NGOS Working for Rural Education and Development in India - Swades Foundation

EDUCATION
Creating joyful, empowering education which enhances livelihood options, creating socially and environmentally conscious citizens who are catalysts for change.
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At the Swades Foundation, we work with 1,36,666 children in 1,394 schools, 831 anganwadis and 41 Junior colleges to ensure that learning is fun, learning is holistic and learning is empowering. We believe good education is one that broadens horizons, creates choices for the child to achieve her/his dreams.

OUR IMPACT

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PROGRAMMES

MINDSET CHANGE

To empower school staff to lead by example, we provide extensive leadership training to principals and in-service training to teachers and anganwadi workers. In addition, we have setup a learning resource center exclusively for children with special needs (CWSN) and trained another 323 teachers to teach and train these special children.

ENABLING ENVIRONMENT

Interventions include Infrastructure upgrades / Learning tools such as drinking water and hand wash stations and sanitation (separate urinals and toilets for boys and girls respectively; as per UNICEF guidelines), setting up of libraries, computer labs, activity based learning, science and math kits for interactive and joyful learning.

FUTURE READY

We provide two types of scholarships to deserving students who come from unprivileged families. Mass Scholarships are for students to uptake Grade XI and XII whereas Excellence Scholarships are for students who want to pursue professional courses like CA, CS, Engineering and Medical. In addition to that we provide career counselling to prepare students and parents for future opportunities. Forming and strengthening of school management committees who are empowered to act upon any issues pertaining to their school management and ensure corrective action through appropriate mechanisms.

Real development is to invest in women’s education.
Archana Wadhaval, an introvert girl but strong with her aspiration to become a banker. She always performed well in her studies until grade X.

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