Asha for Education

Project Brief: GSBS runs Non-formal education (NFE) centers and Self-help groups (SHGs) but they are in a dysfunctional state. Asha's funding is to kickstart one NFE.
Project Type: Non-Formal Educational Centers (description)
Primary Focus: to go to formal school (description)

Secondary Focus: other

Area: Rural
Supporting Chapter Contact:
Canada

Status: CLOSED - ENDED
Project Steward: Navin Kashyap
Project Partner(s): Shekhar Jha
Project Address: Gyan Seva Bharati Sansthan - NFE Centers
At+Po-Kamalpur, Via-Kanauli Bazar, Distt-Supaul
Bihar 847451
Tel: +91-9934251400
Stewarding Chapter: Canada

The Project involves running two non-formal education (NFE) centres for children in the villages of Kamalpur and Hairpur, Supaul district, in the state of Bihar. These villages lie in the flood plains of North Bihar, and are subject to devastating annual floods. Around 60% of the land remains water-logged for six months of the year. There is almost no infrastructure in the form of roads, schools, hospitals etc. The literacy rate in the local community is approximately 40%.

The overall aims of the Project are:
- to provide children in the specified villages with the basic education and confidence necessary to enrol in, and attend, government or other mainstream (formal) schools.
- to instil in the children and their parents a sense of the importance of basic education;

The project would impact about 165 children in the two villages named above.

Specifically, the activities to be carried out for the Project are listed below:
- maintaining at least one teacher in each NFE centre;
- providing notebooks/slates for the children, and other
educational aids (textbooks, maps, charts) as appropriate for the lessons;
- periodically holding parent-teacher meetings to update parents on their children's progress;
- helping children seek admission into local government schools.