AeA's Intervention

AeA started this project to achieve the goal of universalization of education and contributing for the comprehensive development of rural poor.

Location and Coverage

State	District	Blocks and mandals	Number of villages
Andhra Pradesh	Warangal	9	200

Objectives

• To ensure the schools in the project area are child friendly with regard to infrastructure, atmosphere, curriculum, teachers and other necessities

• To build the capacity of teachers, vidya volunteers, community and project staff

• To ensure the disabled people in the project area are given counseling and individual rehabilitation referral services
• To ensure atleast 500 youth between the ages 18 -25 are actively trained and assured of livelihood opportunities
• To ensure membership of all women in the Self Help Groups and provided with basic education, training and employment opportunities
• To make sure that the entire girl children between ages 3-18 have access to quality education, and above 18 have some higher education or income generation
• To ensure that all the government schemes and benefits reach the society and are beneficial to everybody concerned

Major Accomplishments

• 20 preschools established and sustained

• 26 government day schools supported by providing 12 additional teachers, teachers trainings and ensuring adequate teaching learning materials

• One residential bridge school for child laborers established

Specific to 2005

• Initiated two organisation pre schools in the area
• Constituted village education committee in 17 villages
• Appointed 3 health facilitators for providing basic health care in villages

• Engaged youth facilitators for initiating youth clubs, enrolment and retention of children in village schools, sports and cultural activities

• 200 adolescent girls were given training on personal health and hygiene
• Capacity building of teachers, village committee and staff by trainings, exposure visit to old project area

Main Activities for 2006

Quality Education

• Capacity building of teachers, vidhya volunteers, Village Education Development Committees, project staff towards achieving quality education
• Preparation of school improvement plan by the community
• Sharing of school improvement plan with Panchayat Raj Institutions, administration and community to leverage resources
• Create access to pre primary education
• Start bridge course centers for adolescent girls and mainstream them into schools
• Start Residential Bridge Centres (RBCs) for child labour (boys and girls)
• Create teachers forum and build the capacities of teachers to improve school education system
• Infrastructure development of schools

Livelihood Education 

• Employability training of youth
• Placement and linkages with financial institutions for trained youth

• Awareness generation among youth, women, village elders, elected representatives and government functionaries on the need and opportunities for livelihood promotion by diverse means

• Agro based skill training
• Convergence with other agencies of the government
• Training the youth in value added agricultural practices like horticulture, sericulture, floriculture etc

Inclusive Education

• Survey and identification of disabled
• Organising assessment camps to ensure provision of certificates ID cards referral and other documents
• Awareness training for parents, teachers, community and the project staff on inclusive education and inclusive behavior
• Early intervention and rehabilitation
• Individual action plan and rehabilitation measures by counseling, rehabilitation, training and providing aids and appliances from other sources
• Forming of special Self Help Groups and federation for the disabled for better opportunities.
• Providing livelihood training and employment opportunities

Women's Empowerment and Education

• Inclusion of all women in Self Help Groups

• Training to members on women rights and government schemes

• Training to adolescent girls training on personal hygiene, education, vocational skills, gender sensitivity
• A special RBC for girl child laborers

Resource Mobilisation

• Mobilising funds for infrastructure development from government and other agencies
• Leveraging of aids and appliances mobilisation for disabled from government as well as other agencies
• Sponsorship for children with disability
• Entrepreneurship Development Programme (EDP) training for youth and women
• Financial assistance for livelihood of women from government and other agencies
• Interface meeting at district level to converge government, financial institutions and other agencies
• Consortium of NGOs and government departments
• Capacity building of staff on resource mobilisation
• Workshop to strategize resource mobilisation activities
• Preparation of communication materials for resource mobilisation
• Innovative events and activities