Asha KiranCentre

Literacy Class engaged in Action Song

Portion of Sewing Class - Beginners

Literacy Class with their "teachers", Class V (S.U.P.W)

The Asha Kiran Centre is  a literacy programme for street  children  started in 1995.The attendance varies but there are about 60 children  from 4 to 14 years on the rolls. The children come at 11 a.m. to play  and then have classes from 12.25 to 2.15 p.m. followed by substantial snacks. The pupils of Classes V to IX from the regular school  teach the children on a one-to-one basis  during their SUPW time. They are guided and supervised by the teachers.

The Sewing Centre  is an income-generating as well as a training project. It teaches needy women and girls to make simple clothes and do embroidery. The Course participants make the uniforms for the  Prep classes and other articles of clothing which are bought by the parents. The school children also visit the Cheshire Homes , Shishu Bhawan, the schools for blind children at St.Michael's and in Morabadi,the leprosy colony. Each class takes on one of these as a project  and provides entertainment and necessities for the inmates as part of the development of awareness of the needs of others. 

Literacy class in action with S.U.P.W. girls