A shocking 17.7 million children in India are out of school. Working in hazardous conditions, living on the street, braving hunger, poverty and violence, childhood for them has become an endless struggle to survive. Amidst the severe cold of winters, a pride of valiant youths having immense fire inside visited remote tribal villages around Ranchi, Jharkhand. Assessment of the hitherto scenario and coming to conclusion of lagging quality education facilities to the village children and thereby drawing inspiration from Swami Vivekananda Ji thought regarding education ultimately gave birth to the programme named “RATRI PATHSHALA”. Following the grassroots participation of rural masses in order to frame decentralized planning through the Gram Sabha meeting, the organization has selected the educated youths to participate in this program. And then with great energy and efforts we have started the free night schooling service. GBSS entitled to bear the entire operational costs and avail the required study materials to the children’s and teaching materials and periodic training to the youth educator.

Goal

The program aims to improve the quality educational opportunities in rural India and to get substantial outputs.

Objectives

● To provide basic elementary education and nourish students with the basic skills in the areas of communications and analytics.
● To develop leadership attitude among the youth educators.

Quality and Free Education

“Mission Education programme” of Gramin Bharti Sewa Sanstha teaches out-of-school children from remote villages, tribal areas in order to provide
quality education. In addition to this, it also looks after their health, nutrition, and holistic development through participation in the cocurricular activities.

Major Activities

● Periodic training to the teaching professionals
● Distribution of study materials
● Plantation of trees
● Weekly quizzes & test
● Skill development activities
● Yoga & Sports
● Career counseling to the students

Counseling for Students

Class 10th results and selection of the right stream for future is the crucial decision in every student’s life. Children from poor financial backgrounds with illiterates’ parents are the one who choose the wrong option either due to lack of proper guidance or peer pressure. Gramin Bharti not only support students financially for their education, but also provide them psychological counseling for good mental health as well as to prepare them to choose the right career option and stream after class 10th.

Impact

Within four months of the initiative in the program area, GBSS scored the best possible result of the students. Students got benefited with first class grades in the higher secondary school examination. This has been the true fruit for the organization and its associates. In the preview of extreme poor
literacy rate this type of improvement incentivizes dedicated future efforts to build an educated rural India.

Achievements

Although the very initial attempt to provide quality educational opportunities to the disadvantaged children is itself a great achievement, however the progressive performance of some hardworking beneficiaries in the higher secondary school examination can be marked as one of the milestones of GBSS dedications.

Challenges

● Security apprehensions of girl’s parents.
● Basic Infrastructural challenges – sanitation, electricity.
● Ignorant attitude of rural people towards importance of education.
● Socio economic hindrance in the pursuit of higher education.

Success Story