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MUKTANGAN EDUCATION TRUST

  022-24938752
  www.muktanganedu.org
  ketakighaisas@muktanganedu.org
Muktangan is an innovative, inclusive, child- friendly educational project demonstrating how ordinary women and men, empowered with the right beliefs and skills, can drive extraordinary outcomes for children from their own aspiring communities. Muktangan means “Freedom in the Aangan” symbolizing that every individual: child, teacher and teacher educator can flourish and widen their horizons within the comfort of their learning environment. Over our 22 year-long journey, we have evolved into a Hub and Spokes model of Integrated Teacher and School Education with our teacher education center as the Hub and 7 Muktangan run-municipal schools as spokes where we offer free, high-quality and inclusive English medium education to the underserved communities of Mumbai. Muktangan has partnered with UNICEF, BMC (Municipal), Maharashtra State Government and many NGOs to adapt the Muktangan model.

Our Program is acknowledged by academic institutions and educationists locally such as Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), and internationally such as University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) in the U.S.A and BathSpa, Oxford & Cambridge Universities in the UK. We have had students from TISS and from Oxford and Cambridge in the UK doing research in Muktangan for their Ph.D. These partnerships stand testimony to the quality of our programme and its delivery.

Appeal

Our objective is to provide English medium quality education and livelihood opportunities to the children and women from the underserved communities of Mumbai. We do not charge any fees either from students, teachers or from our trainees. Hence, to keep this program operational, we are in constant need of funds.

Every penny that you support us with will be used to develop the students and teachers into 21st Century ready citizens with skills like creativity, collaboration, critical thinking etc.

Our goal is to consolidate our learnings to drive transformation in the mainstream education system. Our schools will continue to serve as invaluable laboratories for conducting action research, further advancing the development of best practices in education. We will continue to pursue our mission with even greater zeal and commitment and hope to count on your continued support.

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Fund Utilization in 2025

Total funds raised in 2025 - INR 1556000
Project NameMuktangan's Integrated School and Teacher Education programme
Amount Utilized (INR)1556000
Project DescriptionSchool Education using active constructivism
Teacher Education and skill development
Outreach
LocationsMumbai City > Maharashtra (MH)
CausesEducation & youth opportunity > Improving quality of school education
Beneficiary GroupChildren,Women
Beneficiary DescriptionThe beneficiaries of the program include Adults and school aged (Grades K-10) children from under-served communities located in both rural and urban environments. Our teachers (98% are women) are HSC level or below at the time of joining our 3-year Teacher Education Program. These women are now developing children from their own communities with ownership and pride. The majority of them are first generation learners and start as dependents but become bread winners of their family (>50% household income). The parent community mostly belong to the unorganised sector with limited education themselves.
Impact
Activities Conducted
NoActivity / Item / BeneficiariesQuantity / Number, if applicable
1 School Education using active constructivism 480
2 Teacher Education and Women Empowerment 65
3 Career Guidance 280
4 Nutrition Programme 545
5 Mental Health and wellbeing 480
6 Holistic Development 400

Fund Utilization in 2024

Total funds raised in 2024 - INR 868000
Project NameMuktangan Integrated Teacher and School Education Programme
Amount Utilized (INR)868000
Project DescriptionMuktangan schools (Preschool to standard 10) Provide conducive learning environments to our beneficiaries through Total Systems Approach keeping in mind active constructivism and 21st-century skills. Muktangan schools are inclusive and encourage holistic overall development among its beneficiaries.
LocationsMumbai City > Maharashtra (MH)
CausesEducation > School / career counselling,Education > Early childhood learning,Education > Teacher training,Education > Teacher training
Beneficiary GroupChildren,Women
Beneficiary DescriptionOur stakeholders are: 1. Children 2. Teachers and Teacher Educators 3. Parents We primarily cater to educationally underserved communities. Our teachers (98% are women) are HSC level or below at the time of joining our 3-year Teacher Education Program. These women are now developing children from their own communities with ownership and pride. The majority start as dependents but become breadwinners of their family (>50% household income). The parent community are mostly blue-collared workers with limited education.
Impact• 3800+ children are directly benefitting through active learning year on year.
• 1000+ community members have been skilled to become English medium teachers
• 83% is the average percentage of children securing first class and above over 11 years in SSC examinations. 3 children from Muktangan on an average have featured among BMC 3 Top 10 rankers since 2014 each year.
• Our support has motivated 98% of our alumni to pursue higher education and various professional courses like Chartered Accountancy, Engineering, Business Management, and Health Sciences and so on. They are independent creative thinkers, with needed 21st century skills.
• Through our outreach projects we have reached out to 800+ education centres, 5400+ teachers and teacher educators and 97000+ children

Activities Conducted
NoActivity / Item / BeneficiariesQuantity / Number, if applicable
1 School Education - curriculum delivery in the classroom 450 children
2 Capacity building of the teachers 65 teachers

Fund Utilization in 2023

Total funds raised in 2023 - INR 915000
Project NameMuktangan School Programme
Amount Utilized (INR)915000
Project DescriptionThe Founder, having worked in mainstream education as Project Director of a national school improvement/development program across India, was well aware of the many issues affecting the quality of mainstream school education across the country. In spite of increasing rates of enrolment, it’s universally- recognized, poor quality, was leading to low learning outcomes and high dropout rates. There were many disconnects in education e.g. between teacher and school education, between the school and community, between the child and the curriculum, but most important of all, between the teacher educator and the trainee as also between the teacher and the child in their respective classrooms. There needed to be congruence in the teaching / learning processes adopted in teacher education and schooling. A teacher who has been trained through theoretical lectures cannot be expected to adopt more child-centric approaches in her classroom teaching.

Muktangan was therefore set-up in 2003 as an integrated model of teacher and school education with the idea of creating classrooms in both teacher education and schools where the teacher educator could be more responsive to each trainee’s learning needs and the classroom teacher similarly to the child’s.

LocationsMumbai City > Maharashtra (MH)
CausesEducation > School / career counselling
Beneficiary GroupChildren,Women,Persons with Disabilities
Beneficiary DescriptionThe community accessing Muktangan’s schools and teacher educational programs come from the under-served urban communities with many of them being first generation learners with virtually no exposure to English. This is significant as the urban slum population in the country is growing due to rapid internal migration. Our beneficiaries are from migrant communities and belong to different religions. A majority of the working members of these families belong to the un-organized sector.
Impact1. Annually 500+ students from the underserved and less affording communities are educated holistically, with all our Grade x students passing the SSC Board examination and entering higher secondary education.

2. Ongoing Inservice Teacher Education, capacity and skill building to 70 teachers and teacher-educators

3. A demonstration model for outreach and government advocacy programmes
Activities Conducted
NoActivity / Item / BeneficiariesQuantity / Number, if applicable
1 Subject specific Academic sessions 6.5 days every week
2 Teacher Training 7.5 hours every week
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