Community projects of ‘Suri Natun Juger Pratyasha’ focuses on empowerment of children (and mothers) through awareness creation, bringing them under the network of education through non-formal education. In addition, sporadic (ad hoc) interventions of functional literacy/life skills education are also components of projects. All such initiatives strive to empower children (and mothers equally,) bring them at forefront and groomed suitably for managing their life and responsibilities successful.
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What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
SURI
Describe the specific population with whom you will be working.
However it is critical that education leads to legitimate goal- that is gainful employment and improved living conditions, extricating one from the cycle of poverty. Given the demographic dividend that more than a third of India’s population is below 18, it is of vital significance that greater number of such youth force are mainstreamed (integrated) into socio-economic frame of the country, contributing to society they live in and nation at large. It is also absolutely vital that such adolescent children(youths) are extricated from the clutches of poverty and brought under the wheel of economy -lest they are let loose and driven to the wall to adapt to means for survival which may be alarming for social harmony and national prosperity.
Who else will be on your team to help implement the project?
A Community Children’s Team (CCT) is proposed to be constituted involving 30 adolescent girl children as Team Members and empowered with skills training mentioned below:
Computer literacy including application of accounting software & Secretarial practices
Financial management
CCT Members shall be in age-group 16-19 years, having primary education and continuing studies. Learning shall include basics of computer (including excel and power point), internet surfing and mailing, making travel and accommodation reservations online, Tally package for accounting work, data entry and tabulation. The training duration shall be for 1 year and regular interactions /exposure to industries/business houses shall be facilitated.
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
In many instances in addition to the required assistance offered, donations and real requirements are a mismatch, eg. When students has received all the donated books, in fact student may be in need of a minimum decent clothing or a warm clothing or a simple footwear which family cannot afford.
There is no method or medium through which students can make a direct request to the donars about their basic and scholarly requirement. Needy students are identified by the concerned teachers when donars approach the school specific students gets the assistance.
What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?
Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established or plan to establish that will contribute to the success of the project.
The Spot light till now has been on expanding the infrastructure , appointing teachers, ensuring that school are at walk able distances and so on. The Right to Education Act covers children in the 6 to 14 years age group-so, drop outs need to be the biggest focus of the implementation mechanism being set up. Since the benefits that accrue to a country by having a literate population are multidimensional it becomes imperative to study the determinants of school drop-outs.To narrow down the gap between marginalized students and Donars:-We will introduce Interactive touch screen monitors with rich multimedia icon based local language spoken system.
How many participants do you think will be trained in your project?
Project Output- Birbhum, Suri and adjacent Villages
Program component Direct Beneficiaries
(Children) Indirect beneficiaries
(family members) Population reached
(Community)
• Financial literacy, Computer education, training in English communication 40(16-19 yrs) 200 10000
• Remedial education 40 (8-12 yrs) 200 10000
• Women empowerment
(Financial literacy) 40(Mothers) 200 10000
• Program output
Program component Direct Beneficiaries
(Children) Indirect beneficiaries
(family members) Population reached
(Community)
• Financial and E-Literacy, Secretarial practices 30 150 63000
• Remedial Education 127 90 families
• Social &Economic empowerment of Single parent 25 Women 125 63000
Describe which technologies, tools, and media you will focus on when training participants.
To narrow down the gap between marginalized students and Donars:-We will introduce Interactive touch screen monitors with rich multimedia icon based local language spoken system. This interactive system with most of basic requirements of students are in the form of children friendly Icons which student has to touch and speak out their requirement.
Describe the facilities where you will hold the workshops.
The Right to Education Act covers children in the 6 to 14 years age group-so, drop outs need to be the biggest focus of the implementation mechanism being set up. Since the benefits that accrue to a country by having a literate population are multidimensional it becomes imperative to study the determinants of school drop-outs.
What is your current relationship with the community with whom you plan to work? What makes you the most appropriate individual or organization to implement this project?
Education is the major factor influencing health especially female education. The low female literacy rate has had a dramatically negative impact on family planning or population stabilization efforts in India.
Many children experience difficulty when learning to read in school, although many do quite well outside school contexts and especially so when navigating video games, internet sites, and so on. Learning to read at school often is difficult because reading is generally conceived as requiring mastery of a code that maps human speech sounds to written symbols. Mastery this code is not a natural process, like development of language, and therefore typically although not always requires instruction
What specific challenges do you expect to face when planning and implementing your project?
To educate girl children in the rural areas through informal school-E-caravan- the project will bridge the gap between Rural girls and Modern Educational facilities, to provide the latest Information and Communication Technology ( ICT) as well as to extend Innovative sustainable project at their door step and to reduce the cost, Time and energy for overall empowerment & development of girl children is the idea of the project.
How will you measure and evaluate the project’s impact, specifically: your primary participants, the wider regional community, or the global digital community?
o To create awareness and correct knowledge among children about life skills and responsible adulthood through Functional Literacy
o To impart skills training for income-generating programs like designing and dress making for gainful employment including self enterprises
o Imparting e-literacy including computer –based practices enabling employment in organized services and retail sectors
If your project were to be selected as a Rising Voices grantee, what would be the general timeline of project activities in 2014?
CCT Members shall be in age-group 16-19 years, having primary education and continuing studies.
Learning shall include basics of computer (including excel and power point), internet surfing and mailing, making travel and accommodation reservations online, Tally package for accounting work, data entry and tabulation. The training duration shall be for 1 year and regular interactions /exposure to industries/business houses shall be facilitated.
Preference shall be given to girls. Training in E-Literacy, Secretarial practices and communication skills (in Hindi and English) shall be imparted. Admission for the training course shall be on basis of an aptitude and attitude test and comfort level with regard to employment in services/hospitality sector as Office Assistant/ PR Assistant.
Detail a specific budget of up to $2,500 USD for operating costs.
To educate children in the rural areas through informal school-E-caravan- the project will bridge the gap between Rural girls and Modern Educational facilities, to provide the latest Information and Communication Technology ( ICT) as well as to extend Innovative sustainable project at their door step and to reduce the cost, Time and energy for overall empowerment & development of girl children is the idea of the project. The Mobile Educational Unit Comprises LED Screen, Internet Access, Workshop, Vehicle( e-Caravan)-overall project cost $2500/- to reach among the remote villages and communities with modern equipment and Resource manpower.
Besides the microgrant funding, what other support can Rising Voices provide for your project to ensure its success?
It will be useful to implement the project to reach the diversifies areas of remote villages-a mobile vehicle is essentially required to to cover the diversified zones with our dedicated Resource Persons and Volunteers.
Contact name
Sagar Sengupta
Organization
SURI NATUN JUGER PRATYASHA
