Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary is partnering with Rotary Club of Khadki, Pune, on a project to train government preschool teachers and supervisors in four rural blocks of Pune District, Maharashtra, India, so they can equip rural parents to support child learning at home, thus helping children to be ready for Grade 1. The three-year project, which started July 1 of this year, includes training 333 preschool teachers who will then train and empower 7,700 parents, resulting in 8,927 children benefitting from the project.
Between July and September, 303 out of the 443 parents in Bhor Block—one of the four selected geographies—had participated in orientation meetings. Key topics covered at these meeting were brain development until age 6, how children learn and school readiness. Program implementation in two other blocks, Khed1 and Maval, began this month.