At Muskaan, we have believed in an empowering education journey that is liberating yet grounding, for students from marginalized communities. We also believe that schooling cannot be an isolated input in a vulnerable community when caste apartheid and economic deprivation is a daily experience. To overcome such daily challenges, we promote collective groups and local leadership with different age groups, where each community member is on their personal journey and also drawing strength from a collective pursuit. Thereby, children’s Azad Jugnu Club, adults’ Shahri Mazdur Sangathan and youth-led Majal are determining the course of work in their areas and responding to varied challenges. In this journey, issues of protection as sexual abuse, violence, or access to entitlements, as health or work are areas which have become an integral concern to the organization.
We have been actively working and learning on this journey with members of denotified tribes and the urban poor since 1998. Bringing forward creative expression that reflect experiences, lives and histories of people of these communities as they see them, using contemporary means and technology, in text, video, audio and other forms of documentation, is our way of bringing their voices and our learnings into the larger world.
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