Support CRY-Child Rights & You bridge digital divide between marginalised children and their privileged counterparts, in India.This project will reach out to children's collectives formed by CRY implementing partner PORD(People's Organisation for Rural Development). With tabs, laptops, batteries, internet, learning modules and teachers, we can start digital empowerment of 175 children's collectives supporting over 7000 children; inducting them into digital age.
Even though children (formerly child labour or drop outs) are going back to school, (keeping them safe from getting trafficked) as result of PORD's work over years; there still lies a huge gap between them and their privileged counterparts in terms of learning opportunities. Most children in this region have never accessed technology and there is dire need for inducting them into digital age by exposing them to laptops, tabs, internet etc for the purpose of bettering their future prospects.
The project aims at introducing and helping children to overcome inhibitions towards technology. The project is designed such that children will access learn and get comfortable with tabs, laptops, apps and effectively engage in playing games, educative programs, and understanding their rights in digital environment. The deployment will be in children's collective ( around 25 of 6-18 year olds) where children learn hands-on in interactive sessions, exploring, learning and teaching each other.
The project aims to reach out to 22,000 underprivileged children in villages and slums of South India where CRY implementing partners form and closely work with children's collectives. Most children under the project will be first generation computer users in their communities. Not only inducting children into digital age but eventually entire community; providing better prospects to children through digital literacy; building on child's right to education that develops their potential fully.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
