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PHOTO0000000149

English transcription: Vidyapith school. Mysore State Adult Education Council. The Vidyapith school at Nanjangud, is modeled on the people's college of Denmark. Purpose is to encourage youth to remain on the farm. Here the teacher engages a group of children and gives them a lesson on time. She uses a clock and explains its many parts.
French transcription: Ecole de Vidyapith. L'école de Vidyapith à Nanjangud est organisée sur le modèle des écoles danoises. Elle a pour but d'encourager le retour à la ferme. Sur la photo un professeur enseigne l'heure à un groupe d'élèves à l'aide d'une pendule dont elle explique les différents rouages.
Description: Group of seventeen children sitting on the floor, mainly girls, backs to photographer, gathered around a teacher. A female teacher sits on a stool wearing a sari, holding a small clock. There are four black rolls that function as blackboards with Sanskrit written on them. The photo is taken from above, looking down on the group.

PHOTO0000000150

English transcription: Members of an adult education class held in the corridor of Bombay chawl or tenement building under the auspices of the Bombay Social Education Service.
French transcription: Pendant un cours d'alphabétisation pour adultes tenu sous les auspices du Service d'éducation sociale de Bombay. Ces cours ont lieu dan les couloirs des chawls - ou logements ouvriers.
Description: Group of seven women in saris seated around a suitcase of books and reading material.

PHOTO0000000151

English transcription: Literacy. Vidyapath. A school helped by UNESCO's Gift Coupon Programme.
French transcription: None.
Description: Two men standing at a table. One is wearing a fez. On the table are a pile of books, paraffin lamp, box of chalk, a pile of writing boards, box of pencils, a rolled up poster. There are adult literacy posters on the wall.

PHOTO0000000152

English transcription: India - Bombay Bombay City Social Education Centre.

Description: A large group of people, men, women and children, are seated and standing outdoors. One child is naked. They are gathered in front of a fairly large building with a tiled gabled roof and a large sign on the building. An upright pole or tree trunk is in the middle ground with two speakers attached high above the pole and a photograph of a seated figure attached to it below. There is a platform with a radio or speaker on it and a sign that reads "His Masters Voice Radio."

PHOTO0000000154

English transcription: A young mother student at the adult education classes held in the corridor of a Bombay chawl or tenement building under the auspices of the Bombay Social Education Service.
French transcription: Juin 1959. Pendant un cours d'alphabétisation pour adultes tenu sous les auspices du Service d'Education Sociale de Bombay. Ces cours ont lieu dans les couloirs des 'chawls - ou logements ouvriers. Ici une Jeune mère pendant l'un de ces cours.
Description: A young woman wearing a sari is seated on the floor with a naked baby on her lap. She is holding a book. There are two standing figures to her left, but only their legs can be seen.

PHOTO0000000155

English transcription: Bombay - 1952. Bombay City Social Education Centre. Discussion group after radio programme. The discussions are led by Srimati K. Dandekar, Committee Social Worker. This Centre is helped by the UNESCO Gift Coupons System.
French transcription: Bombay - 1952. Centre d’éducation sociale de Bombay. Srimati K. Dandekar, membre du Comité des Travailleurs Sociaux, mène la discussion après un programme radiodiffusé. Ce centre est aidé par le système de bons d'entraide de l'UNESCO.
Description: In an open space, a woman dressed in a sari stands on the left of a big radio set perched on a stool. Children, young girls and women, sitting on the floor, are listening to her. In the background, several men dressed in white and one older woman observe the scene.

PHOTO0000000156

English transcription: Adult literacy classes are held in the corridors of this Bombay chawl or tenement building under the auspices of the Bombay Social Education Service.
French transcription: Des cours d'alphabétisation pour adultes sont tenus dans les couloirs d'immeubles ouvriers ou chawls sous les auspices du Service d'éducation sociale de Bombay.

PHOTO0000000322

French transcription: Formation des fermiers.
Description: Cours en extérieur. Des femmes sont assises par terre en tailleurs dans une cour. Une femme leur fait face elle se tient debout. Elle désigne à l'aide d'une baguette des aliments posés dans des coupelles sur une table.

PHOTO0000000323

French transcription: Education de base agriculture.
Description: There are two men in an open field surrounded by bushes, trees and other vegetation. One man who wears loose fitting clothing and a scarf around his hat against the heat holds with both hands a rope that is tight around the neck of a longhorn Indian cow. The other, also wearing a hat and comfortable clothing, is tending to the cow-drawn plow to cultivate the soil.

PHOTO0000000324

English transcription: At the Vidyapith, a school helped by UNESCO's Gift Coupon Programme. Brickmaking is also one of the many subjects taught. Occupations like this relieve of long classroom discussions in addition to teaching the student practical methods of earning extra money in addition to agriculture.

Description: Two crouched young men casually dressed and wearing turbans are tamping concrete with a pounder into a rectangular timber frame. The third one similarily dressed stands beside them pressing the wooden form down with a basket. In the background there are part of a building, trees and a two-wheeled cart. In front of them lay moulded bricks in a row.

