Funding an Educational Tool for Adivasi Schools in Jabalapur, India
Read about LWCF’s partnership with Chandan Sarma to create supplemental programming and career development tools for students and teachers of the Dalit caste.
By Sue Abrams, BOD Member
Fall 2025 Newsletter Update
In February, 2025, LWCF Director Sherry Fine and I spent two weeks traveling through Northern India, visiting remote Adivasi villages in Jabalapur and talking to stakeholders about how LWCF could support children struggling to learn with minimal resources. The Adivasi people are members of the Dalit class—the lowest caste in India—and the government has not provided the additional funding and programming to help lift these children out of poverty. The children we met were friendly, motivated and eager to learn. They brought us to their homes, showed us around their village with great pride, and definitely stole our hearts!
One of our contacts, Chandan Sarma, is committed to providing supplemental programming for the children and creating professional development for teachers. As a result of our visits, LWCF has provided funding for Chandan’s work to create a foundational learning assessment guide for teachers, community educators, and frontline facilitators to assess foundational learning skills of children in early grades (Classes 1–5), focusing on Language, Numeracy, Comprehension, and Socio-Emotional Learning (SEL).The assessment tool is simple, adaptable, and field-friendly. It will identify learning gaps and design remedial activities, and will enable monitoring across children, grades, and time.
LWCF is proud to be a partner in this project and we look forward to seeing the results once the tool is implemented.
Every child deserves a chance ❤️
Thanks to generous donations Living Water Children’s Fund has been able to help the children attending Adivasi Schools in Jabalapur, India.
Please consider donating to support our programs. Any gift, big or small, helps us on our mission to make sure children have their basic needs met so that they may flourish and grow.