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with the supervision of a professional social worker and HoD of computer
application. The classes are instructed by selected student volunteers from various
departments of college.The syllabus includes typing word, browsing internet, sending
e-mail, net banking, making online voice call and video call, face book access,
usage of whatsapp, online purchase and payments etc.

Extra-curricular programmes: Extra-curricular programmes were introduced to
them gave them an opportunity to come together, one to one interaction among
teacher-learner group, have fun in a youthful ambience of the setting along with
academics. The programmes consists of arts and sports days, campus tour, picnics,
movie, and festival celebrations among senior students and student volunteers
along with their families. The programmes namely
¾The First Look – A Campus Tour
¾Why Not Have some fun?- Picnic
¾Matinee Time- Movie

¾Renaissance – Arts and sports day
¾Across the Seven Seas- picnic
Freshmen once again

Age Friendly program was held at Sacred Heart College Ernakulam with the
objective of reintroducing the enrolled senior students to a college environment of
socialising and educating technology. The programme was inaugurated on July
2016. Various programs were presented by the student teachers during the allotted
1 hour. There was an overall strength of 49 students and 49 teachers. The
inauguration also presented them with an opportunity for meeting their respective
teachers and getting acquainted with them.
The First Look – A Campus Tour

The students met up with their respective teachers and were taken on a campus
tour by the latter. It provides them with an opportunity to relive their college days
and for some of the less fortunate, it was a first glimpse of the infinite possibilities
that a college presents. The tour also ignites in them a feeling of being a part of the
student body. Having access to knowing that any part of the campus is free for
them to explore instils a sense of youthfulness. A sense of rebirth and a boost in
self – esteem is created.
As one of the students, Mrs.Bhagyavathi said, “There is a certain sense of pride
and joy in saying to the rickshaw drivers at the Auto stand that I have classes at
Sacred Heart College.”

Adelaide Journal of Social Work, 4:1 (2017) : 130-137