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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