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Petrol pump is very commonly used space…we rarely stop to see what it is all about, This time we stopped at our neighborhood petrol pump during outdoor visit to understand working of petrol pump. We discovered that we have right to ask for ‘purity check’ and each petrol pump display that. After knowing how billing…

We use Granite in our homes, but where do they come from? Are they natural (how can they be without any chemicals?), or they are processed ? Well, we went in search to find out about them and also to know what all is happening in our neighborhood. Just few kilometers from the campus we…

Richard, from Germany, living in Goa did not fail to inspire us with his yoga session to bring more stretches in our routine. He is a tree climber and a language teacher. Hmmmmmmm to be tree climber he needs fitness and he needs food which allows him to be active. A strong believer of ‘child…

Food and me……Food is so much part of our life, ever wondered what are our food values, what are our family food beliefs. We explored food through different families in Aarohi TV channel…. Each participant shared their family food values. At Aarohi We began with a question ” can a campus teach?” And food and…

Sports is very integral part of our life at Aarohi – each week one child with a guide brings different kinds of sports.Some of the guidelines for our community sports Active sports (includes running, movement, ball etc) Bring variety (including athletic sports) Clarify rules in advance (we twist rules of the each game to suit…

Yash, a Khoji from Swaraj joined us for his mentor ship. The focus of his mentor ship was learning and experimenting with how to cook a variety of foods that appeal to and bring joy to children. So truly he worked on his goal – each day a different dish with different flavour, cooked with…

What you do when it is windy and cloudy at campus? Make and fly your own kite. Why to wait for an occasion – we create our own occasion as we live. There was no kite paper, he first tried with chart paper, then plain paper, then magazine paper and then calendar paper. Some flew,…

Campus training every alternate week allow us to connect with our safety needs to live. While we worship peace, we also work on equipping ourselves face any unwanted situation. While we train ourselves in avoiding conflicts, we also train ourselves to respond back in unsafe situations. Hernan introduced us to Kick boxing. Initially some of…

Many of our laptops are donated and loosing their health with time and usage. Needs expressed “we need more laptops, all these are not working appropriately”. Infact many of the kids have invested in their own devices and prefer to use their own gadgets because the use of laptop is painful for them. We were…

Quiz….. It’s not about winning or competition. We were introduced to quiz with a different perspectives by Sangitha last week. The session on quiz began with what all quiz can do – Skill development- Able to make connection, learn intelligent guessing, thinking on feet, work in team, discuss and have deeper understating, collaborate well under…

How does one gets introduced to various topics? The occasion of special week helping us to know that there is something like ‘human rights’ exist, or chemicals can be explored for learning and poetry can be fun and also history can be worth reading or may be animals can be learnt in depth. Special week…

Helpmate is the space to take help of community to express/solve issues which are disturbing to anyone. While kids solve their problemns in their own ways, we also intrdocue them to variouys tools -NVC(non violent communictaion), circle time and Art Expressions are some of the tools we have been using. All these tools empower one…

Revolution, gold, independence, dialectic, conflicts for land, surrounded by mountains, discovery of land, development, religion, colony, ports, changing landscape, losing soul of the place, paradise, big mountains, faith, beaches, dessert, hunger, salt dune, snow, river and its dynamics, coffee exporter, jungle, flora and fauna, country side, wonders of nature like seven color river, before the…

Evening colors of Aarohi – music, masti and sunset.

Month of Ramadan brings fasting season at Aarohi, Some kids did for religious reasons, while some did for experiencing. It began with ‘i too want to do Fasting’. Soon it came as experience of temptations, control, understanding hunger and thirst and of course self. Some of us also shared various fasting rituals in our families.…

This is how we grow – self reflection learning to self discovery. Each week we reflect in many different ways. Often the doubts are raised ‘kids will rate 10 only’. But we have seen days after days that there is sincerity and truthfulness…they may not assess the way we look at them, they assess the…

Death of Bella was shocking for us. We felt that her absence left Pepper left alone. We have limited understanding of animals, we can only guess based on our experience. We took him to CUPA to find another partner for Pepper. Pepper (our dog) did not showed any need of making friends with anyone there.…

As the Aarohi community growing, we felt the need of more toilets. The question was what way?After connecting, debating, researching, surveying we zeroed down to UDD or dry composting toilet. (if you are wondering what it is – pl come over and try it 🙂 So we decided to explore some new materials / methods…

Anyone who visits Aarohi, brings learning opportunities for us in many different forms. Nayana, a homeschooler visited for a day with her two kids. She offered a session on making toys with simple thing available around us. Ramya joined with her son and mother. They repaired one mat using cloth patching, we learnt that anything…

Every occasions to celebrate reminds us of joy in our life. Every b’day allow us to practice compassion. This b’day celebration was different – Two kids together cerebrating their b’day, One of them self announced, took part in making own cake and celebrated together with the community.

Think of a global problem and wonder where and how do you express for any action to be taken? Think of any problem at nation level and wonder where and how do you express for any action to be taken? Think of anyneighborhoodproblem and wonder where and how do you express for any action to…

Love comes to Aarohi in many forms….thank you Malaika for this gesture. We loved this painting for its vibrancy.

Darkness has many hidden stories….many comes from inside us. Night brings darkness and darkness brings fear in some and fear creates many stories inside us. Some new, some old…wanted to share their hidden dark stories. We used drawing as a medium to explore those stories. Just started drawing what we see in dark…..moved on how…

Kids at Aarohi use internet widely as their learning source. One child was browsing how to make cake and reached ‘how to kiss’. Another child, who was sitting next, got hysterical ‘how can you watch such videos……….auntyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, Oh my god, how can you do that, close it immediately, its bad, its………….The other child gathered his…

Harnan from Columbia, joined Aarohi as a volunteer for 10 days. A young adult who is sure he did not want to do what he did till now, travelling to different places to know what he wants to do. At Aarohi he offered to teach Spanish, some enthusiastic souls loved his classes and wanted to…

its a different fun in playing in the ground made by self – story of making of our play ground. We needed a playground to play football, some kids got together, called for JCB, got the clearance of one the patch, dimensions were taken, costing was done and repeated follow up with JCB uncle taught…

We see roses, some of us like smell, some of us also grow in our home gardens. Visited a rose garden farm to enjoy seeing them grow, to know what goes in growing at a larger scale, work in the farm, meet the farmers, understand their lifestyle and thoughts. Visit to Basavaraju’s farm just opposite…

Rang Bazar…Some of us who are interested in art, got together to learn and work more on art. We began with the question ‘how do we want this course to be? We had few choices – Conducted, or Facilitated or Organic or Online…..We choose Organic. Each one took the responsibility to bring one new technique…

Active me at Aarohi: after our morning exercise routine and glass of milk and some biscuits we start active-me time: Play outdoor, play in sports field, work in garden, climb trees, do bird watching or just admire the beauty of nature. Some of us adults get indulged into gardening, kids would play. Last week some…

Inspiration visits Aarohi in many different forms. Last week Murali, home schooler, home maker and a coconut shell craftsman joined us to experience Aarohi. Different age of people joined him in exploring making articles from coconut shell … from 5 to 35 yrs … we didn’t find any difference in skills, perseverance, enthusiasm or commitment.…