Education and life skills
Education and life skills
CfD has two programs for providing education to the children who are out of school or in school but need support to continue their education and personal growth.
1) Provide coaching by professional teachers to school dropout (out of school) children through education centres and facilitate them to complete entire schooling through regular or open schooling system.
2) Sponsorship to the most needy children like orphans, single parent households (mainly women-headed families),special needs’ children.
3) Education fee support Open page
EDUCATION INITIATIVE (EI)
Education Centres:
Education Centres (ECs) are designed to enable children to continue education despite being forced to drop out of school due difficult circumstances such as poverty and violence. ECs are characterized by a joyful learning pedagogy, but they follow
the mainstream curriculum. Since 2002, ECs have catered to almost 3500 children, and has played a significant role in preventing children from becoming labourers.
ECs also cater to school going children.
LIFE SKILLS EDUCATION
Children being supported are offered Life Skills, the curriculum emphasises self-esteem and self-confidence; meaningful relationships; effective communication; gender justice and crucial The members have initiated awareness campaign and help centres to get admission of poor families under 25% reservation quota under RtE Act, 2009.
Idea of LitClubs
LitClubs are a platform/space where children have been given value based education through informal ways. It provides opportunities to see in their own/inner through windows of seven strengths; respectively Kindness, Friendship, Courage, Confidence, Hope,
Curiosity and Belongingness.
Understanding deeply about seven strengths, brought many behavioural changes in their life. Children enjoy their childhood with real time relations, respect, cooperation and most importantly coexistence. LitClubs provides windows to understand one’s life and see other’s life with untraditional way.
Year wise detail of children attended LitClub Program.
| Year | Total LitClubs | Boys | Girls | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-2017 | ||||
| 2017-2018 | 16 | 157 | 140 | 297 |
| 2018-2019 | 16 | 184 | 126 | 310 |
| 2019-2020 | 16 | 113 | 248 | 361 |
| 2020-2021 | 16 | 63 | 139 | 202 |
| 2021-2022 | 16 | 67 | 161 | 228 |
| 2022-2023 | 16 | 50 | 158 | 208 |
| 2023-2024 | 16 | 45 | 152 | 197 |
| 2024-2025 | 16 |
LitMom – A new activity was initiated with mothers of children coming to LitClubs. Mothers were taught about constitutional values and urban governance. Some of them made representations to get basic services and amenities for their respective areas and vialed those.
After 2024 this program is stopped.
LitWorld SPOTLIGHT
For our final Partner Spotlight of the season, please welcome Meera Malek from Centre for Development in India as she shares her community’s story of 2020!
Our deepest thanks to our partners around the world who have continued their life-changing work throughout this pandemic, and to supporters like you who help make it all possible.
by www.litworld.org
