American India Foundation
The American India Foundation (AIF) is committed to improving the lives of India’s underprivileged, with a special focus on women, children, and youth. The Foundation does this through high-impact interventions in education, health, and livelihoods because poverty is multidimensional. Founded over two decades ago, in the aftermath of the devastating Gujarat earthquake, as a humanitarian initiative by Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ji and Bill Clinton, American India Foundation (AIF) has impacted the lives of 19.63 million of India’s poor across 35 States and Union Territories of India.
American India Foundation
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American India Foundation
Language is one of the most invisible barriers in education, and one of the most decisive.
Every year, millions of children in India enter classrooms where the language of instruction does not match the language they speak at home. For children from migrant families, this gap is even sharper. As they move across regions in search of livelihoods, schooling becomes fragmented, unfamiliar, and often unintelligible.
Children sit through lessons they cannot follow, assessments they cannot attempt, and classrooms where participation feels out of reach. Over time, this silent exclusion compounds, leading to disengagement and dropout.
And once a child drops out, the risks escalate.
According to recent estimates by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and UNICEF, nearly 138 million children are engaged in child labour globally, including around 54 million in hazardous work. For many, the pathway begins with exclusion from education.
For migrant children, that exclusion often starts with a barrier that rarely gets named: language.
In districts like #Nandurbar, where seasonal distress migration shapes the rhythm of life, children move between geographies, languages, and school systems with little continuity in learning.
AIF’s Learning and Migration Program (LAMP) responds to this reality by shifting the point of intervention from the child to the system. Working within government schools, the program integrates multilingual learning approaches, contextual pedagogy, and sustained teacher support. Language becomes an entry point to learning rather than a barrier, enabling continuity even in the face of mobility.
On this #WorldDayAgainstChildLabour, the message is clear - keeping children in school is not only about access, but about whether classrooms are designed to include them.
Every child who stays in school is one step further away from child labour and one step closer to opportunity.
Watch the video to see how this work is taking shape on the ground. #MultilingualEducation #education #NEP2020
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