Parents-Tutor Meeting at Bhumi’s after School Community Centres “Together may we give our children the roots to grow and the wings to fly” UNESCO states India has the second biggest educational system in the world with children aged below fourteen comprising 28% of the population, 7.7 million teachers and 1.4 million schools. Parents aspire for […]
Celebrating Womanhood! Educating the Girl Beneficiaries from Community Centres on Menstruation and Menstrual Hygiene A cross-sectional study was carried out using pre-tested proforma during the period of 1st June to 31th August 2017 by “National Centre for Biotechnology Information” in an urban slum area. Among the 100 adolescent girls, 72% were between 15 and 19 years. 27% […]
Children growing up in slums experience a childhood with massive social problems associated with urban poverty. For most slum families, educating their children is the last thought on their minds. Every child up to the age of 14 is entitled to free schooling, but the schools they attend are poorly resourced and have low learning […]
A study was conducted by one of the major donors across 15 Bhumi community centres in Chennai. The focus was on understanding whether the students and parents were benefited from our Ignite study centres, and to decide whether any improvements can be made with regard to it. For the study, children from each centre – […]