AVEHI ABACUS

PROJECT

1990-2018

Date: June 6th 2018

Avehi Abacus Project and Team

• Avehi public Charitable trust founded in 1981

• AVEHI- Audio Visual Education.

• The Avehi-ABACUS project (AAP) was initiated in 1990 in Mumbai, to strengthen education in primary schools by promoting interactive discussions through stories and games.

• They focus on a parallel curriculum promoting values of equality, justice, gender parity, secularism, environmental sustainability.

• Asha is affiliated with Avehi since 1999 and Asha Seattle from 2000

Ms. Simantini Dhuru Trustee Director of Avehi Abacus Project

Dr. Ms. Malvika Chari

Ms. Chandita Mukherjee

Dr. Ms. Saroj Jha

Dr. Ms. Anjali Monteiro

Ms. Vasudha Ambiye

Ms. Pushpa Singhvi

AAP Initiatives

•Sangati (children)

•Manthan (teachers)

•Saath Saath (children)

Sangati

• Designed for 5th to 7th grade students.

• Used in 946 MCGM schools and has reached more than 10,000 teachers and Two and half lac children since last thirteen years. Also implemented in a few well-known private schools that engage in innovation across the country.

• Key impacts

o Enhance Life Skill Quality Education in Schools.

o Enhance general academic performance by making learning enjoyable.

o Enables teachers to refresh their teaching skills, self-growth & personality development.

o Supplemental course material with audio-visual material focused on social subjects integrating the learning in school with learning beyond the school boundaries.

o Builds valuable skills: critical thinking, listening, analyzing, independent decision making, harmony and diversity.

Sangati: Topics CoveredI. Myself, my body, our Needs

• I am unique and yet share something with every human being.

• Explores understanding of the potentials & limitations of the human body

• Regardless of all differences human beings have the same needs

II. Our earth and the web of life

• Provides the resources that make it possible for us to fulfill our needs

• The web of life: all life has evolved as a complex, interlinked and continuing process

III. How societies developed

• Will help understand our own lives better (supplements history well)

IV. The way we live today

• Continuing changes in technology and different social, economic, political and cultural institutions which influence how we live today (captures gender

discrimination, economic inequalities, communalism, media influence)

V. Understanding change

• which characterizes our relationships, with all forms of life and the environment.

• It is only by understanding these changes and their impact that we can learn to deal with them and create the kind of lives and society we want

VI. Preparing for our future

• Exploring alternatives for ourselves as well as our society and earth

Sangati: Rollout History

Phase 1: (June 1991 to March 1996)

• Mahalaxmi municipal school -- 35 children (same group from Std. III to Std. VII)

Phase 2 (June 1996 to March 2001)

• 25 municipal schools – 6962 children (Std. III to Std. VII)

• 35 NFE centers with children age group between 8 & 13

• 2 private schools (Std. III to Std. VII)

Phase 3 (June 2001 to March 2005)

• 180 municipal schools in 2 municipal wards in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu, Gujarati, English, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu schools covering 42,000 children (Std. V to Std. VII)

• 120 Zilla Parishad schools in Yawatmal and Chandrapur districts – 27,924 children

• 50 NFE centers

• Several private schools

Phase 4 (June 2006 to 2016)

• All 905 municipal schools of Mumbai

• Supporting one batch through three years instead of 3 batches at same time due to financial constraints

Phase 5 (June 2016 to 2018)

• Supporting two batches and plan to cover all three batches in parallel from next year

Expected results from Sangati

Sangati - Planned activities 2018 -19

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Sangati - Planned activities 2018 -19

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Manthan

• Training course designed for teachers enrolled for the Diploma in Teacher Education (DTEd)

• Two year foundation course with 50 sessions

• First pilot was conducted during 1998 and 2000 with 200 students

• Due to overwhelming response, Manthan was been granted permission by the Maharashtra State Council for Educational Research and Training for implementing the program in PanvelDistrict Institute of Education and Training (DIET) and 10 other affiliated colleges

• Awareness workshops organized for principals and teacher educators which has helped with implementation of the program

DistrictDTed

colleges

Palghar 17

Thane 17

Raigad 17

Total No of

trainee

teachers600

Manthan: Planned activities 2018-19

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Manthan: Planned activities 2018-19

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Saath Saath

• Saath Saath course focuses on gender equality in schools

• It is currently available in English medium schools underthe Archdiocesan Board of education, Mumbai

• AAP proposes to translate it in Hindi for wider use both inschool set up and in community set up

• Problems raised because of Gender Discrimination andother basti level issues are being addressed in SaathSaath program.

