Illuminating Futures: Enabling children

Summary

The aim of this project is to educate and empower the children in slums and rural areas of Puducherry by offering evening remedial classes, counselling services, awareness and community-sensitizing programs.

Challenges

Children born into poverty live in rural and semi urban areas much affected by a variety of societalchallenges that stops them from achieving their goals. Factors such as unemployment and alcoholism within the family, single parenthood, neglect and abandonment force children to become laborers either during or after school. The Illiterate parents can't support in doing homework thereby worsening children's interest in education. Additionally, limited educational resources, poor infrastructure leaves these children behind.

Solution

Evening school educates through remedial classes and experiential learning. We will also frequently conduct awareness programs related to physical, psychological and social issues faced by children. We will also provide counselling services during these hours. We will also teach them their rights and how to access them. The evening school will provide children with a structured after school environment; helping them spend time in a productive way towards their education.

Long-Term Impact

The main goal is to empower and reenergize children to pursue their dreams. The awareness programs and counselling services will address the children’s needs holistically. We hope that awareness about oneself and society will help these children to develop a strong personal identity paired with coping and life skills. In addition, we hope that the children take these lessons into their adulthood.

Updates

Three schools started working now, one at Ezhil Nagar meant for Dalit community, Solai Nagar for fishing community and Varugapet village for tribal community. We plan to set up another two schools and sourcing resources.

Resources

http://www.primetrust.org

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