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UDAAN<\/p>\n

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Background of UDAAN<\/h3>\n

(empowering meritorious but underserved students through holistic education and individual mentorship to become enablers for equal opportunity in the corporate world)<\/p>\n

Before talking of our solution, it is necessary to understand how we have reached here.<\/p>\n

We started the empowerment project by adopting slum schools for a period of 5 years and through a host of programs tried to bring them to a certain level. Programs include mid-day meals, teaching Science, Math, English, Technology and Life skills (STEML); training the teachers and the principals; Mentorship and Scholarships for bright students who wish to continue their education beyond class 10 (almost 90-95% drop out) etc.<\/p>\n

But we found that we could only work with the students for 2 hours in a week maximum. This is insufficient to build their soft skills, social emotional intelligence, English, IT, humanities as well as increase their academic performance.<\/p>\n

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Pilot program<\/h3>\n

We tested the same through a small pilot by opening a centre in Deonar, Mumbai in December 2020 with some 60 students who were given this exposure for almost a year and the results were heartening. It was designed for 3 months and seeing the confidence in the students, we extended the program initially to 6 months and then to a year. Simultaneously we sat down to design the program, meeting a host of stakeholders, studying similar programs and brainstorming amongst the team members. We hope to build a solid model within the next few years in Mumbai and then plan to scale it and take it across India.<\/p>\n

Our target audience are the underserved meritorious students from economically disadvantaged families. The students will be sourced from the non-aided and partially aided schools in the slums of Mumbai. We have contacted the students through the schools & colleges and through other NGO\u2019s working with such students. We distributed the forms and brochures through these and held awareness sessions for all stakeholders so that they can understand the program better.<\/p>\n

We framed a rigorous selection process. Some 200 students applied for Cohort-1 out of which 45 have been selected after multiple numbers of interviews including that of parents and home visits etc. In the Cohort -2 we received some 75 applications and 20 students have been shortlisted. The knowledge partners have been selected and now the first batch is being onboarded and we will launch the same as soon after the Schools and Colleges open i.e., in the third week of June 2022. So, from thinking to designing and then implementing the selection part it has been a great journey and achievement since the last 2 years. [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″]

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