Calcutta Society for Professional Action in Development popularly known as SPADE has been implementing various Projects in rural and poor SC/ST families dominated Blocks of Purulia for nearly a decade and promoted hundreds of women community groups named Self Help Groups (SHGs) and federated these groups, and with supports from SPADE the women are trying to enhance livelihood opportunities in sustainable manner. The interactions in the areas of education of the children with the community with whom SPADE has been working over the years in Purulia, confirm the general observations that the first generation learners, are not being able to keep pace with the systems as they fail to perform well owing to lack of social and family ambience or may be supplementary tuition that is unaffordable for many of the tribal families of rural Purulia. Finding themselves at a very uncomfortable position in the schools, the poor first generation students even slowly feel reluctant to continue with their formal education.
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