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Education

Strategy

AIF’s approach to grant making in the area of elementary education is premised on the following:

• It is the state’s responsibility to fulfill its constitutional mandate of free and compulsory education for all children between 6 and 14 years of age.
• The government has committed itself to the Universalisation of Elementary Education (UEE) by 2010.

AIF’s education grants program, therefore, focuses on complementing and supplementing state efforts in meeting the above commitments. It does this by working with partner NGOs that:

• Focus on the “left-out children” and finds ways to ensure that such children have access to quality education, and are able to successfully complete the primary and the elementary cycle. AIF works with the following categories of children who are excluded due to a complex combination of physical and social reasons:
  • children of seasonal migrants
  • deprived urban children
  • children of sex workers
  • children with disabilities
  • children living with HIV/AIDS
  In all these groups, the focus is on girl children, and children of ethnic/religious minorities.
• Work on improving the quality of education, and strengthening government schools.

Currently AIF has 11 partners in education; eight in the area of seasonal migration, three in the area of deprived urban children, and two in the area of children of sex workers.