Asha for Education

Education of children

Khajurdaha Nabankur United Club (KNUC) is an organization started in Khajurdaha village in Dhaniakhali block of West Bengal with the aim of bringing socially-minded men and women to address the issues of poverty, illiteracy, unemployment. The project area predominantly consists of small and marginal farmers and landless labourers with average annual income of Rs. 6000.

KNUC identified that for sustained development in the area, one of the primary issues to address is the status of education among the children of Khajurdaha and surrounding villages. A Basic Education Programme was started in 1993 to provide education for the socially and economically deprived children. This programme evolved into the Learn Together Teach Other (LTTO) programme.

Khajurdaha Nabankur United Club functions in about 30 villages in the Dhaniakhali, Polba-Dadpur and Pandua blocks in Hoogli district of West Bengal covering approximately 45 sq. miles and 50,000 population. The occupation, income and livelihood of 75% people, belonging to big and small formers, share-croppers and agri-labourers are agrarian based. Rest of the population are traders, artisans, fishermen, vendors, day-labourers and salaried workers. The mean household income is approximately Rs. 6000/ year (1996 data).


The total project area comprising of 30 villages has only 11 primary schools for 1645 children and a secondary school for 570 children which are quite inadequate to cope with the needs of 8780 children in the 5-14 age group.