Community Involvement

Involvement, participation, and sustained support from communities towards the Satya Bharti Schools have been key components for the program over the years. A continuous sense of trust and ownership has been developed within them through regular participation in events or contributions in terms of land, time, skills, knowledge, material, and funds.

The program uses an integrated approach for community engagement:

I) School’s connect with the community

• Regular home visits by teachers

• Structured Parent-Teacher Meetings

• Community development campaigns

II) Community connecting schools with local culture

• Community volunteering week

• Teaching children local history, traditions, art and craft

• Community participation in school events

III) Land, material and other support to schools by community

• Schools built on donated or leased land

• Sharing of skills, knowledge, material, and financial donations

IV) Economic empowerment of communities by schools

• Recruitment of teaching and non-teaching staff

• Employing community members, especially mothers
as mid-day meal vendors

• Local sourcing of school resources