● Balwadi :
The Pratham Balwadi program runs for 3 hours. The timetable is decided according to the age of the children, which is generally between 3 - 5 years. We train children in language, math and free play. Physical play is also included in the balwadi curriculum because it is important for the children to develop physically. Pratham ran 56 Balwadi’s in the HKPR Zone in 2017-18.
● Library :
The objectives of the Community Library Program are to develop the reading habit among the children, increase their competencies in language and their knowledge and to increase community participation. In Pratham’s quest to build sustainable communities, where ownership and responsibility of education and sustaining learning levels of children is shared by the community, the Mumbai team switched to the volunteer based model to implement the Community Library program in 2017-18. Each community has atleast 4 volunteers. These volunteers are private tuition teachers, support class teachers, parents, students, and anganwadi teachers. One volunteer roughly distribute books to 10 children. Overall, every child through this volunteer mode gets an avg. of minimum 4 books to read in a month as against the planned target of 2 books per month per child. The programme currently runs in all the 45 communities in the Zone.
● Parent Education Programme :
This programme is conducted for parents of the children in the age group of 3 - 8 years. Various activities are conducted with the parents. They are given worksheets, which involve the children as well, so that they can solve them together. For the parents who cannot attend the community intervention workshop, a home visit is conducted to explain the daily happenings and give worksheets etc. These activities try to involve parents in the day-to-day activities of the children. The programme ran in 44 community’s throughout the zone in 2017-18.
● Urban Learning Camp/Retention Support Classes :
The urban learning camp/retention support classes are conducted for children in age group of 6 - 14 years. The children undergo training in language & math for 20 - 40 hours. The ULC conducts activities through the group learning method. In 2017 -2018 the HKPR zone had a total of 75 operational retention support class units.The Urban learning camp has the following activities.
Language:
The objective of the language camp is that the children improve their reading, writing and speaking skills. In order to achieve the classes have various topics such as oral and written comprehension, essay writing and so on.
Maths:
The objective of the maths camp is to improve the children’s ability to recognise basic numbers and perform basic mathematical operations. The children should be able to recognise numbers from 1 to 10,000 and perform basic mathematical operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication & division, and carry-over system.