About Sudiksha
Sudiksha Knowledge Solutions - An organisation that makes early education joyful, effortless and an affordable process. It aims at providing high quality pre-school education to children particularly from disadvantaged backgrounds at an affordable cost while promoting women entrepreneurship.
Sudiksha is driven to uplift millions of underprivileged children in India through high-quality, holistic education by empowering women through career development and entrepreneurship.
One student, one teacher, one school at a time-we are starting a movement for sustainable change that will impact lives and communities across India, for the better.
We Help
We will Invest, We will help you setup and market, and you run the school. Become a Preschool Incharge!
How we do
Sudiksha's pre-school model is designed to achieve scale and to achieve this, community partnerships become key. Therefore, Sudiksha identifies local women from the community, who have an entrepreneurial drive and trains them in areas of academics and school management to set up their own or franchisee pre-schools.
Own schools
Sudiksha's pre-school model is designed to achieve scale and to achieve this, community partnerships become key. Therefore, Sudiksha identifies local women from the community, who have an entrepreneurial drive and trains them in areas of academics and school management to set up their own or franchisee pre-schools.
Facilities at Sudiksha
Programs
Early Education Program
By the time a child reaches five years old, 90% of their brain has already developed - which means the progression from birth to school is the most important time of their lives. Apart from providing an easy transition to primary schools, pre-schools aid in the overall growth and development of the child. Preschool education helps in a child's emotional, social and personal growth and development. Although a child learns how to talk while at home, in preschool continuous interaction and exposure with children of same age group and teachers helps them to enhance their communication skills. This involves translation of mental images to languages so that thoughts and knowledge be transformed into information. On the whole, the skills and knowledge that the child develops in the Pre School have a great impact on the aptitude and attitude of the child later in life.
Sudiksha Entrepreneurs
Sudiksha works to encourage people who make choices based on inner voice. Sudiksha works with women especially from the communities from Bottom of Pyramid and encourage them to choose a sector especially education, livelihood, agriculture to start a social enterprise. Sudiksha provides relevant skills of entrepreneurship development by running boot camps, incubation programs, program development, business model, financial models etc. Around 300 women are being trained in Education, currently running Preschool centres, working as teachers, tution centres, running small business like grocery stores, etc. Under the skill training program, Suidksha has partnered with IL&FS; and Future Group and provided skill training program in Soft skills, marketing, leather manufacturing, sales. Sudiksha has been able to impact 400 youth by providing training and placements till date. .
Sudiksha Bridge Schools
School bridge program works with the youth both boys, girls, young women and men who are School dropouts and help them to finish the Tenth grade examination and make them employable. In this program, high school dropouts are being selected and Community Education Support centres are being run in their villages and towns and help the enrolled students pass the examination through open school examination. This program is bring run in Telangana, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan states. So far 300 youth are being impacted and benefitted through the program.
Sudiksha PreSchools
Sudiksha believes that education is a creative child-centred process and children should have a sense of confidence in their abilities by the age of 5. To make this possible, Sudiksha runs affordable quality pre-schools in districts of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and Madhya Pradesh for the children living at the Bottom of Pyramid. The schools are designed to promote child development, improve good cognitive and linguistic development and become spaces for dialogue and shared learning.
Why Pre-schools
By the time a child reaches five years old, 90% of their brain has already developed - which means the progression from birth to school is the most important time of their lives.
Apart from providing an easy transition to primary schools, pre-schools aid in the overall growth and development of the child and some of the benefits of the same are as follows:
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Sudiksha Schools
Sudiksha believes that education is a creative child-centred process and children should have a sense of confidence in their abilities by the age of 5. To make this possible, Sudiksha runs affordable quality pre-schools in districts of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and Madhya Pradesh for the children living at the Bottom of Pyramid. The schools are designed to promote child development, improve good cognitive and linguistic development and become spaces for dialogue and shared learning.
Sudiksha's - courses offered:
The pre-school programs emphasize on children's holistic development and extend beyond assisting the child's transition to formal schooling. It is a social laboratory which works towards designing, training and researching various facets of education. It aims at finding practical solutions to improve the overall quality of education in schools.
Curriculum
Sudiksha's curriculum is based on the Montessori methodology, Waldorf methodology and Play-Way methodology. All the three methodologies promote the uniqueness of the child, embrace learning by doing things through respectful and meaningful relationships with others. Combining these frameworks brings many benefits in laying the foundation for all future learning development, and Sudiksha children are an exemplary proof of this. The key features that make the curriculum suitable are:-
- Integrated learning approach
- Innovative contextual curriculum
- Focus on holistic development
- Thematic approach
- Customized training
- Nurtures logical and linguistic skills
- Promotes a skill based assessment
- Provides practice sheets and workbooks along with the books.
- Hands on learning - flash cards, play materials, action, etc
Sudiksha's teachers
Sudiksha's teachers are wonderful human beings who are given the freedom and space to communicate with the children in the most engaging way possible. They are selfless, open individuals who are willing to experiment with what they are given and have partnered with Sudiksha for the love for children. Sudiksha takes care to make sure that the teachers are recruited from the local community so that the children can bond with them and feel their presence for the three years they are at Sudiksha. This makes for a learning that is joyful for both the teachers and the children.
Who are we - Team
Naveen Kumar
Naveen leads the organisation and his team. He manages the day-to-day operations of the organisation and takes care of the implementation of Sudiksha's strategy. Naveen holds a Post Graduate Degree from the Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal and has over 13 years of experience in the field of education, skills training and project implementation. Before founding Sudiksha, Naveen worked extensively in different parts of India, both in the private sector and within education. He has worked with several organisations including Eklavya in Bhopal, Naandi Foundation in Hyderabad and Career Launcher Pvt. Ltd.
Sravanthi Settipalli
An avid movie and a food lover Sravanthi is a team player and enjoys working and playing with children and this is exactly why she is engaged with Sudiksha. She is the key person behind the curriculum and content development team plays an important role in teacher trainings. Her previous experience at Kidzee and other renowned pre-schools has given Sudiksha the academic guidance it needs. A current student of Phd in human development and family studies, and a post-graduate in child guidance and family counselling psychology, and a graduation in ECCE if given an option – she would become the ultimate research buff! .
Bhanu Prasad
Bhanu is the core member behind the successful running of Sudiksha schools. He handles the operations, logistics, schools establishment processes and monitoring of the schools. With a strong background as a program officer and an academic resource coordinator at the Naandi foundation, Bhanu has an elaborate experience in managing and running over 80 schools in the state. Apart from the schools and its buzz, Bhanu loves playing with his 6 year old son, reading the papers and watching movies.