LAMP

Tata Chemical Society for Rural Development (TCSRD)

The Tata Chemical Society for Rural Development (TCSRD), in partnership with has been at the forefront of ensuring continuity of education for children from seasonal migrant families, in high-migration prone geographies of Gujarat state.
Over the years, this partnership has worked towards improving access and quality of education and strengthening the school governance and effective implementation of the Right to Education (RTE) Act in more than 400 schools across 9 districts of Gujarat - namely Morbi, Surendranagar, Amreli, Bhavnagar, Kachchh, Mahisagar, the Dangs, Banaskantha, and Sabarkantha. Since 2012, the partnership has reached out to 60,155 children, 9504 School Management Committee members, 3480 PRI members, and 1,12,134 community members through various educational and school governance interventions.

Sterlite Foundation

Learning and Migration Program, Nandurbar Maharashtra, is supported by Sterlite Foundation since January 2020. The goal of the program is to adopt a life cycle approach, create a scalable and replicable model of continuity of education, in 100 schools across aspirational districts and advocate the model to other districts of the state. The objective of the program is to establish 10 digitized hub Learning Resource Centres in the community spaces to ensure that children at risk of migration have access to quality education, disproportionately disrupted by the pandemic. Since 2020, the program has benefited 11483 direct and indirect students, 59 education officials, teachers, HMs and Anganwadi workers, 595 PRIs, SMC, and community members.

Sarva Mangal Family Trust of MSI

Sarva Mangal Family Trust of MSI, has been supporting the Learning and Migration Program (LAMP) in the most backward, tribal-dominant, and migration-prone districts of Sabarkantha, Banaskantha, and Dang in Gujarat since 2015. The project aims to universalize access to quality learning, support pre-primary education, address learning deficits of children in elementary/secondary grades (with a focus on girls), improve school governance by strengthening School Management Committees (SMCs), and advance government teachers’ skills to deal with early literacy and numeracy of first-generation learners.
The partnership LAMP project has so far reached out to 25,500 children through various direct and indirect educational interventions. In addition, a total of 20,200 SMC members, PRI members, community members, and 120 teachers have been trained while 2128 adolescent girls have been provided life skill education.

WestBridge Capital

WestBridge Capital has been supporting the Learning and Migration Program (LAMP) in the most backward, tribal-dominant, and migration-prone areas of Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, and Uttar Pradesh since 2019. This partnership aims at developing a replicable and scalable model to improve public schools, which includes universalizing access, supporting pre-primary education, and addressing the learning deficits of children in elementary/secondary grades. Over the last 3 years, the intervention has reached 1,27,432 children from 384 villages, spread across 30 blocks, 12 districts, and 4 states.

Tata AIG

TATA AIG is supporting LAMP to improve quality education through interventions in Ashram Schools, for the education of schedule tribe and schedule caste children, especially girls, in Nuapada district of Odisha from 2022. Working closely with the Department of Tribal Affairs, the intervention focuses on ensuring that children at risk of migration have access to quality education, which was disrupted by the pandemic, by making digitized Learning Resource Centres accessible in the community spaces.

Herbalife Nutrition

Herbalife Nutrition is supporting LAMP in reaching tribal children and adolescent girls in rural, migration-prone areas of Pandariya and Bodla Block of Kabirdham - an aspirational district of Chhattisgarh, by addressing the learning needs of different groups of students for their successful transitions to secondary school and subsequent school completion. The partnership also creates a favorable environment by supplementing nutrition and life skills awareness to empower these vulnerable groups and collaborates with the local and state government to ensure sustainable impact in chosen geographies.

Vedanta

Nand Ghars, a measure undertaken by Vedanta, together with the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MoWCD), are the state-of-the-art Anganwadis, committed to the Prime Minister's national vision of eradicating child malnutrition, providing education, healthcare and empowering women with skill development. AIF in partnership with the Vedanta Foundation is supporting the Nand Ghar project in 6 blocks of Dharwad district and 2 Blocks of Haveri districts working with 55 Nand Ghars in Karnataka, and 150 Nand Ghars in Bokaro district of Jharkhand. The project focuses on making Nand Ghars child-friendly and efficient learning centers, focusing on Education, Health, Nutrition, and convergence. The project also aims to provide round-the-clock electricity through Solar panels, e-learning in a stimulating environment, clean drinking water, and primary healthcare services. The 2 year partnership is designed to positively impact 4750 children and provide skill training to 1100 women in Karnataka.

