We work to achieve the goal of universal, inclusive and quality elementary education.
We work to achieve the goal of universal, inclusive and quality elementary education. We campaign for the educational rights of the most marginalised communities, with emphasis on the girl child.
Our focus has been on ensuring the proper implementation of the RTE Act. This has combined working with communities for monitoring the delivery of quality education on the ground, engagement with teachers, elected peoples' representatives and bringing together existing education networks for a synergy of forces.
Oxfam India is a founding member of the National RTE Forum, the largest alliance on education in the country constituting civil society organisations and agencies working people's access to quality, universal and inclusive elementary education.
20 Nov, 2019
Odisha
Household responsibilities forced Swantana* to drop out of school and stay at home for nearly five years.
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01 Jul, 2020
Uttar Pradesh
Mithilesh Kumar Tripathi had two things weighing on his mind — one was the pandemic and the other was school education.
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03 Sep, 2020
Odisha
The only Upper Primary School in Bagdafa village, a tribal area, in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district had 176 students but only four classrooms and four teachers.
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12 Oct, 2020
Uttar Pradesh
Devkali is an active member of School Management Committee (SMC) of Primary School Terahimafi in Banda district.
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23 Sep, 2021
Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh
Seventeen year old Kavita Jaiswal has been teaching children in her neighbourhood in Kallu Ka Purwa hamlet in the Raebareli town area since June 2020. She runs what is called a mohalla sc...
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05 Oct, 2021
Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh
In the last 18 months, when schools were closed, teachers were roped in for Covid duty.
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