Education

Seva Mandir’s Education Program aims to build an understanding on quality education, generate community demand for quality education and  enables the youth to become responsible citizens and a catalyst for change.

Specific objectives of the programme are:

1. To ensure quality education for rural and tribal children from the ages of 6 to 14.

2. To deepen the understanding of quality education for children and increase community demand for it.

3. To enable youth to become responsible citizens and agents of change.


The Need:

  • Access to quality education is a major development challenge for poor and marginalized communities in the region where Seva Mandir works.
  • One third of children in the 6-14 years age group are out of the school and dropout rates remain high, particularly for girls.
  • While the number of schools has increased the frequent teacher absenteeism, poor pedagogical methods, lack of required materials and inadequate infrastructure all contribute to low attendance in the region.
  • Migration is also a major issue contributing towards the low attendance and high drop-out rates.

 

Our intervention:

To address the needs of community the education program runs interventions that work towards ensuring education for out-of-school children and empowering the communities to collaborate with the government and secure better education for their children.


Impact:

Seva Mandir’s experience in implementing education programme has resulted in a deep understanding of what it takes to make quality education available in the remote areas.  They have developed a real alternative model of primary level education in collaboration with the community with which they work. This places the organization in a unique position to understand why government’s efforts have proved frustrating, and offers critical insights into what kind of solutions may be required to address the problem

 

Future Challenges

  • Migration is a major issue and prevents a large number of children from being able to attend school.
  • There are a large number of cultural and societal constraints with girls receiving education, especially after primary school.
  • The Right to Education Act, which is a major government initiative, posses a major challenge for our work as it will make it illegal to run non formal education centers ( in Seva Mandir’s case, the SK’s and Camps).
  • Creating equal opportunities and participation of adolescent girls in all areas.
  • There is a large turn over of Youth Resource Center facilitators.  Though this is due to the enhancement of their skills through capacity building, a positive sign for the Youth program, it creates many challenges in running the centers.

 

Specific Interventions

Shiksha Kendra (Non-Formal Education)

Seasonal Residential Learning Camps

Urja Ghar (Youth Resource Center)

Action Research

 

If you would like to support our Education Program or any of its specific interventions please visit our Donation Page

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