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Dehli : Pehchaan The Street School is a 10 year old volunteer based non-profit organization educating over 1600 underprivileged children across Delhi NCR, India,
Apart from basic education the organization also focuses on vocational education, skill based education, extra curricular activiates as well as psychology and health realted initiatives for student. Dedicated to providing free education to underprivileged children Established in 2015 as a small initiative focusing on providing education to a small group of 10-15 students. The orgainzation has been consistently working tirelessly over the 10 years and have scaled to 10 different locations now. It’s a completely volunteers driven organization. Currently being operated, managed and run by over 1000 active memebers throughout India contributing online and offline. While majority of these volunteer and interns are school and college students, there are also many professionals contributing in this cause. The basic objective of the orgnanization is to connect inidviduals passionate about contributing there resources, efforts and skills with underprivileged children looking for help in terms of education and educational resouces.
The organization also focuses on basic behavioural development and also runs multiple mentorship programs which has helped over 5000 students and over 10,000 volunteers in last 10 years.
There have been multiple success stories from the organization where students from modest background have got admissions in colleges and many of them has also started working. This organization follows a conventional schooling structure where every student has an ID card, follows a regular curriculum with proper track of attendence and training. This conventional schools runs in a very non conventional manner where the school actually goes to the students, near their home and teachers are as per their skill requirements and knowledge.
The sessions are highly customized and student to volunteer ratio is as small as 4/1. Which helps targeting dropout students and also children who have never been to school.
Running on a non funded basis the organization drives all the resource requirements via multiple partnerships and collaborations with colleges, societies and companies. Pehchaan The Street school has collaborated with over 100 plus influencers, 50 plus companies, and more then 150 colleges throughout India. The idea of pehchaan the street school is a motivation for everyone who believes In bringing change using education.
Pehchaan also celebrates many occasions with the students and volunteers, where they perform activites and arrange necessary items for the students. Many organizations, influencers and individuals come forward and a be a part of this family on different different occasions be it Holi, Diwali or Christmas.
The unity of pehchaan can be clearly seen on such events where Diwali is celebrated at a centre which runs in a masjid or Christmas is celebrated in a gurdwara.
These events are the only source of comfort and belonging for many students, where pehchaan plays a role of a family and provide them with items which can lighten up their occasion and bring a smile on their faces.
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