After School Club
Our “After School Club”(ASC) program aims to supplement the current public education system for the community, by focusing on three activities:
- Help “out of school” children develop the basic learning skills needed for them to be “ready for school”
- Provide after-school support (eg: doubt clearance, reinforcement of key concepts) to children already enrolled in a government school.
- Incentivize participation through parent engagement and incentives (eg: provision of all school supplies and learning aids, 1 meal supplement per day, regular free health check-ups).
Foundational literacy & numeracy
- Non- formal education and early childcare.
- Help “out of school” children develop the basic learning skills needed for them to be “ready for school”.
- Help mainstream out of school children to public education system.
- Provide after-school support (eg: doubt clearance, reinforcement of key concepts) to children already enrolled in a government school.
Nutrition and Growth
- Freshly prepared, hot, nutritious lunch served in ASC.
- Nutritional supplementation (small meals of 12-gm proteins and 800 calories each day of the attending the programme).
- Monitoring of growth
- Remedial supplements, as needed for deficiency diseases
Health and Immunisation
- Promoting health via health education
- Promoting hygiene and sanitation practices, providing hygiene kits.
- Regular health checks, and access to medical facilities when needed.
- Monitoring and encouraging immunisation.
- In association with local Primary Health Centre and doctors.
Socialising & Personality Development
- ASC is a safe place for children who are usually unsupervised in slums
- Overall personality development through specialized learning programs
- Encourage peer to peer learning and socialisation
- Provide role models for children
- Prevention of addictions
Focussing on understanding child psychology and learning capabilities, Nutritional supplementation (small meals of 5-gm proteins and 150-200 calories each day of the attending the programme), monitoring of growth1 and immunisation.2 (On going, started Aug 2020).
Early learning and child care centre, making them school-ready.
Puppet making, storytelling, watching cartoon shows / nursery rhymes/ story books.
Children learn to express, imagine and identify. Focus on oral pedagogy and introduction to the alphabet.
For 6-13 year olds:
Scale up to 3 such schools over 2-3 years, along with ongoing support for Phase 1 community, taking total children impacted to 500 by end of Year 5 of the programme.
Augmented and continued learning of the concepts taught under the Public Education System.
Help out of school children integrate into the Public Education System with support for catch-up learning with more intensive coaching.
Decrease dropout rates from formal school
Our Progress so far
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