Community
Empowerment
Program

Empowering the parents and communities to become
active stakeholders in child’s learning journey

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Community Empowerment Program

There has been significant national and international research to prove that when parents get actively involved in education, children try harder and achieve more at school. Parents who help and encourage their children to learn at home, and who help develop positive attitudes toward school, contribute to the personal growth and academic success of their children.

However, in a developing country like India with an overall literacy rate of 72.98% (as per census 2011), it is estimated that over 121 million children out of 250 million school going children in India are first generation learners. This means about 50% of our school going children may not get be getting active support from their parents.

We at Sterlite EdIndia Foundation have been constantly working with parents and communities from remote and Tribal areas to increase their awareness and build their capacity so that they can become active stakeholders to improve quality of children education.

Our Approach

To ensure that there is continuous improvement in student learning outcomes, and children participate more in school-related activities, there is a need for involving parents as enablers. EdIndia, thus, intervenes at various levels to improve parental engagement. Community meetings, individual interaction with parents and conducting various school events is can increase the participation of parents in PTMs and SMCs which is an important channel for sustainable development. This also increases the confidence and capability of parents to support their children at home, thus improving their learning environment.