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Why Dream School
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Situation
Analysis |
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The future of India
depends upon the quality of education imparted to our
children. There are 43,447 Government Primary Schools
and 3,029 Government High Schools in the state of
Karnataka. Though the Government has initiated several
programmes to ensure quality education free of cost, the
schools in the villages and even the cities are crippled
with poor infrastructural facilities, poor supply of
Mid-day meals, inadequate teachers and neglect of
quality in teaching. We believe the onus of change lies
primarily with the Govt. but we realize that given the
current scenario, intervention by concerned citizen
groups can make a significant positive impact on the
system.
With the introduction of the School Adoption'
programme in 2000, concrete interventions by individuals
or groups are being recognized and initiated as an
integral part of the development of Govt. schools. A
significant amount of time, capital and efforts are
invested to get such programmes operational but a lack
of structured implementation makes them unsustainable
even in the medium term. In most cases, providing
resources to a school is the only step implemented.
There is no further involvement of the group in either
monitoring these initiatives or evaluating their
results, thus rendering these interventions absolutely
ineffective in the long term. This scenario led us to
the model that aims at providing the government school
interventions multi-sectoral advantages and initiates
the growth of volunteering that would eventually make
these interventions viable and sustainable.
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Our
Objective |
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We at DSF believe that each individual
is precious, unique and a reservoir of resources. We
endeavour to provide opportunities which will enable a
large number of children to reach their full potential
in the areas of social, emotional, intellectual,
physical growth based on Indian ethos and values.
Our philosophy is based on volunteering by
committed individuals and groups implementing the
specified projects with a Participatory model of
Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) with the
stakeholders. This distinguishes us from many other
players in this area. We also aim to facilitate and
bring about the much-needed integration of efforts by
varied agencies to maximize the potential of each
initiative.
In the long term, these
interventions could prove to be the most effective means
of driving change in the working of government schools
all across our country, by ensuring a better quality of
education and learning, by providing role models,
appropriate exposure and guidance to the children from a
very young age. |
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