Empowering lesser-privileged children through education and learning
We are creating an ecosystem with mentors, volunteers, and community members to empower lesser-privileged children through education and learning.
The Challenge
Millions of children in lesser-privileged urban and rural communities find it challenging to get educated and inculcate social skills
to break out of a vicious cycle and reach their highest potential.
- A typical cross-section of children in government schools across India shows a very similar composition.
- Most of them are from lower-income groups of our social structure, with fathers working as daily wage earners doing unstable odd jobs and mothers working as maids or cooks in middle or upper-class urban households.
- Both parents are usually uneducated; at best, they know how to sign their names when needed.
- The environment in their families is not conducive to establishing any academic persuasion, nor are there any role models around who they can draw inspiration.
- Financial pressures at home and the lack of general encouragement from parents and peers are constant challenges that they have to deal with.
- Many are forced to drop out of school and follow precisely the same trajectory their parents followed before them.
- Very few can get educated enough and inculcate enough social skills to break out of this vicious cycle they are otherwise trapped in.
- With the ever-increasing number of urban and rural slum communities in every Indian city, the problem at hand is gigantic.
How are we addressing it?
Shaping a better society for the future
Learning Centers
At the moment, we run seven learning centers in Hyderabad – Filmnagar, Shaikpet, Gachibowli, Banjara Hills, Secunderabad, and Punjagutta.
We are creating learning centers for children in lesser-privileged urban and rural communities to support their education and learning.
Teaching
We conduct 17 batches daily throughout the year. That translates into 150 cumulative hours of direct classroom teaching per week, and in an academic year of 35 weeks, that is about 5000+ hours of teaching.
Classes are run before and after their school hours – where they are encouraged to learn Math, Science, and English in an effective way.
Each student is also taught Sports, Indian classical dance, music, and visual arts, helping in overall holistic development.
Mentors
We conduct classes with the help of our wide network of volunteers who dedicate 2-3 hours of their personal time every week to support the cause of lesser privileged children’s education.
These volunteers come from all ages and backgrounds. There are many professionals like – engineers, doctors, architects, designers, athletes, musicians, dancers and sports personnel.
Community Members
We also have community members (parents, elder siblings, neighbors of our classroom children, and those who belong to the lesser privileged section of our society) who are also helping in this initiative by teaching, logistically managing our centers, by cooking afternoon snacks for our classroom children and by providing transport.
All the community members earn a regular stipend from Ishva Foundation for their daily involvement.
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Ishva Learning Centers in Hyderabad are located at - Filmnagar, Shaikpet, Punjagutta, Secunderabad, Gachibowli, Srinagar Colony