It is the first week of June and schools are still to reopen after the summer vacation. The ‘Grow with Books’ office is a beehive of activities. There are groups of ladies sitting in all the rooms – Some are having a serious discussion; some are sitting with a pile of books sorting and covering […]
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Vikrant Rathod lives at the construction site of Mayur Kilbil in Dhanori. Vikrant’s family migrated to Pune from Pusad in Yavatmal in 2011. Door Step School staff helped him get enrolled in nearby government school in the same year. Vikrant started attending the school in 4th standard and now he has reached the 7th standard.
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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 started Project Grow with Books in 1999 with the aim of developing the reading skills of children and enhancing their vocabulary. The goal was to improve the reading skills of the children and generate a love for reading which would eventually develop into a love for learning.
School On Wheels has been the signature program of Door Step School. The bus reaches out to children of certain locations or construction sites where even a temporary classroom cannot be built and therefore children have absolutely no access to education.
The dropout rate of children enrolled in Municipal Schools is a cause for concern in the battle against illiteracy. Study classes run by us offer students in class I and II extra tuition and help in order to cope with school.
