Plan India School on Wheels

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Plan India School on Wheels

• School on Wheels (SOW) is an integrated approach
  towards improving the quality of education for
  underprivileged children. It seeks to ensure
  pre-primary and primary education for all
  children up to the age of 14 leading to their
  overall development.
• The project has been implemented in the South
  Mumbai slums by Plan Indias partner NGO Door
  Step School. The key component of the project is
  a bus designed as a mobile class room to provide
  alternate educational facilities to street
  children and pavement dwellers. Efforts are being
  made to enrol these children in formal schools at
  the beginning of the next financial year. Other
  key components of the project include a community
  based educational programme, school partnership
  programme and working with adolescent children
  from the community.

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• Since 2008, the project has so far directly
  benefitted more than 5,000 children between the
  age group of 3-18 years. Conducting four classes
  a day, School on Wheels has reaches out to more
  than 800 children a year. The parents have also
  started taking an interest, talking to the
  teachers about their childs problems.
• Apart from this, community based educational
  programmes were organised in seven slum
  communities with coverage of 524 children. 12
  Balwadis reached 393 children (49 boys 51
  girls). 99 children associated with the project
  continued their formal schooling and did not drop
  out. 77 children were regular and had attendance
  of more than 50 with an average attendance of 20
  children per class. Additionally, 756 children
  benefitted from attending computer classes and
  726 children from Byculla Municipal School were
  supported through school partnership programmes.
  Approximately, 509 children from 1st - 4th
  standard were given reading lessons with 97
  succeeding to reach the project target.

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