Interning for an organisation as wondrous as the Behbud Association was a sensational opportunity I was honoured with as a sixteen year old. The few days that I spent at Behbud taught me a lot about the community that I live in.
On my first day at Behbud I was assigned the job to teach “English Speaking” to a group of ten children of ages ranging from Fourteen to Seventeen. I must admit that I was quite nervous. I knew that now it was my responsibility to teach them the correct way to speak, read and write English.
The students looked at me in awe as though they also wanted to speak as fluently as me, and I hoped I would be able to help them do so. Day by day the eagerness to learn kept increasing within these children as they grew more comfortable with us, the volunteers.
Not only this, but the drive to be successful seemed to be powered with passion within every single student. I noticed an immense increase in class participation, confidence and girls wanting to correct their mistakes, trying to do their best.
These girls have been extremely courteous, not only in the classroom but outside it too. Offering to wipe the board, accompanying me whilst I waited for my car to arrive and offering me food, showed how kind hearted these girls were.
I myself as a student have always wanted to keep away from studies and homework but the dedication I saw in these children, was bewildering. I can easily support this statement with an example; even though I gave them homework to write one sentence each for some particular words, a student of mine asked for my number because she wanted me to check her work in which she voluntarily made extra sentences for every word assigned. Nothing inspired me more than the hard work and dedication these students were willing to put in to improve their English skills.
Furthermore, I was lucky to have been given a chance to help out Indus Valley volunteers in helping the young Nine to Twelve year olds at Art. As I walked around the classroom I saw boys who would usually be seen running around their neighbourhood playing with each other paint with extreme passion, focus and drive.
They stared at their blank A-3 sheets thinking very hard and long to come up with something flawless and unique. They didn’t even try to talk to each other until they had drawn something presentable and something they were proud of on the sheets in front of them.
Every student here is filled with talent, if not in subjects like maths and science then arts or dramatics, which is also offered by Behbud Association.
Here they are also taught how to act and control their body language and expressions on stage. Many children are wonderful actors who are able to engage their audience, the teachers into the act they are presenting in the classroom which they treat as their stage.
Behbud has been serving as a stupendous institution for several years, bringing out the superlative potential from within these children and such institutes will soon serve to create a propitious future for our country.
On my first day at Behbud I was assigned the job to teach “English Speaking” to a group of ten children of ages ranging from Fourteen to Seventeen. I must admit that I was quite nervous. I knew that now it was my responsibility to teach them the correct way to speak, read and write English.
The students looked at me in awe as though they also wanted to speak as fluently as me, and I hoped I would be able to help them do so. Day by day the eagerness to learn kept increasing within these children as they grew more comfortable with us, the volunteers.
Not only this, but the drive to be successful seemed to be powered with passion within every single student. I noticed an immense increase in class participation, confidence and girls wanting to correct their mistakes, trying to do their best.
These girls have been extremely courteous, not only in the classroom but outside it too. Offering to wipe the board, accompanying me whilst I waited for my car to arrive and offering me food, showed how kind hearted these girls were.
I myself as a student have always wanted to keep away from studies and homework but the dedication I saw in these children, was bewildering. I can easily support this statement with an example; even though I gave them homework to write one sentence each for some particular words, a student of mine asked for my number because she wanted me to check her work in which she voluntarily made extra sentences for every word assigned. Nothing inspired me more than the hard work and dedication these students were willing to put in to improve their English skills.
Furthermore, I was lucky to have been given a chance to help out Indus Valley volunteers in helping the young Nine to Twelve year olds at Art. As I walked around the classroom I saw boys who would usually be seen running around their neighbourhood playing with each other paint with extreme passion, focus and drive.
They stared at their blank A-3 sheets thinking very hard and long to come up with something flawless and unique. They didn’t even try to talk to each other until they had drawn something presentable and something they were proud of on the sheets in front of them.
Every student here is filled with talent, if not in subjects like maths and science then arts or dramatics, which is also offered by Behbud Association.
Here they are also taught how to act and control their body language and expressions on stage. Many children are wonderful actors who are able to engage their audience, the teachers into the act they are presenting in the classroom which they treat as their stage.
Behbud has been serving as a stupendous institution for several years, bringing out the superlative potential from within these children and such institutes will soon serve to create a propitious future for our country.
