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First our students go to English medium schools. From there they will go on to help their families exit poverty.

Total children in school: 3025
Total schools: 317
Student retention rate: 93%

Reveal A Hero

At Parinaam, experience has shown us that education is the most effective way to exit generational poverty. But it is a vicious cycle – poverty inhibits access to education, often leads to dropouts and becomes the main barrier to education. But we know that once children complete school, they will never go back to manual labour or daily wages.

Every child who gets educated, is a family rescued from generational poverty. And this is the purpose of the Academic Adoption Program.

The program addresses the bottom 5% of the urban poor. AAP is a 15-year engagement that supports students with their education, provides long-term mentoring and walks with them on their journey to becoming economically empowered citizens of tomorrow.

Hanumesh and
his mother’s dream.

Hanumesh and his mother’s dream.

Hanumesh’s mother had a simple dream — to enrol her son in a private school. She believed, like many others do, that a private school was a guarantee to a great education and a well-paying job.

His mother was one of the first women to join the UUPP program when we launched it in Thubarahalli, Bangalore. When we first met her, she was working as a domestic help, her husband was a daily wager and Hanumesh was an 8yo in a government school. They did not have any identity documents like an Aadhaar card or a labour card. In fact, when she asked for Hanumesh to be moved to a private school, he did not even have a birth certi!cate.

Parinaam helped her get all the required document, including Hanumesh’s birth certi!cate and enrolled him in Kids Global School. While the Principal was keen to have Hanumesh in the school, he was placed in Grade 2 as he came from a Kannada-medium school. But Hanumesh was determined to change his destiny. With the progress he was showing, the school was forced to give him a double promotion! He went on to excel in school, earning top ranks and grades. He scored an impressive 88% in his 10th grade and continued his progress at Lowry Memorial PU College with 85% in his 12th-grade board exams. Today, Hanumesh is pursuing his B.Com and aspires to work in the banking sector.

The story started with his mother’s dream. But now Hanumesh’s dreams soar a lot above hers. May all their dreams come true.

Karthik Raja to
Karthik Raja, MCA.
Anusha will soon be our own Florence Nightingale.
Hemalatha has seen tough times, wants to make the world a better place.
Meenakshi’s is a beautiful story of the business of beauty.
Nagaraj, our student once, our consultant now.

AAP is a 15-year engagement with each child. The younger we can get them, the better their prospects.

AAP - THE IMPACT

Academic Adoption Program — the impact

Activities Achievements The story outside numbers
School program Active children in the program
Girls benefiting from program
Boys benefiting from program
Early childhood learners nurtured
Consistent school attendance
Academic success rate
Student retention in schools
Program graduates advancing to next level		 3025
1984
1863
2016
91%
99.38%
93%
55		 With the Academic Adoption Program and better schools comes greater faith in education and, greater hope. Once they are exposed to the larger world outside the community, our students start aspiring for a better life and believing they can build one. That confidence is the greatest achievement of the AAP.
Young adults Young adults counselled
Young adults on exposure visits		 14
63		 Our young adults need counselling to keep them focused on their dreams and aspirations. Ruinous influences on the young are too many.
Schools, families & communities impacted Communities transformed through education
Students’ mothers that we engage with
Schools we collaborate with		 67
2736
317		 Our impact is not on the students alone. We also work with their mothers to ensure that the child’s world is more disciplined and focused once it returns from school.
Donors Long-term, individual donors retained
Long-term corporate donors retained.		 160
10		 Our programs run only because of our donors and supporters. They are also our best advisors.

The Academic Adoption Program — walking with our students

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