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School Can Come To Students
Distance Education in Punjab Has Been Ineffective Punjab has been struggling at many ends since March 2020 due to COVID-19. Education has...
Uplifting Punjab
Apr 7, 20212 min read
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Their eagerness, Our Motivation
As the melting hot days of Punjab’s summer make stepping out more difficult, the curiosity and perseverance of students continue to...
Jasleen Kaur
Jul 18, 20183 min read
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Healing Through Empathy
Sometimes, things just fall into place. As we returned from our first day at the school, we all decided to go see the new Bollywood film,...
Harveen Kaur Sekhon
Jul 12, 20182 min read
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Learn, Adapt and Repeat
After months of weekly meetings and innumerable hours of researching and planning, Harveen and I finally arrived in Punjab to execute a...
Jasleen Kaur
Jul 8, 20182 min read
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Career, Collaboration, and Comprehension
Over the past couple of days, I’ve had the opportunity to conduct Career Center interviews on behalf of TeamUP at Guru Harkrishan School,...
Paramveer Chohan
Jun 6, 20181 min read
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TeamUP Day 3: Decriminalizing and Destigmatizing Addiction
Today we continued our work at Guru Harkrishan School. We had the chance to explore the village Chone as well as work with the students...
Harkiren Everest, Pahulmeet Singh
Apr 6, 20181 min read
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Kickstarting English Bootcamp and Health workshops
Today we kickstarted our workshops at Guru Harkrishan School with the 6-10th graders. We split up into 2 teams. One team consisted of...
Harkiren Everest
Apr 6, 20181 min read
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Day 1: Prevalence of Caste
We arrived at Guru Harkrishan School Nangal-Ghuman early Monday morning and were warmly welcomed by the students who greeted us with...
Harkiren Everest
Apr 6, 20181 min read
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Equity Based Instruction in Punjab
Every classroom has students from different backgrounds. Abundance of research shows that family size, family income, and other...
TeamUP
Apr 6, 20183 min read
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Day 10: TeamUP in Punjab Summer 2017
Day 10 was workshop day. As per students demands, we held a “Female Empowerment “workshop and for the boys we held an “Art of Being a...
Uplifting Punjab
Apr 6, 20182 min read
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Day 11: TeamUP in Punjab Summer 2017
Day 11 marked our final day with the students at Guru Harkrishan School. We were all excited to get to work with students again, but at...
Uplifting Punjab
Apr 6, 20183 min read
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Day 7: TeamUP in Punjab Summer 2017
Saturday morning started off with a different level of excitement. It was the last day of the week, and we were getting ready to end our...
Uplifting Punjab
Apr 6, 20181 min read
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Day 6: TeamUP in Punjab Summer 2017
Day 6 began with a flutter of excitement. After a quick breakfast and with notebooks and pens in hand, we packed into the SUV and made...
Uplifting Punjab
Apr 6, 20181 min read
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Day 5: TeamUP in Punjab Summer 2017
After a long Day 4, we all decided to sleep in and recover. I spent the day transcribing all the interviews we had conducted at Ekam...
Uplifting Punjab
Apr 6, 20181 min read
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Day 4: TeamUP in Punjab Summer 2017
We woke up at sunrise with nitnem blaring from the local Gurdwara, . After our morning tea, we made a short walk to two local government...
Uplifting Punjab
Apr 6, 20183 min read
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Day 2: TeamUP in Punjab Summer 2017
Day 2 was scheduled to start off with a discussion with a senior director and doctor at a government hospital. Although our meeting got...
Uplifting Punjab
Apr 6, 20181 min read
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