Through the school development project UVS is actively working to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) on education that aims to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”.
While the village's people have higher educational goals for their children, the school has barely changed in the last five years. Several youngsters from the hamlet now attend schools in the city since their parents cannot afford to send them to schools that provide English education. This has resulted in new challenges such as an increase in accidents as children travel to city schools every day, city schools charging high fees but failing to deliver on their promises in terms of education quality, negligence of the village's public primary school and misuse of the school premises for marriage events during school hours, and so on.
Above all, the Zilla Parishad Prathamik Shala Nagthana school is limited by a lack of resources and burdened with administrative chores that are handled by a tiny staff of five instructors and a headmaster. Students continue to be deprived of essential learning resources due to a lack of amenities such as a playground, books, organized interactive activities, and well-maintained infrastructure. This has resulted in substandard education, reduced attendance, and a transfer to city schools, resulting in a stall of Nagthana's general development owing to brain drain.
Volunteers from the University of Cambridge, Queen Mary University of London, IIM Kozhikode, and TERI School of Advanced Studies, among others, make up our highly ambitious and skilled team, which is dedicated to achieving the above-mentioned goals.
The village's youth are passionately participating in carrying out project activities, with guidance from the organization's founder and project team members. Teachers are being trained, meetings with stakeholders are being held, and resources such as books are being collected in preparation for the school's transfer. Students and teachers will benefit most from the initiative since they will have access to current resources that will make learning more enjoyable and enriching. The nearby communities will receive new business as a result of the school initiative. This will help boost community pride as the village's model school.