In partnership with Seva Mandir, a well-established non-profit organisation in Rajasthan, India, we have established 20 Shiksha Kendras (rural educational learning centres) each with an average of 30 students drawn from the corresponding local village. Teachers are often sourced from the same village. These children receive a quality bridging education with the aim of integrating ...
Yatra Foundation Australia
Yatra Seva Mandir Bridging school
GOAL
$15,000
RAISED
$500
International
12/01/2024 > 30/11/2025
Field of Interest
- Education/training and employment
- International aid and development
Target Population
- People experiencing socio-economic disadvantage or vulnerability
- Young people (6-25)
Yatra Foundation Australia
Education is recognised as a powerful tool for reducing poverty, unemployment and inequality and for improving health, nutrition and promoting sustained growth (World Bank, 2004). 'Yatra' means 'Journey' in Hindi. We hope to be able to provide a pathway by democratising the opportunity for quality education for some of the most impoverished children in rural India.
Yatra Foundation Australia is a non-governmental, non-religious and not-for-profit organisation based in Australia, established to provide disadvantaged children in India the opportunity to access quality education.
Yatra Foundation integrates basic health initiatives into the educational settings, and is non-discriminatory with regards to gender, religion or caste in student selection. Currently, over 1100 students are being offered a quality education by Yatra Foundation, in northern and southern India, that they would otherwise have no access
Yatra Foundation seeks enduring change in the lives of children and their families. Our hope is that by providing disadvantaged children with a good education, where school attendance and progression is encouraged, a path to better opportunities is created. Our objective is that the education of one child now will have a long-lasting impact as education is shown to have positive knock-on effects for future generations.
Project Summary
In partnership with Seva Mandir, a well-established non-profit organisation in Rajasthan, India, we have established 20 Shiksha Kendras (rural educational learning centres) each with an average of 30 students drawn from the corresponding local village. Teachers are often sourced from the same village. These children receive a quality bridging education with the aim of integrating them into government schools when the requisite skills have been acquired to equip them for future long-term success.
The beneficiaries are the residents of villages, who are young children, aged 6-14 years who reside in remote areas not serviced by government schools, and the teachers who are drawn also from the villages and given teacher training. The majority of this population live on less than $2 per day and over 90% rely on subsistence agriculture, where conditions are arid, the land degraded, and water is scarce. Public services are dysfunctional and there is a high level of malnutrition, and the majority of children do not attend school.
Project Outcomes
Yatra aims to oversee the transition of all school capital funding from the Yatra Foundation to full community ownership. It is expected that, in so doing, local governments will begin to implement Yatra Foundation protocols to optimise school readiness preparation to cope with increased enrolment in government schools.
A thorough monitoring and evaluation framework has been developed with following aims and criteria:
- Increase of children attending Shiksha Kendras (SK) that would otherwise be out of school.
- Encourage more girls to attend with aim to have 50% ratio
- Improve quality of numeracy and literacy education to a level higher than surrounding government schools
- Transition children from Grade 3 into nearby government schools
- Continue to follow and evaluate Rogers's of alumni children
- Engage and involve parents to form school committee to take responsibility of SKs
Yatra will begin the transition of school maintenance responsibilities to be taken up in partnership with the local community and government. The completion of such a transition will be expected in 2030.
Budget Breakdown
TOTAL BUDGET: $15,000
FUNDING
| Funding source | Amount |
|---|---|
| Funding gap (unconfirmed) | $15,000 |
EXPENSES
| Expense item | Amount |
|---|---|
| Teachers salary | $15,000 |
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