Project Inception
The CHORD -Aashirwad High School project was established in 2006 and is currently educating 360 urban deprived children in the Bachupally slums/surroundings.
Overall Beneficiaries
Since its inception, the project has educated and empowered over 2300 underprivileged children.
Educational Impact
Since its inception, the project has educated and empowered over 2300 underprivileged children.
Community Outreach
CHORD’s awareness and sensitization workshops have touched the lives of tens of thousands of individuals in 16 slums and 6 semi-urban villages, promoting education and child rights.
Project Inception
The CHORD -Aashirwad High School project was established in 2006 and is currently educating 360 urban deprived children in the Bachupally slums/surroundings.
Overall Beneficiaries
Since its inception, the project has educated and empowered over 2300 underprivileged children.
Educational Impact
Since its inception, the project has educated and empowered over 2300 underprivileged children.
Community Outreach
CHORD’s awareness and sensitization workshops have touched the lives of tens of thousands of individuals in 16 slums and 6 semi-urban villages, promoting education and child rights.
FORMAL EDUCATION FOR MAINSTREAMED CHILDREN
ASHIRWAD English Medium School
Providing Quality Formal School Education to children mainstreamed from remedial schools is one of the key Social Interventions successfully pioneered by CHORD since 2006.CHORD Aashirwad English Medium School at Bachupally was the first of its kind, pioneering access to Quality Mainstream/Formal education for deprived urban children and rescued child laborers.
Since its start in 2006, the school has successfully mainstreamed through formal education, over 2500 underprivileged children and has not only imparted top-quality education but also helped them develop a good all-round personality and the spirit of volunteerism through extracurricular activities and community service initiatives. The project has been supported by Optum Global Solutions (India) Pvt. Ltd. FY 2022-23.
Highlights of the Program
- Adequate Infrastructure
- Qualified & Committed Faculty
- Solar-powered computer lab
- State-of-the-art school buses to ply slum children
- Potable drinking water with RO Water filter system
- Well-stocked library and Science Lab
- Life-skill training for children
- Enhancement activities for children (indoor and outdoor)
- Excellent hostel facilities for residential children
- Access English Micro-scholarship program in collaboration with the US Department of State
- The challenge is to retain and educate children mainstreamed from remedial Schools in the Formal educational environment, (Aashirwad EM School) to arrest dropout rates and to provide continuity and dignity to their academic quest with the aim of facilitating a livelihood opportunity.
The Program ensures the following imperatives.
- Support Education, shelter (for residential children) and Health Care Needs of 330 urban deprived children with a thrust on providing quality education as well as a dignified learning
- Each child receives age-appropriate Quality School Education followed by Vocational training that enables them to realize their dreams and to become dignified livelihood earners of a new India
- STEM education promoted for underprivileged
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