Making education a reality for every child M.V.FOUNDATIONAPresentationBy Shantha Sinha May, 2004

Making education a reality for every child From Work To School

Making education a reality for every child M.V.Foundation – Impact 3villages30childrenFrom 3 villages and 30 children mainstreamed in Ranga Reddy district in 1991 villages264,000 childrenTo over 6000 villages and 264,000 children mainstreamed spread over 11 districts of Andhra Pradesh in 137 mandals in 2004

Making education a reality for every child Possible Because

Making education a reality for every child Approach To Child Labor all children out of school child labor and educationChild Labor is defined as being all children out of school and so, a link between child labor and education is established full time formal day schoolsThat all children must be in full time formal day schools is a non-negotiable No parallel institutionsNo parallel institutions are set up, in fact existing institutions are strengthened

Making education a reality for every child Parental Demand parents are keenPoor parents are keen on sending their children to school, and are also willing to contribute. Parents do not require income-generating incentives or subsidies to sustain their children in schools. The best incentive is to make schools sensitive to the needs of illiterate parents and their children

Making education a reality for every child Youth Participation Youth activists are the anchors Youth activists are the anchors of the entire program –facing the wrath and anger of employers –involving the Gram Panchayat & Community –bringing pressure on schools and –giving parents the confidence to send their children to school 30000youth volunteers –Over youth volunteers contribute to the program today

Making education a reality for every child Strategies

Campaign and Mobilization FORUMS AND INSTITUTION BUILDING Child Rights Protection Committee Girl Rights Protection Committee Mothers’ Committee School Education Committee Gram Panchayats Teachers’ Forum for Liberation of Child Labor (BKVV) United Political Forum (Aikya Vedika) Mandal Task Force ALL MOBILISATION RESULTS IN INSTITUTION BUILDING Establishing a social norm that no child must work and all children must be in schools MOBILISATION Campaigns Marches Street Theatre Child to Child Campaign Petitioning Public Meetings Inclusion

Making education a reality for every child Reaching Out to Children

Making education a reality for every child The ‘ A.P. Model ’ how to bring children to schoolsThe debate in Andhra Pradesh is on ‘ how to bring children to schools ’ and not ‘ why children work ’ ALLchildren out of schoolChild labor defined as ALL children out of school the right place for every child is the schoolCampaign on ‘ the right place for every child is the school ’ ALL class XUniversalization of Education planned for ALL children in 5-14 age- group and up to class X

Making education a reality for every child The ‘Andhra Pradesh Model’ reinforces M.V.Foundation’s Experience

Making education a reality for every child MVF Today

Making education a reality for every child youth volunteersOver youth volunteers 800 villages800 villages have been made child labor free 3000 education activistsOver 3000 education activists 7000 bonded laborers7000 bonded laborers have been released adolescent girls15000 adolescent girls have accessed schools 2400teachersA forum of government teachers with strength of 2400 teachers has been formed

Making education a reality for every child How Many … 653, ,000 CHILDREN BEING MONITORED ON A REGULAR BASIS

Making education a reality for every child DistrictNo. of Mandals Ranga Reddy17 Nalgonda11 Adilabad6 Mahaboobnagar6 Chittoor6 Kurnool45 Srikakulam6 Vizianagaram6 Ananthapur1 East Godavari10 Kadapa22 Visakapatnam1 States Assam Karnataka Maharastra Madhya Pradesh Orissa Nepal Technical Support Programme Where…

Making education a reality for every child Diversity Nalgonda History of Left/Communist Movements and Activism, existing Debates on Globalisation, IMF/WTO Adilabad Forest Area, Tribal Population, Different Languages (6), Naxals MahabubnagarMigration, Tribal Population, Naxals SrikakulamCoastal area, Fisherman Community VizianagaramHill-top Population, Tribals, Naxals ChittoorBC Population, Small Habitations, Bilingual Ranga ReddySub-urban, Backward Villages Kurnool & KadapaFactional Feuds AssamCross Border Issues

Making education a reality for every child Schools- Access To All Rights institutionsinter- generational cyclepovertydeprivationS chools are institutions that break the inter- generational cycle of poverty and deprivation first stepequity access to cultural capitalS chools become the first step towards equity and access to cultural capital process democratisation of schools beginA process of democratisation of schools begin. Therefore, schools become site for the contestation of power. public space public scrutinyS chools bring children to the public space under public scrutiny.

Making education a reality for every child Our main donors –HIVOS- a Netherlands based Funding Agency and the European Union –NORAD –UNDP/UNICEF/ILO –Sir Dorabji Tata Trust –National Child Labor Program(NCLP) of the Government of India –District Primary Education Program(DPEP)of the Government of Andhra Pradesh

Making education a reality for every child Non Negotiables must attend full-timeA ll children must attend full-time formal day schools. A ny child out of school child labourerA ny child out of school is a child labourer A ll workhazardous overall growth developmentA ll work/labor is hazardous and harms the overall growth and development of the child. total abolitionof child laborT here must be total abolition of child labor A ny justification must be condemnedA ny justification perpetuating the existence of child labor must be condemned.