Project on

Rural Poor Children's Access to Education, Equity & Liberation – 2007- 08

Submitted to

ASHA SILICON VALLEY CHAPTER

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PART- I

1) Name and Address of the Organisation: SAHANIVASA,

# 22-977/1,

Morugani palli Raod,

Chittoor – 517 001 (A.P), INDIA

+91 8572 227475; Fax: 230804

E-Mail : sahanivasa@sancharnet.in

2) Project Contact Person & Title: P.SURIA RAJINI,

Executive Director

3) Amount Requested for the academic year 2007-08 :

4) Can you accept for Foreign Contribution?

Yes, SAHANIVASA is registered with Ministry of Home Affairs under FCRA.

FCRA Registered No: 010140063.

5). Mission of the Organisation:

Provide platform for the marginalized to discuss and understand the root causes of deprivation, prepare them to combat the forces of oppression by protecting and promoting the development which is combination of human values, human rights and dignity as the central focus of development.

6). Aims of Rural Poor Children Access to Education, Equity & Liberation:

We believe that, it is the fundamental Right of every child without exception to receive free and quality education, up to the age of 14 on the basis of equal opportunity, without the discrimination on the basis of caste, class, gender or religion in an environment of love and care and with appropriate facilities conducive to joyful learning.

we initiate the following to actualize the expressed aspiration .

F Provide education for Dalit children to overcome the problems of illiteracy, socio- economic and cultural bondages.

F The teacher, parents and civil society have responsibility to demand and pressurize the state to meet its obligation and a duty to facilitate the process of realization of this Right by deprived and bonded children.

F Provide special emphasize for Rural Poor Children’s education in 7^th Standard in order to make use of the available reservation spaces to go for better employment opportunities and be accountable to the society.

F To stop the child labour and migration by properly make use of the recently introduced REGS (Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme) through the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.

7) Location of project for which funding is required:

G.D.Nellore, Chittoor, and S.R.Puram mandals of Chittoor district.

8) Projects; Target population:

Rural poor children and their parents are our target population. The Parents predominantly being agricultural labourers sharecroppers, small and marginal farmers from Dalit Bahujans communities, even the children are to go for work at the cost of foregoing childhood and education to maintain the family expenditure. 7^th Std students of 10 schools and their parents are the direct beneficiaries of our program in the project area.

9) Period the grant will cover:

It is three years project for the period between July 2007 to June 2010 , but the budget is projected only for first year- 2007-08 with the hope that the 2^nd and 3^rd years can be presented in the subsequent periods.

10) List any previous support from ASHA for Education Program:

Year	Support in dollars	Rs.
1999-2000	2000	85,660
2000-2001	11434	5,58,116
2001-2002	12168	5,38,598
2002-2003	12000	5,84,493
2003-2004	12800	5,74,740
2004-2005	14440	6,24,073
2005-2006	*	6,97,594
2006-2007	*	9,48,420

*since we have received the grant I n Indian Rupees we are not sure of the dollars.

11) Please declare any religious or political affiliation and support receive from them:

We are non-party developmental organization believe and practice secular values and principles not only applicable to institution and also for the individuals being attached to the work.

12) Please indicates whether the children education includes religious teachings…?

We do not advocate any religious teachings but inculcate the human values and basic principles of Gandhi, Vivekananda, Phoole and Ambedkar to emphasize the importance of simplicity, non-violence and social dignity.

13) Does your organisation restrict services to any particular religion, caste, creed or sex?

· Our services are rendered to the most deprived communities of our society who do not have access to educational facilities. Basically, these people are from Dalit Bahujans & Minority communities.

· We do give special emphasis for girl children among the deprived communities because they are most deprived section even among the subalterns.

· In the process of our interventions we have realized that the children of all castes should not be discriminated when our vision is casteless society.

In other words, however much the castism is prevailing in the villages, there is a better degree of togetherness among the young children, which we want to strengthen. Therefore we have been rendered the services for all the underprivileged children irrespective of the caste for the last three years.

