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AeA's Intervention

AeA started a project "Ankur" in this district in 2001 to ensure comprehensive community development through basic quality education and livelihoods promotion.

Location and Coverage

State 

District(s) 

Blocks/ Mandals 

Number of villages

Andhra Pradesh 

Khammam 

Palvoncha mandal 

13

Mulakalapally mandal 

14

Burgampahad 

14

Aswapuram 

05

Total 

46

Objectives

  • To ensure community participation in education development

  • To ensure the protection of child rights

  • To offer different forms of education

  • To provide early childhood education for the first generation learners in the age group 3-5 years

  • To ensure the enrolment and retention of all eligible children in government schools

  • To promote network among like-minded individuals and organisations

  • To collaborate with government agencies and departments

  • To promote and strengthen CBOs

  • To promote livelihood opportunities to youth and women

  • To facilitate community empowerment for village development

  • To organise capacity building programme to staff

Major Accomplishments

  • 27 TCEDCs (Tribal community education development committee) with a total number of 631 (male 330 and Female 301) were formed and strengthened

  • Training to teachers have resulted in the effective teaching with play way and joyful methodologies and active participation of community

  • 1150 children in early childhood education centers were enrolled in the government schools

  • 400 working children got basic education through CBBS (Community based bridge schools) and NFE (Non formal education) centers

  • Enrollment and retention rate have increased in the intervention area

  • Established healthy relationship with government and other like-minded NGOs regarding child education

  • Community were sensitized to think positively for their children education and health

  • Absence of out of school children in the project villages is a symbol of attitudinal changes among the parents

  • 50 Self Help Groups were formed and 197 strengthened. This motivated and encouraged the beneficiaries to save money and contribute the same for education of their children

  • Village rallies have sensitized the villagers and resulted in the eradication of child labour practice and 761 working and bonded children were mainstreamed in the government schools and hostels through RBCs

  • Staff trainings have resulted in formulation of new strategies and methodologies to organize the programmes more effectively

  • 67 girl children and 76 boy children were enrolled in the RBCs and mainstreamed in to different government schools and hostels

  • Incidents of child marriages decreased

  • Academically weak children are able to compete with other children

  • Teachers are imparting education through play way and joyful methodologies and capacity building is visible

  • 1500 school going children have gained knowledge on importance of protecting the environment and started developing garden in their schools and maintaining their school and village surroundings clean and neat

  • Incidents of child labour practices were minimized in the remaining 7 villages

  • Increased capacities of staff in terms of training communities, teachers on education programme and livelihood promotion

Main Activities for 2006

Quality Education

  • Training and exposure visit to Village Education Development Committees

  • Preparing village education reports and school improvement plans

  • Training to government school volunteers

  • Formation of children parliaments

  • Organizing children sports meet

  • Strengthening anganwadis

  • Career guidance to high school going children

  • Running a Residential Bridge Center (RBC) for working and bonded girl children

  • Conducting camps for adolescent girls

  • Running five Early Childhood Education (ECE) centers

  • Formation of teachers forum

  • Formation of VEDC forum 

Livelihood Education 

  • Employability training of 500 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( NPM (Non pest management) Methods )

Inclusive Education

  • Running a school for children with disabilities

  • Conducting household survey within the project area

  • Organising camps for certification, ID cards and referral

  • Training program for parents, teachers and elected representatives

  • Formation and strengthening of Self Help Groups

  • Preparatory education for mainstreaming

  • Continuous orientation, check up camps and exposure visit to physically challenged children

  • Awareness camps and trainings to teachers, ANMs, parents and elected representatives

Women's Empowerment and Education

  • Conducting camps for adolescent girls

  • Organizing awareness camps to enroll all girl children in schools and eradication of early child marriages

  • Providing milch animals to support economically

  • Organizing trainings to Self Help Groups on savings, importance of child éducation, health and nutrition, eradication of early child marriage

  • Identification of left over poor women and formation into groups

  • Strengthening of village organisation

  • Capacity building of animators

  • Conducting training on tailoring and embroidery

Resource Mobilisation

  • Interface meeting at district level to converge government, financial institutions and other agencies

  • Preparation of communication material and brochures

  • Training team members of the organisation in resource mobilisation

  • Consortium of NGOs and government departments

  • Preparation of project proposal