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May 2012
Door Step School-Pune
110, Parimal Anand Park, Aundh,
Pune 411 007
Phone: 91-20- 25898762/9766337431
E mail : pune@doorstepschool.org
Website : www.doorstepschool.org
Door Step School & Asha for Education, Silicon Valley
Report on
Direct Education Program
(Project Foundation)
April 2011 to March 2012
May 2012
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Contents
Executive summary .............................................................................................................................. 3
1. Door Step School – At a glance ................................................................................................. 4
2. “Project Foundation” at Door Step School ................................................................................ 5
3. Project Evaluation Metrics .......................................................................................................... 6
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Executive summary
Door Step School would like to thank Asha for Education, Silicon Valley for sponsoring
our “Project Foundation” activities over the years.
“Project Foundation” is part of the Direct Education Programme of Door Step School
which addresses the needs of children in the age group of 6 to 14 who do not have access
to formal schools. DSS runs Educational Activity Centres (EAC) - Literacy classes and study
classes for these children, supported by Pre-Primary Classes (Balwadis) and Day Care
Centres.
This report presents details of the 10 Centers funded by Asha for Education, Silicon Valley
covering the period April 2011 to March 2012. These centers address the educational needs
of children at Construction sites and Urban Community slums. A total of 948 children were
reached through our Direct Education Program and over 300 children benefited through the
support activities (School transportation and Day Care Centres).
Girls Boys Total
Pre-Primary Classes (Balwadi) 214 229 443
EAC ( Literacy Classes) 98 115 213
Study Classes 116 72 188
Total 428 416 844
Children Availing Reading Room Facility 63 41 104
Direct Education Program
ProgrammeNo. of Children Enrolled
Children Enrolled in Day Care Centers* 144
Children Enrolled in schools 116
School Transportation Provided** 171
Children Going to School by themselves 48
*Average Number per month
**Maximum number - April 11 to March 12
Direct Education - Support Services
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1. Door Step School – At a glance
All children deserve an education. An alarming number of India’s urban poor still remain
without an opportunity to receive formal education.
Door Step School (www.doorstepschool.org), an NGO working in Mumbai and Pune, has a
vision to be an instrumental force that brings development to these children.
Our mission at Door Step School is to bridge the divide between children who do not have
access to school and the formal education system which already exists. We use innovative
programs that facilitate in bringing education to the children and help them make the
transition to literacy and brighter future. Our key goal is primary education to all children
up to 14 years of age.
Our programs are divided in two main categories:
1. Direct education program - Project Foundation
Children of construction site labourers do not go to school for various reasons. Door Step
School sets up temporary education facility with the help of the builders at the construction
site. The following programs are run in these facilities:
• Educational Activity Centers – (Literacy Classes)
• Pre-primary Education ( Balwadi)
• Study Classes ( for School Going Children)
To support these programs, we also run a Day Care Center for 0-3yrs children (Crèche) at
the construction sites. A transport facility is also provided to children who are enrolled in
mainstream schools. Details about all the services are given on our website.
2. School Intervention program – Project Grow With Books
Door Step School works with Municipal Schools to conduct 90 minute reading classes in the
primary schools. The main goal of this program is to enhance reading capabilities of the
children and to inculcate reading habits in the children.
3. DSS also runs 2 Community learning Centers, to cater to urban slum communities. A
Community Library, Reading Room Facility, Computer Classes and Science Laboratory
are run at these Centers. These Centers also serve as an umbrella for many other
extracurricular activities that are conducted by our Volunteers.
DSS has a dedicated Training Center. The training centre “Parivartan”, which was initiated
in October 2007, focuses on training new teachers to teach in the non-formal education
setting, this being the need of the organization as a part of Project Foundation. Refresher
trainings for all levels of the team are also part of the annual training calendar.
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2. “Project Foundation” at Door Step School
The Direct Education Programme of Door Step School addresses the needs of children in
the age group of 6 to 14 who do not have access to formal schools.
Since its inception, Door Step School has seen a steady increase in the number of sites
covered and the number of children brought under its network.
Under Direct Education the following four programmes are conducted-
• Pre-Primary Education (Balwadi) –This programme is for preschoolers in the age group of 3 to 5 years.
• Educational Activity Centers -EAC (Literacy Classes) – This programme covers non-school going children in the age group of 6 to 14 years.
• Study Classes – This programme caters to school going children in the 1st and 2nd standard.
• School on Wheels - These are buses that serve as mobile classrooms to enable us to reach difficult areas or to collect children from smaller sites to one location. The School on Wheels is also useful to jump start classes at a site when facilities are being made ready.
We also have other Supporting Activities under our Direct Education Programme. The
following programmes are conducted-
• Day Care Centers (Crèche) – This programme caters to children in the age group of 0 to 3 years.
• School Transportation - It is an added service provided to bring children to municipal schools as well as collecting them from different construction sites to one location for conducting classes.
Currently Door Step School has its Direct Education Programme at 90+ construction and
urban community slums in Pune.
Over the years many funding agencies have been supported the “Project Foundation”
program at Door Step School and we thank ASHA FOR EDUCATION, SILICON VALLEY for
supporting this program during the period April 2011 to March 2012.
