Programme Beneficiaries

Challenge

Forced by financial instability, many children have had to overlook education and work to support their families. These children gradually tend to lose their interest in academics and tear away from the vein of education, losing both the will to study (and sometimes) the necessary aptitude. These children, cannot easily be brought back to educational norms since caught under the pressure of work, they are unable to dedicate the required time towards an academic curriculum.

Resolution

For off the grid children, education stands only as an exigency. To give time to understand conceptual basics after working to provide for their families is more than just a mammoth task, therefore the Class on Wheels programme was designed to bring about a concierge in their work and education. Since, concepts are hard to digest otherwise, children in this programme are taught concepts on the basis of their work or environment. For example- a child tea vendor is taught about latency of heat, boiling point of water etc.with him making tea. The programme incorporates the understanding that such children have their own set of reservations and therefore individual mentorship and scholarships are provided to keep the children engaged. Education is imparted in a place and time convenient to the children and techniques like visual demonstration, storytelling etc. is employed.

Impact

Class on Wheels is really a mobile education platform, since it is one where instead of the student managing time according to the curriculum, the curriculum itself morphs itself according to the needs, availabilities and problems of the child. The program has successfully engaged out-of-school children, many of whom have regained their will to return to schools. The financial scholarship programmes take care of their needs while they can study in peace. Many demotivated children have also been re-engaged by their mentors to study again.