Kitaab-Ek Khwab
India has a massive potential due to it’s relatively young population, which can fuel the engine of growth and enhance its standing in the world. But that human potential is not fully utilized due to the lack of effective education. NoHelpTooBig is doing its bit to move the needle in the positive direction.
Starting with teaching 40 students in a village named chuttu, the number of students have now grown to over 1000. NHTB is providing education to these students via conducting classes in-person and online for both women and children. During this process, NHTB identified major problems like lack of foundational knowledge, kids being far behind in basic reading and Math understanding as per their age/ class (No guidance being the major issue). Most women had never gone to school and therefore find it difficult to support kids in their education. Kids aren’t willing to get guidance from their parents as they feel they aren’t educated enough to teach.
NHTB attempts to solve these problems via conducting in-person classes for kids where ever good teachers are available. Everywhere else the class is conducted via online mode. NHTB focuses on teaching basic concepts, spoken English, personality development, motivational/positive psychology talks, cognitive skills, social emotional skills, extra curricular, career counseling, family counseling etc. helping with entrance exam prep for ITI, POLICE EXAMS, govt clerical work exams, etc.
Our Mission is to help students through out their journey of becoming self-reliant. (Phones for online classes are borrowed, shared amongst kids). All personality development sessions are conducted by professional teachers – who have done similar sessions for employees in companies like IBM and Infosys. The curriculum is developed by professional study guides of reputated school chain, that includes learning as well as assessments.
All counseling sessions are conducted under the guidance of AIIMS psychologist. These include career, life, motivational sessions(conducted by interns who are Psychology majors from reputated university under the guidance of professionals).
As part of our educational initiative to enable every kid live up to their full potential, we have partnered with MentoMind, a unique learning platform that combines academic learning with developing growth mindset and self-belief in students. Both the kids and women can avail MentoMind app features, new features coming up like recorded video sessions in local languages so the students can study at their own pace(some people find it difficult to join classes at given time due to phone availability issues, network, daily labour job timings etc.)
Women trained in community classes can now read and write and therefore given jobs to enable other jobs funded by government schemes. E.g. they help people filling application forms, opening and managing bank accounts, conducting classes for other women in nearby villages etc.