Current Programs

Garshom Foundation’s Banyan School provides education facilities to the underprivileged children in rural Bangalore. The program gives impetus to working with the youngsters who are facing financial difficulty in attending the school during the middle years or are the chronic dropouts. Our program aims at building capacities of the teachers who teach these kids.

Overview
Garshom Foundation’s educational programs provide necessary assistance to children,especially from the stone quarry and underprivileged section of the society. These are the children who dropout from schools due to various reasons, including poverty, lack of motivation to study further, poor parents support system, absence of teachers or good quality education. Though the reasons can be plenty, the effect is same masses of children growing up uneducated and unaware about the options available to them. The situation is equally disappointing in both rural and urban areas. While right to learn remains a worrisome issue, high illiteracy rate, inadequate health care, lack of hygiene, poor sanitation conditions in schools especially for girl child, and extremely limited access to social services among the rural poor add to the grim situation.

Karnataka has over 50,000 schools of which 22,342 are Government Lower Primary Schools and 26,374 are Government Higher Primary Schools. Government Schools cater to 92% of the school-going child population, who are largely children from families living in deprived circumstances. In Bangalore alone, 60,000 children live in the streets. Though in urban regions,