Project C3G

“We need to do something for these students ”…

“I’m planning to do something useful for the Indian students in my school,” that was quoted by SMK Sri Andalas Tamil society teacher during my visit to her school last month. During my visit there, I heard the teacher saying the same thing to me few a times. Then I introduced C3G workshop to the teacher. She was very happy when I explained her about the activities in C3G workshop. “When can EWRF run the workshop in my school?” quickly the teacher asked me. I said anytime any dates in April. As we discussed, last week on the 7^th April, EWRF officials together with some volunteers went to SMK Sri Andalas to run the workshop for 100 students.

As usual, in the morning we went to the school with all our workshop materials. All the students were gathered in the school hall. We were greeted by the school Tamil Society teacher and some other Indian teachers.  Once we had set up all the booths and workshop charts, the C3G workshop session started with opening speech by the teacher. In her speech, she thanked EWRF for conducting the session in her school.

Then I started the workshop session with an introduction on the importance of career planning. There was a power point presentation on small topics such as career advancement, how to choose a proper career, skilled work opportunities and so on. After a 20 minutes presentation, then students were required to go through a simple career test which took about 15 minutes for them to complete. Before they moved to the next steps, the whole group was released for a 15 minutes for a short break that EWRF provided them tea and mee hoon. Then the session continued with the card activity.

There were enough volunteers to assist students during activities. All the students moved around the booths to complete their activities. Once they completed their card activities, they moved on to the second step where they needed to look for the jobs related to them by using the Holland codes.

There were 8 charts which consisted of multiple careers placed around the workshop hall. A facilitator was placed at each booth to guide the students. While waiting for their turn to look for proper jobs, some students approached me and raised up some questions regarding to their career path. “ My ambition is to become a lawyer, what are the colleges offers law courses?,” asked Jegan, one of the participants in the workshop. While answering his question another boy asked me on how to check whether the colleges offering law courses are recognized by LAN or not? So these are some of the frequent questions asked by students during our workshops.

At the end of workshop students were consulted by the EWRF counselors with regards to their career. When I had a chat with some students and school teachers after the session, I got to know that most of the students and teachers welcome this kind of workshop to be held in their schools. 

Written by G.Daniel