Dalit women offered back-to-school scheme in India
Thursday, 11 June 2009 16:44
Community leaders in India have stepped up efforts to reach out to women from slum areas by offering them an education.
Church of North India leaders and school teachers from St Thomas School in Mandir Marg, New Delhi have put their heads together to find ways for illiterate lower caste women to learn new life-skills at the local St Thomas School after the children have gone home.
The pioneering scheme has been driven by school prinicipal Anuradha Amos, as part of the church-run community outreach programme "Swavlamban" – a vocational training centre set up to nurture disadvantaged people from the community.
Research into the kinds of subjects Dalit women say they would like to study has highlighted the need for classes in English language, literacy, computer skills and beauty culture.
With the new after-school classes, women will be taught a range of these skills to help build their confidence and boost their chances for employment and a better life.
The scheme is also being backed by Diocese of Delhi Bishop the Rt Rev Sunil Kumar Singh.
Mrs Amos said: "This new scheme is a landmark in the history of St Thomas School. Not only are we making the women self-reliant, we are building a community."
Mr.Bobby Gabriel
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let every hut of dalith with a black board and crayon, and let unemployed old students make it school at hut To cut short my thought. In ancient days, dalits not allowed into schools, where only upper caste are teachers and students. Because of missionaries and Dr Ambedkars vision,little progress is there and in all dalit wadas there are unemployed girls and boys are there. If the dalith girl walks miles and miles perhaps for her social welfare hotel to school in town also in schools there is one black board thats it. So if we bring the black board to hutment and give the food from the parents what ever they have,social security is cent percent achieved thus girls to girls boys to boys an operation literacy revolution if planned by NGOs those who are able to go to dalit villages only on cycles, I repeat clearly not on benz cars and on mobikes in ordinary clad ,on bicycles if any dalith activists sympathisers are there in India,if they go there and inspire unemployed daliths to teach girls to girls and boys to boys,then then the cent percent dalith literacy revolution prevail in India,by seeing them the hard working illeterate parents will be inspired and take up the slate and book. If you keep on forcing the dalith girls to schools via social welfare hostels in towns with only two uniforms,girls they grow fast,but parents and government unable to provide uniforms, then they all sit on the back benches, with daily they washed and non dry clothing with smell, inferiority thus drop outs,to study up to 5th class let all the places under the trees, roar with studying children, that is the slogan of Dr.Ambedkar ,eduate the first. Alongside the kids will do part time, flower plantings near their huts, grow vegetables, see, cow and chickens the natural life resources, they learn not inside the walls, let them know with their parents, let parents see how their kids are studying. Thus the integration,then bring high schools to all the dalit wada thus agricultural universities, let the dalit do their Masters of Agriculture and Masters of veterinary science on the fields,like we see the western learn in African jungles the knowledge and the research. how we Indians arrest our children 8 to 5 pm indoors in the schools where there is not play ground, and there is no physical exercise, lets change. jai Bheem |
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