Literacy
AID strongly believes that Literacy is one of the rudimentory part of it's holistic development approach towards a better india.The paradigm of implementing an idea with local support to solve a problem whose solution is imperative whilst simultaneously learning about other problems and eventually solving them is dear to AID. Most of our AID volunteers, returned to India, have been working with committed NGOs, which carry the similar vision and approach...
An Awakening - Lodhar School
...Jagiriti's approach has been to encourage villagers to come up with solutions to their own problems and the positive effects of this approach are quite noticeable. Jagriti manages the school while the employees themselves are local villagers. The medium of instruction is Hindi and Uttar Pradesh state board curriculum is followed. The school functions very well and the villagers lovingly refer to it as "our school" as opposed to the government school...[more]
Aranyika
...In an area where the female literacy rate is 3%, Aranyika's first project
has been to set up 10 functional education schools for village girls. At
these schools, apart from learning Telugu and Math, they will be trained in
vocations such as leaf-plate stitching, pot-painting, glove-making etc. The
education itself is geared at preparing them to be leaders in the
community....[more]
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