Education

Creating Joyful, Empowering Education Which Enhances Livelihood Options, Creating Socially And Environmentally Conscious Citizens Who Are Catalysts For Change.

269 MILLION                     

ILLITERATE PEOPLE IN INDIA

36 PERCENT

OF INDIA'S  POPULATION CANNOT READ OR WRITE

1 OUT OF 5

GIRLS DROPS OUT OF SCHOOL BEFORE 8th GRADE

 

At The Stya Swaraaj Foundation, We Work With Children In Schools, Anganwadis And Junior Colleges To Ensure That Learning Is Fun, Learning Is Holistic And Learning Is Empowering. We Believe Good Education Is One That Broadens Horizons, Creates Choices For The Child To Achieve Her/His Dreams.

PROGRAMMES

 

• MINDSET CHANGE

To empower school staff to lead by example, we provide extensive leadership training to principals and in-service training to teachers and anganwadi workers. In addition, we have setup a learning resource center exclusively for children with special needs (CWSN) and trained another 323 teachers to teach and train these special children.

• ENABLING ENVIRONMENT

Interventions include Infrastructure upgrades / Learning tools such as drinking water and hand wash stations and sanitation (separate urinals and toilets for boys and girls respectively; as per UNICEF guidelines), setting up of libraries, computer labs, activity based learning, science and math kits for interactive and joyful learning.

• FUTURE READY

We provide two types of scholarships to deserving students who come from unprivileged families. Mass Scholarships are for students to uptake Grade XI and XII whereas Excellence Scholarships are for students who want to pursue professional courses like CA, CS, Engineering and Medical. In addition to that we provide career counselling to prepare students and parents for future opportunities. Forming and strengthening of school management committees who are empowered to act upon any issues pertaining to their school management and ensure corrective action through appropriate mechanisms.