Individual Care
Education at L.E.C. is individual-based, where the needs of every student is evaluated and addressed; one of the most important interactions at the school is between the students and counselor-coordinator, which naturally takes place on a one-to-one basis. Of course this is time consuming and means that not more than 25 students can be addressed adequately at a time. This ensures a better quality of education, smoother and healthy interaction amongst the group, plus the possibility to visit families of the students from time to time and to establish rapport with the parents when they attend parent-meetings.

To help their families so as to overcome the opportunity cost of an employment, the girls are given a small stipend after the first 3 months. Only after the course begins and the group work starts opening them up to each other and to new horizons, do the girls and finally their parents begin to value the non-material aspects of the training.

Empowerment techniques are an integral part of the curriculum that also directly contribute to their self-development and skill assimilation. This enables them to have clearer focus on what they wish to do for the immediate future, especially while still being part of L.E.C. For example: this year 10 students wish to complete their 10 th standard, which in the past was left incomplete.

Also we encourage students to take soft loans, to buy their own sewing machines to start doing work at home. We try to allow them to see a wide range of job opportunities that might be available to them – rather than having to go only for regular employment, they could look at self-employment and group employment possibilities. For this we wish to impart certain specific skills that would help them in the future – financial literacy, home economics, book-keeping, business ethics, health and sanitation. Simultaneously, we focus on gender equity when our education will reach the second generation. We try to connect the old students with the current students to see how lives have evolved and what concretely can be done to influence the lives of those currently studying. Read more at Alumni ...