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Our journey

• Registered as Charitable Trust • Started branch in Byculla, Mumbai (2nd)

• Consultation and training for school and other organisations

2003 2010-13

• Started with remedial therapy • Within a year extended to other

services

• Pilot studies conducted • Project validation with National

and International Agencies• Focus on capacity building• Started testing curriculum for a

wider audience with good results

2004-06 2013-15

• Started branch in Kandivli, Mumbai (1st)

• Started India’s 1st parallel school offering curriculum for children

with learning lags• Began research and curriculum

development

• Standardisation of primary level curriculum

• Partnership with 2 organisations for scaling curriculum to reach out 25000 children in states of Maharashtra and Rajasthan

2007-09 2016-17

Sol’s ARC is a registered non-prot organization established in 2003, under the Charitable Trust Act of Mumbai, working towards transforming education. We conduct innovative education research to build inclusive learning content, ensuring every child can learn and that our innovation will reach the last mile.

About Us

Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL

Sol's ARC develops inclusive learning content and methodology which results in

Improved Learning outcomes

Enhanced Employability

Increased Retention

ImpactOver 150 million children in India have some form of learning lags resulting in low learning outcomes and high rates of unemployment!

No child Left

Behind

Vision Mission

We achieve equity in education through research based approach of curriculum development, implementation and advocacy.

To create a scalable replicable model to reach every last child

Goals

Learning lags occur due to

Disability Gender bias

Disadvantaged background

Poor Quality Education

GOOD POOR

Sol's ARC is the only organization in India working towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 to ensure inclusive and quality education for all to promote lifelong learning.We have developed a unique framework that makes the national curriculum inclusive and accessible for individuals with learning lags from preschool to higher education. We believe that this innovation will be one of the key factors in reversing the statistics signicantly.

Our Innovation

Reach

Children reached directly through Sol’s ARC centers

6000

Children reached through partnerships

200,000

Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra & Rajasthan

3States

Shaunak was a very bright child with difculties in reading and writing.After undergoing the Special Edge program for a year, Shaunak is doing extremely well and now loves writing and has penned several stories on his own. Thousands of other children like Shaunak have benetted from the Special Edge program to overcome their learning lags and are on the path to completing their education.

Stories from the ground

Projects

Pathways is a 3-year Associate Vocational Degree Program with academic and industry certication, providing a career path for young special needs adult .

Pathways will scale through partnerships and collaboration, by 2020.

Special Edge is a partnership program that offers inclusive learning materials and methodology that can be implemented in a classroom to address needs of children with learning lags.

The content is based on National Curriculum Framework (NCF) 2005 thus making it acceptable across India.

Creating Employable Adults

S l’s ARC initiative

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Contact

/solsarc /solsarc@solsarc @solsarccontact@solsarc.ngo26350834 / 9867219041 www.solsarc.ngo