Asha for Education

1. Payir believes that the eventual ownership and implementation of ideas of holistic community development should come from and be owned by the community having its own set of leaders/experts. The existing learning environment does not provide scope for the development of such leaders/experts- leaders in local village governance; in areas of rural arts, crafts and culture; in local ecology; in traditional practices of farming, health and engineering; in local water bodies management and such areas of expertise which focuses on holistic rural
empowerment and development. The learning center is an effort in line to nurture such leaders by working with a small set of children from their formative years.

2. The intervention program aims to introduce a number of systemic changes needed to increase the percentage of attendance at government school around Thennur.
-By making school more engaging and activity oriented for students
- Creating the right environment in terms of infrastructure, social education to parents and community at large on shift on attitude towards inclusive and holistic education.

3. The project will also provide for temporary accommodation for children of migratory workers which will not hamper their education.

Payir was founded in 2004 January by Senthilkumar Gopalan an engineer who had worked in India and US in various industries ranging from Thermal Power Plants to Information Technology.

Vision:
Payir envisages the transformation of Indian villages into a socially stimulating, self reliant, growth oriented community rooted in the principles of Truth - a society where people practice and interact with the highest moral values

Key Objectives:
1. Make primary health care, first level curative care, referral care and palliative care available to all villagers at affordable cost.
2.Facilitate access to secondary and tertiary health care with close networking
3.Provide holistic, creative and value based education to rural children through non-formal methods
4. Be a learning and a resource center for skill building of village youths on traditional trades and rural crafts
5.Initiate and facilitate in creation of community based rural industries.
6.Promote alternate and best practices on agricultural and live-stock development and management
7.Facilitate in Panchayat development including infrastructure, sanitation and civic systems
8.Promote the growth of a truth and peace oriented village community through the concepts of Sarvodaya