NURSERY SCHOOL PROGRAMMES

MESCO has 15 English Medium Nursery Schools in different slum areas providing pre-primary level education to over 500 students. 78% of these students are admitted to good English Medium Schools of the area. MESCO maintains 1:30 ratio i.e. for every 30 students, one teacher is allotted. Currently we have qualified trained Nursery Staff and teaching through play way learning method.

Children learning shapes in our Nursery School at Imamwada, Mumbai

R. C. MAHIM MUNICIPAL URDU SCHOOL & D.ED COLLEGE
ADOPTED BY MESCO

From the day MESCO adopted the school on 26th November 1997 under the school adoption scheme, it is trying its best to uplift the standard of R. C. Mahim Municipal School. It has total student strength of 1500 students. Today the pass SSC percentage has come to 54% and 100% in D.Ed. at state conducted exam.

MESCO is helping students by providing notebooks and uniforms to students at both Primary level and Secondary level.Recreation (both indoor and outdoor) facilities available for students. It also took care of regular repairs and maintenance work in the school. The Municipal Corporation under which the school is run has recently taken up major repairs and is doing an excellent job.

Apart from this MESCO has also provided teachers (9 teachers’ salaries) as the corporation has not replaced the teachers who have retired or left the school. It has also provided round the clock security at the school gate; earlier drug addicts and local goons were doing the rounds during school hours without any check.

MESCO believes that classroom teaching is inadequate as the students come from very economic and low literacy level households and thus cannot cope with their studies and require additional support keeping this in mind MESCO has provided Extra coaching classes support to a small number of students from Std. VIII to Std. X. In order to improve retention after school when these extra classes are conducted, it has arranged for a small snack during lunch break.

MESCO’s VOCATIONAL TRAINIG CENTRE - DHARAVI

SEWING CLASSES

With the objective of self-reliance and independence for women, MESCO took the initiative of establishing Sewing Classes in slums of Dharavi. During over 20 years more than 1000 students have benefited from this activity. Majority of our students are destitute, divorced, school dropouts, deserted and widows, who utilize this skill for earning their livelihood and supporting their families.
Our collaboration with Sophia Polytechnic earlier and WIT (Women’s India Trust) under their Outreach program for women, has further strengthened our course and lent greater credibility to our already well-established program.

SHORT TERM VOCATIONAL COURSE

Under the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, MESCO had collaborated with Jan Shikshan Samiti empowering school dropouts through skill training. We have trained more than 150 students under Mehendi and Beautician Courses.

MES’s Vocational Training Centre, Kausa

In collaboration with Fr. Agnel, Bandra we have successfully completed 2 batches each of Beautician and Electrician one year certificate courses. This skill training has provided 100% placements for the students by the time they completed the course. It will be launching Garment Manufacturing Course during 2010-11. MESCO is to register as a Vocational Training Provider in the scheme of Government of India in 2010-11.