Bridge or Remedial Schools for Elimination of Child Labour

• Provide intensive education with the aim of preparing school dropouts or working children to be integrated into mainstream schools.
• Are an intermediary form of education that bridges the gap between non-formal and
  formal education.
• Are community-based schools that employ intensive curricula, nutrition, and health care facilities with the aim of helping former child laborers or school dropouts to catch up or make up for the years outside school.

Since its inception, CHORD has employed Remedial Schooling as a potent strategy for rescuing, educating, and reintegrating over 18300 children into the formal education system.

Remedial Schooling

India still has a significantly high number of children employed as child laborers (over 10.1 million according to UNICEF). According to government statistics, 10- 15% of India’s children are still out of school.

Remedial schools are CHORD’s initiative to provide holistic and flexible educational opportunities to those children who have been victims of child labor, have dropped out of school, or have never been enrolled in a school. We undertake the responsibility of providing free education to children between the ages of 7& 14 with a specially designed curriculum that adheres neither to formal nor an informal model yet caters to the learning capabilities of these children having poor educational exposure or retention capacity.

We particularly keep in mind that a child takes about 12- 24 months to regain lost Education and learning momentum.

Transformation

• Child Laborer to Student
• Labor to Learning
• Work to Education
• Drudgery to Development
• Exploitation to Empowerment
• Oppression to Freedom
• Neglect to Protection

We strive to empower the students by making up for lost education and rebuilding a learning foundation, integrating the child into mainstream education, and enabling the child toward a sturdy development plan through guidance and care.