Category: Education Projects

The Mission Education project provides remedial education to school going children and dropouts in Mylai Balaji Nagar, Pallikaranai. At the centre, besides education, skill development training, conducts awareness programs on health & hygiene and environment protection are provided to the children. The centre offers an enabling environment and friendly spaces for the children to assimilate all these education programs.

Also referred to as Child Friendly Centre, the ME centre serves as a suitable platform where children and motivators come together and share their family and personal problems and thoughts and develop interpersonal relationships. The teaching is based on play-way methods through which education becomes interesting and more interacting. During the evening hours classes are conducted to reduce school dropout ratio for 1st standard to 9th standard.

The overall goal of the child friendly centre is to prevent the school dropouts, create the interest among the children to make them to attend the regular school and reduce the number of working children engaged in the slums.

Smile Foundation has partnered with AIM Trust for this Mission Education project.

This Mission Education project aims to fulfill the educational needs of disadvantaged children in the urban and rural areas of Visakhapatnam district in Andhra Pradesh. The main aim of this project is to bring runaways, orphans, child labourers and children from extremely poor families in the fold of education.

Visakhapatnam, being a prominent trade centre, attracts a large migrant population from surrounding areas and other parts of the country coming to work in its factories. A significant proportion of this migrant population comprises of daily wage labourers, living on a bare minimum. The children at the centre come from these families.

Parents-teacher meetings are conducted regularly every month wherein feedbacks are given regarding the child’s progress, strengths, weaknesses and talents. These meetings encourage the parents, mostly daily wage labourers who have never been to school, to become involved with their children’s education.

Along with education, the centre focuses on the hygiene and health conditions of these kids, as most of them live in dilapidated tenements in overcrowded slums. Committed volunteers are the real backbone behind this project’s success.

Smile Foundation has joined hands with Lepakshhi Educational Society for this project.

Smile Foundation has joined hands with Action for Autism for this novel Mission Education project in Delhi, focusing on special children suffering from Autism. The project focuses on reaching out to the vast number of children suffering from Autism across India and building an integrated approach of development for them with prime attention on Diagnosis and Assessments, Early Interventions & Counseling, Education, Family & Parent Skill Building and Life Skills Training.

The objective of the project is to help enable these children learn and function intellectually, physically and socially within their limitations. Children who have been diagnosed with Autism spectrum disorders are put into a structured curriculum – those between 2-8 years old get intensive intervention; those aged 8 years are taken for more generalized intervention. The socio-economic background of the children is also taken into consideration for developing an effective learning approach. Each class is a combination of group activities and one on one session with each child.

The project focuses on developing Individualized Education Programme (IEP), according to the needs and ability of each child. High level of parent involvement is encouraged at the centre. Parents are asked to come, watch and work with their children so that they can try the same methods at home.

Smile Foundation and Rasta have become partners to educate girl child between the ages of 3-14 years. The project “Education for Minority Girls” with support from Smile Foundation will be running 10 education centers for 300 girls from deserving minority community. The project aims at developing aptitude and interest in girls for education. The project area lacks significant number of schools and NGOs. Majority of girls receive discriminatory treatment in all walks of life including education. Most of them are either school drop out or have never been to schools.

The project targets 100 girls between the age group of 3 to 14 years in the beginning. Three education centres with 30 girls in each will be established.

Smile Foundation shall support Rasta for the following :-

• Enhancing level of awareness in the community regarding education of children.
• Reducing rate of school drop outs and out of the school children.
• Reducing child abuse cases.
• Rehabilitation of these children in the long run

Special focus on education and development

Rasta is dedicated to the welfare of marginalized children. In the process it incorporates innovative and latest teaching techniques in the course content for teachers training. Resource personnel from organizations like NCERT, SCERT and DIET are invited for input to teachers. Lessons are prepared for each class keeping in mind the scholastic level of each child. The project shall be implemented by preparing the community people to shoulder the responsibility of the project and with their active participation.

This Mission Education project provides quality education to the underprivileged children, mainly living in the slum areas of Jammu (Jammu & Kashmir). Majority of the people living in these areas are labourers, who are either the local people of Jammu or migrant workers from states like Bihar, Orissa, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.

The project focuses on the literacy, social and educational development of socio-economically disadvantaged people of nearby areas, by imparting quality education to children. The school’s curriculum is designed in such a way that special emphasis is laid on overall development of the child.

Remedial education is provided in specialized subjects like Science, Health and Environment, for children who are unable to cope with their studies. Besides classroom teaching, exhibitions, fetes, cultural events and outdoor excursions keep the learning process engaging and lively for the children.

