Asha for Education

Project Brief: This project is to support Community based Accelerated Reading and Bridge Course Programme with a special focus on mainstreaming children at risk.
Project Type: Alternative Education (description)
Primary Focus: children of migrant workers (description)

Secondary Focus: children of sex workers

Area: Tribal
Supporting Chapter Contact:
Atlanta

Status: CURRENT
Project Steward: Agniva Roy
Co-Steward: Padmanava Sen
Project Partner(s): Chandreyee Das
Project Address: Hijli Inspiration - Kamarhati Centers Kolkata
GC-1, 1st Floor, Sector-III
Salt Lake City
Kolkata, West Bengal 700106
Tel: 913323587241
Stewarding Chapter: Atlanta

The bridging the divide program intends to adopt a bi pronged approach :
Accelerated Reading : Exposing children, in general, to the world of books and subsequently enhancing their reading and comprehension capabilities
Bridging the curricular gap : Identifying not going-to-school children and mainstreaming them through a bridge course syllabus

The combination of the two will ensure the quantitative and qualitative aspects of universalization of education. Another cross cutting approach would be
1. Community Institutionalisation and stakeholder integration for sustainability: Interacting with the community, the parents , the local institutions to initiate a process of social auditing and ownership.
2. Strategic research and documentation : Research and documentation of success cases would help in organizational learning and sharing among the network.

Partnership with Asha Atlanta Chapter started in 2010 with a backup coaching and basic skill development programme for 100 children in the slums of Kamarhati. As of 2019, the number of children are grown to 150 in 6 centers. The centers have different language media as well - Bengali and Urdu depending on the mother tongue and school of the students.


<b>Donors can also support 5 students for a year using the donation link in this page with $30 a month. </b>