Newgen collaborated with KK Academy in March 2021 to provide holistic education to students from lesser privileged families in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. KK Academy is a state board-recognized institution that caters to students from nursery to eighth standards. The partnership reaches out to 220 students from diverse backgrounds and enables them to learn and grow together thereby building an environment of inclusivity.
Objective
Enable children from underprivileged backgrounds to integrate into the school system, including the ones admitted through the Right to Education Act. The aim is to facilitate quality education with the best resources and guidance.
The program with KK Academy focuses on motivating children to become self-learners. The project has enabled the student population to have easy access to information, learn at their own pace, and explore individual areas of interest. Over and beyond, the aim is to build a foundation of self-learning, encourage collaboration and mindfulness, provide exposure to as many disciplines and skills.
Some infrastructural developments are also initiated at the school to establish a sound and an inclusive environment for the students where all are on the same level ground; respectful of each other, communicating freely and collaborating to grow.
∙ Pre-primary classes in the new building: Nursery class marks a transition from the comfort of home to a world full of new faces, a very different kind of bustle and energy. The classroom has games appropriate for 3 year olds, loose material, puppets, an area for Fantasy Play
∙ Libraries and Reading rooms: Separate dedicated Libraries have been set up for the Juniors and Seniors. While the older children prefer to read quietly, the younger ones are more animated. They have their favourite books; they like to talk about the stories and discuss what they enjoyed the most.
∙ Innovation / Tinkering Lab: Children worked in groups to put together working models of vehicles, pump sets, coolers and the like, given some basic resource material – a motor, switch, wheels, wire, battery and blades of a fan
