A rural education model that teaches rural development to rural children and helps them find local employment.
Rural children are taught to aspire to city jobs, and leave. GRAMODAYA teaches rural development to rural children instead, so they can build a future where they already live.
The model creates a backbone of rural development professionals based in rural areas, equipped to implement the welfare programmes of the government and other bodies. It uses a learning approach that is roughly 70 percent practical and 30 percent theoretical, covering every area of rural development relevant to the region.
After completing the programme, students can join government welfare projects, work with NGOs, or set up their own SERA Labs to drive local change. GRAMODAYA was piloted successfully in two villages of West Bengal, and received the HP Education Innovation Fund for India Award in 2013.
Helps rural youth redesign sustainable local livelihoods together as climate change and automation erode farming and factory work, keeping communities and ecology intact.
A shared platform that brings community, university, corporate and government together to brainstorm and test solutions for long pending problems, at both grassroots and university level.
Builds critical thinking, awareness and empathy through everyday, experience based learning, the skills today's exam driven schooling tends to leave out.
Whether you bring funds, a fresh idea, or an unsolved problem from the community you serve, there is a way in.