Asha for Education

Project Brief: Pre-primary education for tribal children and adult literacy for parents in rural Jharkhand
Project Type: Pre-Primary (description)
Primary Focus: children of dalits/tribals (description)

Secondary Focus: other

Area: Rural
Supporting Chapter Contact:
San Francisco

Status: CURRENT
Project Steward: Aditi Chandarana
Co-Steward: Ritika Gulabrani
Project Partner(s): Jitendra Pandey
Project Address: Saugaht Foundation - Pre Primary School
Path village under Phakiradih Panchayat in Bhandaria Block
Jharkhand-822125, India
Ramkanda Post Office, Jharkhand 822125
Tel: 011 918877067911
Stewarding Chapter: San Francisco

We propose to start an educational center for basic literacy of tribal children. The poor illiterate tribal parents in our project area cannot fulfill the basic needs of their children and do not want to send their children to the school. We propose to establish one pre primary school for the kids within the age group of 3 to 6 years. The children will be provided with basic education. We will run this program for providing those poor children a steppingstone of education by a compulsory schooling in the pre-primary level and prepare them for admission in the primary level formal schools. We have also planned to utilize the same school as an adult literacy center preferably for the parents of those selected children. Elementary education will be provided. Asha Stanford is funding the 'Open-field Pre-school' for tribal kids.