MAITRI Education programme in villages
- MAITRI Primary Education programme
- MAITRI Village Schools programme has been running since 1999 and is completely free of charge to all pupils.
- MAITRI village schools programme runs its activity on the basis of an innovative close collaboration between MAITRI and the villagers conceived within the framework of rural development .
- The villagers construct and maintain the school buildings and MAITRI provides teachers, educational equipment, materials and guidance where appropriate.
- MAITRI provides aid in kind to poorer pupils .
- The programme is divided into formal education based on the Indian government's curriculum, and non-formal education up to 6 th grade.
- The programme is conducted through the medium of English and, being secular in delivery, it is open to children of all faiths.
- No selection procedure is pursued as all children are expected to attend the schools: through the live-in presence of its teachers and the supervision of its field workers MAITRI requires that the villagers send their daughters to school while pursuing the attendance of all children from lower castes.
- The 4 villages chosen to date are part of clusters of villages which lie in very remote areas of rural Bihar - two of them are extremely difficult to reach in the rainy season.
- MAITRI primary education programme employs local Indian teachers
- MAITRI Alternative Education programme
- MAITRI Adult Literacy programme has been running at MAITRI's premises since 1997 and has been extended to Dhandhwa Village school for local women since 2002.
- MAITRI Vocational Training programme has been running at Dhandhwa Village school for local women since February, 2002.
MAITRI Education programme: measurable outcomes and impact
- MAITRI has currently 1,114 children attending its village schools.
- MAITRI has currently 8 women attending its alternative education programme.
- MAITRI has 4 village schools to date operating from the villages of Dhandwa, Paner, Fulcharter, and Ramnagar.
- MAITRI currently employs 18 teachers and uses the services of one local based educational instructor to ensure quality control in teaching methods.
- MAITRI has successfully reached its aim of having a pupil ratio of around 50% female, 50 % male.
- MAITRI has successfully attracted children from lower castes to attend the schools - both the formal and non formal programmes.
- MAITRI has to date provided aid in kind (books, copybooks, pens, slates, and clothing) to 317 needy pupils.
- MAITRI provides full free health assistance to poorer children and partial to all of them.
- Each year the number of pupils in the formal education classes increases as more villages are being involved and the villagers build additional classrooms to cater for the additional children.
- The drop-out rate of pupils in the non-formal education classes is approx 15% due to age limits dictated by social customs.
MAITRI Education programme.......the road ahead
- With your support the children from rural areas can continue to receive a basic education by either following a formal or non-formal education curriculum.
- MAITRI village schools programme has started four new Classes 1st in January 2005.
- MAITRI is planning to open vocational training classes in all schools.
- With your support women from rural areas can have access to opportunities for awareness and development.
- MAITRI is planning to assist women in its alternative education programme in setting up activities by providing financial and technical support.
- With your support more children and more villages, who currently do not have access to any form of education, will have access to a fundamental right - the right to education.
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