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3. Project Evaluation Metrics The following metrics were collected and analysed for evaluating the impact of the program
and necessary interventions.
1. Each child should be able to read simple sentences with composite letters in 120 days.
Which could be further split into the following: learning letters in 50 days, learning
Matras in 40 days and eventually composite letters in 30 days. In other words, after 120
days the child should be able to read the newspaper.
As part of our process of measuring child’s Progress we categorise them into 4 levels
and track the levels reached based on the no of days attending.
EAC ( Literacy Classes) – Learning Levels
EAC - Levels of Learning
Levels / Attendance 1 to 25 26 to 50 51 to 90 91 to 120 above 121 Total
Learning alphabets 111 28 8 4 4 155
Alphabets completed 21 11 8 2 1 43
Matras completed 2 1 0 0 1 4
Composite Letter 5 3 3 0 0 11
Total 139 43 19 6 6 213
Note: The yellow cells indicate “Expected levels”.
9% of children are below the Expected levels of learning in our Literacy (EAC)
Classes. These are children who need more time to learn.
(It has been researched that 10% of children in general are below expected levels of
learning)
Below
Expected, 20,
9%
As Expected,
147, 69%
Above
Expected, 46,
22%
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Study Classes – Learning Levels
Study Classes - Levels of Learning
Levels / Attendance 1 to 25 26 to 50 51 to 90 91 to 120 above 121 Grand Total
Learning alphabets 17 10 3 2 5 37
Alphabets completed 14 8 20 13 20 75
Matras completed 1 0 1 3 6 11
Composite Letter 6 5 4 6 44 65
Grand Total 38 23 28 24 75 188
Note: The yellow cells indicate “Expected levels”.
26% of children attending Study classes are below the expected levels.
The reasons are the following:
We enrol the children in Government schools so that they get an opportunity to go to a
formal school and if they move any other place they can continue their education. For
studies they depend on our classes because these children are migrant and many of them
do not know the local language and there is no one at home can help them in their studies.
The study classes are their only support mechanism for these children.
Since the Government School in Kondhwa area are at a distance from the Construction
sites, transport has been arranged to take the children to school. Since the transportation
has to cover all the sites, children at some sites need to leave early and they spend less time
at our study classes which are held in the mornings before school hours. The duration of the
study class reduced from two and half hour to one and half hour for these children. We are
seeing an impact of this on the progress of the child.
Below
Expected, 49,
26%
As Expected,
94, 50%
Above
Expected, 45,
24%
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2. Enrol 100% children of the community/construction site in DSS Educational
Center.
98% of children at the sites were enrolled in DSS Centres against a goal of 100%.
2% of the children at our sites do not attend either mainstream schools or our classes due to
reasons stated in the table above.
Since children are older ( mostly 10 years and above), it is difficult t to convince them to sit in
one place and concentrate on learning process. Their parents are also not very willing and
therefore it becomes all the more difficult to convince the child. It is easier to convince
younger children and their parents.
S.No Name of the Centre
Total No of
Children at
Site/
Community
Total No of
Children
Enrolled in
DSS Centre/
Mainstream
Schools
% of
Children
Enrolled in
DSS Centre/
Mainstream
Schools
Total
Children
Not Enrolled
Reasons for Non Enrolment
1 DRDO 127 127 100.00% NA
This is a community location and
difficult to quantify the No of
Children in surrounding areas
2 Eisha Pearl 129 129 100.00% 0
3 Kumar Siddhachal 54 51 94.44% 3
Children are 11yrs and above and
they collect scrap and sell it for
money. Their parents are also not
showing any interest.
4 Kumar Surabhi 36 36 100.00% 0
5 Palm Grove 62 62 100.00% 0
6 R Euphoria 144 142 98.61% 2
Both the children are 10 yrs and
above and they are not interested
in studies, they are always together
and wander in the community.
7 Range Hills Study 113 113 100.00% NA
This is a community location and
difficult to quantify the No of
Children in surrounding areas
8 Skyline 73 71 97.26% 2
Both the children go along with
their parents to their work place.
Their mothers are house maids.
9 Sobha Carnation 90 88 97.78% 2
One is girl and she goes along with
her mother at work place. Another
child is a 12 yrs old boy he also goes
to work place along with his father
and helps him.
10 Sunflower 67 64 95.52% 3
Parents go for work to another site
therefore they take the children
along with them.
Total 895 883 98.66% 12
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3. Try to enrol 80% of children of our educational center between age group of 6 to
12 years in government schools
Of the 401 children who joined the Literacy (EAC) classes and Study Centres at the sites
and were of school going age (6+ years). We usually enrol children in the month of June.
This year, we could only enrol them in end of July as funding for transport was
unavailable until then. Meanwhile 35 children migrated between April 2011 and July
2011. 130 children attended our centres only for a month and were therefore not
considered for Enrolment.
Of the 236 children available for Enrolment and eligible, 80% are enrolled and 7% are
children who joined after Jan 2012 and will be enrolled in June 2012 if they continue at
the site.
