Aralu: Aralu is a voluntary organization for socio economic development in the much neglected communities and geographic areas of Gulbarga and Bidar districts of Karnataka. It has grown working with a community of mainly dalits and other marginalized sections. Aralu's long-term objectives include integrated rural development; social and environmental awareness, education facilities, and developing depressed sections of the society. Read more...
Asha Darshan: Asha Darshan is a non-governmental organization in the Nalbari district of Assam. It focuses on community development in this insurgency-ridden area through education and organized Self-Help groups (SHGs). The project runs 10 balwadis around Tamulpur and Kumarikata areas and has 170 (at present count) SHGs under its wing. The balwadis provide a crucial source of schooling to the children in this area, since there are no schools close by. The SHGs provide income-generating activities to the women in the surrounding communities, such as candle, agarbatti, soap making; mushroom cultivation; food processing; vegetable and cattle farming etc. Read more...
Asha Resource Center: Asha has a dedicated group of volunteers in India who are involved in setting up Asha Centers of learning promoting self-sufficiency and entrepreneurship via education. The basis of the centers, all of which are in Uttar Pradesh, is that young minds need holistic development leading to self-reliance and strong values. For a majority of India's children, the quality of education is so poor and so divorced from their reality that it has not been beneficial to them. The Resource Center will develop curriculum that will educate children and empower them by imbibing the spirit of cooperation instead of competition. Read more...
Build: Project Build (Pasumai Trust) provides basic education for children of migrant brick kiln laborers in and around Thiruvallur, near Chennai. The objective is to provide basic literacy and numeric skills and motivate the children to continue towards formal education. A number of children have learnt enough to be able to be confident enough to seek admission into government schools. Last year, 174 Sarva Siksha Abhiyan certificates were given out to these children to enable them to join government schools in their native villages. Read more...
NIAS:The proposed work will be done in Kollegal, Gundlupet and Chamarajnagar talukas in Chamarajnagar district, Karnataka. Teachers in most schools in this district have little or no access to teaching aids such as reference books, charts etc. nor do they have access to trained and experienced personnel. The government of Karnataka set up Block and Cluster Resource Centers to provide both material and personnel resources to these teachers. Despite their noble intention, these resource centers are in terrible state with very poor infrastructure and equipment. This project will work with the Resource Centers in Chamarajnagar district. Read more...
Confidence: Project Confidence is aimed at generating self-employment in 100 villages by training them in skills that would assist them to be self-reliant. The training given to 400 hundred young adults will enable them to find employment in their villages, therby generating confidence. The training is organized by Bhagavatula Charitable Trust (BCT) which has been working with these communities since 1976 and is a trusted partner of Asha for Education. With this program we plan to start the Academy of Humans as Resources (AHAR). Read more...
Dhamma Dippa School: The Dhamma Dipa School (DDS) was founded in Sabroom district of Tripura by Dr. Ven Dhammapiya, a Buddhist monk. The children here have hitherto had no access to education. The school intends to prepare them for opportunities outside their tribal communities in attempt to help them overcome poverty. Most of the children are tribal children from the Mog tribe. The school supports the instructional, boarding and lodging requirements of the students. The school caters to children from grades kindergarten to 4 and plans to add one additional grade every year until it reaches grade 12. Future plans include addition of library, labs, and revenue-generating activities like weaving and farming to make the school self sustained. Read more...
Guria: Guria is located in the district Varanasi of Uttar Pradesh. Disturbed by the plight of the women in prostitution and the futures of their children, one man, Ajeet Singh decided to take it upon himself to make a change and started Guria. The aim of Guria is to bring to an end forced prostitution in this community, and the creation of a humane world where all beings co-exist in harmony. Specifically, Guria aims to end second generation prostitution, child prostitution, human trafficking, create awareness among the women of their human and civil rights, and provide support and rehabilitate victims of trafficking, prostitution and other forms of sexual exploitation. Read more...
Khajurdaha Nabankur United Club: In rural West Bengal where Khajurdaha Nabankur United Club (KNUC) has been active, there are eleven government primary schools serving more than 9000 school-age children in thirty villages. Of these, ten are in a state of disrepair. In a typical Government primary school, there are two teachers and two classrooms for 120-150 children. Children do not have writing tools, there is no safe drinking water facility or latrines. Such a situation is not conducive to receive education and KNUC is working to improve the situation in these schools. Read more...
