A child comes into Parikrma at 5 years in kindergarten. After that Parikrma travels with the child all the way till the child starts earning a living. In this journey of around 18-20 years, Parikrma directly manages the K-12 years through Centers for Learning and a Junior College for the 2 pre-university years.
Only by doing this can we be sure that the child has what it takes to have equal access to opportunities and in the process change their economic status. This piece of the Parikrma Model is what makes it a complete, end-to-end (e2e) Model.
The crucial foundational years of kindergarten to 10th grade and then in the two pre-university years are managed by Parikrma with it's own teachers and staff.
The Parikrma Centre for Learning has the primary, middle and senior school that make up the K-10 years. There are 4 such Centres in Bangalore and each one is a self sufficient unit in terms of the teaching faculty and administration staff including a Principal.
For the two pre-university years (11th and 12th) children from across the 4 Centres come to a centralized Junior College. At the moment this is being run from our school at Sahakaranagar. By early 2010 we plan to shift to a full-fledged Junior College facility that is being built on 3 acres of land.
At the moment two of the Centres - Sahakaranagar and Koramangala have children who go all the way from K-12.
Final Leap Program - College and beyond
The final journey in the Parikrma Model is higher learning through undergraduate and graduate college as well as vocational training. It is here that the children take their final steps of their formal education before they start earning a living. Given the nature of the backgrounds the children come from and the intense pressure to start earning a living, it is important to be with the child through this final leg of the education journey before being placed in a job.
While Parikrma manages the delivery of K-12, we provide scholarships to the children to pursue college or vocational training. We help a child choose the right professional course that matches with their interest and their performance in the all important 12th grade examination. Already our first batch of children has entered college, some doing engineering, a few hotel management as well as medicine, commerce and science. A few children who did not get through were vocationally trained and put into jobs.