PART – II

A. Organisation Profile:

1). Brief Summary of Organization’s History, Goals and Key achievements:

SAHANIVASA has initiated its activities among Dalits, agricultural workers, women and children from the year 1985. The main goal of this organisation is to educate the marginalized communities about the root-causes of poverty and prepare them to combat the forces of exploitation, suppression and repression by preparing them with the necessary skills and knowledge to build their own future in a more sustainable and equitable manner.

The key results of one and half decade journey has promoted viable Community Based Organisations -

F For agriculture and rural workers---Agricultural Laborer’s Union;

F For Women – Mahila Abhivrudhi Podupu Sangam – MAPS,

F For farmers and sharecroppers -Marginal Farmers Development Council.

While the first one is to work for the livelihood Rights of deprived the other two are to promote socio, economic alternative developments to strengthen the economic base of these communities.

Achievements:

F Culture of negotiating for minimum wages is evolved in the state.

F Untouchability practice has been attacked in various methods peacefully involving both dalits and non-dalits to address the issue. We have made the state government aware of 55 forms of untouchability practices and our recommendations to Justice Punnaiah Commission has became government policy recommendations to evict untouchability and also implement the land reforms in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

F Gender sensitization has been evolved within the community and women are beginning to understand and respond to the gender related issues by drawing strength from the others. Women vigilance committees are promoted through out the state in 14 districts. These committees have been instrumental not only in monitoring the atrocities against women and also involved in rehabilitation through the state intervention.

F Instrumental in the anti-arrack movement and also continuing the watchdog role in the project area against the inflow of elicit liquor.

F Promoted alternative leadership in Panchayats and trained them to be uncorrupted leaders. Struggle against corruption is led by this group and exposed the corrupted bureaucrats and politicians and local leaders at local level.

F An extent of 17,200 acres has been distributed for 9150 families to earn their livelihood in the project area and approximately 1,69,000 acres have been distributed through out the state. Around 80% of these are distributed in the names of women.

F Monitoring atrocities against dalits, women through the vigilance committee

F Mobilizing the agriculture rural workers to make use of the NREGA to stop the distress migration.

Specific Achievements in Education of children

1. Children's enrollment in the primary schools is regular basis every year in the project area of 120 villages.

2. Special coaching for Dalit 10th standard students have been giving fruitful results in the lives of young students for the last 6 years with the support of ASHA.

3. Supplementary education for Dalit primary school children in 15 villages have been helping the children to equip them on par with other children in the school

4. The 15 centers has the special focus for Dropout children, gaining momentum to achieve the better results

5. So far 10 centers became self-sufficiency in their functioning and we are expecting another 5 centers will be independent during this year. That way we take another new 10 centers.

6. As the workers are involved in NREGA, people stop 30% of distress migration and as result the migrant children did not stop the education.

7. One year experience in conducting 7^th Class Special Coaching as achieved 96% of results and the remaining 4% will also be get through with Instant exams.

2. Description of the type of people and children:

Dalit Bahujans, women, agricultural workers, share croppers, small and marginal farmers and the children of these categories.

3. Over view of the organization structure:

(Organizational structure and staff structure is enclosed)

B. Project Information:

Description of the project, broad, Goals and specific objectives.

Goals:

The main goal of “Dalit Children’s Education, Equity & Liberation ” is to achieve education for all deprived communities to access and control over the resources, information and knowledge that is needed for the holistic growth of each individual and also become meaningful person in the community to work towards meaningful development in this society.

1) Specific Objectives:

1. To provide avenues for Dalit children to study well in order to overcome the gaps exists in getting pass at 7^th standard

2. To provide space for deprived children to access for school education and there by promote children’s Rights- right to education and childhood.

3. Dalitisation of Dalit educated youth by making them accountable for the development of community in future.

4. To sensitize the Civil Society to recognize the education as the main tool for liberation and development.

2) Community or Regional needs and / or Challenges that this efforts will address:

1) Bonded child labor will be reduced and no younger children will be sending for labour work at the cost of depriving school education and childhood.

2) All the distress migrant children will be stopped as the parents will be engaged for NREGA. There won’t be school dropouts due to migration of parents.

3) The Dalit youth frustration in villages will be reduced as many of them get opportunity to get out of the day-to-day social discriminations in the name of caste.

