SEVAI Mettumarudur Primary School comes as a boon to village pupils, the villagers are socially knit together –opined ICHEC-2011 Sevai Amoor team.

ICHEC -2011,Amoor Students play with SEVAI Marudur School pupils

ICHEC-2011, Sevai-Amoor team after the school construction had been completed, Vruyns Dorian, Garcia Marian Laura, Helfgott Philippe, Stoquart Celine, Warden Emily, De Canniere Fanny, Gerkbard Dan, Indejeu Madeleine and Wallemacq Richardo of SEVAI Amoor also visited the Village School run by SEVAI in Mettumarudur for300 children upto the group of 3-10. “It is fascinating to see how students enjoy their classroom environment by learning through activities. Activity-based learning and activity learning method in schools have virtually eliminated black board teaching and fear of exams, besides bringing teachers and students closer” said Mrs.Kaliammal, the Head Mistress of the SEVAI School in Mettu Marudur. India is a land where family bonding is quite strong and a child begins his/her early years of education perpetually from home but this trend is slowly changing and rural schools are gaining popularity. Mettu Marudur School is run by a trained professional because if a good Primary school has a positive impact on a child as the teachers teaching have all taken proper training in childcare. Other than the normal activities, SEVAI conducts the moral education classes based on student’s discipline, helping nature, interactions and cleanliness. T

Hapiness:ICHEC student and Mettumarudur children

The ICHEC-2011 Team Amoor visited the families of the school children and had tea in the local tea shop. The villagers and school children gave a warm reception the Belgium ICHEC-2011 team. On returning back to Arumbuhalnagar where they reside, further team leader and the members said that they enjoyed the field visits as they had seen the real Indian village and its way of life. The team members added “Mettumarudur villages have a very beautiful and attractive lifestyle. The Villages are peaceful, calm, quite and full of greenery where one can breathe fresh air. The beauties of villages are described by the way villagers happily live in the small huts, made by mud with an open area with a vegetable garden at the backyard. The villagers are socially knit together, every evening chatting and talking. Most villagers are farmers who work in nearby fields. Mettumarudur village is a collection of mud-and-straw dwellings. These homes are generally small, consisting of one or two rooms with mud floors. . Mettumarudur people cook foods on a chula, a clay oven that burns firewood. People sit and sleep on cots of woven string, which are dragged outside on warm days. Many people    also sleep outside.Mettumarudur Indian village house are Eco- friendly in nature, made by bamboos and mud. The houses are mostly built of bamboo with thatched roofs. Wall and floor of the houses are by painted by a mixture of dirt, grass, and cow shit. Women work planting the rice paddy, while the men work pulling bullock carts, tilling new soil etc.They don’t dream for big house,vehicle,money etc, whatever they got that is enough to live their life happily”.-Govin