The Marsal Project

Annual Report of Marsal Sadan Project
(2016-2017)

Dear loving Sponsors,
Greetings and Prayerful wishes from Marsal Sadan!
Indeed we are so much obliged to you for the invariable support and encouragement that you have rendered during the academic year of 2016-17 for the holistic growth of our hostel tribal children. We are very thrilled to write down about the performance of St. Claret Hostel, Sahanagar.

Introduction:
Every blessings of the Lord is a vivid sign that God still loves us. But the reciprocity of this love is to be seen in each of us by loving the gift of God the children. Unlike other group, santhals are very strong in physically as well as emotionally. Unfortunately, they are paralyzed by their poor economical condition and the existing social stigma. As a result, they are not able to come up in the lives and considered to be the most neglected group in the society. They try their best to educate their children but fail in all ways due to their economic conditions. Hence to provide a greater chance for the growth of this section of people St. Claret Hotel, Sahanagar was started.

The unique purpose of the hostel is to bring social change in the Santhal tribal through qualitative English Education and holistic formation. Thus hostel provides the Santhal Children not only proper education but motivate them in all ways possible. There are two hostels set in the campus. It is functioned under the guidance of Fr.Anjan Kumar Nayak and Fr. Joseph Selvaraj the superior of the mission and the hostel in charge. We have also four other priests who render their service in various forms.

The List of the Staff in the Hostels:

Wardens (Boys):
Mr. Micheal Murmu and Mr. Stephan Hansda (Full Time)
Mr. Dasu Soren and Mr. Boidhyanath Hembrom (Part Time)

Wardens (Girls): Sr. Sowrnalata, Ms. Debi, Ms. Leoni

Teaching Staff (Boys):
Mr. Alphonse, Mr. Glenn and Mr. Rajesh

Teaching Staff (Girls):
Ms. Edal, Mr. Namlen, Sr. Molina, and Sr. Lucy

For the smooth running of the hostel we have the non-teaching staff that assist our students namely are Anando, Anita and Lalmuni Murmu.

In the girls hostel the non-teaching staffs are Mungli, Kajol and Sumita Soren. And Mr. Gogarnath serves as the watchman in the Girls hostel.


Daily Activities of the Hostel:

Prayer and Meditation:
To create God’s love and faith in God among the students, our students are given the opportunity of having daily prayer and meditation. The students by themselves prepare and conduct the prayers with the assistance of the wardens. They are also happy to participate in the daily meditation and the value based sharing. These means really help the students to be highly motivated and to grow in deep faith.

Study time:
The students are given adequate time to study in the afternoon as well as evening times. They are very well monitored by the wardens and the teaching staff of the Hostels. If necessary the teachers also teach the students and clarify the doubts of the students. Adding to this, wreaker students are given special care and time to make them excel in their studies.

Games and other Recreations:
There is a time set for all the students of the hostel to play and to do some exercises to keep their physic healthy. Adding to this, they are given opportunity to participate in the inter hostel and interschool sports. They also have the time to watch the news and they try to update themselves. Beside, periodically, motivational and psychological movies are screened. Yoga is yet another important exercise given for the students to increase their concentration and disciplined life. Both boys and girls are given karate class to make them fit to prevent themselves from dangers situation.

Special Activities:

Tuition:
In order to concentrate on the weaker students, special tuition classes are being arranged for the students. During this academic year there were many special classes arranged in their subject wise.

Once in a week, the students who are weak in mathematics were helped by the special tuition being taken by Miss. Edal, the Mathematics teacher of St. Claret School, Sahanagar and especially for the 10th students; on January 22-24, 2017 mathematics class was taken by Mr. Ranjith, the mathematics teacher of East West Model School, Burdwan. Physics and chemistry classes were taken by Mr. Prodeep and on Computer science Ms. Arpita. Fr. Johnson had taken classes on English Literature and Language for our students on every Sundays. It really helped the weak students to know better, to clarify their doubts very well and to score good marks in the exams.

Grammar and writing skill Classes:
In order to help the children to learn the language thoroughly with the rudiments, we have arranged special grammar and writing skill classes for our inmates on 22nd to 28th of April, 2017. It was conducted by Fr. Joseph Selvaraj and Edal, who helped our students to embellish their language in writing. As the conclusion of the programme, essay and poem writing competitions were organized and best essay and poem were awarded with prizes.

Drawing Classes:
In every human person there are lot of talents latent buried within. So in order to find out the buried talents within our children we have organized a drawing Class for our children on 18th to 24thJune, 2015. Mr. Suman Patra assisted our children to bring out the good artists within them. After the classes on drawing, we also arranged for a competition and the students with much interest and enthusiasm participated in huge numbers and won many prizes too.

