Indian Social Service Institute

There are many children, studying in rural public schools in our District and State who are not able to get a quality education like in private schools. Due to poverty, the parents of the children are unable to send their children to private schools. Many schools are having one teacher, who teaches all subjects 50 children, studying 1-grade in 5th grade. So, rural children do not get a quality education. And also, no other skill education on sports& games, singing&dancing, and no moral education class in public schools. Hence, derived on an idea based on location situation and conducted a survey about the of the children education in a rural area and available Govt data on inequality educational opportunity for girls, many children become dropout from the schools due to children centered schools, no community participation in the public school system and teachers are mostly from cities far away from the schools. All the teachers are not attending school regularly and have no performance monitoring for the teachers. Totally, no educational environment for total development in public schools. Our evening education center model worked very well and education status is improved by our aim to promote quality education and skill development of children are good. we have started a pilot project called evening education center for quality education of rural public school children.

 Our strategies for the education center are given below :

Build parent and teacher associations and promote community support to run the education center effectively and review the program with their participation. Raised small community financial and material contributions for the program. Public building and community center is used for our education center

- Identified two local youth as teachers to teach school subjects and other skills everyday evening from 5 pm to 7 pm in the center with the help of community leaders.

- one physical education teacher will come two days in a week and improve the skills of sports and games of the children

- One music and dance teacher will come two days in a week to teach the skills to children

- One computer teacher some to school two days a week for computer, and digital learning opportunities. The teacher comes with laptop and educate the children on both subjects and entertainment programs

-Monthy tests, quarterly, and half-yearly examinations are conducted by the teachers. 

Periodical competitions are conducted for the children in sports and games, singing and dancing. We are giving gifts to app participants' children and winners get prizes. The activities are motivating children to attend the education center. 

So, our model is working very well. In the pilot project, we assess the children getting a quality education and better improvement in their education. The extracurricular activities impressed the children and like to continue to attend our center.

 Our intervention is to help the girls children in the village and get opportunities to continue the school. No children drop out of school.

- Also, we provide an opportunity for the children to visit tourist places in their holidays which created much interest in education and continue their education. So, the project is to remove the big gap between private schools and public schools, They are getting better benefits and an educational environment for the children are able to get quality education all  children  

Our framed design will help the children of unserved/ affected communities in rural areas. It is children centered, community-based program. The parents and community are participating in decision making, and review of the program and their recommendation ideas will be given priority to modify  or accept the changes in our implementation and evaluation and community contribution and participation

Build parent and teacher associations and promote community support to run the education center effectively and review the program with their participation. Raised small community financial and material contributions for the program. Public building and community center is used for our education center

- Community leaders helped us to identify two local youth as teachers to teach school subjects in the center

Our Theory of Change is essentially a comprehensive description and illustration of how and why the desired change is expected to happen in a particular context.

So based on the theory of  change, we  explained everything and each step  in the project

Based on the evidence derived from the Govt, newspapers, and our survey, We design the project according to the problems and needs of the rural public school children, which is the children-centered and community-based approach..    Our model will reduce the school dropout rate and increase girls' education and children will get quality education. Rural public school children will equally get better education like private school children through our interventions

 Community role in measure the impacts of the program:

It is children centered, community-based program. The parents and community are participating in decision making, and review of the program and their recommendation ideas will be given priority to modify or accept the changes in our implementation and evaluation stages. They are contributing a small amount of money and material as their contribution. 

Measure the impact of quality education for the children:

-Monthy tests, quarterly, and half-yearly examinations are conducted by the teachers to measure the improvement of the education level of each child and. Based on the level, the teachers will take an additional step.improve the education of all children equally

Evening education center to Promote quality education for all  children of rural public schools and equal opportunity for girls children to continue their education 

Some evidences are given below for no better quality education in the schools and not better place poor socially backward castes:

- Report from The Hindu newspaper: 7.360  from Sep 2006 to 2009

- 8.870 % for 2007. School Drop Out Rate: Tamil Nadu: 6-11 Years Old: Gir-reported by Department of Higher Education- Tamilnadu State Govt .

Compare with Private schools and public schools the  children dropout :

No dropouts in private schools

The dropout rate is higher in public schools

Our survey result is high school dropouts 25% drop out in rural areas due to the poverty of parents. No encouragement and better environment for children of social and economically backward castes

Girls' dropout rate primary school level is 50% at the age of 12

Male dropout children are engaging in their parent's occupation or work with others or cattle-rearing. Girls drop out and engage in cooking including other domestic work, firewood and drinking water collection. Working with their mother in the farms as landless laborers