LEARNING FOR ALL

Our goal is to provide high-quality education for all children regardless their race, caste, religion or gender as a foundation for their own development.

In L&TW we believe in education as the main driving force for change and the most powerful vehicle for an inclusive and sustainable development.

The lack of education is one of the structural causes that sustain the inter-generational chains of poverty, but luckily, this is an area where definitely things can be changed.

Thus, high-quality education has the capability of helping fight poverty and hunger, empowering girls and women allowing them to make safer and healthier choices for them and their families, diminishing all kind of exploitation and enabling people to take control of their own lives and also provides a foundation for a more egalitarian, cohesive and harmonic society.

But education must mean learning.

Despite the Indian Government efforts, absenteeism and dropout ratios are disappointingly high and learning levels are alarmingly falling across the different States.

As such, the ASER Report on Education for 2014 shows that more than a half of the children enrolled in Class V cannot read a Class II text, suggesting that a hundred million children may have gone through the primary school in the last decade without basic reading and math skills.

In Light & the Way we are struggling  to go beyond traditional metrics and find the way to tackle the challenge of breaking the cycle of poverty and build a future, safe and promising, for the new generations.

Our Project: Learning for All

In L&TW we are striving to guarantee free access to quality-learning to all children in our communities, paying special attention to those coming from the most underprivileged segments of the population: females, handicapped children, scheduled casts, religious minorities and poor families.

We endeavor to ensure that all children complete primary school, receive a high-quality education and acquire all the basic knowledge and skills that will enable them to a lifetime of learning. We seek likewise to encourage them and offer them support for continuing on to higher education.

Our work

In Light and the Way, we have already set up our “Learning for all” project in three centres, one in Gurgaon, in the Sheetla Colony and the other two in Jharkhand, where we are providing tuition for about 200 students from grades UKG to Class VII.

This project aims to:

-Raise community and governmental awareness about the importance of education for development, self-reliance and social stability.

-Ensure primary education amongst the children of our communities, paying special attention to those most unprivileged.

-Provide support lessons as reinforcement for those children that, despite attending schools, show low learning outcomes.

-Prioritize and monitor learning in all our programs.

-Ensure one meal a day, as the need to search for food frequently deprives children of attending school.

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