Seasonal Hostel 2015-16

On 19th May 2016 a joint visit was organised with three organisations i.e. Lokadrusti, AIF and Sarva Shikhya Avijan (SSA) to different seasonal hostels in Nuapada district of ODISHA where children of the distress migrants parents are staying from last year November 2015 .Lokadrusti and AIF is giving technical and hand holding support to School Management Committee (SMC).During 2015-2016 there are 235 seasonal hostels has been opened by SSA in 4 distress migration prone districts of NUAPADA ,Bolangir ,Bargarh and Kalahandi .The main objective of seasonal hostel is to stem the migration of school going children and make them not to be drop out from the school.Lokadrusti was directly started this model of seasonal hostel with the support of AIF in 2004 but we requested SSA Odissa to replicate and scale up to cover more numbers of distress migrant district of western ODISHA . But after implementation of Right to Education Act(RTE) Lokadrusti strengthened the SMC to run their respective sessional hostel with the active participation of villagers and the staff of SSA.After 4years presently they have been strengthened to run the seasonal hostels and handling the finance and appoint the seasonal hostels staffs directly .....during our joint visit we are satisfied to interact with different stack holders including Panchyatraj personal.we also visited resource centres organised by Lokadrusti with the support of AIF . These resource centres at cluster level use to create an enabling and child friendly atmosphere at the cluster level and assist and guide the children at the time of their difficulty.In addition to this these centres use to creat a learning common platform to the teachers and the children at Panchyat level.Each Resource Centres has library books , science materials and computer and projector etc.These centres also use to involve the government teachers and impart training to make the school child friendly and make village child labour free....
by:A.M.Panigrahi.