked a child ‘if you know any online art course, let me know’. Another child with a spark in her eyes answered ‘I know a best online course’.With hope in my eyes, I was eager to…

Sevice tax in Aarohi Ki Dukaan (AKD) is just a medium to experience maths close to us…Buy a burger, add10% service tax, and get 20% discount for carrot dip and vegetables are free with the offer. Buy a meal for Rs 30 and for every Rs 100 pay Rs 10 tax. Buy cookies and get…

There is mathematics in each leaf I collect, There is science in each drum beat I play, There is music in each word I read, There is geography in each time it rains, There is history in each time I watch a video, There is learning all around us. We often do not talk maths,…

One of the thing we workship is ‘DOING’ at Aarohi – we call it TESTING. We engage ourselves in doing something at the campus which leads to testing by usages. Each child is engaged in making something at the campus. The doing can be a big projcet making of Dome of 30feet diameter or tipity…

Determination has no age limits Two 5 years old determined to make a tent for themselves. Two 45 years old determined to make Borewell water motor working In their own way creating a determined learning environment at Aarohi. Imaginea learning community for children (and adults) where there is no curriculum – because we believe that…

NonViolent Communication is about understanding feelings, knowing needs and making a request. Two days with Reena were satisfying and reflecting to understand self and needs. A session with kids – We used videos as tools to identify needs, feelings and solving problems. Self-Empathy dance floor gave us another perspective in problem-solving. The self-empathy floor gave…

JOY of doing in multiple ways! The joy of doing in many different ways using multiple intelligence. First explored how different ways we can use HANDS…make shapes, create objects, feel, see the logic, observe lines, relate with nature and so on. Activity – peeling Averkai How to bring mathematical joy while peeling? Estimate, predict, guess…

Can a campus teach? Can living be learning?Yes, We believe a campus can be the very lap of learning. if it offers constraints to children which make them think, do, learn, and live differently. A campus that teaches children to be self-sufficient by itself being self-sufficient: say, use water only from land and recycle all…

A torch is an essential tool at the campus. Many of us buy them, use them and throw when not working. We also have many nonworking torches. This brought a need to understand torch. A session was announced to understand torch. Some of the questions What is torch? What is light? What is the source…

We dream we encourage kids to dream. With a paper collage, we gave visual form to our dreams. We selected pictures which we connected with and made our dream and vision collage. Sometimes we had a dream and we were searching for that specific image, sometimes we saw the image and dreams were triggered. Overall…

It’s nice to know ‘scenes behind ‘. The trip to a village and to the milk collection point gave us glimpses of the life of a cow, calf, and milk. Drama at the end brought various emotions and expressions.

Sandesh – A community that works with, and for, the members of our society who have intellectual disabilities. Each individual is different and unique and we respect this. Members who have intellectual disabilities need more protection and care in every way. They are not aware of their rights as the citizen of this country so…

Cradle to Cradle workshop with Susanne -She brought few bags full of ‘waste’ for us to explore how product designing can make a difference the way we produce waste.We segregated products based on the life span….a packaging box of the bulb has a life of less than an hour, while the life of steel glass…

How many of us mean when we say NO? How many of us clearly communicate ‘No means No’. Does it matter when NO comes from our inner voice? We worked on ‘yes and no’ through drama. A concept introduced to us by Parul from Shaishav. Shaishav, is a volunteer organization committed to the rights of…

AKD – Aarohi ki DUkaan was introduced to fulfill the needs to buy. And when buying comes, maths comes. And when maths comes, we get the opportunity to bring maths in different forms. Intrdrocuded the concepts of area, patterns, and computations in various forms. For an hour we were involved in calculating in various forms…

My introduction to glass was in my chemistry class – I learned what is glass (silica), how it is made (high temperature melting in a kiln). I used glass in my day to life (cutlery, building, vehicles etc). But when it came to cutting the glass during one of the projects at Aarohi, I operated…