1. Village Community Provided Venue :
The village community has to invite us and offer a venue free. Usually it is somebody’s house, Panchayat building, community hall, school in its non-functioning hours, or even a shed / godown. Thus we do not incur any infrastructure costs for this.
2. Morning and Evening Shifts :
All Kutirs follow a 2-shift engagement with the children (from morning 7 to 10:30 and from 4 to 6:30).
In the morning shift breakfast, with seasonal fruits and milk are given, and dinner (roti, sabzi, rice and dal) is served in the evening shift.
During day-time the children are sent to the local Government school so that a continued engagement is established with them. The Seva-Kutirs are aimed at complementing the government schooling and not act as a substitute. But it has much more emphasis and inputs both nutritionally as well educationally.
3. Local Human Resources :
To the extent possible we engage all local workforce (cooks, helpers are from the same village) and teachers from the same or nearby area.
4. The Kutirs in the same area are organised under one cluster which are usually supervised by two Cluster Coordinators. A district has a couple of District Anchors. Some districts like Sheopur which have a large number of Kutirs are divided into zones and have a zonal anchor.
5. Central Resource Team :
Resource persons experienced in pedagogy, teacher training, and curriculum design ensure planning and uniform implementation across Kutirs. They also perform a continuous Impact Assessment of Kutirs to encourage constant improvement of the programs. Sports, Value Education, and Civic Virtues are also components of the Kutirs.
6.Community ‘buy-in’ in the program : :
The program also involves Panchayats, ASHA and Anganwadi functionaries, and non Government bodies like Self Help Groups (SHGs) / community-based groups.
Mobilizing action to get benefit of government schemes:
We continuously try to enlist all children and their families get enlisted in vatious government schemes like Ayushman Bharat etc. There have been no insignificant number of children who have not had even basic documents like Adhar Card etc which we help in getting furnished.
Emphasis on Local Supply :
To the extent possible, we are procuring vegetables, milk etc from local suppliers. We are encouraging the low-resource village communities to produce whatever is necessary for the Seva Kutirs locally.
