Empowering Lives through
EDUCATION
CARE India has over 20 years of experience of educating marginalized children, especially girls from Dalits and Adivasis communities. We have produced scalable and sustainable models that have proven methodologies and impacts. Some of our devised models include Early Childhood Education and Development; Improving Learning and Quality of Government Schools; Bridging Out of School Children into School; Girls' Leadership and Safe and Secure Education; and STEM Education for Girls. With each of these programmes, CARE India is committed towards enabling effective implementation of education provisions and policies for rights, entitlements and empowerment of girls from most marginalized sections of the society in safe and secure, inclusive and gender responsive environments.
Context India's education system is grappling with a range of quality and equity challenges, especially for India's poor.
CARE India has produced scalable and sustainable models of education that have proven methodologies and impacts.
The 2011 census data revealed that about 38 million children (in 6 to 13 years' age group) were out of school. More than 60 percent of children in the age group of 3 to 6 years olds lack access to pre-school education. Girls, and children (Dalit, Adivasi) from socially excluded and backward communities are most likely to be excluded from the education system. Additionally, almost a million teachers in India are untrained and trained teachers frequently lack academic
support. School environments are frequently not child friendly; as per District Information System data for Education (DISE), in 2014, 18.6% governments schools lacked a toilet and in 2015-16 only 9.54% schools in the country were compliant to legal frameworks under the Right to Education 2009. The risk of adolescent girls dropping out of education is heightened by these gaps in government school infrastructure, especially after onset of puberty. Teaching learning materials and textbooks for students, especially in vernacular languages and the mother tongue, are inadequately available. Across the board, girls are particularly at risk.