Awards/Certifications
Through June 1996, a total of 769 rural tribal women have been trained at the Institute with a variety of measures of successful impact on the lives of graduates including:
- 45% of them established small businesses,
- 62% are functionally literate or semi-literate (which has motivated people to send their children to school),
- 42% have started growing vegetables,
- 97% are using safe drinking water,
- all the former trainees and many of their male relatives have given up drinking alcohol,
- caste prejudices have been eliminated.
In contrast, in 1994, only 92 of every 1000 tribal girls were literate; only 3 in every 1000 made it as far as middle school; and just 1 in every 1000 actually completed her secondary schooling.
Further:
- In 1990, two of its (formerly illiterate) trainees won first prize in a Learner's Song Competition sponsored by UNESCO.
- In 1990, the literacy methodology used at the Institute was adopted by the University of Leicester, U.K.
- In 1992, UNEP conferred the Institute with the Global 500 Roll of Honour for outstanding environmental achievements in helping to eradicate guinea worm from 302 villages in Jhabua district in educating and training women and villagers. "...now the district is completely free of Guinea Worms."
- In 1994, the Institute is listed in UNESCO's INNOV database as one of 81 successful basic education projects in developing countries.
- Since 1990, the Institute has been a placement agency for eight Master of Social Work students from the Indore School of Social Work.
Graduates receive a certificate through the National Open Schools program.
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