Outreach Programs

“I cannot do all the good that the world needs;

But the world needs all the good that I can do”

Outreach programs sensitize students towards their duties and responsibilities within the society and community. It also serves the citizenship training goal of education through the development of various skills like soft skills, leadership skills, and team-building skills. Most importantly, the aspiring teachers become aware, compassionate, and benevolent citizens who believe in the larger good of society.

Our outreach/extension activities truly help us move closer to our vision and mission of nurturing teacher professionals with positive attitudes and values, who excel in teaching, learning, and research and who can serve as catalysts to create a just and caring society.

At KKCE lately, the outreach/extension work has been integrated within the timetable and runs throughout the year. The key idea behind this practice was to provide opportunities to student-teachers to engage with our partner organizations for longer durations to make a real difference. For this, the extension department has collaborated with NGOs like Clean We Go and India Development Foundation (IDF). Some of the activities of the last few years include:

• Students worked with Care We Go to create awareness on Solid Waste Management at various BMC Schools.
• Beach cleaning activities at Juhu Beach to promote ‘Swach Bharat Abhiyaan’.
• Students conducted the Leadership Program of IDF for diverse groups of underprivileged learners.
• English Language Remedial Classes for students residing in slums – who are usually first-generation learners.
• ‘Cover of Compassion’ program during which students make quilts and cloth bags for leprosy inmates of Vimala Dermatology Centre.
• Green initiatives like-
  • Setting up of school gardens as a part of gardens for life project in collaboration with Center for Development Education
  • Planting of trees through Hariyali
  • Sapling preparation at a center in Manori
  • Each One Plant One programme

• Anti addiction program for school children in the suburbs of Mumbai – more than 15 schools participated in the program.
• Health check up program in collaboration with KEM for the students of school on campus – MJD High School.
• Career exhibition through our extension programs for neighbouring schools including MJD High School.
• English Language training program
  • Collaborated with CHIP an NGO to train socially disadvantage women training to be teachers for English language communication skills at our language lab.
  • Extended these services to the students of MJD High School.

• Helping the disadvantaged through collaboration with Spanish teachers to provide educational toys, learning material and sports items for Baljeevan a community centre working for street children.
• Conducted a Sanitation and Nutrition program at Baljeevan through student action research projects.
• Radio lessons for RadioMust Community radio, University of Mumbai in Mathematics Economics and Civics Education.
• Street plays on girl child issues, sanitation and health, importance of literacy in the local neighbourhoods.