Beneshwer Lok Vikas Sansthan is involved in the running of one primary
schools located in Aandpuri block in the Banswara district. The communities within which the children
lived identified the necessity of an education in order for the children and community
as a whole to progress and approached us for our support. We have since been worked
alongside villages to implement access to a primary education. Our other school
is geared towards
working with children forced into hazardous labour, our ethos is towards the prevention
of child labour, through aiding the familial structures in which they live and empowering
the children with the provision of vocational training and basic literacy and numeracy
skills, enabling more positive futures.
We are working towards a new initiative to provide education in rural communities
which utilizes the existing skills of that community to prevent the loss of learnt
knowledge, passed through generations, in order to sustain their specific socio
economic practices. We believe this is possible by heartening village elders to
the value of their practices and providing training, assisting them to pass this
information on to younger generations, preserving and nourishing intricate ancient
means of living from the land.