Kuvempu Trust: Kuvempu Trust is a group of people who have come together to do constructive activities in the villages for the children, youths, men and women. Initially starting out as a group of enthusiastic village youth around Shivaganga village in Chitradurga district of Karnataka with a desire to improve working conditions of daily wage earners, Kuvempu Trust has diversified into many aspects of village development. Key areas are evening schools (Vidya Kendras), liaison between Government and villages, library network, vocational training, and street theater. Read more...
Mathru: Mathru, located in a suburb of Bangalore, is a residential school for blind and visually impaired children and was established in 2001. At present the school is in rented premises and makeshift sheds. The children, who are from economically distressed families are taught life skills such as mobility, personal care, cooking, music, drama, games etc. The children are also given food, clothing and health care. The school, with a syllabus approved by the Education Board, is well organized and efficiently administered. Vocational training, including training in computers is given. Future plans are for expansion of vocational training fields and active placement of the blind in jobs so that they may lead independent and productive lives. Read more...
Muskaan: Muskaan started as an effort to provide opportunities for meaningful education amongst children from deprived background. The daily interaction with the children and a constant exposure to the hardships the communities and specific groups go through resulted in an increased and a more planned response to other related areas including education and also the number of children and slums. Today Muskaan works with over 400 children across 6 slums and with their parents. The primary work focus has been on children's education; building academic and emotional capabilities in the children to be part of a regular school system; mobilizing parents and their larger communities to value education as a definite input in their children's lives and to take steps and decisions enabling this; help children to adjust to formal schools. Read more...
Needy Illiterate Children Education (NICE): NICE provides a balanced academic and vocational education for orphan, poor and severely deprived children in rural Andhra Pradesh. A free residential school, NICE admits primary school dropouts and puts them through a 1-year bridge curriculum before starting high school education in CBSE curriculum. NICE wants to turn these deprived children into rural entrepreneurs by imparting vocational education along with formal education. NICE takes its responsibility to its donors very seriously, and is run extremely transparently, and all its accounts are published on the Internet and Annual Reports are sent to all its donors. Read more...
Puvidham: The Puvidham school was started by Meenakshi and Umesh in the Dharmapuri district of Tamil Nadu with the belief that long lasting change could be brought about only by introducing the children to organic farming and through their experience they would slowly convince their parents to see things more holistically. Innovative teaching methods are used to make the learning experience joyful. Ideas from Montessori methods have been used in preparing teaching aids for various subjects such as mathematics. Read more...
Sahyog: Sahyog is a non-profit, secular, non-government organization in Gujarat. Since inception it has worked consistently for development of weaker sections of society and upliftment of urban poor. In the last two years, Sahyog has evolved a unique working methodology to address social issues through development activities. Currently, Sahyog is successfully running an education program for children, Youth Program and Savings and Credit with a local women's organization. After the 2002 Gujarat riots, we saw that the entire social fabric had been disturbed and a lot needed to be done in the Muslim areas of the city. Vatva was one such badly affected area where not only riot rehabilitation but also other developmental aspects such as health, education and thrift societies needed to be addressed and that is how our involvement in Vatwa started. Read more...
Sahyog: Sahyog is a voluntary initiative in Jari Mari, a sprawling slum in the suburb of Kurla in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It started an informal school for adolescent girls who had dropped out of middle and senior school in Sevak Nagar, Jari Mari and is now well known in the community. Today it works in two slum areas, Jari Mari (a large industrial slum of about 20,000 people) and Dindoshi (a resettlement colony of about 10,000 people), offering community members educational, health, and life skills education. Read more...
Sarada Kalyan Bhandar (SKB): Sarada Kalyan Bhandar aims to bring about, through education, an improvement in the lives of the children of landless farmers, brick kiln workers, coolies and daily laborers in and around Midnapore, West Bengal. Established in 1984, SKB has been functioning as an after hours school program (which has over the years provided children with essentials like clothing and nutrition in addition to education). This is designed to motivate the children on the benefits of education while simultaneously instilling in them a sense of pride and identity. Read more...
Vikas Adhyayan Kendra: Vikas Adhyayan Kendra is a secular non-governmental organisation, which was started in 1981 and is engaged in study and research, consultations, publications, campaigns, and some direct community work in the three western Indian states of Goa, Gujarat, and Maharashtra. Jogeshwari, a western Mumbai suburb between Andheri and Goregaon, is the house of many families below the poverty line. Most of these families are not in a position to afford basic education for their children. Moreover, with the parents being uneducated, the understanding of importance of education is very poor. This is responsible for the large number of school dropouts. Read more...