Name of the School:- PUPS, Gummalapuram
Address:- PUPS, Gummalapuram village, Thally Block, Krishnagiri district, Tamilnadu
Initiative/Engagement Details:
Panchayat Union Primary School (PUPS) in Gummalapuram village is located near Karnataka-Tamilnadu border. Affordability and accessibility to quality education is an issue for children of small scale farmers, factory workers (primarily women working as helpers in garment factories) residing in Gummalapuram village and many other nearby villages. The whole stretch is a agriculture/greenhouse zone spread across 2000 acres of land and there are also thousands of migrant labours, predominantly from Jharkhand, Bihar, Odisha working on the field
Looking at the potential to serve the underprivileged children of small farmers, migrant labours, Aikya team decided to support the school with quality education.
Aikya Trust has done setup for foundational literacy/numeracy and deployed teacher for execution, while also training the existing teachers in the school. The overall engagement is going to benefit over 100 underprivileged children from Class 1 to Class 5.
