A School Tracking System to Realize the Millennium Development Goals

A school tracking system can assist us in achieving the UNDP Millennium Development Goals. To be precise local governments, NGOs and not for profit organizations can make use of these school tracking systems to execute a variety of functions with an aim to primarily reduce the school dropout rates that are so critical to improving and sustaining high literacy rates in the emerging economies. Moreover, there are certain other small steps like the use of barcode ribbon and a Q matric system that can be used to address the issues of mid-day meal schemes that is operated in many emerging economies. What we are trying to envisage here is a system that operates like a well-oiled  machine to guarantee children from the poorest of the poor classes across the world in realizing their dreams and alleviating poverty as mandated by the UNDP (United Nations Development Program) in its Millennium Development Goals. As a socially responsible point of sale retail solutions company in Dubai, we feel we can offer solutions through the point of sale devices that we sell. Here is the blueprint. 

A School Tracking System for Measuring the Attendance and Reasons for Absence

It is possible for the management of schools to regularly measure and assess the attendance of every child and thus also objectively monitor the reasons behind absenteeism from school. By doing so schools can pin point the number of children that may be remaining absent from schools on account of reasons like health, poverty and malnutrition. Once the total number of students with corresponding reasons for high absenteeism above the threshold level is identified steps may be taken to track the progress of those children on the basis of counselling of guardians and in resonance with the provisions of the local government bodies recommendations may be made for subsidies, education grants, free healthcare facilities, vaccines and mid-day meals. This shall have the effect of reducing the school dropout ratio.

A Barcode Ribbon to Streamline the Mid-Day Meal Scheme

Further a bar code ribbon can be used to package the food that is delivered to children studying at government schools. In the past there have emerged reports in popular media and have also been acknowledge by the UNDP that many a time the quality of food offered in schools is of miserable and also disobeys basic norms of hygiene. Schools can make use of bar code ribbons to accept the stock of food from contractors and print codes to identify the exact batch or consignment of food. This shall go a long way in reducing cases of contaminated food being supplied to children in schools.

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