School Chalo!

1. School Chalo! HELP CHILDREN GO TO SCHOOL Popular Front of India

2. Importance of Education Whoever takes a path of seeking knowledge, Allah will ease a path for him leading to Paradise. - Prophet Mohammad (SAW) The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead. - Aristotle Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. - Nelson Mandela If you educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation. - Brigham Young Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. - Malcolm X

3. INDIA The future of India lies in its villages. If the village perishes India will perish too. India will be no more India.

4. Education in India – Fact Sheet • India has the largest number of illiterate adults in the world. - The Education For All-Global Monitoring Report • Less than half of grade 5 children could read a text designed for grade 2 students. • Gender Gap is a major issue. Literacy rates are 21% lower for females than for males. • Many government schools exist on paper only as the proposed buildings are either partially or fully ruined.

5. Education in India – Fact Sheet • In some villages, people don’t have school nearby. They have to walk many kilometers to reach a primary school. • Many in the country side feel that the things they learned at school are not relevant to their lives. • Many government schools have no classroom furniture, toilets, clean drinking water or playground. • In several cases, the schools are confined to one room only. Hence the children are forced to study under trees or in the open even in the rainy season.

6. Education in India – Fact Sheet • Basic arithmetic results were equally poor. Only 60% of grade 5 pupils could do a grade 2 addition or sum. • Many teachers themselves are badly educated or unqualified. • 12 million children among a population of 1.1 billion people are employed in India, according to census figures, although activists say the real number is closer to 60 million.

7. Education in India – Fact Sheet • 12 million children among a population of 1.1 billion people are employed in India, according to census figures, although activists say the real number is closer to 60 million. • Barring South India, Muslims are behind Dalits & SCs! • Muslim female illiteracy in Haryana is 98%, • Assam is 74% and Madhya Pradesh is 65%* • Only 50% Literacy rate in Rural Areas • National Family Health Survey (NFHS)

8. Education in India – Fact Sheet The State shall promote, with special care, the education and economic interests of the weaker sections of the people, and in particular of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, and shall protect them from social injustice and all forms of social exploitation - Indian Constitution, Article 46 Sachar Committee Report (Page 295-299)

9. Education in India – Fact Sheet • Child Labours commonly seen in Restaurants, Auto body shops, Factories, Shoe-shine centers and more importantly begging on streets. • 33% lacks Schools, 40% lacks Health Centres in Indian Villages.

10. Never Attended or Drop Outs – A Snapshot

11. Fact Sheet • …Every society that values social justice and is anxious to improve the lot of the common man and cultivate all available talent must ensure progressive equality of opportunity to all sections of the population. This is the only guarantee for the building up of an egalitarian and human society in which the exploitation of the weak will be minimized. • - The Education Commission, GOI, 1966

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13. Popular Front of India

14. Popular Front of India Is conducting a campaign every year To ensure all children of the age group 6-14 go to school

15. Nationwide Intensive Campaign

16. Reach the unreached! • Successfully being conducted for more than 3 years • Initiated in Southern States and currently focusing Northern States

17. Hope to the Despaired! • In 2012, distributed 1 Lakh School Kits in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Delhi, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh

18. Speak to the unspoken! • In 2012, distributed 10,000 school kits in West Bengal and 1,000 in Manipur

19. Address the unaddressed! • Thousands of Children and Parents attended various awareness programs through out the country.

20. Intensive Campaign Includes…

21. School Kit Distribution

22. Intensive Campaign Includes…

23. Awareness & Rallies

24. Intensive Campaign Includes…

25. Statistics

26. An Appeal to you! Let’s join hands to bring back their smile!

27. An Appeal to you! Be a part of this noble endeavor!

28. An Appeal to you! Please sponsor maximum number of school kits, and also, encourage your friends to do so.

29. The community may act more responsibly by being selective and focused in offering charities like Zakat etc. to Madrasas which are doing good job rather than merely clearing their conscience by thoughtlessly doing it.. - Mishra commission recommendation

30. Prophet Muhammad (SAW) said: Show mercy to those who are on the earth and the One Who is above the heaven will show mercy to you!(Abu Dawood 4941) Help the children READ! … Act Now! Not to Repent Later!

31. School Chalo! HELP CHILDREN GO TO SCHOOL Popular Front of India G-66, 2nd Floor, Shaheen Bagh, Noida Road, New Delhi - 110025 Tel/Fax-011 29945003 http:// www.popularfrontindia.org