SANGATI PROGRAMME: PROMOTING VALUES IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA

Production and distribution of teaching materials, workshops with teachers and implementation of Sangati program in Ashram schools, residential schools for tribal children in Thane district.

Partner organization

Avehi Public Charitable (Educational) Trust. Avehi means ‘to know’.

Goals

Improving the quality of teaching and learning in schools, building and enriching the skills of understanding, communication, critical thinking, analysis and positive relationships in the classroom and beyond, all vital for a humane and democratic society.

Beneficiaries

Direct beneficiaries: 5,400 students, 72 teachers y 36 boarding schools.

Protagonists

Briefing

The project consists in the implementation of the Salgati package in public schools:

Sangati is a thought-provoking and interactive Life Skills Enhancement and Curriculum Enrichment package comprising of a series of 6 teaching-learning kits with interlinked themes, usually drawn from sciences and social sciences. This programme is implemented in school and non-school settings with children of age group between 11 and 14 years.

Sangati is being used in the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) and has thus reached more than 10,000 teachers and approximately 270,000 children in more than 900 schools. Avehi Abacus Project works with underprivileged children in Mumbai Municipal Corporation Schools, Ashram Schools run by the Tribal Development Department. 100% of students attending these schools belong to low socio economic strata characterized by low income, low occupation, and low education.

Our partner organization, Avehi initiated the Avehi Abacus Project in 1990. The Avehi Abacus Project believes in improving and strengthening the public education system by making it qualitatively better, to reach out to the most marginalized sections of society and to impact mainstream policy on education.

The Avehi Foundation, founded in 1981, is a resource centre of educational materials that supports schools, community organisations, women’s and environmental groups, providing media resources (teaching materials) and intervening in formal education to enrich their work, to broaden horizons, to raise the level of education and awareness, promoting the values of equality, justice, gender parity, secularism, environmental sustainability.

Execution period

May 2017 – Now