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Gurukuls

Gurukuls are physical centres or outreach community education activities that create an enabling
environment for mainstream education for children, youth, women and men, living in urban slums.
One of the key objectives is to support the education of children who may be at risk of never
attending or discontinuing schooling due to social-economic circumstances.

Run in partnership with NGOs, HCL Gurukul provides the following specialized services:

• Academic Coaching: Pre-/in-school coaching and bridge courses on diferent subjects and
academic programmes are provided by teachers and coaches during the evening.

• Digital Literacy: More than 150 centres across the country ofer courses on computer, software
and Internet use.
• Life Skills: Trained volunteers and field teams, community mobilizers and local youth engage
with the community to raise awareness on how to work with adolescence issues, relationships,
nutrition and HIV/AIDS

• Training in Sports, Arts and Culture: Students are trained by professional coaches in cultural
and fitness activities including music, arts, dance, and sports.
• Rehabilitation and Vigil Camps: Overnight vigil camps are held in summer to educate youth on
issues of sexual abuse, drugs, smoking, gender and alcohol. A comprehensive support system is
built for them to receive guidance and counselling on gender sensitization, healthy living, value
systems, life skills and more.

• Bridge School Programme: Youth who live in slums and have dropped out of school, are
enrolled in open school programmes so that they can complete education. .

• Awareness on Child Sexual Abuse:Child rights professionals and psychologists hold interactive
discussions with the help of an educational film for children on safe and unsafe contact.

Digital Literacy for Women: HCL Foundation’s digital training centres train 14–45 year-old
women in information technology skills. Programmes are designed to improve participants’
employability skills and ability to earn more income. The training also equips them to perform
online transactions and proactively manage the education of their children.

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