Making education accessible to those who don’t have the privilege of access is the primary focus has been one of our primary focus areas. We strongly advocate this cause as it was very close to the heart of our founding trustee – Lakshmi Venkatraman..
Education, today, means building knowledge and skills that aid the overall personality development of a child; and is not just limited to academics. However, there still lies a wide gap between how education is facilitated in urban verses rural towns all over India.
For instance, it is a fact that a large number of girl children studying in government aided schools in rural areas discontinue their schooling during their adolescence due to absence of hygienic sanitary facilities in rural schools.
Setting up of libraries in such schools could lead to the facilitation of children leading them to become global citizens sooner than otherwise.
There is an immense potential in terms of varied talents and inherent skills that lay dormant amidst the youth living in resettlement areas all around the city; the identification and channeling of these can not only potentially reduce juvenile crime rates tremendously, it can also create bring about a massive change in the lifestyles of those families.
KCLT’s contributions towards such educational projects and compensation of fees for education of hundreds of children in need, alongside, are consistently growing.
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259/100 Ragasudha Apartments,
Royapettah High Road, Chennai 600014.
The infrastructure of this primary and middle school aided by the government had many repairs. From leaking roofs, non availability of potable water for children, hygienic toilets for boys and girls to broken flooring. Locals preferred sending their children to other schools. This was taken up by KLCT in collaboration with Rotary Vadapalani and the school was renovated through the covid period. The school later reported to KLCT saying the locals started sending the children to their school and their strength went up by 30%.
This program run by the Yellowbag Foundation, Madurai, targets children from the slums where crime rates are high and talents are in abundance. The program focuses on identifying individual talents of children, by which self-confidence is boosted which naturally diverts them from getting involved in any anti-social activities later in life.
Located near Nagapattinam, on the coast, this is a primary and high school in a remote village with a mostly fisherman community. With no dedicated toilet for adolescent girls, the girl children dropout after 5th grade was high. KLCT funded the new toilet infrastructure which was greatly welcomed by the community and school parents.
Run by ASEFA, organisation based on Gandhian ideologies, Kanavu schools children from less privileged backgrounds. It is a task to induce reading habits in children in rural India. KLCT has donated the seed books for the school library in 2018.
There are numerous pockets of settlements of the Irula tribe in Kanchipuram district. There are settlements where they have no access to housing, education and good medical facilities. KLCT along with Gnanavarshini trust distributed school kits for the tribal children. KLCT continues to identify children from this community towards support for their education.
