Objectives

• Improve and provide quality education to children in school going age group with a special focus on girl children

• Enhance people's participation in educational processes

• Collaborate with government schools and relevant agencies/ schemes to leverage resources to improve quality of education for effective functioning of schools

• Promote inclusive education through community based rehabilitation

• Promote women's education and empowerment

• Impart appropriate livelihood education among youth

• Promote community institutions to sustain and own development interventions and processes.

• Create awareness within communities about roles, responsibilities and rights to community development

• Improve economic conditions of the community

Major Accomplishments

• Setting up of quality education schools in 15 villages

• Bringing 335 girl children in the fold of education

• Promotion of Village Education Development Communities in 10 villages, and an apex forum called Mewat Shiksha Panchayat

• Sensitizing and creating awareness among communities about the importance of education in general and girl child education in particular

• Collaboration with 10 government schools resulting in their improved functioning; setting up libraries in these schools; organizing children's day celebrations jointly with these schools; and providing 4 teachers to 2 government schools

• Empowered communities successfully overcame problems with maulvies (local clergy) pertaining to closure of alternative education schools (Taleemshala)

Specific to 2005 

• 28 students successfully passed class V exams conducted by government after 2.5 years of Taleemshala education. For the first time, 14 girls of 5 villages passed from primary schools 

• Set up 5 new alternative schools (Taleemshalas), of which 3 are exclusively for girls

• Communities have begun demanding better services from the government such as additional teacher in the government school

Main Activities for 2006

Quality Education

• Running of 18 Taleemshalas for 531 children in 15 villages of which 3 are exclusively for girls (335 Girl students)

• Awareness generation and sensitization of parents and the local clergy on importance of education especially for girl children

• Strengthening village education committees and enhancing their participation in educational processes

• School assessment by Village Education Committees and formulation of school reports and improvement plans

• Collaboration with education department and other agencies for leveraging funds and other support for school improvement

• Implementation and regular monitoring of school improvement plans

• Regular training of government school teachers in collaboration with Sarva Siksha Abhiyan

• Enhancing the competencies of Anganwadi workers and improving the functioning of the Centers

• Creating avenues for continued education of adolescent girls through imparting life skills and literacy

• Setting up bridge schools under Sarva Siksha Abhiyan in one of the clusters

• Formation and capacity building of mothers' committees

Livelihood Education 

• Employability skills training for youth

• Placement and linkages with financial institutions of trained youth

Inclusive Education

• Survey to identify disabled persons and children in the zone of intervention

• Assessment camps in 3 centrally located villages to diagnose and work out individual specific development plans

• Establishing referral system and linkages with relevant programmes of the government

• Mainstreaming of children with mild to moderate disabilities

• Provision of aids and appliances to fill up the critical gaps

• Training programmes and counseling of parents on rights of the disabled, programmes for disabled children and their benefits

• Training programme for project staff and teachers on disability issues, rights, programmes and benefits and facilitating techniques of learning among disabled and their mainstreaming

• Sensitisation programme for Village Education Development Committees, Gram Panchayat and other Community Based Organisation members on disability issues

• Formation of Self Help Groups of disabled and linking them with financial institutes

Women's Empowerment and Education

• Study in depth issues that have compelled closure of women Self Help Groups

• Carry out exercise in risk assessment and evolve mitigation strategies for empowerment of women

• Sensitization of local clergy and men on the role of women in development

Resource Mobilisation

• Capacity building of the team in RM with AeA's support

• Development of communication materials - website, brochure, etc

• Formulation of proposals and follow up

• Interfacing with government, INGOs, etc for leveraging

• Planning workshop for strategizing RM by AeA

• Other innovative activities

Success Stories

Jalabas
The results from Jalabas were very good. Asmina, Subina, Bilkase and Sandeep from Jalabas Taleemshala appeared for the examination.Of these Sandeep stood first in the entire Gram Panchayat (Nikach). On the other hand the three girls from Jalabas were the first ever in the village's history who has crossed Class V and the first ever in their families. After the results were declared the Entire village was elated and the committee members were especially excited. For us too the Jalabas results were very welcome.