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Bridge School :

The solar bridge school concept’s origin is the Barefoot Movement, an


educational campaign aimed at helping the poorest of the poor. The first of its
institutions was built forty years ago in Tilonia , a village about half an hour
away from Chhir: the Barefoot-College for mostly illiterate people. For Saroj
and the other children, the solar bridge schools are not only an educational
institution but a place where they can play before the classes begin.

Now, another bridge school has been added to the lot, in a little village called
Singla. Children who do not succeed in qualifying for a public school after
having visited a solar bridge school are taught there during one year to fill up
their knowledge gap. This bridge school is also a boarding school, so that the
children of migrant workers can benefit from the opportunity of education as
well

 It takes 65 students in a year from marginalised sections of the society,


where parents can not educate their child not even feed them.
 Special thing about that school is that it is not just learning sitting in
classroom and taking lesson but learning about how to respect, how to
greet and about equality.
 School not only focuses on education but on the overall development of
student.
 Method of teaching is different in school by using cards , games so
children can learn easily and small kids were using computers.
 It also focuses on the skill development of a child during May-June by
training them on skills like chalk making, candle making, stitching etc. so
they can earn living if they will not be able to continue their education

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