Child labour,migrated children, school dropout, Children with disabilities and street children of 15 villages of marine fishing area.

We covered 12 schools covering 15 villages of 2 mandals (Poosapatirega&Ranathalam) mandals of Vizianagaram and Srikakulam districts.

To develop teaching-learning skills in the students, implementation of technology in education and learning through aid of computer, 3 Primary Schools and one High School are provided with electricity under the project.

To motivate the children towards the education and create general awareness, promote intelligence quotient and encourage them, we distributed study material and uniforms in 12 schools covering 15 villages. We distributed School Uniforms and Learning materials like Pen, Pencils, sharpeners, Slates& Slate Pencils, Erasers, Short and long note books. All children are given one pair of School uniform.

It is found that class room facilities are not adequate in these areas hence new buildings are constructed to promote primary education. ARDAR constructed new buildings for Government schools and handed over to the education department.

To encourage higher education to the children secured good marks in the villages; we have provided scholarships to support them. We selected the children from 15 villages who are interested in continuing their education. The priority was given to poor and intelligent students to continue their collegiate education. The amount is given according to the expenditure of the course studied.

We painted all 14 Schools with water paints and filled with arts are prepared. From bottom to 3 feet running boards are done. We prepared district, state, country maps, alphabetical, numerical, planets, solar system etc. on the walls. These paints are used for raising learning levels.

We have conducted 52 parents meetings in all the villages. We informed about the importance of education to children and government schemes related to education to the parents. Parents are given responsibilities in controlling drop outs and migration in their villages.We focused on the child retention, quality assessment, children’s progress, parents’ participation in school activities. We also discussed about the school sanitation, reduce the dropouts, children health care, involvement of parents and teachers in improving the retention of the children at school.

As a result of these meetings the parent’s participation in the school activities is increased. The drop outs also reduced in this period. As per the school records, only two children were dropped out during this academic year. The sanitation situation is also increased a lot compared to the previous situation.

We conducted a meeting on right to Education Act in Thippalavalasa, Kothuru and Madhuru. Local president, parents, teachers and other people’s representatives attended to this meeting. This meeting focused on right to avail free education for the children. Child should get free education without any barriers at parents’ level, community level and at school level. Parents and teachers should provide a child friendly environment to the child for quality education.

The computer classes, English courses started in this year. The English lab is equipped with fully with the support of the Matching Grant program by Rotary Club. We also get the permissions from the both District Education Officers (Vizianagaram and Srikakulam) to get the children from schools to campus. We appointed a teacher in Thippalavalasa to teach the children and also supported with some furniture and UPS for the Lab. We provided the Extra 14 chairs, 1 UPS and 28 headsets. Those officers agreed and afforded oral permission.

The group we cater to are the 254 children from the schools of ARDAR's quality education program (outreach). This group probably needs the software more that the children from the Medium School as they have less experience with computers and less qualified English teachers. Initially, they are very hesitant to start using the computer, but they learn remarkably fast.