A Proud Moment

Aarohan's children with Ms. Illa Ghandhi (South Africa) grand daughter of our father of nation Mahatma Ghandhi

YMCA NGO Mela  

Aarohan envisions an India where a high standard of education will be received by every child in the country, regardless of their social or economic standing.

Working in the area of education for underprivileged children, Aarohan’s focus is on helping children who live below the poverty line to gain admission into government schools and to subsequently support their academic pursuits so that they do not drop-out.
           
Taking into consideration the resources available in Government Schools – the large number of class rooms and thus the number of children these schools can absorb, the existing locality placed school buildings that can be easily accessed by children, affiliation to recognized School Boards  and trained teachers- Aarohan believes that the existing government schools should be put to optimum use. Our model of development therefore works with resources that the government already provides.

With the humblest of beginnings in 2005, we started this journey from our basement where we conducted after-school tuition classes for slum children who were attending MCD schools or had dropped out of formal education and needed assistance to re-assimilate into mainstream education.

As our students found great relief in the support we provided them with their homework, course-work and certain “problem subjects”, we learnt that by creating such a support system, the complete potential of the government literacy infrastructure could be utilized so as to truly benefit the children enrolled there.

Three years on, encouraged by our children’s academic progress and to accommodate the increasing number of students joining Aarohan, we not only run academic support programs, but have also partnered with MCD schools to increase the reach and effectiveness of our work.