13% of Children could not be enrolled due to the following reasons:
• Some children had just turned 6 yrs during the year and parents were unwilling to
send them away from the site to mainstream schools.
• Children who were older ( 10 and above) yrs old , mainly girls and parents did not
want to send to school
Migrated in July
2011, 35, 9%
Children
attending only
for 1 month,
130, 32%
Available for
Enrollement,
236, 59%
Enrolled in
2010 and
continued, 72,
31%
Enrolled in
2011, 116, 49%
Joined sites in
Jan 12-will be
Enrolled in Jun
2012, 17, 7%
Not Enrolled
due to issues,
31, 13%
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• Some parents who live at other sites, but work at the DSS sites prefer to drop and
pickup children from the DSS site as it is difficult to co-ordinate their work timings
with the school bus timings.
• Older children with very young siblings (infants) to look after .
• Children are already enrolled in schools in village; hence parents did not agree to enrol them again. Their parents informed that they would appear for exams at their native places and therefore preferred to have them study at our Literacy classes.
• Children not in good health and parents therefore unwilling to send them to school away from site.
4. Educating Balwadi children of different things, for example, awareness and
importance of water, vegetable, fruits, animals, birds, seasons. Also teaching
alphabets and number to children of the age group 4-5 years.
We have a Project Based Teaching Method for Pre-Primary Children (Balwadi Children).
One Topic is chosen every month and all aspects of that topic are covered. For E.g. Our
helpers: we create a model in class related to that topic and put up charts and words related
to that topic in the class to create an “Environment” in the class . Then we discuss the topic,
conduct different activities like craft, drawing, songs and stories related to the topic.
Sometimes children perform in the class.
The experience through all sense organs gives them long lasting understanding of the
subject and also help them to relate the topic with their daily life. The children develop their
vocabulary and also learn concepts of numbers.
The topics covered each Month and the concepts taught are listed in Annexure-A.
5. Special Initiatives at each centre.
The following special initiatives were started at the centres:
S.No Initiative Centre(s) Impact
1
Conducted WASH Program support
from Kirloskar Foundation.
( Water, Sanitation and Hygiene)
Palm Grove, R-
Euphoria, Sobha
Carnation,
Sunflower
Children have developed good
hygienic habits. They ensure
clean hands before eating and
also teach their parents and
siblings to follow these
practices.
2
Participation of parents in Enrolment
drive (Maximum children of age group
6 to 14 to be enrolled in the
Government school. )
Kumar Surabhi
Whenever new child joins the
site, the children of the class
talk to his/her parents and
take that child to the school).
The school going habit is
created among the children
and they are able to even
influence other parents and
children to send their wards to
school.
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Performance of the children
has been appreciated by the
School Teacher. The DSS
Teacher had a large role to
play in this transformation.
3
Evening classes were started on School
on Wheels Bus with the help of a
Volunteer.
Range Hills Study
Children of 5th
to 9th
Standards
needed help with their studies.
Since there was no electricity
at the community , the classes
were conducted on the
“School on Wheels bus”.
This initiative helped address
the need of these children.
4
We have started English classes for 3rd
Std and above with the help of a
volunteer
Skyline
Children are showing good
progress on learning the
language and their academic
performance in the subject has
improved.
5
School is located far away from Site.
Only older children were going to
school due to crowded and unsafe road
conditions in the area. With Special
efforts from our side, parents agreed
to partially fund the School
transportation and School Transport
facilities were started from Jan 2012.
Kumar Siddhachal
Younger children( 6+ ys) who
were attending our site
schools are now going to the
Municipal school.
6. Special Mentions
We enrolled Aslam Sayyad in school 3yrs back and now he is in studying in 5th standard wants to
continue his education. He is a regular and sincere child also he takes the initiative to help other
children in their studies.
Bablu is also a gifted child. We enrolled him in school and this year he appeared in 3rd
std and
performed well in evaluation. He has been selected for ‘Vidya Niketan school.’ (Vidya Niketan school
selects academically good children and gives them scholarship)
Mahak Sheik is studying in 3rd
std in an Urdu Medium school and she was attending our Sky line
center’s Engilsh classes conducted by a Volunteer. She performed well in her school and Teachers of
the Government school appreciated her and gave her an Award for her good performance in the
subject.
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Photographs of the children at various centres are included in Annexure – B.
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Yashoda, a young girl on the site just would not come to school. The teacher tried many times to bring
her to the class. Recently, a new family has shifted nearby whose children attend school regularly. After
going home they discuss all that they did in school. This aroused Yashoda's curiosity and she came to
school one day. She enjoyed it so much that now she is regular to class.
Abhishek Harne is student of Std 3, his grandmother had expired therefore he was going to his
hometown. While leaving for his village he wrote a note to the teacher and requested another student
to give to the teacher.
Aslam a student of the 5th student was going to his village for ten days. His parents came to the class to
inform the teacher and confirmed that they will come back in a short time. It shows that children give
importance to studies and our classes.
Sunil Shetti, Akash Bhandari , Sanket Bhagat, Rajeshri Kohli of DRDO site were awarded prizes in their
school for performing well in a reading competition at their School.
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