Well equipped computer lab and library enhance the learning experience of the children and keep them interested in studies. It also helps them be at par with the standards of the formal education system.

Smile Foundation implements this Mission Education project with Ankur Vidyalaya.

This Mission Education project promotes welfare and development of underprivileged children at NOIDA in Uttar Pradesh. Children, mainly from the slum clusters in the locality, are imparted education under this Mission Education project.. In addition to providing educational support, the project incorporates healthcare services for the children and their parents.

Under this project, free education is provided to children up to Class V level, and thereafter they are mainstreamed in nearby formal schools and in appropriate classes. Their retention in schools is ensured through proper follow–ups. This integrated project aims to be a case study for empowering the society by providing education to children from the underprivileged section.

With experienced teachers and a series of extracurricular activities that are organised at regular intervals, the centre ensures all-round development of every child. Regular health check-ups and growth monitoring sessions are held at the centre. Keeping in mind the nutritional need and support, all children are served a balanced mid-day meal at the centre.

Smile Foundation is implementing this project with Sankalp Saksharta Samiti.

The primary beneficiary group of this Mission Education project located at Gurgaon in Haryana is children who are deprived of formal education and a protective environment at home which discourages their learning.

Many of them are first generation learners with their parents being mostly migrants who have come to this commercial centre in hope of better livelihood opportunities. These people prefer to choose unskilled wagery above education, for their children. The centre holds door to door meetings and group counseling sessions with the parents, to induct the children into the programme and holds regular parents teacher meetings, so that the parents remain actively involved in the progress of their children.

The centre, which has grown in capacity from eight to a 100 odd children today, has successfully mainstreamed many children in leading schools of Delhi and NCR like Amity International and Delhi Public School.

The centre also provides remedial education to the mainstreamed kids, to help them cope up with the formal educational setup. Nutrition is provided to all the children, along with regular health check-ups and training in various co-curricular activities.

Smile Foundation is implementing this project with NeeV.

This Mission Education project imparts quality education and life skills to underserved children from slums in and around South West Delhi, with special focus on girl children. Along with academics, emphasis is also laid on skill-based learning for the children.

The residential colonies in South West Delhi employ more than 10,000 domestic helpers, maids and drivers, who are immigrant workers living in the slums of Kishangarh, Bhawani Kunj, Shanti Kunj, Andheria Mod, Rangpuri Pahadi and Chhattarpur. As these people do not have residential proofs or birth certificates of their children, they face difficulty in sending their children to conventional schools. The centre aims at bridging this gap by providing education to these underprivileged children and mainstreaming them into the formal education system.

Activities and excursions are an integral part of the learning process at the centre. Events like Diwali Fete, Book Fair, picnics, dance, drama and poem recitation are organised to foster the all round development of the children. Health check-ups and counselling of parents and children on hygiene issues are done on a regular basis.

Smile Foundation has partnered with Nai Disha Educational and Cultural Society for this project.

This Mission Education Project provides education to children living in difficult circumstances in Budhwal in Ranagreddy District of Andhra Pradesh. Through its bridge course, the project benefits the children, who are mostly dropouts and among those who have never been to school before. Majority of the parents of the beneficiaries are migrants who work as daily wagers and rag pickers.

The project focuses on educating and thereby mainstreaming the children into formal schools. It aims to create opportunities for children for the age group of 6-14 years for skill learning with basic education for a better livelihood.

At the centre, special training is provided to the children through participatory mode, besides many recreational activities that are focused on ensuring enhancement of morale and motivation towards education.

Smile Foundation has partnered with Integrated Rural Development Organisation for this Mission Education project.

The main focus of this Mission Education project is to induct non-school going children and school drop-outs from the age of 6-11 years, and provide them primary education, basic life skills and relevant exposure to build on their core capacities.

Children from migrant families from different parts of the country, majorly the interiors of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal who have settled in the slum clusters of Dharavi, Mumbai, form the target group of the project. Engaged in unskilled labor work, most of the parents have never been to school and the problem of child labor is also rampant in the community.

Parents are guided to support and encourage their children to attend school regularly. They are engaged constantly in the learning process of their children, through community meetings, Parent Teacher Meetings and periodic home visits.

The project also provides support to students who are already in school, keeping in mind their holistic growth, and providing them with education, health and nutrition, to help reduce drop-outs.

Smile Foundation has partnered with Gosavi Bahuuddeshiya Sanstha for this Mission Education Project.