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Education
Rose Trust believes that educating children is the key to
helping the underprivileged break free from social and
economic shackles. Our ongoing projects are:
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Child Preparatory Centre
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Educational Counselling
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School Enrolment Programme
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Educational Assistance
Child Preparatory Centre
This centre doubles up as a child care centre for the
children of landless agricultural labourers and prepares them
for primary education through the play-way method of learning.
These children are between 3 and 5 years of age and often do
not get the opportunity to be in ‘Balwadis’ (child care
centres) run by the government.
The centre had its beginnings in the fact that landless
agricultural labourers often migrated with their children in
search of employment, thus denying those children a childhood
that would help them unfold their potential and grow
gracefully as normal children.
The centre currently runs at Osur village, Vanvdavasi and
accommodates about thirty five children. Three instructors
educate the children through story telling and also teach the
children alphabets and personal hygiene.
The centre has been extremely successful in reducing the
burden of the family in looking after the children. More
importantly, by providing the service, Rose Trust has been
able to prevent migration as the parents do not want their
children to lose the quality environment and care to which
they have become accustomed. The facility has also indirectly
come in handy for counselling the parents themselves about the
importance of educating their children and also about avoiding
and managing domestic conflicts better.
Educational Counselling
Rose Trust guides the children of the dalit, gypsy and most
backward communities to continue their education and minimize
school dropouts. Although exact figures are not available,
Rose Trust believes that its persistent and ongoing
counselling of these underprivileged children and also their
parents, has siginificantly reduced the incidence of school
dropouts in the communities in which it works.
School Enrolment
Programme
In the summer months of May and June every year, Rose Trust
volunteers fan out to all the villages in Kurinjippadi and
Vandavasi blocks and encourage parents to enroll their
children in school. The aim of the volunteers is to ensure
100% enrolment of all children of school going age in the
local government school, so, our volunteers visit even the
remotest village to make this possible.
Educational Assistance
We provide material support for education in the form of
school fees, note books, uniforms and learning materials as we
realize that mere counselling cannot sustain the education of
the children; stark poverty is a hard reality in these
villages. The funds for such support come from public
donations from individuals, institutions and occasionally from
donor agencies.
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