Overview
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Education is the right of every child. Every child under the age of 16 should have access to free and quality education. It is our endeavor to ensure that every child receives this right. While ILP targets both rural and urban communities, our priority is in rural areas where the developmental work by the state is minimal.
ILP funds projects of the following types:
- Back To School: These programs ensure that children who have either dropped out of or never enrolled in schools can go back to school again. This is achieved through
- Evening Schools - Non-Formal Education (NFE) centers
- All-Day Bridge Schools
- Residential Bridge School Programs
- Early Childhood Education Centers (Balwadis, Anganwadis)
- Strengthening Mainstream Education: The aim is to improve the quality of learning to prevent drop-outs and low levels of literacy. We accomplish this through
- Community mobilization towards ownership and management of schools
- Training of the para teachers for schools
- Providing supplementary teaching for school-going children
- Focusing on Quality of Education
- Functional Adult Literacy Programs: At ILP, we believe that all adults have a right to receive functional literacy skills that would enable them to develop their full potential as human beings, good citizenship, participative democracy and to learn appropriate skills to enhance individual capacity and productivity. Literate adults are also more likely to keep their children in school. Our programs focus on
- Literacy-cum-skill training
- Entrepreneurship development
- Mass Literacy Initiatives: ILP is supporting new initiatives intended to raise literacy levels over large geographic areas (state, district or block). These integrated education/literacy programs address children from 0 to 14 years, and non-literates in the productive age group of 15-35 years. These programs ensure effective utilitzation of government resources, and educate and empower the community to take ownership of ensuring that every child is in school and learning.
Back To School
| There are nearly 13 million children who are out of school in India. This includes children who have dropped out of school or have never enrolled in school. ILP working with its implementation partners supports various interventions to bring children back to school. |
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Early Childhood Education Centers Children in the age group of 0 to 6 constitute 16% of population. Rural working women cannot afford professional day care facilities for their children. Early Childhood Centers or Balwadis provide access to a learning platform, address malnourishment and ensure that children have a safe and creative environment to play and develop while their parents are away earning livelihood. Sibling care is one of the major reasons for children to drop out of school. Supporting early childhood centers where younger children are taken care of has ensured that the older kids stay and continue in school, while inculcating the interest of education in the younger ones. |
Bridge Schools Children who are out of school are enrolled in bridge schools where they are educated and enrolled into main stream schools after helping them improve their learning levels. Residential Bridge Programs - ILP supports residential Bridge schools to rehabilitate children from working conditions. In addition to boarding the children are provided uniforms and other educational materials. Puraskara our scholarship program is designed to help kids who were once working to complete higher education. |
Non Formal Education Centers In remote locations of the country there is a problem of access to schools. Non Formal Education centers are established and supported in such areas to allow children to learn. We educate and empower the community to work with the government to establish schools in these areas. |
Functional Adult Literacy
At ILP, we believe that all adults have a right to receive functional literacy skills which would enable them to develop their full potential as human beings, good citizenship, participative democracy and to learn appropriate skills to enhance individual capacity and productivity. Literate adults are also more likely to keep their children in school.
- Literacy-cum-skill training
- Entrepreneurship development
Mass Literacy
ILP is supporting new initiatives intended to raise literacy levels over large geographic areas (state, district or block). These integrated education / literacy programs address children from 0 to 14 years, and non-literates in the productive age group of 15-35 years. These programs ensure effective utilitzation of government resources, and educate and empower the community to take ownership of ensuring that every child is in school and learning.
View our Mass Literacy projects
Our School Movemement - Kudligi, Karnataka
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Implementing NGO: SNEHA |
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Region Demographics Bellary district is located in north-central Karnataka. The district consists of 7 taluks,including Kudligi, which is the target area for this initiative. The region is characterized by high levels of illiteracy and prevalence of child labor and social inequalities. Project Description SNEHA, with the support from India Literacy Project has been working for the past six years in 50 villages of Kudligi taluk for betterment of government schools through strengthening of community based organizations. The program has been expanded to 80 more villages starting 2007, thus transforming into another mass scale literacy initiative. The focus of the intervention has also been expanded to cover early childhood care as well as primary and high school education. Activities in 2007-2008
• Ensured 100% enrollment in schools with help from SDMCs. No drop outs in grades 1 – 5.
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Financials 2009 Funding: $40,909 Mass-Scale Expansion ILP is actively expanding this project into a mass scale integrated project over the next few years. SNEHA started as a project focused on community involvement for children’s education in 50 villages, and is being expanded into 225 total villages in 2009. SNEHA’s successful implementation results have enabled ILP to make the decision to convert this project into a truly integrated mass-scale initiative. |
Demographics
Details coming soon.
Project Partners
ILP's project partner for the "Our School Movement" project in Bellary, Karnatka is the Non-Government Organization (NGO), Society for Integrated Community Development (SNEHA). SNEHA has been an ILP partner orgniazation since the year 2002 working in the Kudligi area.
The organization is led by Mr. Ramanjaneya, who had won the distinguished Social worker with Children award for working with children, in November 2007. This honor was awarded to him jointly by the Department of Women and Child Developemnt, Education, Karnataka Council for Child welafre and Karnataka's State Society of Balbhavans is a testament to the kind of leaderhip that ILP seeks in our partner organizations.
SNEHA was formally registered as an NGO in India in 1994 and has since taken up various activities with support form many donor agencies. ILP - SNEHA partnership started in 2002 to work in 50 villages of the Kudligi Education Block. The idea was to empower people to be active participants to ensure education for all children there by totally wiping out the menace of child labour.
SNEHA's excellent performance through 2007 and the needs of the area formed the basis for ILP to continue the parternship with SNEHA to scale up the project to a larger number of villages / schools.
Strengthening Mainstream Education
The aim is to improve quality of learning to prevent drop-outs and low levels of literacy. We accomplish this through
- Community mobilization towards ownership and Management of Schools
- Training Para Teachers for schools
- Providing Supplementary teaching for school going children
- Integrated Education for the differently abled