Education

We are committed to providing basic education to the underprivileged. Among all the factors of life, education plays the most important part. Click here to view the Education Cases that we are currently supporting.

We are in the process of construction of a school for the underprivileged children, who are held up in different situations such as child labour, children of poor parents, street and slum children.

Education empowers an individual to earn his livelihood and makes one aware about health, behavior, and understanding of his rights and obligations as a citizen of a democratic country.

The Hoping Foundation believes that we can transform lives through education. We are helping poor parents, whose children want to study, and make their life better. A lot of these students, become dropouts from the school, because their parents are unable to meet the expenses of their education. Some parents fell ill, which forces their children to do child labour jobs, to make a living for the whole family. Whenever we get information about such cases, we try to help those parents by providing them the required help, so that their children are not forced to do labour and other menial jobs, to sustain their family.

On account of the difference between home and school atmosphere, the children are finding difficult to adjust in schools. Lack of neatness, low performance in schools, are creating inferiority complex among children. This complex is creating disinterest among the pupils. These children are in a disadvantageous position at home as well as at school.

On account of their low economic background, a majority of children are sent to schools, only a few of them relatively economically better off, sent their children to English medium schools. On the one hand, because of their non familiarity with the language of the school they are unable to interact with other children. Moreover, these children also find it difficult to cope up with the school language. This results in under performance and early dropping out.

Education for Children flows like a hierarchy, and cannot be achieved without the family support, and the mother specially must be assured of health care and empowered. When an elder sibling is educated, is employable, and starts earning for the family, the journey of empowerment continues beyond the present generation.

Education empowers an individual to earn his/her livelihood and increases one's awareness on healthcare, social behaviour, understanding one's rights and thus evolve as a better citizen. Education is the most effective tool which helps children build a strong foundation; enabling them to free themselves from the vicious cycle of ignorance, poverty and disease.

We understand that child education cannot be done in isolation. It must have support of parents and nothing else but education for children can bring long lasting change in the society.

Right to Education :

The Constitution (Eighty-sixth Amendment) Act, 2002 inserted Article 21-A in the Constitution of India to provide free and compulsory education of all children in the age group of six to fourteen years as a Fundamental Right in such a manner as the State may, by law, determine. The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009, which represents the consequential legislation envisaged under Article 21-A, means that every child has a right to full time elementary education of satisfactory and equitable quality in a formal school which satisfies certain essential norms and standards.

Article 21-A and the RTE Act came into effect on 1 April 2010. The title of the RTE Act incorporates the words ‘free and compulsory’. ‘Free education’ means that no child, other than a child who has been admitted by his or her parents to a school which is not supported by the appropriate Government, shall be liable to pay any kind of fee or charges or expenses which may prevent him or her from pursuing and completing elementary education. ‘Compulsory education’ casts an obligation on the appropriate Government and local authorities to provide and ensure admission, attendance and completion of elementary education by all children in the 6-14 age group. With this, India has moved forward to a rights based framework that casts a legal obligation on the Central and State Governments to implement this fundamental child right as enshrined in the Article 21A of the Constitution, in accordance with the provisions of the RTE Act.

The RTE Act provides for the:
Right of children to free and compulsory education till completion of elementary education in a neighbourhood school.
It clarifies that ‘compulsory education’ means obligation of the appropriate government to provide free elementary education and ensure compulsory admission, attendance and completion of elementary education to every child in the six to fourteen age group. ‘Free’ means that no child shall be liable to pay any kind of fee or charges or expenses which may prevent him or her from pursuing and completing elementary education.
It makes provisions for a non-admitted child to be admitted to an age appropriate class.
It specifies the duties and responsibilities of appropriate Governments, local authority and parents in providing free and compulsory education, and sharing of financial and other responsibilities between the Central and State Governments.
It lays down the norms and standards relating inter alia to Pupil Teacher Ratios (PTRs), buildings and infrastructure, school-working days, teacher-working hours.
It provides for rational deployment of teachers by ensuring that the specified pupil teacher ratio is maintained for each school, rather than just as an average for the State or District or Block, thus ensuring that there is no urban-rural imbalance in teacher postings. It also provides for prohibition of deployment of teachers for non-educational work, other than decennial census, elections to local authority, state legislatures and parliament, and disaster relief.
It provides for appointment of appropriately trained teachers, i.e. teachers with the requisite entry and academic qualifications.
It prohibits (a) physical punishment and mental harassment; (b) screening procedures for admission of children; (c) capitation fee; (d) private tuition by teachers and (e) running of schools without recognition, It provides for development of curriculum in consonance with the values enshrined in the Constitution, and which would ensure the all-round development of the child, building on the child’s knowledge, potentiality and talent and making the child free of fear, trauma and anxiety through a system of child friendly and child centred learning. (Source MHRD)