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Addressing the literacy needs of marginalized young women presents a particular challenge for government and non-government actors in the tribal communities of Andhra Pradesh. Adivasi young women having low levels of literacy and life skills limits their chances in life.
Literacy and life skills education and training focussed on young women covers a broad field and encompasses issues within and beyond the education sector. At LAYA, we have developed a crash-literacy course for adivasi women. The main objective of the course has been to reach out to adivasi women learners and equip them with basic literacy skills, especially their ability to read in Telugu and with numeracy skills in order to facilitate their effective functioning as leaders at the grassroots level. The programmes have been organised mainly in Visakhapatnam and East Godavari districts.
There are hardly any institutions of contextual learning for adivasi youth in the Scheduled Areas of Andhra Pradesh. The mainstream education opportunities are not designed to respond to the learning needs of lifelong educational processes for adivasi youth. This kind of training is hence vital also from the perspective of contributing to the integration and social harmony in these far flung adivasi communities.
The curriculum for each training programme is developed detailing learning objectives for each module and each session. The methodology comprises classroom sessions, home assignments, field practice, internship and hands on experience, and preparation for employment, self or that which is job related.
The program is carried out at Vanantharam, LAYA’s Herbal Health Care Centre at Addateegala in the East Godavari district.
Short term skill based training programmes have also been organised on borewell repair and , promotion of culture and a few others on life skills, working knowledge of the English language and skills for various renewable energy technologies are in the pipeline.
The idea of this course is to expose students to relevant and reality based understanding of their own environment within which they reside. The course has been designed for class 8 students and comprises 5 modules with each module having about 5 sessions that are 90 minutes each.
The main purpose of this course is for students to show a change in the overall awareness levels and appreciation of environmental concerns and the need for sustainable development within their own location and context.
The objective of this course is to introduce the concepts and knowledge of climate change within the context of sustainable development and to encourage a sense of activism on climate change and sustainable development issues for class 9 students in the Adivasi area. The course has 8 sessions, with each session of 90 minutes duration.
The main purpose of this course is for students to show a change in the overall awareness levels and understand the climate crisis from a local context and take relevant actions.
The key vehicle for outreach is the Andhra Pradesh Adivasi Sanghala Samakya, an Adivasi Network in 4 districts. Members of this network are involved in following up on issues in and around their villages. They have been involved in making
LAYA plays a capacity development and resource role to assist the network in meeting its objectives.
LAYA is a network member of The Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education, a regional network of more than 200 civil society organisations and individuals operating in around 30 countries of the Asia-Pacific. ASPBAE works towards promoting the right to quality education and transformative and liberating lifelong adult education and learning for all. Through its work, ASPBAE lobbies with governments to uphold education as an empowering tool to combat poverty and all forms of exclusion and discrimination, enable active and meaningful participation in governance, and builds a culture of peace and international understanding.