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The outreach program provides
educational opportunities to child laborers, street children,
pavement dwellers and children in conflict with law. Teaching
and learning happens in places of work, on streets, pavements,
railway platforms - wherever children want to learn. Unlike
the other Pratham programs, the outreach program includes
several sub-activities, as follows:
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In contact: Child meets Pratham activist a few times a week
for conversational contact
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Contact Class: The instructor meets children at or near
the children's work place individually, or in small groups
to teach for about 30 minutes.
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Hobby class: Group meets to draw, do handicraft, play- over
3-5 hours
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Study Class: The working children are taught at their work
place in groups for 1-2 hours.
Starting with a 'contact class' where a Pratham person develops
a casual contact with children, the program moves to hobby
classes where children meet regularly. Many members of the
hobby class then move to more serious 'study class'. In 2001,
over 300 children from such classes in Mumbai were mainstreamed
into schools and appear to have stayed on there.
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