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| Infant Schools & Day-Care
Centres |
| 14 infant or 'balwadi' schools catering
for about 1,000 village infants. We also have more
than 2000 children in our care, starting with babies
and toddlers who come to our day-care centres. |
| These are sickly children or children
of mothers who must go to work. They are given food
three times a day, are bathed, given medical care
and a lot of stimulation. Only the poorest children
are admitted. |
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| Primary Schools & Nursery
Schools |
| 3 Primary Schools, each catering
for between 100 and 350 pupils. For under 5's, we run nursery
schools or kindergartens. These are well equipped
and staffed. Again we care only for the poorest
children in many villages. |
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| High School |
| 1 High School for over 360 pupils
to age 16 (18 for girls, from 2007, after local
bureaucracy prevented the planned start in 2006). Children
of all categories are at the heart of all our work
and special care is given to them. The numbers in
our classrooms are kept small by running several
streams. Older children are supported through Higher
Education, College or University. |
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| Other Educational Work |
| We have an Open School for the
benefit of slow learners and children who have
dropped out of mainstream education. We
supervise Study Centres in several remote villages:
Children in houses without electricity have
somewhere for evening study, and trained local
workers provide support. |
| Mobile Science Lab |
| A vehicle has been equipped with
instruments and materials for scientific experiments
and demonstrations. This tours 43 schools
throughout the area, supporting the schools own
teachers in the national curriculum. 20,000
children are benefiting. |
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| Teaching |
| 90 well trained teachers and support
staff. Each teacher can arrange the class as is
preferred. The older children have desks, but for
small children working at floor level is more natural
in Indian villages. Activity methods are encouraged.
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| Meals |
| 2,000 school meals - supplied daily.
Catering for school children and some older
folk. Cooking is done by using steam. A carefully
balanced diet is planned. |
| AND - RTU Teaching methods and
standards have been upheld on State TV in India |
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| Further Education Programme |
| Courses for older students
and adults run in :- |
| Basic electronics, printing,
needlework, dress making, computer skills. |
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| Skills - |
| Adult literacy and numeracy
courses held for village people. |
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