Change through
Education
Education
is the key out of poverty
We all need colour in our lives. But when you are born into a life of abject poverty, your options are immediately very black and white. You have no choice and no voice. El Shaddai Charitable Trust is an NGO for Education in Goa, India, giving children in need a choice by offering them education and chance to a brighter more colourful tomorrow.
Primary education is compulsory and free for all children in India. But the children we work with come from families where no member has seen a school. For these families, a child is another bread earner. In the cities, these children are used to begging on the streets or working as menial labour with unscrupulous business owners for a few cents a day. The children use the money earned to buy food for themselves and their families. In many cases, the money is used to buy drugs.
An NGO focussed on
Education
Our NGO focus is education. Working with children in Goa since 1995, we found that most are not able to cope with regular schools. Unable to keep up, they drop out of the system and have no desire to return. We started the Shanti Niketan School in Assagao for these children in our care.
Children here learn at different levels but within one learning centre. Our system of education is child centred, and the teaching approach is activity based. There are three phases of learning: Group study, Individualized system and Classroom system.
The main aim behind starting the school was to provide street children with an all-around education in a non-competitive environment. We strive to provide a happy and secure environment, in which children can develop and achieve their full potential – intellectually, emotionally, socially, physically, and spiritually for a brighter future. We want to prepare children as individuals and members of society to provide them with experiences that will promote a love of learning and enhance spiritual awareness. We put great emphasis on our children becoming the best they can in all areas of life.
The school encourages street children and slow learning children to gain new hope through non-formal methods of learning. We enable the students to appear for public examinations and then join a College and University.
We want to formulate and further develop a school curriculum for Street Children that can be replicated throughout India. We also reach out to children across Goa and neighbouring states with neighbourhood learning initiatives. We conduct coaching and remedial learning classes in our Shelters and Community Centres. Our focus in the slums and communities we work with is to ensure pre-primary schooling for the children. With parents working as day labour, these children are at potential risk, left alone. By providing them with a safe place to learn, we keep them off the streets and away from possible abuse such as drugs, sex trafficking, begging and child labour.
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Moving forward, as an NGO in India, we would like to focus even more on ensuring quality education and skills development in children from under-privileged sections of society. This will empower them to change their lives and their family’s future. We can’t do this alone. We are a non-profit and depend on regular support from people like you, who believe in the power of education. Please consider effecting change by supporting the education of an under-privileged child. Use the form above to get in touch with us and begin changing lives.
SHANTI NIKETAN SCHOOL
OUR UNIQUE CURRICULUM
Childhood is not a race to be won; it’s an adventure of discovery to be relished. Our faculty provides an experiential way of learning which encourages the child to imagine, create, and participate. We believe in freeing the minds of children by allowing them to grow, realizing their own self, gaining momentum in the area of learning according to their interests, in their time. We do not encourage children to be coerced into learning but in immersing themselves with the natural inquisitiveness possessed by every human being. Creating a platform by facilitating the learning process is what we offer each child. We do not focus on the grading system but on enabling the children to internalize the new concepts they are introduced to. Our teachers take up the role of enablers and embrace the individuality of each child, nullifying the effects of collation. Our pivotal aim is to produce quality human beings, and to give the freedom of exploration, to see the learning process as a never-ending amusing experience.
Three phases of learning namely Group study, Individualized system, and Classroom system are practiced to develop children to achieve their full potential – intellectually, emotionally, socially, physically, and spiritually. Children are taught in a play way method where they learn at their own pace with a great emphasis on becoming the best that they can be in all areas of life.
The main objective is to provide the best English medium education to the children and impart Pre-primary, Primary and Secondary education that is necessary and desirable through various developmental projects.
BRANCH Education Projects
Blooming Buds
Blooming Buds Education Centre Mundgod, Karnataka and was started in June, 2012. We have around 180 underprivileged children attending educational activities conducted at this centre. This day care center focuses on Pre – Primary schooling for the children who are deprived of education. These children come from the nearby villages with the hope of a brighter future.
First Steps
First Steps Playschool & Daycare Assagao, Goa was launched in October 2012. It is a privately-run school with professional child care services for working parents. Our faculty has been fully committed to provide a care plan suitable to every individual’s needs with bright and spacious playrooms to promote learning at every stage. It also allows our children to socialise and integrate with the children of the community.
Tremera Pre-Primary School
Tremara Community Centre, a project of El Shaddai was inaugurated in March 2008, located in the middle of a larger Chimbel slum in the outskirts of Panaji City. The project empowers women, children, and youth of the community by providing education, vocational training classes, health awareness, and check-up camps. The pre-primary classes, Nursery, Kindergarten I, and Kindergarten II also started with the purpose of providing quality education to the children in and around the slums
Busy BEE SCHOOL
Busy Bees Pre School Contact Info: Xelpem Mapusa- Goa Ph: +91 7796440194
BLOOMS PRE SCHOOL
Blooms Pre School Contact Info Moira-Goa Ph: +91 9529374579
Shanti Niketan School
Shanti Niketan School Contact Info: Socol Vaddo, Assagao, Goa 403507 Ph: +91 9529374579
BUTTERFLIES SCHOOL
Located In Aradi Socorro
Address: El Shaddai House Socol Vaddo, Assagao Goa-403507
Phone: +91 7796082607
UK Address: 1st Floor, The Pavilion, 56 Rosslyn Crescent HARROW, Middlesex, HA12SZ
Phone: 075388 97011 | Email: [email protected]
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