“Udaan” means fight, which signifies freedom and realization of new heights, this meaning when implied on children, signifies purpose of Udaan. It is an initiative of Janvikas, which spun off as an independent programme in response to both. the need to work on conflict transformation and peace building in areas affected by communal violence of 2002 in Gujarat and to build a culture of diversity and citizenship in future by addressing one of the basic nurturing grounds of conflict, that is education.
Primary education was a strategically chosen area of intervention to affect long-team change and contribute to equitable development of the society.
Intensive sustained efforts were planned and implemented towards special need of children internally displaced due to communal violence by way of setting up educational centres, capacity building of educations selected from the respective communities, curriculum building. pedagogy and institution building with community based organizations.
This new journey was embarked onto with a prior experience of working as a resource centre of the National Education Group being a part of Janvikas-HIDRC the Dalit, Adivasis and other marginalized groups.
Objectives
“A resource centre of primary education. the major thrust of the organization is to improve quality and access to education for children of disadvantaged communities with special focus on girls. Udaan engages in curriculum development and trains educators with a thematic focus on diversity, equality and citizenship values. It works on institution building and organizational development for organizations working on education. It also focuses on advocacy and education research work in institutional, methodological and policy advocacy. Objectives of the organization are as detailed below:
To improve of primary education for all with a special focus on the issues of inclusion and diversity
To create, collate, contextualize, develop and disseminate appropriate teaching- learning, curriculum, pedagogy and training resources including trainers for education
To look and act upon policy issues of quality and access to education
To make ground realities visible through appropriate resources.
Udaan has trained more than 300 villages’ youth as education over a series of workshops. Udaan has conducted more the 50 workshop for village youth and government school teachers on pedagogy and content development. At present Udaan works through its partners and directly in eight districts of Gujarat with more than 250 government schools and education centers covering about 10,000 children.
