Support to Government Schools

GMRVF partners government schools in their quest to improve quality of education. Initiatives include provision of infrastructure, support through trained Vidya Volunteers, promoting activity-based learning, computer-aided education, co-curricular activities, and after-school tuitions for higher classes etc. The Foundation works with about 300 schools to enhance the quality of education. benefiting over 55000 students across India.

Highlights

Foundation makes need-based contribution towards infrastructural development in govt. schools including construction of classrooms, toilets, playgrounds, equipping labs, developing libraries, providing furniture for classrooms etc.

A key support provided by the Foundation is through Vidya Volunteers. These volunteers contribute significantly to educational outcomes in schools where there is a shortage of teachers. They are trained in interactive and outcome oriented pedagogies, and there is ongoing hand-holding and capacity building to help them deliver best results. are trained, motivated and monitored. Through the use of carefully developed grade-specific workbooks, the volunteers ensure that children achieve Minimum Levels of Learning. Volunteers also work with the community to reduce dropouts and to make parents active stakeholders in the education of their children.

Foundation supports joyful learning in schools by introducing innovative pedagogies, providing Teaching-Learning Material (TLM), and training to teachers.

Foundation facilitates exposure visits and excursion trips for children.

In many of the schools it works with, Foundation organizes tuitions for the students of Std. IX and X (also see After School Activities section) to help them make the grade in Board exams.

Through special classes and summer sessions, it focuses on slow learners, helping them in acquiring the minimum levels of learning. After-school learning sessions, creativity centers and summer camps are conducted with focus on co-curricular and extra-curricular activities.

In collaboration with school administrations, Foundation organizes a number of events and competitions for Environment Day, Children's Day, and Annual Day etc. They generate a lot of enthusiasm in the children and the communities around as a whole. Foundation organizes regular health-checkups in the govt. schools it works with

Foundation organizes regular health-checkups in all the govt. schools it works with. After-school learning sessions, creativity centers and summer camps are conducted with focus on co-curricular and extracurricular activities.

Case Study

Education... A Ladder to Success!

When GMRVF started working with the government schools around the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at Shamshabad, it was found that the SSC pass percentage in Mamidipally High School was less than 35%. Many interventions were taken up by Foundation to improve this. It started an After-School Learning Center to provide tuition support to the students with weak learning skills. Transport facility was provided to girls coming from nearby villages to reach their homes safely in the evenings after attending tuition classes. All the students of After-School Learning Center were provided with nutritious snacks every day for 3 months before the exams under the sponsorship of IT department of GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd. In the first year of GMRVF’s intervention the pass percentage increased to 67%. The teachers of the school were highly motivated with this increased pass percentage and started taking initiatives on their own to achieve better results. Their efforts coupled with continuous support from GMRVF resulted in continuous improvement in the SSC results and in the third year of intervention, the school achieved a pass percentage of 81%.

Progress of Pass Percentage in Mamidipally High School