The teachers of Folk Schools and Ashram Schools of small centres in rural area recommend to Vidyoday Foundation the names of the intelligent students who are anxious for their further studies. The Foundation provides assistance in making partial or full fee payment for their studies.
Social workers want to provide a better life to the children studying under the trees in the villages, roaming on railway stations, begging and collecting waste papers and plastic bags from heaps of filth, working at tea stalls, etc., by inculcating positive values in them. Vidyoday Foundation collects the names of these children from the social workers, takes them under its wings and helps them with their studies.
We have also created a program called ‘Chingari’. In this program we setup a collaborative study session where elder students who are stronger in studies will help the younger students who are weak in their studies. The stronger students are selected based on their ability to teach the weaker students. The Foundation then rewards the stronger students with paying them small amounts of cash that they can use towards their own education.
Future Plans
Vidyoday Foundation will find elder students who will teach the academically weak students basic writing, reading and counting skills and for which token remuneration will be given to the elder students.
- Vidyoday Foundation will financially help the academically bright students.
- Vidyoday Foundation will provide the students with the books and other material needed for basic education.
- Vidyoday Foundation intends to prepare study kits that will help the students academically.
- Vidyoday Foundation intends to start a mobile library that will stock books that interest young minds.
- Vidyoday Foundation intends to provide audio and video devices which will be then used to make learning interesting and fun.
- Vidyoday Foundation intends to sponsor interesting prizes for its bright students to encourage them further with their studies. And this is just the beginning of a foundation eager to help poor children find better lives through education.
