Objectives of Supplementary Education by ACTIVE are :

  • To control dropouts.
  • To create interest on education in children.
  • To achieve 100% enrolment of school-going aged children.
  • To improve the innovative and analytical thinking in the future generation.
  • To inculcate long term goal & vision setting.

Causes of food in security in rural and urban areas have revealed that the major cause of malnutrition among children, women and men is the lack of adequate purchasing power to permit access to balanced diets and clean drinking water says Prof. M.S. Swaminathan, Chairman, National commission on Farmers.

In the remote and Tribal villages, Government Schools exist far from the residential area; hence parents send their children to the Government Schools reluctantly.

Most of the government schools are run with a single teacher or insufficient staff. Each teacher is supposed to take care of 100 to 150 pupils from 2 or 3 classes. Naturally teachers are unable to provide personal care and the quality of education is very poor.

At the same time, Parents conclude that their children will not progress much. Hence, parents feel sending their children to Government Schools is a waste of time. They prefer to send their children to work in agricultural farms or rear sheep.

In Government Schools, the teachers follow ‘teacher-centered’ approach. They always shout at and beat children. They don’t take children’s interests into consideration. Hence, children always hesitate to go the schools and search for ways to avoid going to school.

Either Mother, Father or both should be members of Sangham (either Mitra Mandal or Mahila Mandal as the case me). The programme is intended for those pupils who are unable to attend the regular schools due to untimely working hours when they are expected to help their parents either in field or in the farm. Another main reason for the drop-outs is the question of distance to the school-village and the natural barriers in between. Sometimes they have to cross the National Highway to go to school and the organization feels these pupils have to face risks while crossing road. Other activities like Cultural Competetitions and Science Fares are conducted every year combined for a group of target villages.