Sanctuary schools in tribal hamlets

Project Brief: 4 schools run in remote tribal villages in Kaigal valley in AP; meant for tribal children, especially girl children.
Project Type: Formal Schools (description)
Primary Focus: children of dalits/tribals (description)

Secondary Focus: girls

Area: Rural
Supporting Chapter Contact:
DC
Status: UNKNOWN
Project Steward: Manju Krishnan
Project Partner(s): Sudha Premnath
Project Address: Sanctuary schools in tribal hamlets
Kaigal, Thottakanam post
Baireddipalli Mandal
Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh 517415
Tel: 080-28435240
Stewarding Chapter: DC
May 2010DCUSD 5000
Feb 2010DCUSD 2000
Nov 2009DCUSD 5000
Jun 2009DCUSD 5000
Dec 2008DCUSD 5000
Jun 2008DCUSD 5000
Mar 2008DCUSD 5000
Apr 2007DCUSD 5000
Sep 2006DCUSD 5000

Total = $42000

The proposal calls for Asha to support the 4 existing schools and to help develop new ones for tribal children in Kaigal valley.
- The Sanctuary Schools are focused in providing a sound base in the early formative years of the child.
- The type of education provided integrates basic literacy with various other aspects of learning.
- The programme focuses on being contextual and appropriate.
- One that values the culture, traditional knowledge, lives of the people and local ecology
- It is built in an environment of freedom and responsibility.
- The primary goal of this education is to bring up a creative, intelligent and integrated human being.
KEEP works in Forest Conservation, Appropriate Education of children and adults, Livelihood and Basic Health of communities. These four areas of work must go together if there can be any fundamental change in the lives of the people and state of the environment. This is essential to support the tribal people where they live instead of them migrating to slums in the cities.