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Little Extra is engaged in developing the Literacy
to Learning Programme for children and parents from low income groups. Little Extra aims to empower, through learning,
the children of urban economically challenged families.
In a country like ours, to go to school is a function of luck. It is based on the fact of our birth into a kind
of home. Those who get access to private or public schooling are a small percentage of the school-goers; others
settle for government schools with little infrastructure and even less quality of teaching or curriculum structure.
And there are hundreds of thousands in this country who will never be able to go to school. That is a function
of their birth.
Whether or not this is fair, it is a reality. We need to understand that spreading literacy may be the beginning;
it is not a solution to this problem. Little Extra believes that a quality of education needs to be accessible
to those who are willing to learn. |
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Should the 'haves' of society be stripped
of all their material possessions, they will never land up on a footpath in a slum. Their exposure to education
will inevitably help them to think their way out of that disaster. Should the 'have-nots' be endowed with a legacy,
their lack of exposure to education will not give them the skill to turn that endowment into a resource that can
grow. Charity remains a short-sighted helping hand for people who we have learned to call the poor and needy.
These are simply people who happen to have been born into economic parameters not of their choosing. Only Education
of quality can make any real, significant, long-term difference to the quality of their lives. Employed and executed
in an effective way, this quality of Education creates intelligence in every individual, activates personal resources,
and encourages change.
There is need to spread this empowerment. |
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