Department of Women, Child Development and Social Security (DWCDSS), Government of Jharkhand

The Tejaswini Project aims to improve the socio-economic status of Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) between the age group 14-24 years in 17 selected districts of Jharkhand by creating an enabling environment within their community and thereby improving the completion of their market-driven skills training and secondary education. Implemented by the Department of Women, Child Development and Social Security (DWCDSS), Government of Jharkhand through Jharkhand Women Development Society (JWDS) with the support of the World Bank, the intervention involves Educational Service providers, Technical Service Providers, Community Service Providers, and other Service Providers and stakeholders to create an effective ecosystem. The project is being implemented in the East Singhbhum, Saraikela Kharsawan and Simdega districts. The first intervention of the project is at the community level, which largely focuses on mobilization and empowerment, the formation of community-based platforms for AGYW, imparting life skills education, localized business and livelihood skills training, and providing information on broader services and opportunities. The second is at the institution level which will focus on the delivery of skills training and education courses for AGYW through qualified service providers with competent and highly skilled key experts, hired under the project.

Pramod Patel – Dang & Bardoli

Shri. Pramod Patel has been supporting AIF's signature program on education - The Learning and Migration Program (LAMP), since 2017, which focuses on rural communities affected by distress seasonal migration. The partnership, focusing on the tribal population of Subir, Dang district, since 2017, later extended its support to Bardoli, Surat district, Gujarat in the year 2019.

The partnership focuses on 4 pillars – a) Access (ensuring social and physical access to education, by tracking and retaining children, from seasonal migrant families), b) Quality (bridging the educational divide and improving the quality of education in under-resourced schools in rural and remote areas), c) Governance (strengthening the capacity of school governance institutions through capacity building of School Management Committees, PRI's, Citizen Educator's, and Adolescent girls' groups) and d) System Influencing (by establishing close linkages with the administration at the cluster, block, district, and the state level).

The program also ensures continuity of learning for seasonal migrant children by creating Sakarshalas (learning centers in sugarcane fields), designed to retain children in the education net so they can be re-enrolment at grade-appropriate levels when they go back to their native villages.

The partnership LAMP project reached out to 9,000 children (all belonging to the schedule tribes), through various direct and indirect educational interventions. In addition, a total of 7000 SMC members, PRI members, community members, 1000 adolescent girls, and 300 citizen educators, have been reached through various school governance interventions in 40 government schools.

Dr. Nammy Patel - Dental Hygiene Program

Since 2020, Dr. Nammy Patel has been supporting the Dental Hygiene Program, which focuses on facilitating affordable, accessible, and equitable oral health care in the Bhavnagar and Amreli district of Gujarat.

Its key interventions include - dental hygiene awareness campaigns with Anganwadi and school children in partnership with ICDS and schools, dental Bal-melas and dental check-up camps in government primary and secondary schools, and preventive and primary curative dental camps for community members. The partnership project created dental hygiene awareness among 900 children and adolescent girls, and 5300 community members. It also conducted dental check-ups for 10000 children and 5400 community members, to support their preventive and primary curative dental treatments.

Telstra - Comprehensive Learning Improvement Program

The intervention aims to improve the learning outcomes of students enrolled in 10 Govt elementary schools in Bengaluru South Dist., Karnataka. Telstra India Pvt Ltd, has been supporting LAMP in Karnataka since 2020, by implementing two Learning Resource Centres in Marathahalli and Varthuru cluster of Bengaluru South4 block. This 5 year partnership has so far impacted 5800 children, 82, Govt Teachers and 2053 SMC members and Parents.

Gurukrupa: Comprehensive Learning Improvement Program (CLIP)

The Gurukrupa Foundation supports the LAMP program in the backward, migration-prone blocks of Karnataka. Since 2021, the project has been working with 10 schools across 2 clusters, in the Soraba Block of Shivamogga District in Karnataka through 2 Learning Resource Centres in the region. The intervention has so far impacted 1800 children, 45 Govt school teachers, 190 students from Grade 9 & 10, 198 adolescent Girls, and 475 SMC members.