Rajasthan
IIMPACT currently runs 122 Learning Centres in 79 villages in Alwar District. The area is characterized by social and economic backwardness but has a large number of women’s Self Help Groups who have benefited from micro credit. IIMPACT enlists the support of these Self Help Groups to promote the importance of education and has ended up enrolling a large number of marginalized girls in their Learning Centres. The centres are spread out in different blocks of Alwar – namely Tijara, Kishangarh, Nagawan and Umran.
We have in addition introduced 40 Learning Centres in the Jamua Ramagarh block on the outskirts of Jaipur.
IIMPACT is setting up 20 Learning Centres in 19 villages of the rural District of Kota. Though the overall female literacy level in Kota is high there remain pockets where the level drops to a low of 15%. These are the areas being catered to by IIMPACT.
Uttar Pradesh
IIMPACT currently runs 101 Learning Centres in 95 villages in Mehmoodabad and 30 Learning Centres in Ruesa, both being blocks in District Sitapur. An acute lack of access to schools nearby is the main reason for girls not going to school. Girl child education is in fact extremely low in Ruesa, where female literacy falls below 12%, the lowest in the country.
Ever since IIMPACT started Learning Centres in the area the local community’s favorable response has been overwhelming. Last year over 160 girls from IIMPACT Learning Centres passed their Class V exams with 1st division marks!
IIMPACT has in addition started 36 Learning Centers in 36 villages of Shravasti District. These centers will provide education to over 1.000 out of school girls in this neglected area which has a mere 18% female literacy rate. IIMPACT has selected the least developed block of Jamunaha block of to establish the learning center. The block has about 71villages reeling under acute poverty. The number of out -of -school girls is very high in these villages.
30 Learning Centres have also been introduced in Ruesa block in Sitapur, UP. Girl child education is extremely low in this block where female literacy falls below 12% , the lowest in the country.
IIMPACT has started 10 Learning Centres in Dhobi Block of Jaunpur and 10 Learning centres in Ghazipur Block. These centres are located around the Child Labour Belt where children work in the carpet weaving industry.
Jharkhand
IIMPACT currently runs 30 Learning Centres in the Bero block of Ranchi District. In this tribal, minority inhabited area out-of-school girls are the norm. There is very little or no access to female education because of the prevailing regional, social and gender discrepancies.
Haryana
IIMPACT runs 54 Learning Centres in the Mewat region of Haryana. Access to education in Mewat has been a problem, especially for girls. The abysmally poor literacy rate here ranges from 1.76% to 2.13 %, being the lowest in the country.
Bihar
Kishanganj is one of the least female literate districts in the country where a mere 18% of the girls are educated. Lack of motivation on the part of the parents coupled with poor accessibility to the existing education schemes are the primary causes for the poor female literacy levels.
IIMPACT has introduced 50 Learning Centres in Kishanganj District, Bihar.
Orissa
IIMPACT runs 50 Learning Centers in the tribal, hilly villages of District Gajapati in Orissa.. This entire area is set in the most inaccessible mountainous terrain and represents very low female literacy rates. The schools are either completely absent in the tribal forest villages or are situated far away, making difficult for girls to easily access.
Being one of the most disadvantaged districts of the country, Gajapati district has to confront challenging tasks in improving quality of the life of the people.
An additional 30 centres were introduced in Mayurbanj District in Orissa.
West Bengal
IIMPACT runs 30 Learning Centres in 30 villages of the Diamond Harbor Block of South 24 Parganas District in West Bengal, approximately 40 kilometers from Kolkata.
The project was inaugurated on 21st January 2011 in village Patra where hundreds of children and their parents from neighboring villages were present in full force.
