Education is the key to building human capital and human capital is the most vital ingredient in building a nation. Educating the girls is to key to building their self esteem and confidence. Studies have shown that women who are educated as girls tend to have fewer and healthier children. The educational programme of INDCARE primarily focuses on learning rather than teaching and caters to meet the minimum educational needs of all age groups.

Primary Education Enhancement Programme(PEEP)

Supported by UNICEF, AUS AID and NIUA, this project targets primary education of underprivileged children in urban poor communities in need of special protection. Children of age group 0-5 years are taken care through certain activities:

  • Non-Formal education
  • Personal grooming
  • Enrollment of drop outs in the formal schools.
  • Preparation of child for admission in formal schools

Under this project, INDCARE has been focusing on the education needs of children in the west zone of Delhi through:

  • Balwadies
  • Crèche
  • Neighbourhood groups

Pre- School Education (BALWADI)

Balwadies have been started in fifteen different slums of Delhi. A syllabus for the pre-school goers has been designed in order to enable the teachers to teach the kids in a more practical way using the play way method. The progress of each child is recorded. At the end of the session, they are made ready for admission in the formal schools.

Non Formal Education for Street and Working Children

To increase the literacy rate amongst the street and working children, INDCARE has taken initiative with the Department of Education, under the ministry of HRD, to start 25 Non Formal Education centers in 6 different slums of Delhi.

 

Remidial Teaching

With the aim of retaining children in schools, preventing school dropouts and ensuring achievement of essential levels of learning, INDCARE provides remedial teaching/coaching supplemented byadditional inputs in learning under the continous guidance and suppervission of experienced teachers who help the children to cope with their studies.

 

Adult Education Program

The Adult education program has been intiated in order to make the women understand the importance of education so that they can encourage their children to attend the school regularly. INDCARE believes that a literate mother can not have illiterate children. Thus, the basic reading and writing skills are imparted to women living in the different slum areas of Delhi.

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The Primary Education Enhancement programme has a record 5460 enrolments as INDCARE contribution for the project in its four years of implementation

INDCARE is implementing the children activities in the communities that we are working in since 1989. Children are an important part of any programme that INDCARE undertakes. They are not only taken as an integral part of the programme but a very important component of the whole process of development. When INDCARE talks of the issues of women, her family smoothly rolls into the plan of action for the development of the community. At INDCARE we have divided the activities for the children according to their age groups. For a person at INDCARE the child is very important, as he is the future of the community and the society per se.

  • The age group division for the children is as follows from 3-6 years for the Balwadis, which are total, ten in number running in 10 communities of INDCARE.Five Balwadis are supported by Action Aid India, one by Delhi Social Welfare Advisory Board, two by National Foundation for India and three are run by INDCARE as the need for the same arose from the community for the Balwadis in the area. In all INDCARE is covering 265 children and hence reaching out to 265 families through the balwadis.
  • Two remedial classes are run in the resettlement colony of Shiv Vihar and they are supported by Action Aid India. One center is run at Tilak Vihar, which is run by INDCARE. In each of the centers there are 20 children each. Thus we reach about 60 children through remedial classes and hence reaching the 60 families in the community.

  • Bacchon ki awaz 'Bal Panchayat' has been constituted in Holumbi Kalan, Vikas Nagar, Shiv Vihar, Inder Puri, Kali Basti, Vikas Puri, Shanker Garden, and Raghubir Nagar. Each area has 15-20 children. The contact person for the same is Priyanka at INDCARE. The children meet on every Wednesday at a time that is suitable for them. The coverage is for about 160 children in the communities. We at INDCARE are building up this institution of Bal Panchayat slowly but surely. The age group for the children is 8-15 years of age and the forum intends to spread awareness among the children of their rights. Among this head the children are taken to the exposure visit of Rail Museum. This programme is supported by Action Aid India.

  • After a series of training on Disability Sensitization and Rights of the Disabled etc. INDCARE has done a survey for the assessment of the need of the Programme. It has been found that there are 300 children with disabilities in the communities where the Bal Panchayat is existing. INDCARE has pledged to bring up the issues of the disabled in a rights based approach by providing the disability certificates as a matter of rights for the child, linkages like that of the School and Vocational are also in the pipeline. Five Camps were held in the community of Raghubir Nagar, Kali Basti, Shiv Vihar, Camp No. II Vikas Puri and Inder Puri. INDCARE Staff is going for an International training for the Disability issues and will become a trainer for the rest of the Programme staff. This programme is supported by Action Aid India.
  • Scholarship programme for the women of SHG has begun for the children who are in class 9-12. The women are insured and the premium amounts to Rs. 100 per annum. INDCARE wishes to include the staff for the same.

  • Advocacy for the rights of the children is one major issue with INDCARE. The Public Hearings at Hastsal and Holumbi Kalan resettlement sites has ensured that the schools in the area are opened. About 937 children are attending the School opened at Hastsal. The Chief Minister of Delhi promised two schools with constructed buildings to be opened in the community. Thus benefiting another fifteen hundred children in the community.

  • Apart from this the children of the communities where INDCARE is working in is involved in the Pulse Polio Programme. The Animators and the Balwadi teachers are engrossed in the community at that time to popularize the concept of Pulse polio programme. About 3000 children were given Polio drops on the 5th January 2003.

  • INDCARE has networked with the NGO forum for Street and Working children. Mrs. Reeva Sood was the Convener of the same for two years and brought many programme to the Forum from resource providers like that of the UNICEF.

  • Action Aid Supports INDCARE projects through an indirect sponsorship programme of 600 children.

  • Other activities of INDCARE for the children are like that of linkages with various agencies that offer some activities for the children. We also hold Bal Mela and have Inter Bal Panchayat Competitions. The paintings on Mere Sapno ka Ghar were published as the calendar for year 2002 by Urban Management Programme, UN Habitat. Our children go to the various forums and functions and present the plays on social issues like early marriage and so on. Rallies are an important part of the programme of the children as they advocate for their own rights in their unique ways. INDCARE has covered about 300 children through such interventions over a period of time.

  • One hundred children are attending the children programme for the children who have never been to school and upgrading them to the standard of the levels in which they will reach a level of at least primary classes in a given specified programme. Department of Education and Department of Social Welfare support these centers and are called the Learning Centers.

  • The Primary Education Enhancement programme has a record 5460 enrolments as INDCARE contribution for the project in its four years of implementation.

  • The total number of children covered by INDCARE has been 12,822 over the years.
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