Bharatiyam Vidyalayam is a program that revolves around schools. A school is often deemed as the temple of learning, but most Indian educational institutes fail to converge many important elements that allow students to reach their highest potential. Many facilities, especially government-run schools, are ill-equipped in terms of facilities and teachers. Students do not have access to career counseling, competence assessment, broader perspective of opportunities in the future, awareness of key life skills, access to extracurricular activities, afterschool engagements, special tutoring, or any other value-added services that go beyond in-class textbook knowledge. Many students who do not extract enough value from their schooling choose not to pursue their higher education, thereby preventing India from becoming a skills-based economy.
Bharatiyam’s intervention involves analyzing each important element of a school, from adequate teacher training to sufficient learning resources, and providing a revamped schooling experience. The output is high quality education that improves students' mental ability, conceptual clarity, higher order thinking, English comprehension skills, mathematics knowledge, scientific temperament, social awareness, and more.
Click here to see The Ten Commandments of Education created and followed by Bharatiyam.
Identifying, adopting and supporting schools.
Building a vision for schools.
Improving facilities such as libraries, science labs, computer labs, and student activity clubs.
Recruiting and providing volunteer teachers/tutors.
Providing a conducive environment for learning beyond regular school hours, and offering afterschool tuitions and evening classes.
Offering competence assessment and career counseling for students.
Building a vision for students.
Teaching critical life skills to students.
Opening and operating rich libraries.
Conducting co-curricular and extra-curricular competitions.
Conducting tests to assess mental ability and higher order thinking, in addition to English and Mathematics tests on a regular basis.
Providing model examination papers for extra preparation.
Running special sessions to clarify key concepts with students one on one.
Offering vocational courses and skills to those who seek employment upon graduating.
Teachers form the backbone of any educational institute. Bharatiyam strives to recruit teachers who are not only professionally adept in their respective fields, but also have a passion for spreading this knowledge to young students. Their responsibility stretches far beyond lessons in class. Teachers at Sprouts Primary School, for instance, spend lots of time developing their professional skill set, developing unique teaching methodologies, reviewing each student's performance on a case by case basis, and making recommendations to the school administration on how to improve the students' learning experience.
If you would like to sponsor a teacher, click on the Donate button below and enter "Sponsor a Teacher" in the "For which program? In honor of..?" field on the donation page.
$225 / ₹13500 per month recurring donation would support one teacher for as long as you choose.
$2250 / ₹135000 per year one-time donation would support one teacher for one full academic school year.
You may donate any amount you'd like. If the amount donated is different from the suggested donation, your contribution will go into Bharatiyam Vidyalayam's corpus fund. Once enough money accumulates into the corpus fund to sponsor another teacher, then the funds are retrieved and put to use.
Upon recruiting teachers, Bharatiyam provides a rigorous teacher training program to ensure that education standards remain at high levels. Typically, these programs acquaint teachers with available resources at the school facility, effective methodologies of teaching, interactive instruction, student assessment strategies, and various problem solving procedures in case of certain issues. Bharatiyam strongly believes that teacher training is one of the biggest differentiators between a standard rural Indian school and a Bharatiyam-run school. It encourages honesty and integrity, a strive for constant improvement, character development, and accountability.
If you would like to sponsor a teacher training program, click on the Donate button below and enter "Sponsor Teacher Training" in the "For which program? In honor of..?" field on the donation page.
$1800 / ₹100000 per year would sponsor a one year teacher training program for all teachers in a school.
Many young children miss out on education because they cannot afford to pack a healthy lunch in their lunchboxes every day. To address this concern, Bharatiyam implements a healthy mid-day meal program that provides a nutritionally balanced lunch to students. Once their basic physiological needs are met, students are healthier, focus well in class, and are incentivized to attend school on a regular basis.
If you would like to sponsor a teacher training program, click on the Donate button below and enter "Sponsor Lunches" in the "For which program? In honor of..?" field on the donation page.
$500 / ₹30000 per month would sponsor healthy meals for all 400 students in a school for one month.
You may donate any amount you'd like. If the amount donated is different from the suggested donation, your contribution will go into Bharatiyam Vidyalayam's corpus fund, where it will continue to accumulate with others' contributions for this initiative.
Sponsor a Class Room, or Faculty Room.
Sponsor a Laboratory, or Library.
Sponsor a Hostel Block, Kitchen, Dining Hall, or Guest Room.
Sponsor education of a student for 13 years Nursery to 12th Grade.
Announce scholarships, competitions, excursions, guest lectures etc.
Click here to see more of Bharatiyam's wish list.