Project for schooling of migrant children in Kerala at a crossroads

Dilshad, whose family hails from Darbhanga in Bihar, was the first migrant student to achieve that after coming through a still nascent Project Roshni in Ernakulam district..

The project aims at enabling migrant children to overcome linguistic barrier and enhance their academic performance through a discourse-oriented pedagogy (DOP) with code switching a process of alternating between two or more languages, as an enabling tool...

We launched the project on a trial basis in November 2015 in the first standard where the teacher was accompanied by a multi-lingual educational volunteer (EV), who helped migrant children understand the lessons in their language and using imageries rooted in their culture..

In the fourth and fifth phase during the height of the pandemic years, the project was run in a hybrid mode, both online and offline, as educational volunteers reached out to 1,024 students across 35 schools and 1,050 students in 40 schools accordingly..

Though the sixth phase of the project was announced in 80 schools with 3,500 students with two extra modules for the new academic year in 2022, the end of Mr. Maliks tenure as Collector put the brakes on the project...

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