Rural Youth Change Leader Program
Every ‘socially conscious’ individual can become a partner in rural transformation by ‘Befriending And Supporting A Village Change Leader’
The ‘SarvaPrathamik’ project implemented in villages of Thane and Palghar Districts is a logical extension of educational support given to children of native rural communities during the Corona Pandemic shutdown of schools. The project aims at empowering native rural communities with better awareness and action in providing continuous (uninterrupted) basic education to early and primary learners in their village. An important key in this process of positive change is the role of a trained educated youth within the village who actively works on several levels as follows;
Gets trained in imparting a model of age-appropriate skill-based education in the village preschool and primary school
Connects with parents and community members on a weekly basis to make them aware of their role in the process of child’s growth.
Supports the local village preschool and primary school to become more efficient in providing quality education to the children.
Becomes an influencer of positive change through development in the village community.
You can be a ‘Friend and a Supporter’ of this process of positive change in the village community;
In this current financial year, one of LSF’s regular donor and friend, Anurag Chauhan, Legal Head at Max Life Insurance Co. Ltd., Yoga Enthusiast, Travel Lover, backed one such change leader, Bharat Handva, a young man with a family of 5 dependants, and working as ‘SarvaPrathamik’ in a remote village named Kuhe, in the rural Bhiwandi area. Bharat, a self-supported graduate who hails from the Scheduled Tribe community, has been working hard to make two ends meet. He facilitates the SarvaPrathamik project in his village and intends to turn self-sufficient with establishing an organic flower and fruit farm, while supporting his village to better education at all fronts.
Bharat Handava
Bharat with his family
Water source at farm
Rice cultivation in monsoon season
Bharat in Mogra farming on this farm
Story of a Committed Rural Educated Youth who is an elected Leader at her village, Chimbipada
Nita Jadhav grew up in the village Chimbipada in a family that have been actively leading the local community for some generations. She graduated in the year 2014 and has been trained to be a facilitator of educational projects at LSF through the years 2017-2020. Over the last year 2021-22, Nita led the ‘Education at Your Doorstep’ project in her village and surrounding area, to ensure that the little children in her area received quality education during the Corona Pandemic school shutdown. With her inspired efforts, the concept of taking education to the doorstep of the child became a way to go forward for others. By July 2021, Nita’s innovative methods and results of doorstep education were ready to be shared with 9 trained facilitators at LSF, who replicated them in their villages and the project was scaled up to 500 early and primary learners in 9 villages.
In this manner, Nita helped an innovative concept of taking basic education to the doorstep of village children become a concrete reality, transforming lives of many.
You can support Nita to continue her innovative work by donating funds for educating many children and youth in her village.
