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Education
| Project Name | Yellow Rooms | ||||||
| Amount Utilized (INR) | 11500 | ||||||
| Project Description | School Inclusion for Yellow Rooms Children. | ||||||
| Locations | Lucknow > Uttar Pradesh (UP) | ||||||
| Causes | Education & youth opportunity > Education scholarships | ||||||
| Beneficiary Group | Children | ||||||
| Beneficiary Description | The communities we work in are highly marginalized and vulnerable, consisting largely of families from backward castes, minority communities, and low-income backgrounds. Most parents work as daily wage laborers, sweepers, drivers, small shopkeepers, or domestic helpers, with limited or no access to stable incomes or quality education for their children. Children growing up in these communities face multiple challenges. They often live in unsafe environments where they are exposed to issues like substance abuse, physical and sexual abuse, early marriage, and domestic violence. With little to no academic support at home, they also suffer from poor learning outcomes, low confidence, and a lack of exposure to the outside world. | ||||||
| Impact | Sarthak’s impact has been life altering in the communities, simply because its interventions are very in-depth, long term and immersive. The model evolved based on the needs of the communities it serves. The key impact figures for Yellow Rooms would be 1. Very low, almost zero, school dropout 2. No early marriages of girls or boys 3. First girls in their families and communities to complete schooling, pursuing undergraduate and working/interning 4. Improvement in foundational numeracy and literacy 5. Improvement in Social-Emotional well being 6. Improvement in health and hygiene (based on observation and not compared to other slums) 7. Improvement in communication skills, confidence and overall outlook to life. 8. 100% school enrolment of all school-age children 9. Improvement in empathy, care for animals and care for the environment. 10. Employment focussed technical and digital skilling of older children 11. Parent counselling leading to fewer instances of alcohol abuse and domestic violence (based on anecdotal evidence) | ||||||
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| Project Name | Yellow Rooms | ||||||||||||
| Amount Utilized (INR) | 63500 | ||||||||||||
| Project Description | Social-emotional learning (SEL) is an integral part of education and human development. Sarthak SEPEt elements aim to shape these children into adults who can apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions. Our SEPEt (Socio-Emotional Physical Ethical Wellbeing) program, based on designs from Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers, assesses and evaluates these essential elements integral to children's growth. As part of the SEPEt program activities and sessions were conducted in our Yellow Rooms: Indoor games and regular yoga of children across all the batches. Distribution of stationery, books, notebooks, bags. Clean and safe drinking water for all. | ||||||||||||
| Locations | Lucknow > Uttar Pradesh (UP),Lucknow > Uttar Pradesh (UP) | ||||||||||||
| Causes | Education > STEM,Education > Digital Learning,Education > STEM,Education > Digital Learning | ||||||||||||
| Beneficiary Group | Children | ||||||||||||
| Beneficiary Description | Through its projects, the Sarthak Foundation reaches out to more than 6000 beneficiaries, 56% of these beneficiaries are girls, who are the most vulnerable to dropping out of education. It caters to children from the age of 3 to 21. Most families in these communities belong to SC, ST, OBC, and other minority groups, residing in semi-permanent houses or colonies. Many are migrants from various districts of Uttar Pradesh and some even from other states of India. The men typically work as daily wage laborers, sweepers, petty shopkeepers, or farm workers, while the women primarily engage in household chores. The areas they live in lack opportunities and have poor living conditions, making daily life a struggle. Before the intervention of Yellow Rooms, children were largely unmotivated to attend school, even if they were enrolled in a nearby institution. The lack of infrastructure, social and economic hardships, and over-crowded Primary and Upper Primary Govt. schools contributed to low school attendance and poor learning levels for these children. | ||||||||||||
| Impact | We currently have 29 Yellow Rooms, 8 Yellow SLATEs, and 1 Gurukul, serving over 6,000 direct beneficiaries, including children and youth aged 3 to 21. Among our beneficiaries, 56% are girls. A total of 56 children have completed K-12 formal education, 33 are in college and doing internships, and 23 are in full-time jobs. | ||||||||||||
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| Project Name | Sarthak Yellow Rooms | ||||||||||||
| Amount Utilized (INR) | 34500 | ||||||||||||
| Project Description | Yellow Room is a long term, in-depth and immersive intervention that aims to turn children from very marginalized backgrounds into complete and well-rounded human beings by taking education and emotional and physical wellness to their doorsteps. Yellow Rooms as not just centres where a child could go to get a free class but as permanent safe spaces right in the middle of their SEDG communities. Yellow Rooms are open 6 days a week, all year round and each child in the slum spends 3 to 4 hours every day in the Yellow Rooms. The Yellow Rooms are completely free of cost for the children and the community. The Sarthak Yellow Rooms not only run classes for Science, Maths and English, but they also put equal stress on health, hygiene, industry exposure, nutrition, gender awareness and gender equality, general knowledge, communication and etiquette. The Yellow Rooms also undertake community outreach and parent counselling activities and establish long-lasting roots in the slums. By taking education and emotional wellness to their doorsteps we actually become part of the community. | ||||||||||||
| Locations | Lucknow > Uttar Pradesh (UP) | ||||||||||||
| Causes | Education > Early childhood learning,Education > Value education,Education > Education scholarships,Education > STEM | ||||||||||||
| Beneficiary Group | Children | ||||||||||||
| Beneficiary Description | With a vision to have Happy Empowered Children, Sarthak Foundation reaches out to children between the ages of 3 and 21 years belonging to Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Groups (SEDG) and impacts their lives through education, skills and value-based life. Each Yellow Room reaches out to around 100 children. Currently Sarthak Yellow Rooms impact the lives of 2300+ children. Of these 56% beneficiaries are girl. Funds Received from TMM and UWM have been used to conduct exposure activities and stationery distributions for one Yellow Rooms (set of 2 rooms) , thus serving around 100 beneficiaries. | ||||||||||||
| Impact | Yellow Rooms are Happy Safe Spaces for more than 2300 children living in slums and villages of U.P. This long-term intervention yields deep-rooted impact. With a decade of dedicated service, Sarthak Foundation is committed to effecting social and economic transformation through the powerful tool of education. Every year we conduct an Impact Assessment to evaluate the impact of our intervention and to make an informed decision about the curriculum and pedagogy that needs to be instituted in the forthcoming academic year. On conducting a multi-layered Impact Assessment for FY 2022-23, the following impacts were observed: Good attendance score in schools and Yellow Rooms. Maintenance of the learning levels of children, with an average performance of 60%. Girls outperformed boys. Continuation of education- 100% girls continued education. Acquisition of basic computer skills. Children’s sensitisation on gender, sports and nutrition improved substantially. | ||||||||||||
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