Page 91 - Non_Financial_Annual_Report_2021 (10th June).indd

Reimagine | Reinvent | Grow

EDUCATION

TCE is a technology company and has been supporting projects
on enhancing education standards in the country. TCE recruits
and trains hundreds of engineers every year. It partners with
other non-profits like Door Step School to improve the quality
of education for underprivileged children. It seeks to ensure pre-
primary and primary education for all children up to 14, leading
to their overall development.
• School on Wheels
The School on Wheels (SoW) is a Door Step School’s
signature program. The key component of the project is a
bus designed as a mobile classroom to provide alternate
educational facilities to children in different locations such
as pavement dwellings, road construction sites, temporary
slums and areas where street children are found in large
numbers, and there is a lack of space for conducting classes.

Since the inception, the project has benefitted thousands of
children between 3-18 years.

In a day, the School on Wheels visits 2 or 3 locations, and
2-hour sessions are held in each location. In FY 21, School
on Wheels has reached out to more than 834 children.
COVID-19 impacted the project as the lockdown was
enforced in the country, creating a terrible effect on the
students’ lives. Since migrant workers moved to their natives
and work in large construction sites slowed down, the
children’s education started to get badly impacted, and
students started to drop out.

SoW immediately conducted a diagnostic study to
understand the needs and challenges considering the
Pandemic, post which an action plan was created and
deployed. In the new plan, we moved classes closure to
their home. SOW started with online WhatsApp classes
45minutes session, the library was opened, and study
material and practise worksheets to all the students were
distributed.

91