We recently adopted a community of migrant waste pickers; and have created a Learning Center for young children of this community who have no access to education. All these children are between 3-10 years old and have had no exposure whatsoever to any form of education.
Under this project we have teaching program for the children of this community, where our group of committed teachers visits this community each week to conduct foundational learning classes for the children here.
Infrastructurally, our learning center, a make-shift, tarp-covered bamboo structure has started to come together before our eyes, built and modified with the engagement of the community; we have also engaged some of the women members of this community to help us run the operations of this learning center – and we have found that this community engagement goes a long way to create a sense of ownership and belonging in the community; we see a school with excited (and bawling) children form slowly, but surely.