Addressing the Challenge
There are 27% of India’s youth between age 15-29 who fall in the ‘Not in Education, Employed or Training’ (NEET) category. It means that during the school years most of them are not able to find out what to do in their life. The problem is that the classrooms/learning spaces are not effective, engaging, and inclusive enough to prepare the children for the future. They are not able to make the children independent, skillful, and resourceful enough to prepare themselves well for the life, for a job or for any other kind of livelihood. Why are the classrooms/learning spaces not effective, engaging, and inclusive enough? Because the teachers are not creative and skillful enough. Because the design of the classroom and syllabus is hugely based on the rote learning approach. Because the teachers are not trained well.
We believe that more committed and resourceful people in higher levels of leadership will be able to push for better content and syllabus, push the teachers to be more creative. More resourceful teachers will be able to create more engaging and effective learning experiences. A more skillful and resourceful school administration will be able to create a learning environment that is more inclusive and engaging. So what we need is the leaders at different levels who have a better understanding of contextual needs, motivation, and efficiency. This is what the Learning Companions is working for.
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John Doe
Codetic
Somewhere during the school days, Ganesh Brijdar (Founder) realized that his sense of fulfillment, adventure and happiness is in working towards making this world a better, just place. Growing up, he always wondered what would be the one thing that will contribute in the biggest way possible to make lives better for most people. Looking back he realized one important thing.
He looked at his own life and the lives of his friends that belonged to the same small village as he did. Many of them the ended up not being able to attain best education and find best life, leisure and livelihood opportunities. He realized that the one thing that made the biggest difference between us the parents and the school we got. his mother decided to shift to a small town so that she would be able to send me to a better school when he was in 5th grade. It meant a lot of hardship and sacrifices, but she took that extra step so that he could afford a better future.
He got a better school also because some people had taken steps and efforts to make it a better school. He realized that if every child has parents who understand the importance of education and invest in their future, and if every child has a better learning space, we will be able to solve most of the challenges for most of the people. Hence, his journey lead to starting an organization that is working to intervene in the schools and communities to make the parents, teachers and schools more motivated and equipped to provide quality education to their children.