Our Work
In Pune, Wipro Cares work with an NGO called the Door Step School to train and equip teachers to engage with migrant children, this project is called Parivartan.
Impact
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Migrant children are more comfortable with trained teachers thereby reducing their drop out rate |
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The teachers trained here have helped take the number of beneficiary children up to nearly 600 per year |
Details
Door Step Schools (DSS) as the name suggests, takes learning to the door steps of children who cannot make it to regular schools. For the past 17 years, DSS has been running informal classes in and around Pune with the intention of facilitating their progression into regular schools.
In 2007, DSS conducted a survey of the construction boom in Pune and estimated that by 2011 there will be at least another 25,000 children migrating to the city with their parents who are construction labourers. Their was an urgent need to to take care of the learning needs of these children. DSS wanted to build its capacity through the training of teachers.
Parivartan selects women from financially weak families to undergo training. The training program is spread over seven weeks, with practical training being a module
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