We focus on the three stages of high-quality education

Setting up model schools

Fostering community engagement

Expanding reach with Vidyasaathis

Child labor & child marriages cases addressed & children re-enrolled in school

Students retained in our areas

Government Preschools Opened/Upgraded through community empowerment

Schools with active community involvement in . governance and infrastructure

Children enrolled into schools

Children who had dropped out, re-enrolled into schools

Students empowered with information on career options and creating pathways to their desired careers.

The education scenario in India has seen rapid progress over the last two decades in addressing the diverse challenges. Enrollment in primary schools has increased to around 96% and school infrastructure has also improved, but there are still significant challenges in enrollment for vulnerable communities.

• Enrollment numbers are low in vulnerable communities.
• Enrollment numbers drop sharply in secondary school.
• Retention beyond secondary school is a challenge in many places.
• Irregular attendance is another factor in many rural areas.

Our projects focus on vulnerable communities who face challenges with universal coverage, out of school children, poor attendance and retention.

Some of these communities live in deep rural areas and are primitive tribal groups , socially disadvantaged communities such as scheduled castes, linguistic minority communities at interstate borders and migrant populations like brick kiln workers.

We work in these communities to ensure children are enrolled in school, attend school regularly and transition to higher grades while achieving desired learning competencies.

• We partner with the government to ensure school infrastructure and services are available and functioning per specified norms.
• We conduct door-to-door visits (and other awareness programs) to educate the community to enroll their children in school and participate in their education.
• We build community ownership and participation by activating and strengthening the mothers committees and school monitoring committees. This involves training the parents about their roles and responsibilities in school monitoring committees.
• We involve the children in the change, by activating child rights clubs and child parliaments in schools.
• We support the teacher by training them on child friendly teaching methodologies and providing learning material for classrooms.

By fostering community engagement, we build a strong support system around government schools and student education.

We divide our work into three distinct age groups that also map to the Government programs that support each of these groups.

• Preschools for children under 6 years, that are part of the Government’s Anganwadi program
• Primary Schools for 6-14 years old children
• Upper Primary and High Schools for children above 14 years