ASER Feedback

ASER Feedback from the Partners
Srikanth Bhat
District Coordinator, Akshara Foundation, Karnataka

Besides the old ASER partners, in 2009 ASER had some very interesting new ones; one of them was Deutsche Bank. 50 employees (most with an MBA or other post graduate degrees) of Deutsche Bank volunteered to do the ASER survey in rural Bangalore. They found the experience enlightening and different from other NGO field visits they had done.

Thomas Abraham, one of the volunteers from Deutsche Bank wrote to us to share his experience. He said the ASER survey was a very enriching experience. He was able to get hands-on experience on surveying children and got an insight on the quality of education imparted to students. In one of the households that he visited, the father, who had studied only till class 6 knew more than his daughter who was studying in class 8. In many other households he found the women to be more educated than the men. He was also delighted to see somevillagers voluntarily giving computer lessons and art and dance classes to the under privileged students.