ABHAS started Children’s community library in Tughlakabad in early 2003 to promote reading habit among children especially girls who were school dropouts. Besides providing them a place to read books, the library became a space for girls to come together discuss issues and speak their minds. During this time we developed an excellent rapport with the 6000 migrant families, many of whose children, especially girls, were out of school and many of whom had never been to school.
This only strengthened our resolve ‘Every Girl in School’ and ensuring completion of elementary and secondary education for all children.
Building on this, our work in the last six years has helped us to reach out to more than 6000 disadvantaged and socially excluded girls living in urban slum communities and urban villages of Delhi and Noida ensuring out of school girls access elementary education and school going girls stay in school longer. Every year we reach out to more than 1200 children directly through our various programs.
To achieve this ABHAS designed programs, which would not only cater to the educational needs of the urban marginalized girls at each stage of her growing up but also provide the backward and forward linkages in the form of programs for girls to access quality education, while addressing issues of security and protection. Pehla Kadam for the 3-5 age group, TEACH Plus and the Reading Room Program for children of primary school going age, the Girls Education Program and a School Health And Hygiene Program for middle and secondary school girls, TEACH (Train And Educate Adolescents with Community Health) and the Community Learning Center, a program for Youth, and a Girls Interest Centre to ensure learning and recreational rights of the girls.
The Programs are supported by
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Government of India -Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan
- Reach India Project – USAID
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Room
to Read India Trust
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Asha
for Education - Stanford and Silicon Valley chapters
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HPS
Social Welfare Foundation
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The
NIIT Institute – TNI
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Yamuna
Action Plan Phase II under Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam
- Essel Social Welfare Foundation
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