PHOTO0000000655

French transcription: Ecole primaire dans un camp de réfugiés tibétain au Ladakh.
Description: In a classroom, there are three warmly dressed, seated girls, two of whom are studying a shared schoolbook. The third girl, and several boys in the background, look intently up to their left, except for one boy, who looks at the camera.

PHOTO0000000656

French transcription: Ecole primaire dans un camp de réfugiés Tibétains au Ladakh.
Description: A young girl, sitting cross-legged on the ground, is writing with a pen in a primary school exercise book.

PHOTO0000000657

French transcription: Ecole primaire dans un camp de réfugies Tibétains au Ladakh.
Description: A young boy in winter wear, sitting cross-legged on the ground, looks upward towards his left. In front of him is an opened primary school textbook.

PHOTO0000000658

French transcription: Ecole primaire dans un camp de réfugiés Tibétains au Ladakh.
Description: Outdoors, in a courtyard, 14 children - both boys and girls - are seated on small stools in three rows, intently following, with books in front of them, a reading by a standing pupil. The class teacher, hands in pockets, is pacing behind the group, also listening to the reading.

PHOTO0000000666

English transcription: A class in an elementary school.
French transcription: Une classe dans une école élémentaire.
Description: Approximately 25 children are seated cross-legged on mats on the floor of a classroom, all looking intently towards the from of the classroom. There is a window with bars visible on the right of the photograph.

PHOTO0000000667

English transcription: Mrs. Mehta's school. Mrs. Metha, with the help of a few collaborators, takes abandoned children into her school where they receive the advantages of a liberal education. Shown here is one of the pupils drawing with coloured chalks.
French transcription: Ecole de Mme Mehta. Mme Mehta, aidée par quelques collaborateurs, essaye d'intéresser, par un enseignement très libre, des enfants deshérités. Ici un élève dessinant avec des crais de couleur.
Description: A young boy seated on a mat on the ground outside draws on a large sheet of paper. Next to him is a box of chalks and a finished drawing visible in the top right of the picture. In the bottom right, the head and upper body of a girl, also drawing, is visible.

PHOTO0000000668

English transcription: Hirankanda rural school. An open-air class.
French transcription: Ecole rurale d'Hirankanda. Ici, une classe en plein air.
Description: Approximately 35 children are seated on mats in the open air. There are two desks and chairs and a teacher is seated at one desk, while a second teacher stands next to the other desk. In the background is a small pond and a large building nestled in a grove of trees. Three of the students are standing and writing on small chalk boards.

PHOTO0000000669

English transcription: Hirankanda rural school. An open-air class.
French transcription: Ecole rurale d'Hirankanda. Ici, une classe en plein air.
Description: Five students, four boys and one girl, are seated on a mat on the ground in the open air. The legs of a man, probably their teacher, are visible in the background. All the students are writing on small chalkboards or reading a book propped up on a cushion in front of them.

PHOTO0000000672

English transcription: Mrs. Mehta's School. Mrs. Mehta, with the help of a few collaborators, takes abandoned children into her school where they receive the advantages of a liberal education. Shown here is one of the pupils drawing with coloured chalks.
French transcription: Ecole de Mme Mehta. Madame Mehta, aidée par quelques collaborateurs, essaye d'intéresser des enfants déshérités par un enseignement très libre. Ici, une élève dessine avec des craies de couleur.
Description: Two girls, one in a white dress, the other in a polka dot dress, are kneeling on a mat on the floor, drawing with coloured chalks on large sheets of paper.

PHOTO0000000675

English transcription: Small pupils at the International School.
French transcription: Des petits élèves à l'école internationale de Durgapur.
Description: Inside a classroom, eight small children (six girls, two boys) are standing clustered around a table, upon which a female teacher, crouching, is pushing a set of flat square and oblong plates.

PHOTO0000000680

English transcription: A village teacher in the Singur region gives his class some simple rules for healthy living. WHO has been operating in India for about two and a half years, with four demonstration teams. In Orissa, the sickness rate fell from 20 per thousand persons to 1.5; in Mysore, one malaria engineer and a nurse covered 1,600 square miles and helped to reduce the incidence from 38 per cent to 11 per cent. A fourth team in Madras, achieved a similar reduction. The hard work of the locally recruited personnel contributed substantially to these successes.

Description: A group of around 15 children is clustered around a high wooden box, on top of which is displayed a large model of a mosquito, being described to them by a male village teacher.

PHOTO0000000682

English transcription: An open-air class at the Kalakankar primary school.
French transcription: Classe en plein air à l'école primaire de Kalakankar.
Description: In front of a school building, a male teacher dressed in white, and wielding a stick, is conducting a lesson for a large group of boys and girls who are sitting or squatting on the ground. To the left, many of the students are looking at the photographer. A sign is posted next to the door of the school and a large inscription has been handwritten on a wall to the right.

PHOTO0000000695

English transcription: Small pupils at the International School.
French transcription: Des petits élèves à l'école internationale de Durgapur.
Description: Two young girls are seated at a small desk with a large picture book open in front of them. They are looking intently at the book.

