Computer Education for the under served

Most of Schools/ NGOs / SHGs working in education sector for the underprivileged are able to teach Hindi, English and Maths and other subjects as required but fail to provide a credible computer education. and this has been seen across the institutions. The major pain points for them to deliver computer education are as follows

1. arranging appropriate and sufficient hardware for the purpose

2. Maintain this hardware

3. Find the correct course (govt course is only theoretical and has no industry relevance)

4. Find the right person who can deliver computer education. If someone knows enough to teach well, why would he/she work in an NGO environment and not in industry, where he/she will be paid much better

5.assess the students

Computer Shiksha is addressing all these pain points and creating an enabling ecosystem by

1. providing 2nd hand hardware free of cost

2. Maintaining this hardware if anything goes wrong

3. Designed a practical course covering MS paint, MS Office (Open office), Internet, emails

4. Created Self Learning videos (in Hindi right now, other languages to follow) that deliver the computer education with minimal human intervention. Human intervention is to be in the form of managing the videos

5. Train the school trainers who will do this video management and the person can be an 8th standard pass, who will be trained for 8 days by CS

6. assessing the students periodically

7. Certifying students

Currently we are adding 1000+ students monthly to the computer education course. To take it to our stated level of 20000 students per month so as to achieve our target of One million kids by 2020,, we need to raise our funding level of current 3.5 lacs per month to Rs. 70 lacs per month. Hence for the year we need to raise Rs. 8.4 crores

Impact which was anticipated and planned was

smooth, credible and effective delivery of computer education where earlier it was just not possible. we have already

trained 768 students and have right now 2600+ students undergoing computer education at more than 28 centres at

Gurgaon, Delhi, Rajatshan, U.P. and Punjab

the students number on roll for this would be 5000+ by 31st March 2017 and will cross 13000 by Dec 2017

The unintended impact that we had not planned or anticipated were as follows

increase of self confidence and assurance in children undergoing computer course

improvement in the attendance on the days computer classes are held compared to other days of the week

attracting more and more students, after computer course is introdcued