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SISHUMITRA
Background
of Sishumitra
Venganoor Grama
Panchayath, in partnership with MetaQuest Creative Communications
has taken a decisive step to fill this gap by evolving an early
child development program, that would specially focus to the needs
of children from the marginalised sections of the society.
Pre-primary
education in Kerala lacks a proper perceptive. Majority of the early
child care centers are in private sector. These institutions play
only a very limited role. Most of these centers are run as schools
preparing the children for primary education. Instead of providing
inputs for functional development, children are taught reading,
writing and arithmetic, in the process killing the in born creative
streak and curiosity. “Anganwadis”- Child centres run by local
self governments, hardly follow any developmental strategy or plan,
except providing few toys to play with. These are mere daycare
centers, where children just while away the line.MetaQuest Creative
communications chalked out a comprehensive project to upgrade the
Anganwadis by providing training to the staff, and bringing an
attitudinal change among community members through a series of
programs.
What
is Sishumitra?
Sishumitra is a
five year project providing a sound child development strategy and
programs to upgrade the skills to carry it out. Training is given to
different sections involved in child development. It is equally a
community based social awareness program empowering every section
involved in the mission, in a continuous basis. It is a project
stimulating socio-economic change by handing over a powerful
developmental tool to every member of the community. Child
development is the prime concern of every family in Kerala. But
child development as a program with an easy implementation model is
introduced in Kerala for the first time. It is envisaged as a
sustainable program needing minimum resources, run by the community.
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