EDUCATION- for SCHOOL Dropout Boys & GIrls:
In remote villages, it is common site to see quite grown-up boys and girls doing various jobs at home.
Usually, boys either sit around or play with their peers games like marbles and so on. Some of them are given the job of herding the domestic animals a distance away from home. Once they go in the morning around 10.00a.m.-10.30a.m. They come only around dusk time after having grazed the animals. There in the grazing site if there are a few boys and girls then they would play some game or the other. Many of these boys are either dropped out of school when they were small, some of them due to lack of motivation to study, or poverty at home. Most of the time It was poverty at home. The parents were unable to provide text-books, stationery etc.
In remote villages, it is common site to see quite grown-up boys and girls doing various jobs at home.Usually, boys either sit around or play with their peers games like marbles and so on. Some of them are given the job of herding the domestic animals a distance away from home. Once they go in the morning around 10.00a.m.-10.30a.m. They come only around dusk time after having grazed the animals. There in the grazing site if there are a few boys and girls then they would play some game or the other. Many of these boys are either dropped out of school when they were small, some of them due to lack of motivation to study, or poverty at home. Most of the time It was poverty at home. The parents were unable to provide text-books, stationery etc.
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| Two girls are at home. |
Often it also happens that the children are out of school because the parents are uneducated. They do not see the helpfulness or use of schooling for later life. The High schools too are far away from home. The geographical condition also does not allow them to take risks through jungle to walk to the school some distance. Poverty also pushes the parents to employ their sons and daughters to earn whatever they can get to support the family.
The girls are usually asked to remain at home after they reach their puberty to help mother in cooking, washing, cleaning around the house, sweeping and if there is a child to be taken care of. Thus, a girl does not merely become a helping hand in the house, but she is also groomed in taking care of the house, cooking and all other works a person is supposed to be after her marriage.
Thus the parents actually prepare their daughters this way to be good housewives at their husbands' houses..
Thus the parents actually prepare their daughters this way to be good housewives at their husbands' houses..
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| A Girl remains at home. |
Take for example these girls in the picture. They were told by the parents to remain at home and not to go to school. One major reason for them to be at home was the High school was far away from home with lack of proper security and roads in addition to poverty.
The SCOPE is however mulling over gradually opening a school from eighth grade onwards in order to educate the society in and around Koyna backwater Area. A special school may help the region to be sustainable and improve its quality of living.
Besides school, there could be a training centre for these out-of-school children (girls and boys) a kind of non-formal training and some such activities which will help them to become self-sufficient.
Some trades dependent on local resources of the area can be like gathering medicinal plants and making products as required by the Ayurvedic (Herbal Medicinal Factories) medicines, powders, juices, etc; jam, honey, and other food products-making cottage industries can be given opportunities to come up.
This post is under construction
suggestions are welcome
The SCOPE is however mulling over gradually opening a school from eighth grade onwards in order to educate the society in and around Koyna backwater Area. A special school may help the region to be sustainable and improve its quality of living.
Besides school, there could be a training centre for these out-of-school children (girls and boys) a kind of non-formal training and some such activities which will help them to become self-sufficient.
Some trades dependent on local resources of the area can be like gathering medicinal plants and making products as required by the Ayurvedic (Herbal Medicinal Factories) medicines, powders, juices, etc; jam, honey, and other food products-making cottage industries can be given opportunities to come up.
This post is under construction
suggestions are welcome
