During COVID, children belonging to villages in Mica dependent districts of Koderma and Giridih in Jharkhand couldn’t attend school regularly as their parents lost their livelihood and couldn’t support their education. Furthermore, they were made to support their parents in household work and income generation during the pandemic.
While working towards re-enrolling these children in schools, we at TdH-NL realised that the children had a gap of 6 months to a year in their studies. We conducted remedial classes to bridge this gap in academic learning for these dropout students specifically belonging to pre-primary and primary classes. Our community facilitators with the support of the balmanch (Children’s Club) children from the respective villages helped them in basic reading, writing and learning classes.
They were also supported through digital classes and mobile library facilities to keep them enthusiastically engaged and continue the revision of the studies they missed out on.
A total of 85 children (boys-39, girls-46) in 10 villages were enrolled in these remedial classes. Now these dropout students can smoothly transition to the next grade.
By Nivedita Kaskar, Communications Associate.
