The Hindu : Helping tribal children get educated

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Sunday, Feb 22, 2004

Karnataka

Karnataka - Mysore

Helping tribal children get educated

By Our Staff Correspondent

MYSORE, FEB. 21. Development through Education (DEED), a non-governmental organisation working on tribal welfare, has said that it has identified the key factors to help bring about social change through its rehabilitation efforts concentrated around Hunsur.

DEED has initiated a variety of programmes such as establishing 10 creches in Hunsur and H.D. Kote taluks. In all, 388 children aged below six are attending the creches and preschools, while 431 children are attending the lower primary schools. The DEED initiative has also enabled 141 children to attend high school. Of them, nine boys are studying in college.

However, S. Sreekant, director of DEED, has noted that the quality of education is poor and the dropout rate is high. Hence DEED organised a special programme to enrol tribal children who have dropped out of school.

This enabled the return of 375 tribal children to the mainstream education system. Efforts are on to mitigate the problems faced by them and facilitate their continuation in schools.

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