Outcomes
Five-point plan of multiple outcomes that strengthen the community as a whole;
Developing a trained early and primary educator within the village community, by identifying and recruiting a rural educated unemployed youth, with a strong inclination towards education. In the future, any temporary school closure or shutdown will not adversely affect the village children’s education.
LSF has deputed its 18 trained facilitators from among rural educated youth to implement the SarvaPrathamik project in 18 villages for over 1500+ children at their respective local pre-school Anganwadi and Zilla Parishad primary school.
Providing Livelihood to the rural educated unemployed youth, within the village, and in this manner utilizing available human resources for betterment of village community.
The educated youth selected to be recruited & trained to implement the project and to lead change in their villages, belong to the disadvantaged section of rural communities. Many of them have attended college on borrowed money, support from NGOs or actually performed night jobs to pay fees. They are best connected with their communities and the children within their village, as most of the families are known to them. In these favourable circumstances, LSF has strategized to utilize their potential for steering developmental goals in education, and build their capacities as change leaders in the village space. In this manner, the bright educated youth are able to earn a livelihood and support education within their village
Strengthening the quality of education for early and primary learners in the village, and ensuring that these children are supported with age-appropriate developmental skills. Due to the two years’ shutdown of schools from April 2020-April 2022, most village children are facing a tremendous setback in their ability to cope up with formal school education. In such a grim situation, LSF has come up with a very pragmatic and enjoyable form of participative learning that stimulates the learning process in the village child, and motivates the child to learn through active engagement. Children are enthused by the colourful activity materials placed before them and get drawn into the learning mechanism devised for every age group between ages 3 to 8.
Supporting the govt. preschool and primary school with the help of an ‘In-School’ program where the trained rural youth educator works hand-in-hand with the local teachers, so the methods and material are absorbed into the system.
The children are back in schools from June 2022 and spend most of the day in schools. So running the SarvaPrathamik model regularly in schools has brought a tremendous advantage to the local Zilla Parishad primary school teachers, and the school’s Management committees.
Engaging with the parents and community members every week so that they participate in the developmental process of the child, and are made aware of their role to support the needs of the child’s growth process. In the remotely located villages, parents of schooling children are not used to participating in the child’s education, as they neither have the time nor the inclination to play any role. In the SarvaPrathamik project, (as observed from its predecessor project, Education at Your Doorstep), engaging with the parents and family members is an important aspect of building an environment around the child that is conducive to learning and growth.
