Empowering Underprivileged Children through Education, Akshar Chetana aims to provide educational support to children from “bastis”. These children are typically enrolled in government or lower-tier private schools. However, under Akshar Chetana, those who have been pushed out of the schooling system due to various socioeconomic reasons are also sought out. Through counseling and persuasion, they are reintegrated into the education system. This initiative not only restores their sense of dignity but also helps them transform their lives, moving from mere survival to nurturing achievable aspirations and working towards improvement.
At our center, children attend two-hour sessions every day, in addition to their regular schooling. The Center also serve as places to relax and play, creating a child-friendly blend of education and recreation.
Jinal and Aarti, Grade 9 students, were introduced to Humankind by their neighbours for access to quality education through ‘Project Anjali’. During the COVID lockdown, their online classes were funded, and Humankind continues to support them financially for coaching classes and other expenses.
Khushi, currently pursuing a B.A. in Philosophy, has been with Humankind for three years. Introduced by her aunt, Humankind supported her educational dreams through ‘Project Anjali’ despite financial challenges post-12th grade. Counselling her family on the importance of education, Khushi is now a first-year student, closer to achieving her dreams.
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Anjali
Project Anjali, a CSR project by Rotomag Motors & Controls Pvt Ltd, Vallabh Udyognagar
With a literacy rate of just 65 percent, women’s education continues to be one of the most important issues in India. Both in rural and urban areas a change in mindset is needed.
Some of the barriers to women’s education are sociological, rooted in gender stereotyping and gender segregation; others are driven by economic constraints. Parental reluctance to educate girls inhibits their access to education.
Economically poorer sections are not in a position to send their children to school and if they can, they are more likely to invest in the male child. With rising cost, they are more likely to withdraw girls from school.
Despite our decades of commitment to gender equality and universalization of education, the ground realities are still grim, especially in the context of girls from marginalized groups. While the overall enrolment of girls has increased, the dropout rate of girls from marginalized sections especially from the upper primary levels is extremely high. A sizeable proportion of our school dropouts, chiefly migrants, poor and working children, are girls – school discontinuation rates of girls are high as that of boys.
Project Objective
- Meeting school education expenses including school fees, stationery, uniform and learning aids of underprivileged students
- Meeting extra professional coaching expenses for grade 9th and 10th underprivileged students
- Periodical expenses for upgradation of teaching/ learning resources including computers, tablets, printer, internet, audio-visual system and online biometric system etc.
- Software for teaching various subjects across different grades
