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Education
| Project Name | Independent Learners Project | |||||||||
| Amount Utilized (INR) | 800000 | |||||||||
| Project Description | Independent Learners Project is an afterschool program; an initiative to provide activity-based supplementary education and mental health support to children living in slum communities in Dahisar and Borivali (suburbs of Mumbai) and to the youth from different parts of the country, living in vulnerable socio-economic backgrounds. | |||||||||
| Locations | Mumbai suburban > Maharashtra (MH) | |||||||||
| Causes | Education > Education scholarships,Education > Teacher training,Education > Non formal education,Education > Remedial education,Education > Value education,Education > Promoting reading | |||||||||
| Beneficiary Group | Children,Women | |||||||||
| Beneficiary Description | Children living in vulnerable socio-economic backgorunds, mainly slum communities in Dahisar and Borivali (suburbs of Mumbai), Women living in slum communities in Mumbai 167 regular students, 27 women, 50+ alumni students | |||||||||
| Impact | 200+ students attended the project. The project was run in a hybrid mode - combining online and offline sessions. The students are divided in to 4 different learning programs - Beginners, Foundation, Discovery and Dream. They attended 3-5 days a week regular learning sessions of English, Life-skills, Value education. School study support program was run all 7 days a week. The students attended monthly therapeutic workshops and support for individual counselling. The students were provided school kits and educational resources. A special mental health support program was run for the mothers of the students on a monthly basis. | |||||||||
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| Project Name | Independent Learners Project | ||||||||||||||||||
| Amount Utilized (INR) | 150000 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Project Description | Independent Learners Project by Touching Lives is an afterschool program; an initiative to provide activity-based supplementary education to the children living in slum communities in Dahisar and Borivali - suburbs of Mumbai and to the youth from different parts of the country living in vulnerable socio-economic backgrounds. The committed students, aged 6 – 23 years, gain supplementary education, mental health support & mentoring for conscious parent–child–world relationships through several interconnected programs. All the students enrolling at Touching Lives are divided into four different programs – Beginners, Foundation, Discovery, Dream. There’s a separate therapeutic program for the parents of these students. The project is executed online - One hour each for thrice a week. The mentors also conduct individual and small-batch sessions with children on a weekly basis. The School Study program with volunteers is also executed online all seven days a week. The project supports more than 200 children and parents. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Locations | Mumbai suburban > Maharashtra (MH) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Causes | Education > Non formal education,Education > Promoting reading,Education > Education scholarships,Education > Digital Learning | ||||||||||||||||||
| Beneficiary Group | Children,Women | ||||||||||||||||||
| Beneficiary Description | Indira Nagar, Dhobi Ghat, Ganpat Patil Nagar, Pushpa Vihar, Shivaji Nagar, Rawal Pada and many more big and small slum clusters exist in Dahisar (a suburb of Mumbai), where thousands of families live in precarious conditions. Lack of electricity, water, washrooms and cluttered thatched houses is a reality that leads to uncertainty and apprehensions in their day-to-day life. Most of our children attend municipal or government-aided schools and live in slum communities. The students enrolling at Touching Lives are divided into four different learning programs – Beginners, Foundation, Discovery, Dream. The students are assigned to these programs based on entry-level assessment and their English reading levels at the time of admission. Hence, some of the students don’t necessarily fit into their age-appropriate program. Each program is further divided into smaller batches for better teacher-child ratio and for accommodating school/college timings. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Impact | With a persistent effort for more than a decade working with children from slum communities in Dahisar and Borivali in Mumbai, Touching Lives has supported educational journeys of hundreds of children over the years. We do provide long-term support to the students year after year. Education is a long-term commitment. Ram Soni, a student of Touching Lives had to drop-out of school multiple times to support his father selling vegetables and earning a living for the family. With the support of Touching Lives team and volunteers, Ram was able to get back to his education, earn a degree in Psychology and also get employment opportunity at Touching Lives. We provide safe and compassionate space where every child has opportunities to express themselves. Over the years, many children are now completing their higher education and thriving to move out of poverty. They are setting examples for others. More families are enlightened towards their participation in their child’s education and their own self-care. Thus, the model is a promise toward better quality of life, better employment and holistic development over generations. | ||||||||||||||||||
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