Approach

We encourage the children to come to the Center on their accord, without feeling obliged to do so or without a sense of dutifulness, and to take up self-learning projects. CLC thus works with a holistic approach, primarily with the children who live in the villages near our Center.


  • The programs at CLC are designed to develop the knowledge, skills, values, and motivation necessary to become environmentally-responsible citizens.

  • The pedagogical methods includes discussions and activities on various topics like environment, recycling, creative academic learning, caste discrimination, and gender discrimination through workshops, theatre, movies, games and other non-conventional means of teaching.

  • The Learning Center has a library, indoor games, art & craft, room for puzzles and a playground. There is also a space for carpentry and pottery. All these facilities are used by children after their school hours and on holidays.

  • Environmental-consciousness camps and field trips are regularly organized with the children from various parts of the country and with the schools around the local areas to enhance the understanding of the self-reliant model of villages and environment-related issues.


We engage with a plethora of subject-matters, which include environmental conservation, leadership and confidence building, among others. We also look at all of these issues through the prisms of social indicators and categories of analysis like caste, class and gender. Most of this is achieved through following means:


  • Conducting interactive sessions on matters related to sustainability, environment and social issues in nearby schools.

  • Conducting workshops and camps with locals as well as children from outside the vicinity of the Learning Center.

  • After school, the learning space is open for children every evening and all day during holidays, for reading and other activities of their own choosing.

Above all, we aspire to challenge the ‘conventional’ system of education which we believe tends to create an atmosphere that can lead to unnecessary competitiveness, fear, and insecurity among the children.