• Child Labour Elimination Programme

• Vagri community – Status of Education

09 January 2010

Marginalized communitiesLarge Families

Low awareness on need for education

First generation school goers

High rate of school dropouts

Migratory population

Our Strategy

Work with the support of the community leader

Bringing community together through social

mobilization

Form Self-Help-Groups (HiH -1) and empower women

by making them financially independent

Poongavanam – Residential

Bridge Camp for out-of-

school children

Poongavanam – Residential

Bridge Camp for out-of-

school children

Balwadi run by Hand in Hand

Challenges• To work with culture, dialect and

• attitude of vagri community

• Sustaining the interest of the children

• Getting continuous support from the

• parents

• Follow-up after mainstreaming, due to

• the migratory nature of the families

• Fear of inter-community marriages

• often barrier to education

• Girl children taken out to school to take

• care of the younger siblings

Learnings

• Lesser school dropouts when they stay in residential

campus

• Parents need continuous motivation to keep their

children in school

• Community needs awareness on educating the girl

child

Thank YouVisit us http://www.hihseed.org/