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Prayas - Delhi

One of India's foremost NGOs, Prayas partners with the Indian Government to run 12 different programmes serving over 50,000 children through activities ranging from child protection to education initiatives. In particular Suas has supported some of the 36 non-formal education centres that Prayas run. These centres aim to provide a friendly education to disadvantaged children aged between 5 & 10, with the expressed aim of mainstreaming them into the formal government system. Other projects run by Prayas which Suas has had limited involvement with include: boys & girls shelter homes, health clinics & vocational training centres.

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Development Action Society (DAS) - Kolkata

http://www.das.co.in/

DAS is a community-based NGO that works on education issues in South East Kolkata. Founded 20 years ago by a group of local women, DAS currently serves over 1,000 children through progressive interventions that include pre-primary schools and coaching centres. The aim of these programmes is to provide local children with the opportunity to gain access to government schools. Once mainstreamed, DAS offers these children coaching support with the aim of insuring that they stay in school. The pre-primary schools work with children from 4 to 7 years of age, while the coaching centres work with students within the age range of 6 to 12.

DAS also works extensively in the area of health promotion and women empowerment running a number of vocational training centres for women. Suas and DAS Partnerships have brought the successful 'mainstreaming' of over 1200 children, the provision of health checks for all children in the Non-Formal Education centres and special counselling for 'at risk' children.

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Sabuj Sangha - Kolkata

Sabuj Sangha is a community-based development agency, which specialises in rural development, women empowerment and education. Currently working with a community of over 100,000; its activities range from agricultural training for rural farmers to child protection services in suburban Kolkata. Suas support for Sabuj Sangha has focused on their railway education project where they provide pre-primary schools to children based around suburban railway stations. Similar to the projects run by DAS and Prayas these projects aim to mainstream local children, aged between 4 and 7, into the mainstream system. They also provide a number of coaching centres for their mainstreamed students.

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Interested child peers out from line