Gubbachi Learning Community

We are a registered Section 8 company, founded in Sept 2015. Six of us from education/development backgrounds came together to create holistic and mea Read moreningful interventions to address the problem of educational inclusion of marginalized ‘out of school children’ , typically from migrant families. We believe that collaboration will make a change - be it individual supporters, volunteers, CSRs, government departments or other organisations in the space. Please read a summary about about how we approach the design of our interventions and if you find synergy with us, we would be grateful if you partner with us and enrich our efforts through your contribution. It takes a drop to make an ocean and every contribution will move us closer to our vision of "creating a world where every individual leads a meaningful and dignified life." Our Approach The problem of school dropouts and inaccessibility to quality education is huge in our country. Close to 80% of children in India drop out of school by Grade 10 . To address the issue we run Bridge Learning Centres either located in government schools or communities around Sarjapur Road, where we bridge literacy and numeracy gaps in out of school children. This helps in mainstreaming into the ‘host’ government school. Additionally, we work in the government school itself to support its Classes 1-2-3 and ensure foundational learning - which is due to every citizen of any country. Other offshoots of our core programs are the Early Childhood Program for younger siblings + Bridge Learning Program for pre-teen/teen drop outs from the same communities. It is not sufficient but necessary to also work with the families and the communities our children belong to for a meaningful change. Our community interventions thus focus on a multi-pronged approach to build awareness through parental workshops about - parental roles in education, social ills - substance abuse, child marriage, violence, etc facilitate identity documentation and creation of bank accounts enable linkages to social benefits - like Labour Cards, eShram Cards Partner to run Health Clinics close to our communities and partner with the Public Health Clinics.