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| Ek Prayaas is a learning center to empower learners
of a different economic parameter. In two years of their existence they have achieved an immense amount with little
or no backing. |
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They house a school for the children of urban
slum dwellers and provide facilities from Nursery to Class IV. |
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Most of these children live in homes, not
the streets, and they belong, typically, to single-parent families. Their parent is usually a daily-wage earner
or a household help. |
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Some of the children are engaged in child
labour because of economic needs in the family. |
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The teachers at Ek Prayas are a mix of people
who have teaching experience non-formally at the Montessori level with small, unrecognized schools, and women from
the slums who opted to teach, having had primary education themselves, instead of becoming involved in low-paying
jobs as seamstress or household help. |
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Ek Prayas provides a nutrition plan for its
children: breakfast and a meal. Its also provides health facilities and literacy. |
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The collaboration between Ek Prayas and Little
Extra seeks to bring a quality of education to these families.
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A Teacher Training
programme empowers non-degree holding teaching staff to acquire a sensibility, skills, and capacity to apply information
and knowledge in the classroom and beyond it. |
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A structure of curriculum
(researched from NCERT) empowers students to be part of mainstream learning in spite of marginalized social realities
and exclusivity of mainstream schools. |
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Workshops on vocational
training empower students who are not inclined towards academia to find skill-oriented apprenticeships in trade. |
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A parent-awareness
programme empowers mothers to reactivate their own neglected education and shared home assignments empower them
to sustain interest in their child’s education. Modules are also available on issues of health and hygiene, and
management of limited income. |
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We might, in the long
term, be able to set up small scale industries that groups of mothers can run, from which income can become available
to them directly. |
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