SKP's Social Impact

Introduction

In India, the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act was enforced in 2009, which outlines the rights and recommendations for children to have access to free and compulsory education. Since the enablement of the Act, the state of Maharashtra, India, has made great efforts to provide quality education to all. However, access to affordable education that includes quality curriculum, teaching, and assessment, remains a challenge. Most schools have basic infrastructure, but still face barriers regarding “all weather” infrastructure, library resources, usable separate gender toilets, accessible food, playground infrastructure, and safe drinking water.¹

Since 1988 Shri Khanderai Pratishthan (SKP) Campus has been addressing challenges to education by providing affordable, high-quality and accessible education in the city of Pune, Maharashtra. SKP is an Educational Trust established by Honourable Shri Ganpat Balwadkar, a Social Entrepreneur, in June 1988. SKP aims to produce a highly efficient, competitive and resourceful student community to overcome challenges and take advantage of opportunities that continue to present themselves. SKP achieves this through its schools and colleges, providing education from pre-primary to Master’s degrees.

SKP Education has partnered with Huber Social to measure and understand the holistic needs of their students, and the impact of their programs on the lived experience of their students. They further wish to understand how their outcomes are contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). By developing SKP Education’s social impact measurement capability, SKP Education will be enabled to demonstrate its impact to funders and improve the social impact of its programs through data-driven insights. The Social Impact Report of SKP not only serves as a comprehensive analysis of its initiatives but also plays a pivotal role in laying the foundation for its forthcoming venture, the SGB Group

Key Findings

This is an exceptionally high overall wellbeing across the SKP Education community. This demonstrates that SKP Education has created an environment whereby students are in a very good position to fulfill their potential.
The greatest predictive factors for high student wellbeing related to students having confidence in their educational institute having a proactive approach to addressing their physical and mental needs. This included encouragement of students developing their personality and having access to personal health products.
Across the SKP Education community, students who had attended for 3+ years had reduced frequency of feelings of loneliness, anxiety and anger, compared to those who had just started. They also increased their frequency of gratitude. This demonstrates that SKP Education strengthens the mental wellness of students. Despite this, these areas remained lower scoring among students. This finding coincides with emotional regulation and feelings of happiness being priority needs whereby they are both predictors of wellbeing and lower scoring factors. As priority needs, improvements in these factors will have the most likely effect on increasing the wellbeing of students across the SKP Community.
Students are scoring above four (on a scale of 1 to 5) in 31 of the 35 factors measured. This is a tremendous outcome that demonstrates the confidence and strength that students are feeling in all key outcome areas. Out of all factors, students felt the strongest in their gratitude and purpose. This demonstrates how students in the SKP Community have an incredible external-facing strength of appreciation for their life situation, and internalfacing strength of feeling that their life is important.
SKP Education has a diverse and holistic teaching approach with institutes and initiatives designed to address and contribute towards the UN SDGs. SKP Education is currently contributing to and making a positive impact on eleven of the seventeen UN SDGs.

17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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