Mission Bartika: Impact
Inspiring Success
SPADE has pulled out all stops to make Bartika yet another inspiring success story, which with your generous support have aroused encouraging response. During its operation, SPADE has been able to show following remarkable changes:
- The children who had joined the centre at the beginning had no basic level of reading, writing, and numeracy, and most significantly without any inclination to learn.
- Slowly over time, these girls and boys are regular in attendance and learning processes, resulting in much higher performance than their counterparts of their regular schools - in knowledge level, interest in learning, and attitudinal change in their approach towards study and surroundings.
- The parents also encourage their children to go to the centre.
- They are computer literate with internet surfing skills, and very active in many extracurricular activities such as game, drama, quiz, recitation, singing, drawing and so on.
- Most importantly they have now “learned how to learn”, and their faces are full of smiles and inquisitiveness. The centre bubbles with the joy and enthusiasm of the students and beams hope as a beacon light to the parents and all in the community.
- It is all but natural that these girls and boys will be the pioneering lot in the area, and are definitely going to reach college and further up with their footprints recognizable by all.
Learning To Learn
This methodology of the centres provides Joyful Reading, Writing and Numeracy; Facilitating Self Learning; Peer Learning; Experiential learning and Use of technology.
The initial milestones are interest in learning enhanced, enhanced performance in leaning abilities such as in reading, writing, and numeracy reflected in the centre and also in their formal institutions, community participation and ownership developed for the centre.
Bratachari
These learners also undertake sports, and Bratachari – a comprehensive program of physical, mental, and intellectual exercises, based on folk traditions, along with physical exercise, art, dance, drama, music, singing and social service.
The learners have free access to two computers and internet provided at the centre (with internet not very strong in this remote locality).
There is one active local Advisory Group, comprising community seniors, to ensure Community Participation and Ownership in enrolment and retention of the learners, and also in overall management of the centre.
Our Triumph
A girl under BARTIKA program has managed to excel in her studies despite pitiable home environment.
Development Goals
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These children need your help!
Internationally, this generation of students now risks losing $21 trillion in potential lifetime earnings in present value, or the equivalent of 17 per cent of today’s global GDP, up from the $17 trillion estimated in 2021.