Tribal Children Education

There are little education facilities in villages (e.g. Preschool / Balwadi) in the hills. Though there are private schools, most of the villagers can’t afford and refuse to send their children to school which is in other villages.

Number of qualified youths/teachers are not available for tuition or night study center in the villages

Most of the girl children help their mothers in household work and take care of their siblings, and boys help the families by grazing the cattle in the field, which supports family earning in a small way.

Parents often migrate from their living places to fetch coolie jobs in other places.

People are not aware about the importance of education, as they are not accessible to proper education till now. 

In this situation, CSC established matriculation schools in the hills for the benefit educating the tribal children. We used to run our schools with help of sponsorship. In Puluvappadi, we have Seva Matriculation School, with approval from LKG to 8th standard. 170 students are studying in the school. At present, we run this school through loans and corpus fund. As we are fast running out of funds, we seek funds to run this school without cease to benefit first generation tribal children to continue their studies. 

The tribal families and parents being below poverty line cannot afford to provide basic amenities and education for their children. They remain illiterate for all time and roam in the forests.

Therefore it has been proposed to adapt a minimum of 200 most needy tribal children and take care of their educational requirement, including food and clothing and transport and other needs, so that they can complete their primary education without awaiting the family backup which is not existent in practice.

–Identification of most needy tribal families and their children .

–One children will be taken up per family with emphasis on tribal girl child.

–Motivation of parents through village meetings to send the children to the school.

–Motivation of children through village animators to organize and guide them beyond school hour.

– Provision of educational material, school uniform, school bags and shoes for the tribal children.

– Provision of intermediary health check up and minimum medicinal support for the school going children.

–Organizing children’s fair for the tribal children in the villages.

–Organizing annual sports and cultural activities for the tribal children.

–Fallow up of the children to the upper primary school after their pass out from class VIII of Middle school.

–The children will be relieved from drudgery & illiteracy. About 20 villages consisting of 1200 tribal families will be motivated for children’s schooling.

–Dropout of tribal children will be reduced and prevented through holistic support.  

–More girl children in the tribal community will be sent to the primary school.

–This project will be able to address the primary education, health and social environment of tribal children with a social integration component of their family in the mainstreaming of national development.

–It is the first generation education project for tribal community. The first generation effort for education will continue without stop.