AASHIRWAD ENGLISH MEDIUM SCHOOL

Providing Quality Formal School Education to children mainstreamed from remedial schools is one of the key Social Interventions successfully pioneered by CHORD since 2006.CHORD Aashirwad English Medium School at Bachupally was the first of its kind, pioneering access to Quality Mainstream/Formal education for deprived urban children and rescued child laborers.

Since its start in 2006, the school has successfully mainstreamed through formal education, over 2500 underprivileged children and has not only imparted top-quality education but also helped them develop a good all-round personality and the spirit of volunteerism through extracurricular activities and community service initiatives. The project has been supported by Optum Global Solutions (India) Pvt. Ltd. FY 2022-23.

Highlights of the Program

• Adequate Infrastructure

• Qualified & Committed Faculty

• Solar-powered computer lab

• State-of-the-art school buses to ply slum children

• Potable drinking water with RO Water filter system

• Well-stocked library and Science Lab

• Life-skill training for children

• Enhancement activities for children (indoor and outdoor)

• Excellent hostel facilities for residential children

• Access English Micro-scholarship program in collaboration with the US Department of State

• The challenge is to retain and educate children mainstreamed from remedial Schools in the Formal educational environment, (Aashirwad EM School) to arrest dropout rates and to provide continuity and dignity to their academic quest with the aim of facilitating a livelihood opportunity.

The Program ensures the following imperatives.

• Support Education, shelter (for residential children) and Health Care Needs of 330 urban deprived children with a thrust on providing quality education as well as a dignified learning
• Each child receives age-appropriate Quality School Education followed by Vocational training that enables them to realize their dreams and to become dignified livelihood earners of a new India
• STEM education promoted for underprivileged

NUMBER OF CHILDREN EDUCATED DURING 2022-23: 330

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CHORD is a Non- Profit and Non-Political Relief and Development Organization, based in Hyderabad, Telangana India.

Right from our humble beginnings in 1998 to this day CHORD has successfully rescued and empowered with education, counseling, and care, over 16300 underprivileged children, trained over 6300 young men and women in employable Skills

It has touched the lives of tens of thousands through its awareness and sensitization workshops. Our imperative to empower with education and training, the lives and plight of the underprivileged continues, with help from volunteers, students, professionals, and socially conscious citizens and together we hope that the contribution to our less fortunate friends keeps growing as we do.