Bridge Course:
This sort of Bridge course is arranged for the students in the beginning of the academic year to teach the basics of the subjects. This year it was arranged on April 11-21, 2017. This kind of courses was handled by the Fathers, Wardens and the teaching staff of the hostel. The children were able to recapitalise what they had studied in the previous academic year and to help them to be in connection with the present chapters of the year.

Literary meetings:
This is yet another opportunity for our students to exhibit their talents. Literally also to make the children efficient the hostel provides them the opportunity to discuss on different topics and come forward with their talent show. It extends the possibility to exhibit their talents in the field of oratory, dance, singing and acting. Every once a week, this meeting is organised by the students and they exhibit their talents in a colourful way.

Book Fare and Science Exhibition:
The students of our hostel were taken to Memari town where the book fare and the science exhibition were arranged on January 15th, 20117. The Students were accompanied by Fr. Primose, Fr. Joseph Selvaraj and Sr. Rose Mandi with the wardens. Our students also performed some cultural programmes on the same day. This gave them the opportunity to know about the different authors of the books in both English and Bengali languages.

Science excursion:
Our hostel children with the collaboration of the Claret school children and teachers conducted a grand science excursion on 25th October 2017 for one day in Holy Cross School Kalna. Fr. Peter Johnson accompanied the students for the excursion. It was a great opportunity for the children to see the scientific things, and the functions of the planets.

Sports day:
The students are given the opportunity to play every day and to remain healthy. The students play Football, Volley ball, and Basketball. In order to encourage them in their sportsmanship on 4st February, 2017 we conducted sports day for the children. The purpose of this day is to encourage the students to grow physically and mentally and in the sportsmanship. The students were divided into four groups and conducted volley ball, basket Ball, throw ball and football in groups. We also conducted certain individual sport events such as running, long jump, high jump, sack race and so on. And the winner of the group was awarded with prizes and trophies.

Christmas Celebration:
We celebrated the anticipated Christmas celebration on 21stDecember, 2016 before the students go for their Christmas holidays. There were lot of cultural programmes which enlightened all of the audience who were gathered. The Christmas gifts were given to the students and they received them with much happiness. It was distributed by Fr. John Soren, the superior of the house, Fr. Peter Johnson, the Principal and Fr. Joseph and Fr. Basanio. At last, Fr. John Soren, gave a wonderful Christmas message. He said that Jesus is coming to each one of us and let us receive in strong faith.

Local festival celebration (Sankranthi):
Our hostel children celebrated the local festival of Sankranti (Harvest festival) on 14thJanuary 2017; the meaning of this festival was showing gratitude towards God for the good crop. On that day we used to prepare the food with new crop and share with all the hostel children as a sign of sharing each one’s happiness and joy.

ECO day:
To make our students aware of environmental crisis, this year we celebrated ECO day on 5th November 2017.as the part of celebration we had input on environmental crisis by Fr. Arul, the parish priest of Kalna after which each students were given tree sapling to plant it. Every one participated joyfully in this celebration.

Motivational and psychological course
Students are paralyzed by unnecessary fear, shy and stress. To remove these obstacles, our students were given motivational and psychological classes during the holidays. It was organized1-3 December 2017 by Fr. Joseph Selvaraj. The presentation was mainly on over coming fear, shyness and low self esteem.co-operation and participation of students was good. Few motivation videos clips were screened and students enjoyed and learnt lot from the videos clips.

Parents Meeting:
In our hostel, every week parents are allowed to meet their children. Unlike other Sunday, on 12th November, we gathered all the parents and discussed couple of things. Firstly, Fr. Anjan Kumar Nayak presented on the role of parents and Frs. John Soren, and Peter Johnson were present and they talked with the parents on the education of their children and they also emphasised the importance of their collaboration in the growth of their children by not allowing them to take more holidays. It was stressed that the students need to be present on time for the meals and they need to keep the hostel clean and tidy.

Hostel day Celebration:
It was indeed a great celebration which was started with different competitions for the students. There were series of competitions namely outdoor games football, kho kho, basketball, music chair, biscuit biting and literary competitions such as solo song, group song, skit, mono act, drawing, elocution, memory test etc. The students indeed participated in all the games and literary competitions with great enthusiasm and competitive spirit to win the prize.

At the end we had a great hostel celebration which was held on Apirl 8th with a lot of cultural programmes. Rev. Fr. Moulin, the assistant principal of St. Xavier college, Burdwan was invited to chair the day. In his address he appreciated the students for their exhibition of the talents and asked the children to have faith in once own and work hard excel in studies and to promote the values in the society. He also encouraged the students to make use all the opportunities given to them in the hostel and school, followed by that he distributed the prizes to the winners. Thus the function came to an end with the festive meal.



Hostel Time Table

The Daily Time Table of the Hostel