Masoom

Masoom aims to establish Quality Education in Night Schools, through its Night School Transformation Program (NSTP). The Program is specifically designed to meet the needs of Night Schools and its individual students. It is based on a 3-pronged intervention model consisting of interdependent focus areas for school transformation, namely Education Infrastructure and Inputs, Capacity Building for all Stakeholders and Advocacy.

Interventions:

Educational Infrastructure and Support: Masoom provides critical education infrastructure support and resources. This includes basic amenities such as nutrition (evening meals), notebook, textbooks, mobile science labs, computers and material for audio-visual learning, Braille learning tools and Braille Textbooks are provided to schools that have visually impaired students. Providing Entrepreneurship Development Programs, Evening learning center, Tech on Wheel and Placement services. Masoom enrolls visually impaired students from rural areas by contacting 4 vocational training institutes that provide skill training to visually impaired students.

Career Cell & Capacity Building: The Career Cell was established to help the Night School students for making the right decision about their career by providing various long & short term courses along with guidance. Masoom works closely with various stakeholders in the schools such as the School Management Development Committee (SMDC), Trustees, Head Masters (HM), Teachers, Students, Alumni, Parents and Non-teaching Staff. Masoom organizes training sessions and workshop for these stakeholders. School leaders are appointed as a support to the schools as well as to Masoom.

Advocacy: Masoom undertakes various initiatives to effect policy level changes in favor of Night Schools, aiming to create visibility for Night Schools through advocacy. This includes raising awareness among the key decision makers and the public, of the urgent need for policy level changes and their implementation. Meetings being conducted with officials from the Education Department to streamline the online program at school level.

Nutrition: Masoom has been providing dry ration kits to night schools in Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra as the school students survived on daily wages or work in the unorganized sector, most facing unemployment. Night schools from regions of Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur were benefited.