2017-18 funds utilization

Printing of teaching aids, Teacher’s manuals (1,2,3,4,5 themes of Kits 250 sets each – No need to reprint kit 6 as there were sufficient copies in the stock) and Student’s material (for all students of St V, VI and VII.

Packaging of above.

Local travel in Mumbai for follow-up in schools (excluding Ashram Shalas and Manthan colleges)

Salaries to Field Representatives (approx.. 50 persons)

Part Salaries of Field Coordinators responsible for Zones (total 8 persons) (part from AJWS)

Rent to BMC for the two rooms in K.K. Khadye Marg where project office is housed.

Translation of reports, field study tools, field report findings etc.

Administrative expenses (phone, office stationary, daily tea expenses, misc. newspapers and periodicals)

Name of the

Partner NGOs

Mahila Jan

Adhikaar

Samiti (2015-16)

Sahajani

Shiksha

Kendra (2015-

18)

Alwar Mewat Institute

of Education and

Development (AMIED)

(2016-18)

Siddharth Nagar ,

Andheri by Avehi

Abacus Project

(2016-18)

Numbers of

Community base

centers

19 62 11 1

Numbers of

adolescent and

women's

600

Adolescent

Girls- boys

1790

Adolescent

Girls

2855

women's

275

Adolescent Girls

25

Adolescent Girls-

boys

Numbers of

schools

5 60 1

Numbers of

Students

530 (std 5-8) 1000 35

Grand Total of

participants

1130 5645 310 25

Outreach of Saath Saath2015 -2018

AAP Success Stories

• AAP has been playing the role of a resource organization for WIPRO’s

Earthian initiative’s Continuous Engagement Program along with the

Centre for Environment Education (CEE) where elements of Sangati and

Manthan have been used to develop and strengthen components of Education for Sustainable Development.

• Sangati and Manthan progress and achievements have motivated various

organizations to seek help of Ms. Simantini Dhuru, project Director of Avehi

to help revise their curriculum based on Avehi’s ideologies. The

organizations include – TISS (Mumbai), MSCERT (Mumbai),State teachers

training board (Mumbai).

• The organization has been actively involved in working for Right to equal

quality education for all and has connected with other like minded civil

society groups and eminent educationist to build State and National level

forums.

• The Member Secretary of the National Council for Teacher Education

(NCTE), a central curriculum formulating and approving body for Pre-

service Teacher Education had asked AAP to submit the entire two year

course curriculum, which was presented and is waiting for approval.

Sangati Outreach: Schools 946 Teachers 2500 Students: 59400

Manthan Outreach: Colleges 17 Teacher educators17 Trainee teachers 600

Funding Status & Budget

Sources of Revenue (Income)

DonorsContribution

Rs.

Asha For Education Expected ( June 2018)7,986,000.00

Asha for Education One time funding (2017 Nov) 2,185,000.00

AID IN CHICAGO Expected500,000.00

AMMADA TRUST Expected175,000.00

HILTON FUND FOR SISTERS

Committed964,000.00

AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE

Committed600,000.00

Sanghavi Trust Expected300,000.00

ISABELA MARTIN FOUNDATION

Committed2,275,000.00

Other donors3,000,000.00

17,985,000.00

AAP Budget – 1 of 3

AAP Budget – 2 of 3

AAP Budget – 3 of 3

Site visit Seema Chaudhary, Project co-steward,

visited AVEHI Dec 28th

2017 and provided a

positive feedback. Site

Visit report is submitted .

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