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| Facilitating early childhood
learning through community-managed Balwaris in Rania
block of Khunti district, Jharkhand |
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Organisation
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Foundation
for Emancipation of Marginalised (FEMALE)
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Project
name
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Facilitating
early childhood learning through community-managed
Balwaris in Rania block of Khunti district,
Jharkhand |
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Grant
operationalised
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August
2009 |
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Duration
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33
months |
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Grant
amount sanctioned
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Rs3.76
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Activities within the grant and expected impact:
The project aims to facilitate Early Childhood Education
(ECE) for all-round development and learning through
play-way methods by trained Balwari teachers amongst
316 children (age group 3 to 6 years) from the Munda
tribe, Muslim and scheduled caste (SC) families
through twelve Balwaris located in nine villages
of Rania block of Khunti district. It also aims
at enhancing the community’s understanding
of the importance of appropriate nutrition for early
childhood growth, besides development and awareness
on sanitation and hygiene for healthy growth of
children through regular followups of children attending
Balwaris and through meetings with parents. It is
expected that successful implementation of the project
would result in providing access to quality ECE
services to children where the government system
has failed to reach. Through a tie-up with an established
resource agency, the Trusts hope to demonstrate
quality ECE in a remote block in Khunti. The project
will provide high-quality ECE services to 316 children
from marginalised sections of society in the remote
block of Khunti, having very poor coverage of Anganwadi
services.
Impact of the project could be expected at multiple
levels:
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Children: improvement in nutrition, health
status and linguistic, cognitive and creative
skills of 80 per cent of the children along
with higher participation and interest |
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Balwari workers: about 80 per cent of Balwari
workers effectively put to practice their
acquired skills on health and education. They
also display newly acquired skills in teaching
methodology, content knowledge and perspective,
regarding ECE. This would be reflected in
terms of hygiene in the centers, nutritional
supplements given and implementing carefully
designed activities to enhance children’s
cognitive and linguistic skills. |
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Institutional: capacity building of local
nonprofit organisations, local community based
workers and initiation of institutional base
by setting up models on ECE, while integrating
inputs on health and nutrition in remote Rania
block of Khunti district. |
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