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WELCOME TO SARVA SIKSHAN SAMSTHA (3S)

Poor in India

 
In India, according to statistics mentioned in ASER Report 2010, 20% of population is Ultra Poor, population who are not able to afford even 2 times meal in a day. 40% of population is moderate poor, population who can afford all meals, clothes and have moderate small house, but cannot afford health services, quality education from private well-to-do schools. Another 40% population is middle class and upper middle class and the remaining 10% is upper class.  
 
90% of the children from ultra poor category are illiterate, who cannot afford any cost towards education. Where as 70% of children from moderate poor are illiterate. Fortunately, they can afford to pay reasonable fees towards education. The Parents know the importance of Education, but cannot afford the private schools for Rich and do not want to send their children to Government schools. Result, Children drop out of school after the age of 10-12 yrs and join their parents in generating small income. Initially, this is the category of children that 3S wants to target. 
 

Sustainable Education

 
Concept of Sustainable Education for the Poor is very new to India. There are schools run by state or central Government which are having low quality infrastructure and also teaching staff, with few exceptions here and there. On the other hand, there are private schools which are run professionally with very good infrastructure, but are very expensive, which the poor cannot afford.

 

There are also third category schools in rural areas, which are normally started by promoters with educational background, but with less capital and because of lack of money they are not able to provide good infrastructure and are also not able to scale up and also are not able to start higher classes,  i.e. class VI and above. Many of these are also not sustainable, and are surviving due to small donations that the schools receive. Almost all small towns i.e. with less then 25,000 population are having these types of schools. 

 
3S, wants to partner with these schools and provide them financial support, by giving loans for infrastructure development and also provide non-financial services like capacity building programs for teaching staff and management, interaction of teachers and students from rural schools with urban schools, recognising performers (teachers and students) from schools in that academic year, etc.