Education Development Centre India is a legacy organization set up by EDC Inc.
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Minority Education for Growth & Advancement-Skills for Youth
MEGA-SkY
Goal
Provide educational and skills development opportunities to disadvantaged children and youth especially from minority Muslim community in North India, particularly girls for getting them mainstreamed into the nation’s formal education system.
Needs Assessment Study & Project Strategy Development
Questionnaire Survey- Teachers/ Heads/ Officials
Focus Group Discussion- Youth/ Students/ Parents
School/Madarsa Observation
ACCESS ENVIRONMENT
QUALITY SKILLS
‘ACE’ APPROACH
Access (A)• Community level enrolment drives• Taraqqi (Progress) Center Activities:
Bridge Courses (out of school youth)
Supportive coaching
Vocational Training
Learning Camps
Communication (C)• Needs Assessment Studies• Consultations & Advocacy W’shops• Household Survey• Community Support Groups• Youth Volunteers
Excellence (E)• Madrasa Teacher training Program (MTTP)• Madrasa Leaders Training program (MLDP)• Urdu-English Interactive Audio Instruction
(IAI)
Community Support Groups (CSG)
Mothers Group Meeting,
Tonk, Rajasthan
Community Meeting, Mallihabad, UP
Local Implementing Partners (LIP)
Block Team,Varanasi, UP
11 LIP’s for 12 Blocks
Each Block Team:
•1 Block Co-ordinator•2 Supervisors•10-15 Youth Volunteers
Volunteers recruitment & enablement
188 Youth Volunteers(81 Females, 107 Males)
Exposure Visits
Training Workshops
Advocacy Workshops & Conferences
Career Paths W’shop,
Jehangirpuri, Delhi
‘ABLE’ Workshop Lucknow, UP
Youth Volunteers Activities
Household Survey
Admission Campaigns
Awareness Campaigns
Coaching / Guidance in Schools/Madarsas
Taraqqi (Progress) Centres
Supportive Coaching
Bridge Coaching
Vocational Training
Guidance
56 Taraqqi Centres (TC)
XX: Volunteer Hours Committed to MEGA-SkY
Bihar 46,176
Delhi 31,200
Rajasthan 84,864
Uttar Pradesh 76,128
Total 238,368 hrs
Inter Community Environment Building
Over 100 Madarsa’s partnered Madarsa Leadership Development Programme (MLDP) Madarsa Teacher Training Programme (MTTP ) ‘Time for English’ Urdu to English Interactive Audio Interaction (IAI)
120 Heads (Leaders)
•Using Technology to improve learning•Planned Lessons with measurable Learning Outcomes •Joyful and age appropriate pedagogy using stories, games and activities•Community/Parental Inclusion & Support•Resource mobilization & management•Synergy with Govt & NGO’s
204 Teachers
Results/Outputs
51,580 children reached. 28,470 girls and 23,110 boys
6,590 youth- 6,049 young women and 541 young men received vocational training
188 Youth (81 Females, 107 Males) enabled as community change agents
51 Community Support groups (CSG) and 56Tarraqi (Coaching & Guidance) Centres established
Project Dissemination Workshops
Recognition & Appreciation
Print Media: Times of India,India Today, The HinduHindi & Urdu NewspaperTV: CNN-IBN, ETV-Urdu
Tarannum,Tabassum and Rubina all 18-year-olds hailing from a small town near Varanasi, were forced to quit their studies after class tenth. But this did not deter them from educating others.They revived a 17-year-old defunct madrasa into a buzzing coaching, training and guidance centre for children and youth of their area.
REAL HEROES 2012 AWARD to MEGA-SkY Youth Volunteers
Key learning
Close engagement with the community is critical to a qualitative and sustainable intervention
Good quality education is valued by children and their parents; good teaching and child friendly environment leads to better participation and thereby more learning.
It is desirable and achievable to make a difference to the educational status of the disadvantaged children/youth through a collaborative effort
Sense of Membership
Bonding/Networking
Mutual Responsibility
Agreement on vision
Sense of Membership
Bonding/Networking
Mutual Responsibility
Agreement on vision
Identification of leaders and resources
Informal/Formal Communication
Behind-the-scenes support
Identification of leaders and resources
Informal/Formal Communication
Behind-the-scenes support
Clarity of Goals
Passion for Action
Leadership and Problem-solving Capacity
Wide participation and autonomy
Visible performance
Clarity of Goals
Passion for Action
Leadership and Problem-solving Capacity
Wide participation and autonomy
Visible performance
Sense of Membership
Bonding/Networking
Mutual Responsibility
Agreement on vision
Sense of Membership
Bonding/Networking
Mutual Responsibility
Agreement on vision
Identification of leaders and resources
Informal/Formal Communication
Behind-the-scenes support
Identification of leaders and resources
Informal/Formal Communication
Behind-the-scenes support
Clarity of Goals
Passion for Action
Leadership and Problem-solving Capacity
Wide participation and autonomy
Visible performance
Clarity of Goals
Passion for Action
Leadership and Problem-solving Capacity
Wide participation and autonomy
Visible performance
Their Right to Education
We will strive to reach out and not be deterred even if the flood waters are reaching….
Search for opportunity no matter how tough the situation may seem…..
This cannot be their future.
WE HAVE TO ENSURE IT….
….that every child gets the necessary support and environment for good education…
..whether it is tin sheds..
Or under thatched roof….
….all support has to be sought to do the needful.
If we get stuck..then TOGETHER we will strive to move forward.
Even floods won’t deter and if needed will swim across.
…and do whatever it takes to light up smiles with EDUCATION.
TAKE ACTION
Be the
CHANGE AGENT