Save the Children, a leading, independent child rights ‘organisation for action’ that works in India and in over 120 countries around the world organizing a conference to highlight ‘Moving on with the Education’, a mobile learning center initiative on 27th November 2015 between 2 pm to 4pm. The event will inaugurate the case stories booklet ‘Moving on with the Education’ in Mumbai. Moving on the educations is a joint initiative of the Save the Children and ITOCHU Japan.

Save the childern’s mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. Bringing drop-out children back to School is need of an hour. With the mobile learning center they managed to change lives of many students. To inspire more and more people to be part of this noble cause they are launching this booklet. This book will have successful stories from Mobile learning center which to promote right to education. Their main aim is to target Government officials from Education Department, school headmasters and teachers, children and parents and other stakeholders for better and developed future of our children.

Sandhya Krishnan, Maharashtra State Programme Manager, Save the Children further commenting, “As per the 2004-05 survey carried out by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in Mumbai it was found that 78,000 children did not attend school. Nearly 50% of the children were from just five wards, including M-East (Govandi/Mankhurd), K-East (Andheri-East) and H (Bandra). So our main focus was this areas and in last two years we have manage to make students learn basic reading and writing which created a huge difference in lives of this students. We are very thankful to ITOCHU and Kiran Dighavkar Assistant Commissioner, M-East ward for all their support to make ‘Moving on the Education’ a huge success”

In the year 2013, Save the Children and ITOCHU Corporation, Japan, together introduced the Mobile Learning Centre project targeting out-of-school children around M-East Ward area. In 17 months of the project intervention by Save the Children, the Mobile Learning Centre has been able to introduce early reading and writing skills to 1728 children. 10 children groups have reached out to 888 children, educating on various issues of Child Protection. 1456 families were counseled for enrolling their children in the nearest Anganwadi Centres, and this has resulted in the enrollment of 600 children. 382 out-of-school children got mainstreamed into formal schooling system.

The Mobile Learning Centre also continued providing academic support to children post-school hours and counseling parents of the children attending the MLC to ensure their retention.