| Organizational Overview |
MELJOL's mission is to work towards an equitable social structure within a pluralistic society. This will be achieved by:
- Educating children and their significant others on Child Rights and responsibilities
- Addressing prejudices focusing on key concepts such as equity, ageism, gender, ethnicity, classism, and ableism.
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| Program |
Description |
| Banking & Saving Clubs for children at school level |
The focus areas of work includes building programme on child rights and responsibilities, developing structures like clubs and banks at school levels, motivating children for positive action and thereby empowering them:
- To inculcate the habit of saving among rural children
- To develop in rural children, the ability to handle money
- To help children understand the concept of small savings/banking by getting them familiar with passbooks and the concept of debit and credit
- To develop in rural children, a sense of responsibility
- To instill in rural children, a sense of pride at their ability to intervene and participate in their own world
- To help children understand the cumulative effect of saving and thus the prioritization of their needs and desires.
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| Aflatoon School Program |
The Aflatoon programme is based on the belief:
- Children can participate and contribute effectively in changing their environment.
- Aflatoon School Programme is implemented with the Government run schools.
- Children are made aware their rights and related responsibilities.
- The programme is conducted through the Aflatoon book series. (‘Aflatoon books' which have been developed for children from class I to VIII.)
- Aflatoon is a fireball from outer space, a fun-loving character who is curious to investigate, learn and know more about the environment and people around.
- The child's right to participation in decision-making is stressed on and children are encouraged to act in order to bring about a positive change in their environment. These books are disseminated to children to use in the class.
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| The Twinning Program |
This program focuses on getting children from varied backgrounds to interact with each other (private schools, government schools, special schools, street children etc.) to address prejudices and respect differences and transcend these boundaries. |
| Private School Program |
The private school program works towards sensitizing the private school children to issues related to the marginalized child within the context of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (1990). The issues worked on with the private schools include: child labour, street children, slum children, literacy, gender, environment, disability etc. |
| The Child Rights Centers |
Meljol considers teachers as resource people and partners towards achieving its goal of Child Rights Education for all. This strategy has enabled the organization to reach out to many more children and also to create awareness within the system on the need for the inclusion of rights education in the curriculum. |
| The D.Ed/B.Ed Programme |
The Meljol Programme in the D.Ed./B.Ed colleges aims at: Equipping teachers to impart education based on the core principals of education and strengthening the core values suggested by NCERT. Through the programme, D.Ed./ B.Ed students are sensitized about Child Rights |
