Archive for Education Support
For over thirteen years, Suhrid Foundation has been working with Zilla Parishad schools in the Vikramgad block to support the education and development of rural youth. While primary education is available within villages, students often face serious challenges in continuing their studies after Class 5 due to secondary schools being located five to eight kilometres […]
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We have been working with primary school and village of Ghatalpada for last 2 years now. Students from the region (after 7th standard) have to walk to around 4-4.5 km one-way to a higher secondary school. To start with, we decided to motivate girls from the village by providing them with bicycles which would save […]
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You may know, schools in the remote areas of India could be far from houses of students who attend it. But by any means, could you imagine a student of 8th standard walking 7-8km one-way to school? And extending the imagination – how would you maintain motivation (especially in summers or monsoon) to go to […]
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Continuing our effort to support girl child education, we have been working with Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalay (KGBV) for over 2 years now. In this school, there are challenges of shortage of teaching staff for learning few subjects in some grades. Last year, we had supported with additional teacher for last few months of the […]
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Motivation of tribal kids to continue further studies drastically went down post pandemic. The families were anyway reluctant for getting girls continue studies beyond 10th or 12th. In village Janathepada, we spoke to some of the girls about their plans. Some of these girls did not have any motivation or reason to continue further studies, while some were open to study, but their parents were not supportive and not willing to spend money towards fees, books etc. Based on this inputs, we convinced girls to take up further education and also convinced parents of some of the girls to assure them that further studies would not change anything in their life – and also Suhrid Foundation would help their girls with their fees and books etc. With this, 6-7 girls from Janathepada got ready to start their bachelors degree again. We also provided them with bicycles to motivate them to go together to college.
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