PHOTO0000000699

English transcription: Junior Basic School, situated in the suburbs of Dehli. The 350 boys and 250 girls attending the school receive tuition in arithmetic, hindi, history, geography and simple English. In addition to this, they have a daily 11/2 hours of handicrafts and 1/2 hour of physical training. Shown here, a class.
French transcription: L'Ecole Pratique Moyenne, située aux environs immédiats de Delhi, comprend 350 garçons et 250 filles. On y enseigne l'arithmétique, l'hindi, l'histoire, la géographie et le début de l'anglais. En outre, les élèves ont 1hr. 1/2 de travaux manuels par jour et 1/2 h. d'exercises physiques.
Description: Young children are seated on mats on the floor using wooden lap desks. The two boys in the front of the picture are sharing an ink pot and dipping their pens in the pot. Most of the children are looking intently towards the front of the picture.

PHOTO0000000700

English transcription: Mysore State Adult Education Council. The Vidyapith, at Najangud, is modelled on the people's colleges of Denmark. Pupose is to encourage youth to remain on the farm. Women of the village also receive [...] on the same carefully organized lines as the classes for the [...] are conducted by women from the villages. During the day they work for the State Education Department. For this extra-curriculum work they received a fee from the Mysore State Adult Education Council.

Description: Nine women are seated on the floor of a room. Eight women are looking at a woman writing on a blackboard. There are a number of pictures on the walls of women reading and studying. There is a curtain hanging in the window at the left of the picture. There is a small stool with a lantern on it.

PHOTO0000000701

English transcription: A pupil in a primary school, located in the Barakot's Refugees Camp.

Description: Three children are seated on the ground reading tattered books. There is an opening in the tent behind them on the left. The ground is dusty and seems full of detritus.

PHOTO0000000702

English transcription: The Delhi Social Education Centres, organised under UNESCO Gift Coupon Project No. 26, carry out social education programmes in some 50 villages in the neighbourhood of Delhi. Courses include physical education, music and painting, literacy, home economics, etc. Comprehensive adult courses in rural handicrafts and cottage industries are given in co-operation with Janta College where social education workers are trained. Here, an open-air learning by radio class.
French transcription: Les Centres d'éducation social de Delhi, organisés par le projet No. 26 des Bons d'entraide de l'UNESCO, mettent en oeuvre un programme d'éducation sociale dans une cinquantaine de villages des environs de Delhi. Ce programme comprend entre autres l'éducation physique, la musique, la peinture, la lecture et l'écriture, l'économie domestique, etc. Des cours sont donnés aux adultes sur l'artisanat rural et les industries locales, avec la coopération du Jantan College où sont formés las spécialistes de l'éducation sociale. Ici une classe en plein air d'enseignement par la radio.
Description: Outdoors, under two trees, some 15 young adult men, dressed in white dhotis, are seated cross-legged on a pavement. They are facing a teacher seated in a wooden armchair. A megaphone is mounted on top of the wall to the left, and the students are listening to it, some of them taking notes. Leaning against the wall are two large cartwheels, one of which is cracked and broken.

PHOTO0000000735

French transcription: Nord de l'Inde.
Description: Des enfants sont assis par terre dans une cour. Ils regardent une femme qui résout des opérations sur un tableau noir posé sur un pilier. Elle écrit à la craie. Les enfants ont des cahiers et des ardoises à leurs pieds.

PHOTO0000000746

French transcription: Ecole primaire dans un camp de réfugiés tibétain au Ladakh.
Description: A l'intérieur, des petits garçons et des petites filles sont assis à même le sol. Près d'eux, leur cartable. Ils sont vêtus de gros pulls identiques. L'un d'eux porte un bonnet.

PHOTO0000000756

English transcription: Hirankanda rural school in open-air class.
French transcription: Ecole rurale d'Hirankanda. Ici, une classe en plein air.
Description: Sur une plaine, un maître debout, vêtu de blanc, enseigne à des petits garçons assis au sol des lignes parallèles et perpendiculaires. Ils ont une tablette devant eux. Au loin, des arbres et un paysan qui laboure avec deux bœufs.

PHOTO0000000843

English transcription: "Full participation and equality - The life of the handicapped in pictures". To illustrate the International Year of Disabled Persons UNESCO is staging an exhibition showing the life of the handicapped around the world. These photographs have been provided by UNESCO National Commissions United Nations agencies specialized associations and free-lance photographers. They show handicapped persons in their daily lives, learning, creating, taking part in sports and working.
French transcription: "Pleine participation et égalité - La vie des handicapés en images". Afin d'illustrer l'Année internationale des personnes handicapées, l'UNESCO a organisé une exposition montrant leur vie dans différents pays. A travers ces photos envoyées par les Commissions Nationales, les agences des Nations Unies, les associations spécialisées et les photographes indépendants, on y voit les personnes handicapées apprendre, travailler, exercer des activités artistiques et sportives.
Location: Paris.

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