Education For All

Learning poverty & learning loss threatening nations future

"Without urgent action to reduce learning poverty, we face a learning and human capital catastrophe. If children do not acquire the basics of literacy together with numeracy and other foundational skills—the futures of hundreds of millions of children around the world, and their societies, are at grave risk". Says a recent joint report by UNESCO, UNICEF, FDCO, USAID & BMGF. Nearly, 6 out of every 10, ten-year-olds in low- and middle-income countries were suffering from learning poverty even before Covid 19. Now long Covid 19 school closures have further deepened the crisis to unprecedented level. A recent ASER report has reflected the similar grave situation for India too. While urgent Government policy interventions are needed, the role of private organizations, with expertise, knowledge and grassroots community network, is absolutely critical to overcome this crisis and even converting this to an opportunity to address a historical gap.

A unique innovative approach by empowering grassroots educators

Nanritam, a nonprofit organization operating from a rural corner of West Bengal with initiatives in health, education and rural livelihood building, has now developed and implemented a system solution, Education for All (EFA) to address this gap in foundational literacy and numeracy. They have leveraged their exceptional activity based playful pedagogy, pool of experts and teachers and strong community network to build and implement the solution. The key feature of the program is to empower, equip and train grassroots teachers in the remote communities, who may not have the advanced degrees but with their passion and dedication are essentially the true change makers to establish a sustainable system. The program includes, books, e books, video instructions and weekly online training, periodic residential workshops and continuous mentoring and feedback sessions.  In short, an innovative system solution is established that is offered free of cost.

Significant impact is visible in remote locations across India that needs fast scale up.

Conceptualized in Nov. 2021, in round one 1000 teachers representing 150 schools from 10 backward districts of West Bengal got empowered - positively impacting 40,000 students. Continuous monitoring and formal periodic assessment indicating phenomenal improvement in children learning and high enthusiasm from the teachers. In October-2022, EFA has successfully completed teachers training introduction for 72 schools in Ladakh in partnership with New Millennium Education Foundation, Ladakh. Also in October, 150 police volunteer trainees representing 75 learning centers from 4 northern districts of West Bengal received initial teachers training in partnership with West Bengal police under community police service. We are aiming to empower and train up to at least 5000 teachers per year impacting more than 2,00,000 additional students every year

North Bengal Police partnered with Nanritam to empower civic community

The common notion about police often fail to recognize the wonderful services some of our brothers and sisters in this uniform do, not only to protect us but also to help building successful communities in society and in remote corners. A large number of paid civic volunteers of West Bengal police are silently working in the remotest corners in the districts of North Bengal and other backward districts to bring the light of education to the most learning deprived children - through hundreds of learning centers, impacting thousands of children’s future.

West Bengal police North Bengal has now partnered with Nanritam to empower these community civic volunteer teachers with EFA pedagogy, methodology and implement the top quality pre primary primary education to these remote learning centers. The partnership program has just started. If the proverb morning shows the day holds ,, then we are embarking into a game changing journey…

Building successful communities with the support of West Bengal Police

The common notion about police often fail to recognize the wonderful services some of our brothers and sisters in this uniform do, not only to protect us and maintain regular law and order but also to help building successful communities in remote corners. West Bengal police has partnered with Nanritam and are silently working in the remotest corners in the backward districts to bring the eye care and light of education to those who needs the most.

An amazing journey… that has just started…and just in a couple of months has made a significant impact!