SMS Classes! :)

Recently Mukesh has learnt to do text messages. I am guessing with the number of text messages he is sending to me and other friends at Handmade Hope, he is already liking it. Mukesh hasnt studied much and surely not much of English. So there is an issue of spellings in the text messages. I do understand what he meant by the message but it is not the way it should be. 

We started a simple exercise a few days back and seems like it is working.

Whenever he sends me a text message, for example

Mukesh:  BHIAYA GOODAMONIG  

               (corrected:  Bhaiya Good Morning)

We can ofcourse understand what it meant, but if he has to start conversing with others to its my responsibility to make it look good.

So here is what we have started, we have decided to do maximum conversation for anything related to Handmade Hope on text messages. When I receive the message, I do the correction and send it back to him with the answer, for example

Rushabh: Do we have 81 notebooks, we have got an order! :)

Mukesh: 81 HAA.... BHIAYA BUK CHHE

Rushabh: Bhaiya, 81 Books Che!

Mukesh: OK...GOT IT! 

Rushabh: Saras

Mukesh: BHAIYA, BIJU KAI, YES OR NO (the spelling changed)

Rushabh: No! :)

Mukesh: OK... BYE! 

Simple, but effective! 

We would start with sentences in English soon.

 

About Mukesh: Mukesh has spent more than 14 years of his life in Boys Observation Home where I used to go to teach, play and spend time. He is now working with one of our projects Handmade Hope. At the age of 19 he is the chief production manager at Handmade looking after the total paper bags production and he has trained more than 25 people to make the same. He is the main bread earner of his family of six.