Innovative Approach to Solve Problem By GYANALAYA FOUNDATION
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Disaster Management
Quality Improvement Approach at Public Healthcare Facilities
Gyanalaya foundation through its STEM programming is focused on building scientific inquiry in children by helping them explore the pertinent issues in their communities.
- Mentoring children to use different scientific tools for exploration.
- Guiding students to conduct small research, where they explore questions from their immediate context, adopt scientific inquiry methods in devising answers and validate answers by trying them.
- Facilitating learning opportunities where children start being observant of their immediate environment, investigate, explore, and seek answers.
Supplementary Early Grader Reading Materials in Indigenous Tribal Languages
Building a strong sense of identity and comfort to read in one’s mother tongue for children in marginalised communities —
- Developing reading resources that enhance language development.
- Creating supplementary reading materials in underserved languages for early graders in two states.
- Activating involvement from local community members and teachers.
Tool to Track the Development of Young Children
Gyanalaya foundation devised a simple development milestone tracker that captures all-round development (cognitive, language, social, emotional, creative, and physical) of the child. The tracker can be used by the caregiver with ease and allows identifying any early development delay amongst children.
Organic Linkage between Community and School using Multi-Pronged Approach
In the intervention districts, one of the key issues is lack of parental engagement in school processes, especially fathers. Fathers remain busy in livelihood activities and migrate as well, while mothers are not allowed to go to schools as women’s presence in public places is not appreciated by some religious leaders. GYANALAYA FOUNDATION aims to reform this.
- Starting dialogue with religious leaders and fathers of girls on value of parental engagement in schools.
- Utilising a multi- pronged approach of meetings with mothers and fathers in the community and community seminars in schools.
- Regularising parent teacher meetings to discuss the achievements and challenges of girls.
District Resource Group (DRG) on Gender, Equity and Safety and Security to Support Teachers
Gyanalaya foundation charted out the role and responsivity of DRG in the training of nodal teachers at schools in revitalising school-based leadership platforms to promote girls’ leadership.
- Ensuring sustained support to teachers on the issues of leadership beyond project life.
- Creating district resource groups who were capacitated on approaches of gender and equity.
- Building a comprehensive understanding of the safety and security of children, especially girls.
