Mission Bartika: What and How
Response by SPADE
Education being a fundamental and basic service, SPADE thus swung into strengthening its Education intervention with a contextually suitable Learning Support Program for the most vulnerable children.
The curriculum consists of teaching the fundamentals, assessing learning levels regularly, attending psychological health and well beingas a response to community’s need. Along with Punara Learning Centre, one more Centre at Mahespurvillage was established on May 2022.
Enter SPADE
SPADE adopted the process of “Learning to Learn in Community Based Development Framework” with the “Equality in Education and Skill” as goal. Bartika Learning Centreshas been set up at Mahespur Village, with the Learners drawn from backward community – first generation learners with little / no supportive learning ambience at home and the community.
The learners consist of students of class V to Class X of the formal secondary schools. During the enrolment, the cohort had severe constraints in reading simple sentences, not to speak of comprehension of any idea, coupled with gaps in basic numerical operations.
The centre is equipped with:
- Study room, Puzzles, White Board, Library;
- physical and on-line resources, on-line and offline topic based supports; and
- two facilitators to guide the children in practicing the learning methodologies that foster observation, analysis, presentation and thinking beyond.
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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Maternal Health
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.