महाराष्ट्रात सगळीकडे एकाच वेळी शालाबाह्य मुलांचा सर्व्हे होणार असे आपण बरेच दिवस ऐकत होतो. ह्या सर्व्हेसाठी चार जुलै ही तारीख निश्चित केल्याचेही कानावर येत होते, आणि त्यासाठी सर्व शासकीय कर्मचा-यांची मदत घेतली जाणार असल्याचेही बोलले जात होते. त्याप्रमाणे चार तारखेला सर्व्हे झाला व त्यावर बरीच चर्चाही झाली. तसे म्हटले तर शासनाकडून शालाबाह्य मुलांचा सर्व्हे करण्याची […]
During surveys of construction sites in Pune, ECC volunteers and field-staff came across some positive responses worth mentioning here. 1. At a construction site in Lohegaon – Dhanori area, the builder T.T. Gholap has set up a site school for children of construction workers. A teacher has been appointed to look after children when their
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While the recent survey carried out by the state education department states that there are 1,683 out-of-school children in Pune and 1,699 in the district, according to the Every Child Counts (ECC) – a citizens’ campaign run by Door Step School, the children of migrant workers may not have been counted in the survey. Indian
The need for all out efforts to reach all children A July 2015 policy paper jointly released by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and the Education for All Global Monitoring Report, shows that the number of out-of-school children and young adolescents is on the rise, reaching 124 million in 2013. The global number of out-of-school
An article written by Mr. Colin Bangay (Senior Education Adviser for the UK’s Department for International development in India) on 2nd June, 2015 for World Education Blog, prompted me to write about the experiment Door Step School has been conducting for the last four years in primary schools of Pimpri Chinchwad (PCMC)
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Door Step School, in collaboration with Nielsen, organized a health, hygiene and educational awareness campaign on 11th June at Undri. The event covered two slums of the area. The slums of Undri are largely occupied by construction workers, a community which generally shares its joys and sorrows together but never inhabits a place for too
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Volunteers from Wipro Cares and Tech Mahindra recently conducted a Science Activity Camp at one of Door Step School’s Community Learning Centers in Pune. Ms. Sharmishtha Deshpande, a Wipro Cares volunteer shares her experience about the activity and about hidden talents in the participating children… “Science Day” at the Community Learning Center with the children
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The Every Child Counts (ECC) campaign was launched by Door Step School NGO (DSS) in the year 2011. The objective was to ensure every child between 6 and 14 years age living in the city of Pune gets its right of free elementary education. With help of citizen volunteers, corporates, educational institutes, and government agencies,
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