Literacy StreetFeeding Minds & Bodies in Jaipur

Nicole Berezin • Caitlin Legere • Claudia Lopez • Keith Smith • Ladan Arissian OLIT Culture and Global eLearning Spetember 2011

M-Learning Literacy Initiative

for Incarcerated Street Children in Jaipur

•An estimated “x,xxx,xxx” malnourished, abused, neglected, under or un-educated children in Jaipur, Rajasthan. XX,XXX are incarcerated every year

•Juvenile Justice Act 56 of 2000 states priority to quick processing and fair treatment of street children - not strictly enforced

• Difficulties bridging new social connections within caste system

• Requires access to internet, technology platform, and sound mobile deliverables

Multiple languages Access to information resources

http://www.i-indiaonline.com/sc_crisis_stats.htm

Incarcerated Youth

o Hundreds of thousands of children leave home because of abuse by parents or other family members.

Orphans, unwanted children, and runaways are incarcerated along with those that have committed crimes (for stealing food, sleeping in train station). Many suffer abuse while incarcerated in addition to malnutrition, Scabies, STDs.

o “Observation homes” are usually over-crowded, and food supplies are short.

Changing the Pattern of Poverty

Partner with existing programs to meet health and welfare needs of the incarcerated children in Jaipur, Rajasthan.

•Akshaya Patra, hot lunch program

•Health and hygiene training •eLearning Literacy Program

•Phase 2: Bollywood Industry Outreach

and Awareness Campaign

Find community members to mentor and connect with children in detainment.

Bringing the World of Informationto Disadvantaged Indian Youth

Modify ID and mine content from existing cyber-cafe-based literacy programs

Build interface for maximum motivation, entertainment, with learning objective clear and supported with help functions.

Present on a mobile platform.

Local literacy mentoring.

Diet, Health and Hygiene themes.

Level 2: Gaining Influence and Cultural Capital with Bollywood

Identify Opinion-Leaders - Bollywood Actors, playback singers and directors demonstrate support of literacy training for a stronger India and authorize content use for learning activities.

Motivation to learnAuthenticity of message

Utilize existing resources of Bollywood

• offer jobs for older childrenbehind-scenes worktraining for production,

writing, etc.paid internship