Street Smart works with slum and street children who rag pick and beg for a living. The original focus of this project was art therapy and basic literacy. Our aim is to bring children into literacy and mainstream them into schools. 1021 children have been mainstreamed in the past few years.

This project was originally situated on the banks of Dehradun’s famous Bindal bridge, working with children of migrant laborers and rag pickers living on the river bed. The main focus of this project is to provide after school support for mainstreamed children.

Aasraa runs shelter homes for almost 400

boys and girls in need; orphans, unwanted, abandoned, runaway, beaten, abused children and children with special needs. Everyone is welcome. We also support the residential facility of a local government school, Rajkiya Purva Madhyamik

Vidhyalaya (RPMV) in Dehradun.

Aasraa Trust is working in partnership with The Government of Uttarakhand, Education Department, and The Education Alliance (TEA) to improve the quality of education in sample selection of six Government Schools in Dehradun under the School Quality Enhancement Program.

There is incredible potential of improving the quality of education in these six Government schools’. Aasraa will be focusing on infrastructure, capacity building, pedagogy, lesson planning, improving TLM & other resources and finally, using Computer Aided learning to impact the learning levels of these marginalized children.

Aasraa uses modern technology, Computer Aided Learning (CAL) programs that are audio, visual and interactive to capture the imagination and interest of children. CAL links concept and curriculum with web based and e-learning content. CAL has a multiplier effect on a child’s learning curve; grasp and retention is greater than the traditional methods of rote learning.

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Aasraa’s revolutionary Mobile Computer Lab buses has been made for maximum impact reaching and teaching children in different situations and locations.

Children not in education are enrolled in the Open Basic Education (OBE) program of National School of Open Schooling (NIOS) in Level A, B & C (Class 3rd, 5th & 8th).

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Basic learning begins initially with play-way method while imbuing basic hygiene & education. The focus is on computer-aided learning and advanced learning material is made available. Our outreach team makes sure that the child attends the program regularly. A quarterly assessment of the child is conducted and according to the progress made, a plan for their mainstreaming is prepared.