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economic systems of inequity and
social structures of inequality that
DIGIQUITY of socio-ecological crises, further
are at the root of our present suite

exacerbated by the pandemic. And,
access to quality education is the
biggest driver of this change.

let’s talk access UN’s SDG4 aims to ‘ensure inclusive
and equitable quality education
and promote lifelong learning
and quality opportunities for all’. But, despite
India’s phenomenal growth story,
issues of access, equity, quality,
relevance, and infrastructure,
continue to impede progress,
especially for those living in hard-to-
reach communities.
AIF’s flagship

education programs Designing participatory goals, opportunities in her native village equipping them with tools to break
American India Foundation
led to distressed seasonal migration
the cycle of intergenerational
design and execute (AIF) is building resilient school for her community. Every year Anjali poverty in their family.
systems through teacher capacity
innovative, tech- development and executing an migrated with her parents, displacing Access, without equity, is only half
her from the safety of her house and
driven solutions, action-oriented pedagogy to address keeping her away from school during the job done. LAMP works with
accrued learning losses. In concert
to assist school with the government’s efforts to her foundational years. According government schools and 1,300
Anganwadis to address fundamental
to UNICEF, one out of every five
children at risk reverse the Foundational Literacy migrants is a child, resulting in an learning deficits, acute learning
and Numeracy regression, AIF’s
of dropping out, flagship education Programs — estimated 92.95 million migrant regression, and remove impediments
children who often drop out of
to attain age and grade-appropriate
being left behind or Digital Equalizer and the Learning school or are never enrolled, robbing education for all. LAMP does so
and Migration Program —design
ending up in child and execute innovative, tech-driven them of their Right to Education and by leveraging a multi-pronged
approach, focusing on Foundational
a secure future.
labor solutions, to assist school children Literacy and Numeracy (FLN), Early
at risk of dropping out, being left
behind or ending up in child labor. Mitigating such learning losses, Childhood Care and Education
(ECCE), remedial classes, and
AIF works intensively with migrant
These high-impact interventions
Students experiment and innovate. communities, and the government, multilingual teaching to reach tribal
are committed to meeting the to run Government Seasonal Hostels children at the last mile.
ndia is home to almost 19% and vulnerable communities. and educational needs of children in through its Learning and Migration
of the world’s children, while their everyday lives are marked by some of the remotest geographies Program (LAMP). Increasing access Its Learning Resource Center
over one-third of the country’s a lack of access to basic rights, and of India. to seasonal hostels for children like supports teachers and students with
population is below the age of resources, with educational poverty Anjali, not only provides them a safe a dedicated education facilitator,
I18. With the world’s largest as one of the key impediments. Children’s access to education is haven to learn and grow among and learning tools such as STEM
adolescent and youth population, As the world works to “build limited by diverse factors and is their peers, keeps them away from kits, smart classes, reading corners,
India is poised to harness the back better” from COVID-19, we often unique to their communities. child labor, but also gives them an etc to further equity in students’
demographic dividend and achieve stand at the cusp of an inimitable 9-year-old Anjali from Nuapada, opportunity to access education, access to educational resources. In
real economic growth over the next opportunity to build back differently! Odisha, never stepped inside a clean water, and nutritious food, its 18 years, LAMP has impacted
few decades. Sadly, most of India’s AIF’s post-COVID-19 vision aims to classroom for the first seven years improving their health, enrollment, over 1.3 million children across
children live in rural, low-income, radically transform the underlying of her life. The lack of livelihood and retention in rural schools, 3,269 villages in 17 states and union

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