Manav Seva Sansthan

Objectives

• Increased access and improve quality education for Dalit and Muslim girls
• Government becomes sensitive to and implements specific provisions to reach out to marginalised girls

Activities

In a nutshell, activities entail increased availability of quality education, particularly to marginalised girls and development of leadership amongst animators from the community to sustain the resource centres. Specifically, the activities are:

• Running of education centres
• Managing the Mobile Resource Centre through community support
• Provision of input supply material for education centres
• Community mobilisation
• Establishing linkages with state and district level government officials

Expected Results

• 15 Education centres run by skilled teachers under the guidance of Slum Education Committees
• Mobile Resource Centre is run for providing quality and equality in education
• Women leaders have mobilised the community for sending girls to schools and quality education especially for slum girls
• Improved teaching learning environment will help build children's and teachers motivation and also enhance the learning levels
• Children, teachers and parents will develop a good understanding of gender, class and caste based discrimination and how to address the same
• Quality documents on efforts done to improve quality education and their impact on slum children produced for sharing learning processes and replicability

Funder

Oxfam (India) Trust