Through careful observation of students hailing from rural communities, we found that in order to help them overcome their fear we will need to make the English language as accessible to them as possible by relating it to activities that they like to engage in, like watching movies, etc

TQI has taken its flagship program, Express to form a bridge for the students to overcome their communication barrier. By adapting innovative methods we are helping the students to overcome stage fear and express their thoughts openly.

The idea of Express program is to be open to all sorts of people irrespective of whether they are in school, college or working. Initially the program was conducted to help the students at colleges. As time progressed, the program has spread its wings across corporate, schools and colleges throughout the country.

Problem – This pandemic has brought formal learning for most school students to an abrupt stop, especially for those in rural areas and orphanages. They cannot afford the privilege of attending online classes.

Solution – We have therefore come up with an action plan of facilitating phone mentoring to students of class 5-10 to engage them regularly in an effective learning process and provide moral support to them during these challenging times. We will be allocating one mentor to each mentee, and they will interact for half an hour every day for 30 days. The team has put together a module and tracking mechanism in place for impactful interaction—module focus: 5 English words, 1 Moral story discussion, 1 Activity.

Results – 600+ government school students across TamilNadu and Karnataka are being mentored one on one by college students from 120+ colleges.

Mentors sharing their feedback:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0EVL0Lq0tE&t=116s   

TQIExpress Phone Mentoring for Rural College Students:

Problem – Stage fear and fear of communicating in English is still a prevalent problem for many youth in today’s day and age.

Solution – The Express program’s main motive is to facilitate students to overcome such fears. During this pandemic, we have upgraded this into a phone mentoring module designed to make college students overcome their fear over English and improve their communication skills by interacting with working professionals daily for half an hour spread across 15 days. We will be allocating one mentor to one mentee.

Results – 250+ college students are being mentored one on one by working professionals from 30+ companies across 6+ countries.

Mentors sharing their feedback: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM37eXha94A

TQI has been partnering with Ullas Trust ( Social Initiative of Intellect) since 2014 across various districts for their summit classes. Every year our volunteers are working on inspiring the rural students from class 9th to 12th to develop a “Can do” spirit. The personality development classes are conducted based on specially crafted lesson plans that encompass communication skills, confidence-building, memory skills, active teamwork, public speaking, and leadership skills. The summit programs are designed in a cycle of four years from class IX-XII, termed level I-IV. Each Level is subdivided into 5 sessions.  It has been TQI’s endeavor to guide the school’s students for the long term. 

This festival is celebrated in the 1st week of October every year since 2014. The fundamental reason for which TQI celebrates DaanUtsav is for all our team members to go back to their roots in their villages and connect with their family and friends to conduct any social activity.The festival is approached in a highly focused manner with a proper organization structure yet retaining the core “one-family values” of TQI. Events range from simple tree plantation to massive clean up to huge talent appreciation and educational workshops. The most unique feature of the way we celebrate it is that many of volunteers’ family are actively involved in celebrating the festival with us. 

The journey of TQI celebrating Daan-Utsav started in 2014 when we reached around 8 districts, 21 districts in 2015. In 2016, we were happy to celebrate in 20 districts in 2 states and by 2017, we celebrated in 30 districts in 4 states including Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata and Mysuru.

STQI has partnered with the CSR initiative of KPIT Technologies, Bangalore to take their flagship program Chhote Scientists to government schools. 

The goal of Chhote Scientists program is to bring science from fancy world to reality. It is achieved by making the kids do hands-on science experiments to observe and understand the science around them. The experiments are made out of materials that are found and used in day to day life, such as plastic cups, straws, bottles, glasses etc., which gives rebirth to used materials in the name of recycling.

The program facilitates the students of class 7, 8 and 9 and provides them an opportunity to understand science through common sense. It helps them to take theories in their minds with logical reasoning than taking them as mere faith. By constantly questioning their understanding of a concept, TQI help them in strengthening their depth in the concept and enhancing their thinking capability.

Currently TQI is implementing Chhote scientists at schools in and around Mysuru through our volunteers from different neighborhood colleges.

TQI Kanaa – “Interact with Stars” –  Bringing in role models who are working in STEAM(Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts,and Maths) field to interact with youth, and ignite young minds with their journey ! 

We started One Year One Cause to give adequate attention to one social cause each year. The core aim is to sensitize people about a specific cause by conducting discussions and events for a whole year. Our team conducts awareness programs about each year’s cause in colleges, schools, and local communities.

2017: Water Conservation, 2018: Thank our Heroes Farmers, 2019: No Food Waste
2020: Gardening

College and school students from tier 2 & 3 cities, villages face a severe lack of exposure to resources that enable them to gain marketable skills. Therefore, we partner with corporates where employees assist us as part of their CSR skill-based volunteering by mentoring students in Career Guidance, MS Office tools, Job Guidance, Time Management, Planning Workshops, and other areas that can benefit these students’ careers

                                                                                         India is home to more than 19,500 mother tongues

Source: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/variety/india-is-home-to-more-than-19500-mother-tongues/article24305725.ece

India, a country of many languages, has a rich and varied history. The current generation doesn’t get to dwell on the richness of their mother tongue. So, TQI came up with a plan to set youth linguistic circles, where students meet regularly, discuss literature, and release magazines with creative writings of the team in those languages.

Tamil – “Zhagaram” – https://talentquestforindiablog.wordpress.com/zhagaram/  – Started in Aug 2020

Kannada – “Uthsaha” – Plan to launch in 2021  

The government conducts NMMS and NTSE exams for students in the 8^th and 10^th standards, respectively. Tamilnadu government conducts trust exam for 9^th std. Government school students who clear this get a stipend that will motivate them to study and ensure money doesn’t become a barrier to studying. These exams give a launchpad for students to attend other competitive exams with ease in their later stage of life.

We started training for these exams in 2020. We trained 150+ govt school students online in 2021, which even paved the way for the improvement of admission in a village govt school. We plan to continue this with more passion and enthusiasm, partnering with other organizations

Calendar events are special occasions that engages our different stakeholders like our volunteers, their families and our beneficiaries, in social awareness through community celebration as a onetime intervention.
Events include but not restricted to: Teachers day, Environment Week, National Farmers day, Abdul Kalam Birthday, May Day, Women’s Day, Sports Day were celebrated across districts in school, colleges and communities. We also provide volunteer support to the local NGOs to carry out their activities.

A campaign motivating people to go back to their alma mater (School), thanking their teachers and facilitating our Express program and distributing “Career Chart” for the 10th and 12th Std Students.

This workshop is designed to inspire college students to take up responsibilities towards our nation’s challenges and to orient their mind-set towards an entrepreneurial career. The workshop is facilitated across 15 colleges, reaching 1000+ students now.