Based on the comprehensive needs assessment survey conducted by Lakshyam earlier and the periodic community meetings, Lakshyam has identified the needs of community people and the targeted beneficiaries. The activities have been planned so as to cater to specific needs of marginalized children and would follow multi-pronged strategies which can be categorized as:

Remedial and Bridge Education Program:

Children do not just grow in size. They develop, evolve, and mature, mastering ever more complex understandings of the people, objects and challenges in their environment. There is a general pattern or sequence for development that is true of most children. However, the rate, character, and quality of development vary from child to child. Culture influences development in different ways, and the goals for children differ from culture to culture.

The first step will be to mobilize the dropouts, beggars, rag pickers and street children to come to the center and provide children the right counseling of why education is important and that every child must go to school, after which specific education programs will be designed which will be competency based to bridge the gap of education with the children. The main aim of the bridge education will be to give the child the foundation for better understanding of School Curriculum and also to provide information and knowledge that is relevant to the children’s social situation. The ultimate objective will be to prepare the children to enter and complete the mainstream education as well as to prevent the child from exploitation and child labor and wandering around the streets aimlessly. A proper step will be followed for making and collection of documents required for the enrollment in schools. Admissions will be done in the school and the concept of ‘joyful learning’ and ‘play-way method of learning’ is promoted and implemented by Lakshyam which goes a long way in attracting the children to do the schooling.

Lakshyam has designed its model keeping in mind that children can come to Lakshyam center learn the basics of school curriculum and then can be enrolled in the schools. Also, to make sure to reduce the various kind of sexual and physical harassment cases that usually children faces when parents are not around or out for work especially in the area we are working in.  Our last step will be to provide remedial education where the children would be taught in afternoon session after they come back from School to help them cope with their new school curriculum, and to be with them till they have successfully completed their education of 5^th standard.

Lakshyam has set up the Remedial & Bridge education center in the area with the following objectives & features :

• To enable quality pre schooling education at community level, which foster physical, mental and social well - being
• To encourage parents to send their children to school.
• To get Children out of begging, Rag picking and get them admitted into mainstream schooling via bridge education centre.
• To regenerate the lost interest of these children in studies.
• To integrate the drop out children into mainstream schooling.
• To provide supportive education through remedial classes.
•  To help each child attain his/her full educational potential.
• To provide better quality of education and eradicate the gender imbalances.
• To create skill based education with functional literacy.