Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences

Some of their programs are as follows:

• Handicraft Unit: KISS has a handicraft technical training for students in collaboration with the Ministry of Textiles. Student trainees over 18 years of age, who display a keen interest in learning a trade and who are willing to undergo training beyond regular academics are selected as per GOI guidelines. Training sessions in these specialized skills are being imparted to over 160 student trainees in 8 batches. Their target is to train 20 students per batch for a duration of four months. 
• Mother Tongue Based Multi Lingual Early Childhood Education: KISS in collaboration with the Bernard Van Leer Foundation has started the Mother Tongue Based Multilingual Education (MT based MLE) program to address the need of the indigenous children who are enrolled in the school. The organization has set up a language lab in which indigenous children are taught in their own mother tongue so that they relate to their own culture and identity when they first enrolled in school.
• English Access Micro scholarship Program: The English Access Micro-Scholarship Program was launched in the year 2010 at KISS with the purpose of upgrading students’ skill in reading, writing, speaking, and listening in English and appreciation of American & Indian Democratic principles and culture.  Currently the program provides a foundation of English language skills to talented students between the age group of 13 to 20 years from disadvantaged sections and gives participants English skills that lead to better jobs and educational prospects in their future endeavors.
• Sexual & Reproductive Health Education: From 2009, with the support of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), KISS has been endeavouring to hone the abilities of its Adolescents through Life Skills Education (LSE) based Adolescent Reproductive Sexual Health (ARSH) education in order to enable them to deal with the demands and challenges in their life effectively. At KISS, LSE sessions are transacted to students of grades 6th to 9th through co-curricular approaches by trained teachers covering over 9,000 tribal adolescents. At the college level and school level peer educators have been trained in the life skills based SRH education and are encouraged to promote life skills education and address myths and misconceptions about ARSH among peers.