Nayi Surwaat
COVERAGE
- Provide free foundational learning classes in safe, community-based centers.
- Employ trained teachers or volunteers from the community to deliver lessons with empathy and cultural understanding.
- Use play-based, interactive methods to make literacy and numeracy engaging and accessible.
- Monitor each child’s progress with regular assessment, ensuring they advance at a comfortable pace.
- Coordinate with nearby schools so that when a child is ready, they transition smoothly into the appropriate grade.
Nayi Surwat is dedicated to ensuring that every child benefits from the transformative power of education, even those who have never had a classroom experience. According to UNESCO, roughly 258 million children and youth are currently out of school. In India and beyond, some of the most marginalized among them have never received any formal schooling. Nayi Surwaat (meaning “New Beginning”) is an initiative designed to find these children and give them a fair start through education. By focusing on foundational literacy and numeracy, the program lays the groundwork for lifelong learning – embodying the principle that education has the “incredible power…to break poverty cycles and economically empower individuals from the most marginalized communities”undp.org.
Creating Inclusive Learning Environments
Many out-of-school children face significant barriers to education: poverty, remote locations, or family responsibilities. During the Covid-19 pandemic, researchers observed that older children in marginalized communities often missed school to work or care for siblings, and girls in particular were pulled into household chores. Nayi Surwat addresses these challenges by bringing learning into local communities and involving families. We set up small learning centers in neighbourhoods, recruit and train local educators, and work closely with parents to build a supportive environment. Every aspect of the program is designed to remove obstacles so that children can focus on learning.
