Programme 01 — Early childhood education
The first five years decide how the next fifteen go.
Pre-school sessions, learning material and teacher support for the years before a child ever sits an exam.
Early childhood is where a child learns to hold a pencil, wait their turn and believe they can answer. Miss those years and the primary classroom becomes a place where a child falls behind quietly and never catches up.
We run pre-school sessions with an age-appropriate curriculum — rhymes, stories, counting with objects, drawing, and a great deal of play — and we train the teacher or volunteer who runs them.
How it is run
Sessions run in the school or anganwadi the children already attend, with the worker who will keep running them after we leave.
What it includes
The short list, agreed with the school, the home or the household.
How you can help
Three ways that actually move this programme forward.
Sponsor a pre-school group
Materials and a teacher's stipend for a group of twenty children for a year.
Give play material
Picture cards, blocks, crayons, story books — the cheapest thing on our list.
Read aloud once a week
Half an hour of stories is the whole programme in one act.
Write to [email protected] or sign up as a volunteer. We answer within three working days.
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