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Presented by Gideon Arulmani

The Promise Foundation



The Promise Foundation2011

12 years of the story!



Organizational Structure

The Board of Trustees

Managing Trustee and Associate Director

Projects Manager

Administrative Staff Project Co-ordinators

Project Assistants

Helpers and Volunteers

Support Staff



Stimulation Intervention Programme

(SIP)

Programmes for Assisted Learning

(PAL)

Work Awareness and You(WAY)



Stimulation Intervention ProgrammeSIP

• Early Childhood Stimulation• 3 to 6 year olds• To lay learning foundations



Stimulation Intervention Programme (SIP)

Shishukendra: Model Pre School

• 25 to 30 children a year




Teacher training

• Specialised curriculum• Low cost or no cost teaching aids




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



Programmes for Assisted Learning PAL

• 7 to 10 year old

children• Reduce school

dropouts • Providing support

to children whose

academic levels are

significantly lower



Programmes for Assisted Learning (PAL)

Forest schools




Village schools




Slum schools



PAL: Summer camp



Programmes for Assisted Learning PAL

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



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



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.



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

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.

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.

The Jiva FrameworkThe 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!



3 Key outputs

• Jiva Kit• M.Phil Degree in Career and Livelihood Planning• Certificate Course in Career and Livelihood



Jiva Kit

• Counsellor Training Manual

• Flip Charts



• Student Worksheets:

• Learning Cards:



• A set of Careers Dictionaries:

• Career Information Data Manager:



Jiva Training



Impact and reach

• Reached over 150,000 young people • Trained close to 1000 individuals.



IAEVG-Jiva Conference

• 604 delegates• More than 100 presentations • leading scholars from 32 countries



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’.



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.



• 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.



Plans for the future

• New teams• Income generation and self-sustainability• Endowment Fund• New Director

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