ASHA-MITRA ADIVASI EDUCATION PROJECT

Project Brief: Adding Quality to Education. This proposal suggests a partnership between Mitra and Asha to add quality and zest to the education children in the area receive through the only channel available � the Governme
Project Type: Non-Formal Educational Centers (description)
Primary Focus: remedial education (description)

Secondary Focus: children of dalits/tribals

Area: Rural
Supporting Chapter Contact: Mid-Hudson Valley
Status: completed - requirements ended
Project Steward: Sundar Iyer
Project Partner(s):
Other Contacts:
Project Address: , ,,Orissa,
ORISSA  765 019
Tel: 06863-247505
Stewarding Chapter: Mid-Hudson Valley
Apr 2011Mid-Hudson ValleyUSD 20400
Sep 2008Mid-Hudson ValleyUSD 6400
Mar 2007Mid-Hudson ValleyUSD 4660

Total = $31460

Adding Quality to Education initiative if of getting involved in non-functional and dysfunctional primary schools in the area through Community Committees. The approach is to look at education from the Consumer Perspective rather than from the Provider Perspective. The aim is not to sort out the hassles in the Govt Education Department or even to challenge erring teachers. It is to give children the opportunity of quality primary education, by placing motivated, home-trained Adivasi youth as Community Teachers in the existing schools or created centers.
Asha to support Adding Quality to Education (AQTE ) work n Clusters A (Daklguda Area) and C (Sahada-Dukum-Hazardangu Area).At present, there are 6 such centres already functioning – at Kakaramaska, Madua, Darukona, Kondaguda, Kiribiri and Panchubadi.
To provide "Quality to Education" received by the children in this community from Govt Schools

`MITRA’ means Friend, and stands for ‘Madsens Institute for Tribal & Rural Advancement’. Mitra has 3 units :
The Mitra Project, working in 50 villages
The Mitra Training & Resource Unit (M-TRU)
The Mitra Residential School, Kachapaju (MRSK)
MITRA works with about 11,500 people in 50 predominantly tribal villages in Rayagada District of Orissa.Their overall goal is the fulfillment of 4 dreams for the people : Health for All, Education For All, Economic Security For All and Social Empowerment For All. It is a response to the needs in the region around Bissamcuttack, with a special focus on working with the Adivasi community.

MITRA is the operational identity of the Community Health Department, Christian Hospital, Bissamcuttack.