This project report is a submission to GlobalGiving's
2017 Fail Forward Contest,
where organizations are asked to share a story of when they tried something new
that didn't go as planned and how they learned from it. Enjoy!
Dear donors, partners,
“A failure is not always a mistake. It
may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is
to stop trying.”- B.F. Skinner
This
special report gives us the best opportunity to share with you those failures
by learning which we become stronger and more stable. Some people fail in some
period of their work, though they come across with difficulty when
understanding the basics of their occurrence. That is an essential and
important circumstance which must be paid attention to and we should be able to
make right conclusions. In order to be able to overcome the obstacles, we need
to find new and effective ways which will lead to success.
If we
watch we'll see that the carrier of many successful people started with
failures. And without which it is impossible to imagine a progress in the work
that you are involved in. Our organization highlights the acceptance of the
failures, without which it is impossible to imagine an innovation or growth.
Sometimes
people are ashamed to confess their failures but by learning through failures
we create ways to success.
Our
organization investing all the abilities and experience implements special
courses and training modules in the rural regions and communities of Armenia
and encourages the children to obtain their missed knowledge and which is the most
important, encourages them not to get exploited. As the beneficiaries of this
project are mostly schoolchildren we use such methods those would help them to
understand the provided knowledge fast and easily. In this process, we use the
methods of non-formal education with interactive games. Though sometimes there
are activities or methods which fail. First of all, we do some studies,
inquires among our direct and indirect beneficiaries who give us a great
opportunity to explore and estimate their needs. Find new solutions by
listening to them. It's important to mention that we can estimate the
effectiveness of the project by comparing the assessment questionnaires before
and after the conduction of the project. Besides these all, we are now ready to
separate those points, which failed and how we are going to use this experience
to improve our work.
Point number one: We conduct special
educational training courses for the children, which give them to complete the
missed knowledge both in natural sciences and humanitarian subjects. Though
when the training courses are heavy and overloaded, they sometimes feel
tiredness and cannot continue their active participation. We offer the
following solution for this failure.
What is the offered solution?
Key N1: From this experience, we learned that
it's necessary to include refreshing and activating games in the training
course and make the project more effective and pleasant. After coming across
with this problem we also offer to give them home-tasks so they will choose an
interesting topic and share it with their friends, describe what they have read
and what they have studied. This is one of the best means to see them more
vigorous and motivated.
Point number two: Help the children to work freely in a team and
express their ideas and suggestions. As we provide basic education to children
marginalized from society
it is important for us to help them to overcome the psychological problems and
difficulties. We have come across with this important problem. There are
children which cannot work in a team, show enough patience to listen to the
speaker. We offer the following solution for this failure.
What is the offered solution?
Key N2: In order to be able to correct this
problem we are planning to include psychologists, special teachers who would
help them to overcome those difficulties and get integrated into the society
freely.
Point number three: Plan the training courses with our teaching
staff. At the beginning of the implementation of the project, we had the following
failure; the trainers could not provide the children the educational material
within the estimated time period as they did not possess the methodology of
non-formal education. We offer the following solution for this failure.
What's the offered solution?
Key N3: Organize training modules for our
regional representatives and the staff directly involved in the project. We
have conducted and still carry on conducting those trainings in our
organization during which they have an opportunity to share their suggestions,
ask their questions and receive exact answers. After this meeting the trainers
confess that they can manage their time, resources and of course provide the
beneficiaries with comprehensive and interesting materials.
Dear donors,
We
hope you will value our honesty as we develop and grow when we are able to
acknowledge and accept our failures. We highly value your commitment to this
project, which is to give basic knowledge to children
marginalized from society
and help them not to get exploited.
We
hope that you liked this special Report provided us by GlobalGiving.
