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The Foundation’s, Community Development Initiatives cover a broad spectrum of activities
across communities- children and professionals, through models that address critical
issues affecting quality of life and the FUTURE of adolescents, children and adults.
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The focus is on developing an environment that will address the need continuum across
- educational, social, life skills, recreational and workplace readiness for children,
adults and communities.
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The community development initiatives are propagated through a community based environment
outside the formal school setting and include learner curriculum and structured
training for community centre staff.
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Since 2004, the Foundation has been implementing programs for development of technology
skills in children from the heart of rural India, extending learning opportunities
beyond the classroom. The curriculum is specially designed to help young children
between 8 – 16 years to learn technology skills using an engaging project-based
curriculum. The focus is on developing interest and helping the learners make connections
with their own communities through technology driven projects. Over the past three
years, the Foundation has trained more than 90,000 learners across 23 States and
4 Union Territories throughout India in partnerships with various State and Central
Governments.
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The programs implemented by Learning Links Foundation encourage children to look
within and tap their creative interests for identifying problems within their communities.
The children work as a team to search for and present solutions to their peers.
The children are also encouraged to involve the voices of community members, parents,
teachers and other stakeholders in their project for a robust, sustainable solution.
Simultaneously, efforts are undertaken to encourage the community to develop socially
responsible children who understand community challenges through various community
mobilization strategies.
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Through our initiatives we aim to provide children with-
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- Market-oriented employability skill development
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- The Foundation recognizes the importance of soft skills apart from basic academic
and technology skills that increase the employability quotient for students
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- Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) - The process involves decision making, problem
solving, experimental inquiry, and investigation. Creativity, another type of complex
thinking, is often described as a special type of problem solving. Presentation
and communication skills are also developed as the children are encouraged to present
their views to the community elders
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- Collaboration skills - The programs focus on developing skills that empower students
with team management skills by involving groups of students to work together to
solve a problem, complete a task, or create a product
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- Project-based learning - Project-based learning allow students to practice knowledge
application. Learning Links Foundation has been practicing and propagating the concept
of project-based learning since 2004, wherein the learners create projects using
the technological skills they learn during training. This kind of learning enables
students to gather holistic knowledge as they learn to apply the skills to seek
creative and innovative solutions to community problems
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- Linking corporate to community technology centers Learning Links Foundation prides
in being the bridge between leading corporate houses and rural community technology
centers. Since its inception in 2002, the foundation has successfully linked over
500 community technology centers with various corporate houses. The key strength
of the Foundation lies in bringing international experience to solving local issues
across geographical boundaries
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- Involvement of big recognizable brands has had a deeper impact on social causes
they are involved with, in addition to providing a stellar reputation to the corporate
house
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- Technical hands-on learning in a community
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