Unmukt Foundation

About the organization

Vision: To create joyful and sustainable learning communities.

Mission: We aim to create a space where learners choose, co-create, co-exist, and co-excel; where individuals unshackle their inner artist; and where communities learn to care for the environment. 

Strategy: To create educational models by researching, implementing, and documenting the process and impact and then replicate it on a larger scale with the government. Keep things simple and effective. Create a strong diverse, efficient, and super ambitious team and board.

Location of work

Bhubaneswar, Odisha

Learnings

• We need to hire more young people as they can understand children well and have the energy to go the extra mile.
• Create a robust process in the organization that enhances efficiencies and reduces the need for micromanagement. 
• There is a need to keep going back to the strategy once you make it otherwise there is a higher chance that you go with the flow and miss the targets. 
• The 21st century skills and mainstream subjects can be taught through art classes. For this purpose, we need to design an art curriculum.  
• We need a more in-depth understanding of education philosophy and its history and how it can help us to improve our teaching.  
• Not everyone can be a teacher and proper induction and training are required to develop this skill. 

Challenges 

• Getting funds and maintaining a regular flow of funds 
• Finding right-fit team members and retaining them 
• Utilizing mentors efficiently and finding the right mentors for the organizational strategy

Plan of action

• To implement the holistic education PEACE model at ULC hub and then pilot it in the government schools
• Take the Amaa Kritishaalaa model to schools and communities in a large scale to improve literacy 
• Creating safe learning spaces 
• Creating a fellowship for youth to teach children and spread it in across Odisha
• Get into rural and tribal schools in the coming three years 
• Engage with youth to create Urban forests, nutri-gardens in schools and spread actionable environmental education
• Invest 10 hours per week on capacity building

In the coming time, we will also look for support and assistance in developing the following: 

• A funding strategy 
• Curriculum for holistic education 
• Program for literacy and numeracy 
• Art workshop program
• Organizational strategy and HR processes 
• System of volunteer management 
• Strategy of working with the government system