High drop out rates in municipal and government schools, and extremely poor performance of children prompted us to start our after school education support programme. Our main objective is to enhance school performance, contain drop out rates and ensure access to secondary school.Children coming from urban slums are unable to cope with their studies. This is often due to poor teaching conditions within the school, and lack of help from home as parents are often illiterate. Moreover children have no place to study, no access to books or tutors. The primary programme is by far the most important one as it is in these classes that most children drop out.

This is by far our leading project as it is one that was set up in toto by two of our 'empowered' teachers. Meet these women of substance and share some of their woes here . But the real reason for which this centre is close to our heart is because this part of Okhla does not have any primary school in the vicinity and hence most of the children do not go to school at all. Being a factory area, it has a substantial number of bad elements and illegal trafficking and the children are often used to perpetrate petty crime. Our presence is of course not liked as we are pushing back children into school. However our effort has now been recognised and is even appreciated by some. For more click HERE.

The Sanjay Colony primary extension replaced our Giri nagar programme. It can be considered as our first step 2 project as Giri Nagar was clos ed because it was felt that parents had finally understood the role they had to play in the education of their children. Many were now sending their wards to private tuitions. Moreover the opening of two more NGOs made us redundant. We had to look for greener pastures or in our case to areas where children were need of help and parents needed to be motivated. Sanjay Colony began in July 2006 and within a month we had more than 80 students! for more click HERE.

The Nehru Nagar extension camp was started in 2007 as part of our effort to increase our primary outreach. Situated in the heart of the Govindpuri slums it reaches out to over 70 children. for more click HERE.