The Promise Foundation 2011

1. The Promise Foundation2011 12 years of the story!

2. Organizational Structure The Board of Trustees Managing Trustee and Associate Director Projects Manager Project Co-ordinators Administrative Staff Project Assistants Helpers and Volunteers Support Staff

3. Stimulation Intervention Programme (SIP) Programmes for Assisted Learning (PAL) Work Awareness and You (WAY)

4. Stimulation Intervention ProgrammeSIP Early Childhood Stimulation 3 to 6 year olds To lay learning foundations

5. Stimulation Intervention Programme (SIP) Shishukendra: Model Pre School 25 to 30 children a year

6. Stimulation Intervention Programme (SIP) Teacher training Specialised curriculum Low cost or no cost teaching aids

7. Stimulation Intervention Programme (SIP) Impact and reach over 12 years • Children: 300 children • Teachers: 250 • Curriculum of the SIP approach have been adopted by larger organisations such as • UNICEF • ILO • Government Departments • Ministry of Education - Rwanda

8. Programmes for Assisted Learning PAL 7 to 10 year old children Reduce school dropouts Providing support to children whose academic levels are significantly lower

9. Programmes for Assisted Learning (PAL) Forest schools

10. Programmes for Assisted Learning (PAL) Village schools

11. Programmes for Assisted Learning (PAL) Slum schools

13. PAL: Summer camp

14. Programmes for Assisted LearningPAL Impact and reach over 12 years • Children: 400 children • Teachers: 1500 • Curriculum of the PAL approach have been adopted by larger organisations such as • UNICEF • ILO • Government Departments • IBM Foundation • Newton International Fellowship

15. PAL – Comment from a visitor “I attended a few PAL sessions ... It is a new approach to teaching. It was fascinating to watch Ms. Laxmi conduct lessons using the multiple-group teaching method. Activities developed at three levels of complexity assigned to three groups functioning at three different levels were an insight for me into the details of a teaching learning environment. PAL sessions have strongly reinforced my belief in the limitlessness of a child’s abilities.” Teacher from a private school

16. Newton International FellowshipRoyal Society, UK Understanding language development in non Latin / Roman How do children learn to read in this script: University of York, UK.

17. Work Awareness and YouWAY 15 to 18 year old adolescents Preparation to enter the World of Work WAY has been adapted and expanded and is called the Jiva programme now

18. Livelihood, Career and Jiva The word Jiva means ‘life’ in most of the Indian languages. The Jiva programme is based on the premise that a healthy career is integrally connected to one’s life.

19. Jiva: The overall objective To develop resources and build capacity for the establishment of a valid and culturally relevant career counselling and livelihood planning system for the Indian context.

20. The Jiva Framework • The Jiva ‘spiral’! • Career and livelihood development occur in a spiral! Over time, one returns to where one started, but in qualitatively different manner. • Developing upon previous development, one learns from the past and looks to the future. • Mental ‘tick’ marks! • Healthy • development means • Learning to assess • opportunities. • It means skills to • adapt and be • flexible. The changing and the unchanged. Healthy careers and livelihoods are in tune with a dynamic and moving world and at the same time grounded in values that are constant and unchanging. Green and blue! Development is healthy when it is sensitive to planet Earth and sets the sky as its limits!

21. 3 Key outputs Jiva Kit M.Phil Degree in Career and Livelihood Planning Certificate Course in Career and Livelihood

22. Jiva Kit Counsellor Training Manual Flip Charts

23. Student Worksheets: Learning Cards:

24. A set of Careers Dictionaries: Career Information Data Manager:

26. Jiva Training

27. Impact and reach Reached over 150,000 young people Trained close to 1000 individuals.

28. IAEVG-Jiva Conference • 604 delegates • More than 100 presentations • leading scholars from 32 countries

29. IAEVG-Jiva Conference 'To draw the wisdom and experiences of different cultures together to consider both universal and specific principles for guidance and counselling that are socially and economically relevant to the contemporary situation’.

30. Minutes of the 80th Meeting of the Board of Directorsof the International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance - IAEVG It was immediately obvious that this conference had particular significance for both IAEVG and India. For IAEVG it was the first large conference ever held in Asia and for India the very first conference ever held to address careers and guidance issues. Certainly the conference appeared to act as a catalyst for career development across India and since this event other careers themed conferences are being organised in other parts of the world.

31. Career Counselling: A handbook (Tata McGraw Hill, 2004). Presently used as a text book in career counselling courses in India. Handbook of Career Development: International Perspectives (Springer, in press). Approximately 23 scholarly articles in peer reviewed journals Popular articles as columns in newspapers and magazines. Promise hosted the first international conference on guidance and counselling in India in 2010. Promise has been instrumental in starting the Indian Association for Career & Livelihood Planning.

32. Plans for the future New teams Income generation and self-sustainability Endowment Fund New Director