The District Literacy Mission’s field survey to identify beneficiaries for its upcoming special literacy programme for transgenders has been completed.
List of beneficiaries
Details of the survey conducted in various regions under the leadership of transgender volunteers will be compiled within a week to prepare the final list of beneficiaries and to send it for the consideration of the State Mission to offer them suitable equivalency training programme.
District coordinator of the Mission Zoya Naser said the two-month-long survey was completed under the leadership of a three-member transgender volunteers’ team after personally visiting each member and collecting details of their educational background and opinion on resuming higher studies.
“Two of them have already handed over the survey reports with detailed feedback on various topics. The remaining team member too will hand it over in two days,” she said.
The volunteers had been issued authorisation letters from the Literacy Mission office to conduct the survey at their convenience.
A non-governmental organisation operating for the welfare of transgenders was a part of the survey procedures.
Before launching the survey, the Literacy Mission had convened a meeting of transgenders and sought their suggestion on launching the exclusive equivalency programme for school dropouts from their community. It had evoked a warm response and the Mission had distributed about 300 survey forms to collect their feedback.
C.K. Naser, director of Malabar Cultural Forum, the NGO working in partnership with Literacy Mission, said around 50 persons were expected to get the benefit from the new education programme.
Literacy Mission officials said the courses would be offered to them in such a way to enable them to resume studies in their desired field and accomplish their dream of a standard job.
