Educators Trust India

Educators Trust India runs educational and welfare projects for children in Goa, India. Our work relies on charitable donations and is supported by a dedicated team of global volunteers.

Providing a non-denominational education through our three schools and outreach project; we work with the children and their families providing them with the tools and opportunity to register and attend the local state schools. Many of the children are from families of migrant workers who flock here from other parts of India, looking for work and opportunities that they think Goa will offer them. Unfortunately this is rarely, if ever the case. Children often end up begging on the beaches, picking up litter or perhaps selling jewellery and peanuts to earn a few rupees. Most of these children are employed by the owners of the land which make up the rural slums where the families live in their makeshift tents; generally speaking the wages they earn are then returned to the landlords to pay for the spaces where they live. We therefore aim to break this cycle of illiteracy and child labour, which keeps these children and their families in poverty.

Through the provision of education we support those most in need, encouraging Goa's underprivileged children to inspire their own potential, stimulating their confidence and self-awareness and helping them develop a pride in India so building a brighter future for themselves. As well as teaching English, Maths, Hindi, Konkani (the official language of Goa) and crafts we educate the children and their parents about hygiene, health and nutrition. All the children we work with including those who have progressed and now attend state school are provided with a daily meal, a supply of fresh drinking water, fruit and milk.

The families live in shacks and slum settlements, many without access to such basics as running water, sanitation or even a roof over their heads. In addition to our three schools, we also run an outreach programme in the slum areas where we encourage the need for education, good food and hygiene; there are many links between poor health and poverty, due to the conditions the families live in they are more susceptible to ill health disease and accidents, with no access to medical care they are very vulnerable; we provide basic health care dealing with minor wounds and illnesses. For more serious conditions we will ensure children are seen by the local doctor or admitted to hospital.

We can't do this work without your help. If, like us, you believe that education can improve the future of the poor, then please join us and support our work by sponsoring a project, making a donation, volunteering with us or visiting our schools when you are in India. Please follow the links on this page to learn more about the work we do and how you can help. For our most recent up-dates, news and photos please follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

Charity Work by Educators Trust India in Goa

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Our Projects

• Leading Light

  This is our main educational project. where children
  are provided with their
  first school uniform, we
  teach Maths, English,
  Science, Geography
  and Crafts, to
  comply with the
  Indian curriculum.
  

• New Light

  The first of our two "starter
  schools" which children
  will attend once they are
  ready, these schools are
  located near the slums, to
  allow the children easy
  access both within five
  miles of each other.
  

• Inspiring Light

  Run on the same
  basis as New Light,
  opening in
  November 2011
  this is our second
  starter school
  

• Morning Light

  We visit rural slums
  providing open air
  lessons to children and
  parents. We also treat
  minor ailments; provide
  clothing and shoes;
  supply fruit, milk and
  eggs to suppliment
  the children's diet.