Project Arohana: Empowering Underprivileged Children Through Quality Education
Overview:
Project Arohana is our dedicated school-level engagement program designed to provide quality education to underprivileged children attending government schools in South Bangalore. Currently, the program is supporting three government schools, benefiting over 400 students.
Objectives:
- Strengthen Foundational Skills: Enhance literacy, numeracy, and language skills, with a specific focus on phonics and activity-based learning to build a strong academic foundation.
- Promote Experiential Learning: Foster curiosity and innovation through application-based, hands-on learning experiences.
- Comprehensive Academic Support: Cover key subjects such as Maths, Science, and English, ensuring holistic academic growth for all children.
Rationale:
Foundational literacy, numeracy, and language skills are critical not only for individual success but also for the broader economy and society. By improving these skills, we aim to achieve immediate outcomes such as enhanced self-esteem, increased confidence, and reduced school dropout rates. Long-term, we hope, these skills will contribute to higher employability, reduced inequality, and a decrease in social challenges like exploitation and crime.
GHPS Old Anekal School
Government Higher Primary School (GHPS), Old Anekal is located in Anekal Town of Bangalore. Aikya Trust has adopted the entire school (all classes) to improve the quality of education. Aikya trust has entered into a formal agreement with the school and Block Education Office and deployed 4 full time teachers to meet the objectives of quality education. The overall engagement is going to benefit 249 underprivileged children from LKG to Class 8. Aikya team have been doing survey of deprived and slum localities in Anekal town and nearby villages to identify underprivileged children who are missing formal education. Many of the identified children are admitted to school. Survey link – Survey Details
Panchayat School, Gummalapuram
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 many small scale farmers residing in Gummalapuram and many other nearby villages. The whole stretch is a agriculture/greenhouse zone spread across 2000 acres of land & there are hundreds 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.
Govt Middle Primary School (GMPS), Anekal
Government Middle Primary School (GMPS), Anekal is located in Anekal Town of Bangalore.
Aikya Trust is providing academic support to the school, for improving FLN and science skills.
Aikya Trust and school have entered into a formal agreement by which trust has deployed 2 well-qualified teachers to strengthen the literacy, numeracy, language and science skills of the children.
The overall engagement is going to benefit over 90 children of class 1 to class 8.
