Overview
Children from migrant footloose dailywage families living in slum pockets of rural and hard-to-reach areas are often engaged in anti-social activities or spend their childhood in playing around or accompanying their parents to work, at times even engaged in child labor, since they lack basic educational facilities and also unaffordable to attend mainstream preschools, thereby lacking basic education, a stepping platform to formal education.
Approach
Free Holistic Kindergarten education in English.
SMILING STARS ENGLISH PRESCHOOL, LBS SLUMS, DHAVGHI, UTTAN
Mainstream Quality Kindergarten English education, school supplies, uniforms, books, stationary, bags, nutrition, health screenings, celebrations of all major events and festivals, mainstream academic sessions for Nursery and Kindergarten, sports, Bi-annual Summative assessments, Co-Curricular Activities to list a few are accessed free of any remuneration by the unprivileged children irrespective of caste, creed or affiliations from Smiling Stars English Preschool, which operates in the slums out of a rented premises.
Outcome
Students directly benefit from above intervention and successfully completes their Kindergarten Education and mainstreamed to Formal English Schools in the village each year.
