Non-Formal Education Support:
Free and compulsory elementary education is a constitutional assurance and is a fundamental right to children in India. Despite continuous efforts there is a significant number of children who have either never been or have dropped out of school, specially the children from slum migrant families remain outside the periphery of quality education. Thus, Non formal education plays a very vital role in the rural & slum areas. It has proven to be a viable alternative to formal primary education for 5-14 year age group of children who cannot afford formal.
primary Right to Education Act (RTE Act) use a reference period of 45 working days at any time after the beginning of a school year to identify out-of-school children. If a child does not attend school even for a day in this reference period they are identified as out-of-school children or dropped out. Based on the above understanding Sakshi is addressing this issue of school drop-out children and is approaching the issue of OoSC comprehensively guided by an inclusive paradigm.
The proposed model is moving away from the conventional bridge model and working towards creating a resilience model for the betterment and improvement of the children.
Early Childhood Education Support:
Traditionally the early childhood years were considered to lay the foundation for inculcation of basic values and social skills in children. In India much of the early care and education of the child is considered to be informal, within the family and largely through the grandmothers’ caring practices, stories, lullabies, and traditional infant games, handed down from one generation to the next. At Early Childhood, one develops the cognitive, physical, social and emotional skills, which lay the foundation for holistic development. These learnings are largely determined by supportive family structure and community care practices.
But with the families coming from difficult socio-economic realities it is found that the burden of child-care is shifted on to the hands of the elder siblings of the family. This burden eventually keeps them away from the educational structure. With growing urbanization, the need and increase in maternal employment has devoid children from accessing informal child care as it is essentially believed to be the responsibility of a woman.
This challenge paved way for organized Pre- School Education/ Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE). Recognizing the significance of informal child care, Sakshi imparted ECCE for disadvantaged families. The curriculum is designed as activity based. The activities spanning for four hours in a day focuses on the overall development indicators necessary for a child’s growth i.e. cognitive, physical development, language etc.
These ECCE centers in regions of Delhi and Gurgaon ensure a safe and healthy environment where the children can grow their knowledge, develop necessary skills of thinking, imagination, and writing. This also prepares them to become part of the mainstream school structure upon enrolment after turning 6 years old.
Remedial Education
Remedial education is vital for the students who are the first generation learners and due to lack of guidance and parental support fall behind in an educational structure. The RECs help the children 
to achieve their greater potential and develop over all personality so that they do not feel short of themselves and reach on the verge of dropping out of schools. The programme is designed in a manner which helps children by assisting them to understand and apply skills sets in accordance with the school curriculum. In this manner the children’s confidence is boosted and motivates them to continue with their education.
The program is designed with the aim of help students do better with their academic grades by assisting them in achieving the required knowledge, understanding, application and skills sets vis-a-via their school curriculum in an after school sessions at the centers.
