CURRENT WORK
The vision of Sankalp is Social Change through Education. The main area of work is empowering the underprivileged and the marginalized groups of children through various interventions and initiatives. Sankalp aims to increase coverage and learning levels of children (both non enrolled and enrolled in schools). The vision is to make each child learn better by imparting to children good quality support in learning.
Currently, Sankalp has the following 3 Centres:
- Moti Lal Nehru Camp Centre in Munirka
- Kooli Camp Centre in Vasant Vihar slums
- Shiva Camp
The interventions in these 3 Centres are:
- Play school for the underprivileged
- Skill training to young women and girls in urban slums
- Free education to the underprivileged children and remedial coaching (one on one instruction).
The organization currently provides free education and skill training to the underprivileged covering 395 children and women as shown below:
Current Coverage and Reach through various interventions
| S. No | Intervention | Coverage |
| 1. | Free Education to the underprivileged | 375 |
| 2. | Play School | 20 |
| 3. | Skill Training | 25 |
| TOTAL | 420 |
URBAL LEARNING CENTRES
Sankalp currently provides free education to underprivileged children, who are extremely weak in studies. Ideally they could easily be categorized as children with learning disabilities. Many of them exhibit symptoms of Dyslexia, Dyacalculia and Dysgraphia. Sankalp has opened 3 Centres for such children in South Delhi covering 375 children. These children are provided support as per their learning needs by qualified teachers.
These are those children who don’t get the opportunity to be exposed to a stimulating educational environment at home. Nearly all the children enrolled in the Centres are much below their grade level. For example, many children in Grade -8 are performing at Grade- 3 or 4 level. Moreover parents are not educated enough to give these children support in learning. The parents are working and are not educated enough to provide after school support in learning to these children. Hence, the need of Urban Learning Centres. These are those children who get no support in teaching and learning at home. Sankalp currently runs different batches of 15-20 children each in each batch.
KEY FEATURES OF THE URBAN LEARNING CENTRES
Currently, the following initiatives (all free of cost to the beneficiaries) are being undertaken in the 3 Centres:
- Vidhyaa Danam (Learning Support Program)
- Comprehensive assessment
- Early Childhood Education
- Computer Literacy
- English Program
- Skill Training
- Ann Danam (thrice a week healthy snacks)
- Celebration of birthdays
- Celebration of special days and festivals
- Training & capacity building
- Strengthening community linkages.
- Quarterly educational tours
- Documentation of each child’s work and progress
- Regular monitoring.
- Bi annual PTMs.