EDUCATION PROJECTS

The Hummingbird School started functioning in January 2017 with 70 students, and in the current academic year has 225 children enrolled from Class LKG to Class 6. Out of these, 70 children are fully sponsored residential students and 50 more children are sponsored day scholars. These are children who are from extremely economically disadvantaged families and have no parents or only a single parent.

Having seen the positive cognitive and emotional growth in the children of Hummingbird School from regular storytelling and library sessions, we wanted to take the opportunity to children of other schools too and started Mobile Library in August 2018. Ayang is conducting library sessions in 27 government schools in Majuli currently. We work with 1366 children through this intervention on a weekly basis.

We started a 'Manthan' Fellowship for motivated local youth, so they get introduced to education and the social sector and build the skills necessary to engage with it as change-makers. We started the Fellowship on July 26, 2019, and each fellow is placed in Government Primary School in Majuli for 2 years.

From 2018, we initiated 2 projects towards improving the whole school transformation of LP Schools in Majuli and have collectively worked with 31 schools over the last 2 years. In 2021, we are pausing based on our learnings and reflections to work intensively with just 3 schools for the whole year and create a resource book of pedagogical and project elements for working with rural/tribal schools in Assam, as well as templatize our learnings for scaling it in the coming years.