Smile Foundation has joined hands with Ankur Vidyalaya for reaching out to the disadvantaged children in Jammu under the Mission Education programme.

About the partner

Located in a slum cluster of Jammu, Ankur Vidyalaya is providing education to the people of the area for the last twenty years.
The school affiliated to J&K Board of School Education, started with classes for children of primary section and has now expanded to the High School level.
The school’s curriculum is designed in such a way that special emphasis is laid on overall development of the child, which also includes quality education. The focus is on imparting quality education in subjects like Science, Health and Environment.
The school has also been creating awareness about social issues among the school children and their family. Several extra-curricular activities and programmes are organised by the school to sensitise the privileged section of the society.

About the Project

Smile Foundation has partnered with Ankur Vidyalaya of Jawahar Nagar, Jammu to provide quality education to the underprivileged children of slum areas in Jammu.
A majority of the people living in the area are labourers and are either locals from Jammu or migrant workers from Bihar, Orissa, Chhatisgarh and Jharkhand. Smile Foundation and Ankur Vidyalaya aim at spreading quality education amongst the socially and economically disadvantaged people. 
The mission of the project is to focus on the literacy, social and educational development of socially disadvantaged people of nearby areas.

Focus

Imparting quality education in subjects like Science, Health and Environment.