Project Brief: Support SPAN to provide alternative education for ~300 children in Anandadhara, DumDum center
Project Type: Alternative Education (description)
Primary Focus: children from slums (description)

Secondary Focus: to go to formal school

Area: Tribal
Supporting Chapter Contact:
Atlanta

Status: CLOSED - COMPLETED
Project Steward: Abhyuday Mandal
Project Partner(s): Prabir Basu
Project Address: Anandadhara- SPAN
(SPAN) Society for Peoples’ Awa
66/2, Sarat Chandra Dhar Road
Kolkata, West Bengal 700090
Tel: 091-033-2531-9856/6484/2577-37
Stewarding Chapter: Atlanta

SPAN runs education centers at nine slums of Kolkata and Suburbs. Wherein the children in difficult circumstances are motivated to drop in these centers, get the nurturing through joyful learning and mainstreamed in government schools. All these centers are under the name of “Anandadhara Shikshayatan”. Thus it so conceptualized that SPAN’s intervention in the area of education is known by ‘Anandadhara’. All the centers of Anandadhara are guided by a philosophy of democracy. Democracy does not happen by chance. They result from explicit attempts by educators to put in place arrangements and opportunities that will bring democracy to life. These arrangements and opportunities involve two lines of work. One is to create democratic structures and processes by which life in the schools is carried out. The other is to create a curriculum that will give young people democratic experiences.
In DumDum municipal area Anandadhara has its own premises, which is considered as the storehouse of the democratic values that emanate and a center of demonstrating those to its other branches as well.