AID Delhi has successfully ventured into a new arena where it has penetrated into the existing education system with an underlying aim to fix all the loopholes that act as a barrier in delivering quality education to students.  In order to bridge the knowledge and opportunity and divide, we have focused on students that receive formal education as well as those who don’t. The objectives of this program are:

1. To assess the current level of learning of school going children and strengthening the weak areas
2. To impart basic education to non school going children to bring them up to speed with those receiving formal education
3. To promote the ‘Right to education’ act by providing every child with access to formal education.

The program utilises the existing government infrastructure and resources and is currently implemented in two MCD schools located in Shalimar Bagh, Delhi. In total, 270 children are being taught by 7 teachers, maintaining the teacher-student ratio of ~ 1: 40. We are intervening at three levels, mainly at Students, Teachers and Parents level.

1. At the teachers level we are contemplating providing training facilities and simultaneous regular feedbacks on student performance and areas of attention.

2. Currently, we are dedicated towards student development which we are doing through various methods:

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  • We have divided students on the basis of a performance test into batches, so each student receives personal attention in line with his/her capabilities.
  • The basics, i.e., reading, writing and comprehension forms the core foundation of the teaching curriculum
  • A special focus has been given to enhance and inculcate reading habits into the students through initiatives like Reading Club and Library Period.
  • Specialised Eureka kits have been introduced in the regular classes.
  • In addition to education, co-curricular activities, such as sports, music classes, art classes, dance classes, and theatre classes are held weekly
  • Rigorous monitoring sessions are carried out by the volunteers in order to assess the teachers as well as the students
  • Student tracking is done at regular intervals to ensure 100% attendance

3. We ensure that the parents stay informed about their children and their performance at school. Counselling sessions have been held, where parents are encouraged to send their children to school, review their notebooks when they come back home, and question them about what they have learnt.

AID Delhi has been supporting non formal education initiatives in various parts of National Capital Region (NCR) Delhi for several years. Our experiences from mainstreaming children living in slum areas made us realize that it's not good enough to send children to school. We also have to improve the standards of schools  especially the free ones (Government and MCD) to achieve the desired levels of literacy in India. We hope AID Delhi school adoption program will provide a major thrust in implementation of Right to Education in it's true spirit by providing end to end solution i.e. starting from initiating slum children into education -> mainstreaming them -> improving the schools where they are sent.  

Monthly budget : Rs. 20,000 per month (7 teacher's salary and stationary)

Currently we have a deficit of Rs. 5000 pm.

How Can you help ?  

• Individuals can sponsor the running cost of this program on a monthly or an annual basis, partially or fully
• Adopt a School program : Corporates as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can send their employees to volunteer to create a significant impact in the lives of the children. They can help us in conducting fun activities like painting competition, talent shows, picnics and much more. Corporates can also sponsor the running cost of the school through a monthly pay roll deduction or an annual contribution.
• As an individual you can volunteer with the school adoption program to help in the management tasks (monitoring, coordination, volunteer recruitment), fund raising, documentation (photography, articles, designing brochures/flyers, shoot event videos etc.), preparing education material, creating awareness in various underprivileged communities for sending their children to school, reaching out to local Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs) to support the adopted schools.

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AID PEHAL is an AID DELHI initiative based in Shalimar Bagh, New Delhi. We provide non -formal education to a groupof children who belong to the families of the construction workerscurrently involved in a construction project taking place in thelocation. A small room in one of the semi constructed buildings in thesite is made into a classroom, where a properly trained teacher, givesthem basic education essential for survival.

Inaddition to basic knowledge, we provide to them skill building classes,where painting and dancing sessions are held once a week. These areaimed towards empowering them and making them self dependent and noless than other children who would make it to future India.

These children, however, have been observed to be weak in terms of health and presence of basic warm clothing. We now aim towards providing them withwarm clothing, and hold health, dental and nutrition camps for them.

Our journey with the kids of pehal has just initiated and we dream to makethis beginning a successful one with the aid of AID India and Pehal change makers.

 

You may visit AID Pehal blog for regular updates and experience sharing by AID volunteers :

http://projectpehal.blogspot.com/