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REAP launched a virtual war on illiteracy through a mass campaign 8 years ago. Today it has reached 450 literacy centers spanning the length and breadth of Mumbai and surrounding rural areas upto Nashik city in the North of the State. REAP takes literacy to the doorstep of every child howsoever far and remote he may be through a non-formal education programme. The campaign covers more than 11,000 learners which include children on the street, slums, rag-pickers, child laborers, tribal children. The Programme is open to all irrespective of caste and creed.
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REAP's intervention focuses on ensuring the right of every child to be in school and thus preventing child labor, and for those already working a programme to wean them away from it.
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REAP's four Teacher Training Centers prepares grass root, committed and quality teachers for its large network. This component is very crucial and the backbone of the entire literacy mission.
Each year about 60- 80 new teachers graduate and are absorbed in REAP's ever expanding ‘footpath university'! The core team of trainers also conducts monthly in-service training and specialized training to existing staff. The Team also develops new teaching techniques, learning materials, syllabus for making learning joyful. This is crucial to ensure the best to the least. |
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Short term Skill Training courses for self-employment offered to drop-out girls in Para-Nursing, Tailoring, Mehendi , computers.
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“Educate a woman, you educate a family ”. Women are best agents for social change.
REAP enters a slum or rural community through the child and ends up transforming the community. REAP's literacy movement for empowerment supports women rights and focuses on developing women to be decision-makers, self-reliant and assertive, fully liberated and able to transform the community. Beginning with adult literacy, awareness programmes, legal aid, skill training and finally Self Help Groups is a journey of growth and self confidence. |
Women are trained in book keeping, maintaining pass books, loans, registers etc. From small savings of their own, internal loaning, micro-credit from banks, women have become managers of money and productions. SHG's also form a linkage with the literacy centers and ensures proper functioning of the classes.
Economic activities for profit such as making and marketing of aggarbatis, candles, masalas , snacks etc. has not only added to the earning potential but also given them positions in entrepreneurship and say in market economics. From ‘rolling pins' to advocacy women have shown they can be deciders of their destiny.
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| NETWORKING WITH GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS |
Thousands of underprivileged children attend Government run schools which are free. REAP lends its expertise to these schools to enhance quality of learning, prevent drop-outs, give children an all-round development and motivate parents. At present REAP has ‘adopted' one school in the slums of Navi Mumbai, Thane and one Zilla Parishad school in Dolkhamb, Sahapur Taluka . There is a marked improvement in the learning of the students through daily coaching and remedial classes. The weekly extra-curricular activities, i.e. personality and leadership development, camps, competitions etc. have created a love for learning and a greater interest.
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