Impact Report 2018 StreetwiZe • Mobile School

Follow-Up india • EkTara
19/11/2018 • 23/11/2018
Joke Verreth
EkTara
Kolkata / India
EkTara is an Indian NGO, specialised in offering
formal and non-formal education to children
and youngsters from urban slums.
They applied for a mobile school to be able to
reach out to all the children that are not able to
come to their centre. After a successful exploration
in May 2016, we started up a collaboration
in June 2017 and implemented the first
Indian mobile school in Kolkata. In November
2018, we organised a follow-up visit to discuss
the local challenges after 1,5 years of working
with the mobile school and to offer tailor-made
coaching sessions.
During the self-evaluation, the team indicated
they wanted to make better use of all Mobile
School educational materials and train their
creativity, so that was the main focus during
the follow-up expedition. The street educators
invented many new activities with and without
the Mobile School panels they can implement
during their future outreach activities.
trying to get permission to work in more sectors
(such as railway stations), so they can increase
their outreach work activities in the future. After
the follow-up training, the team was reenergised
and had renewed motivation for the work with
the mobile school.
IMPACT
7 street educators trained
Self-evaluation of the project by the local team
Reenergised & motivated team
The team also made a new planning, allowing
for enough time for a qualitative preparation
and evaluation of all mobile school sessions.
2 new creative activities, adapted to the local context
Currently, the team organises two to three
outreach sessions per week in Darapara and
146 Mazdurpara, two local slums. They are now
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