SHAPING DREAMS. TRANSFORMING LIVES
Agamir Pathsala” project has been started in January 2022 at 18 tribal villages in MD. Bazaar block of Birbhum district. The objective of this project is to achieve the learning goals in terms of basic literacy and numeracy skills. The mode of instruction of this project is bilingual, i.e. Santhali and Bengali.
EPLI has been initiated in 2018 with 12 schools which scaled to 25 schools in 2021-2022. It aims towards bridging learning competency gaps for basic literacy and numeracy for children of Urban Govt. primary schools. This project provides direct educational input to the children through both online and offline mode (at school premises & community centers) with hand holding of school teachers through a blended model. Preliminary assessment is done through baseline study, followed by midline and end line study. Results are shared with the Govt. teachers. It also provides scope for parents’ capacity building to make them co educators.
The Charaibeti project works with children with disabilities belonging from marginalized communities of Kolkata. The program mainly focuses on providing remedial education, with overall development in the domains of communication, social, occupational, academic and recreational skills. All the current beneficiaries of the project are children with intellectual disabilities. Currently, all the children and their mothers are trained and adept at working with digital tools on the online mode.
The project works toward empowering out-of-school and never-been-to-school adolescents and transforming them into responsible citizens of the country. The transformation happens through: education following an open-schooling system, various market-linked and employable skills such as home appliance repairing, jewellery making, basic computer, communicative English, and training on life skills, self-defence, rights, and entitlements. The project runs around three locations in Kolkata and covers 658 adolescents at this moment.
Sahajpath project started in January 2020 in Dubrajpur Block of Birbhum District. The main objective of this project is to ensure a systemic change in teaching methodology to bridge learning competency gaps in primary school children in terms of basic literacy and numeracy. We are currently working in 170 primary school catchment areas of Dubrajpur block.