3) Community or Regional opportunities, strengths and / or Assets this effort will drop on:

1) The state will be made responsible for the school education and the teachers will be developing direct contacts with the parents through the parents committees.

2) The existing Community Based Organisations (Agricultural Laborer’s Union, Marginal Farmers Development Council and Mahila Abhivrudhi Podupu Sangam – MAPS) will take the responsibility to motivate the parents and also gain strength and confidence of the community, which will help the program to success.

4.) What is the current status of the project including the start date and the number of people working on it:

Programme	Year	No. of students	No. of centers	% of Pass	No. of teachers employed
Special coaching education programs for 10^th students	1999-00	190	3	35	9
	2000-01	296	5	77	15
	2001-02	284	6	79	18
	2002-03	550	7	91.69	19
	2003-04	669	8	79	25
	2004-05	373	8	87	25
	2005-06	495	8	82.78	24
	2006-07	406	8	89	24
Special coaching education programs for 7^th standard students	2006-07	224	7	96	21
Supplementary education for primary school children	2000-01	677	15	Not applicable	15
	2001-02	629	15	Not applicable	15
	2002-03	517	15	Not applicable	15
	2003-04	460	15	Not applicable	15
	2004-05	501	15	Not applicable	15
	2005-06	525	15	Not applicable	15
	2006-07	208	6	Not applicable	6

5) Specific activity and timetable for 10^th and 7^th Class Coaching and Supplementary Education for Primary Schools

S No.	Activity	Short term	Long Term
1.	Motivation and formation of Parents Committees Parents will be motivated in each village to specially care for children’s enrolment in school and follow up with school functioning.	Village-wise Parents committees will be formed in all 15 villages in first three months period of every year. Parents will develop direct access to the teaching community and the education department.	Organize parents for minimum wages, employment guarantee act and agricultural workers bill. Achieving this will reduce the child labour since elders get employment through these protective legislative measures.
2	Mobilization of Children Children will be motivated through cultural performances, discussions directly and also through parents.	1^st three months will be spent intensively to mobilize the children to enroll them in the schools.	A Children’s club activities are strengthened in every village to mix child labour drop outs and school going together which will help the drop outs to go to school.
3	Enrolment of Children Followed by the motivation and listing out the children in different categories such as children to be enrolled in first time, dropout children before 5^th standard, bonded and child labour etc.	First three months will be the period of motivation of children and enrolment.	The culture of going to school by group of children and also regularly in attending the special classes in the evenings will help the children to be regular in long run.
4	Teachers Training Teachers will get training in quarterly, half yearly & annual examination time with the duration of 3 days each time. Further they meet one full day per month to discuss review and strengthen their work among the villages and also in the school.	They will develop the skills to address the issues of people locally and work as a animator in the village. The teacher will develop the skills of better teaching methods	They will get good results among the students of dalit community and will promote self sufficiency process within the village.
5	Running Education Centers a) 7^th Class Special Coaching program: b)10^th Class youth special Coaching Programme a) Evening Coaching for Primary School Children.	a) 10 education centers will be run in 10 schools for 7^th class students focus for 3 subjects –Science , Maths & English. b) 3 Teachers will be appointed in each school, who will conduct teachings both mornings & evenings. c) 8 educational centers will be run in 8 high schools level for 10^th class students of dalit bahujans to pass from 10^th std. d) 3 teachers will be appointed for each center that will be paid 1,200/- per month for giving the coaching both in the morning and evenings. This year we will not be taking the services of regular government school teachers. e) 15 Centers will be run in 15 villages for primary school children in the evenings. These centers will continue for next 5 years till they became self –sufficiency. f) Already self sufficient 5 schools will be monitored and encouraged to continue.	* Parents committees will be strengthened along with the children’s clubs in the village. * Parents Committees will play as mediators between the teachers and education departments and the students to increase the children’s participation in schools and develop the responsibility of the teachers by playing pro-active role. * The students come up in the life followed by their education and 10^th class will be made responsible in the village to work as voluntarily for the community wherever he / she settle. * They will be given responsibility to take up the children’s education is one of the main task once they started earning after the employment.
6	Building Federation of dalit youth students, parents committees, children’s clubs, women associations.	1. The developed groups responding to the existing siutaiton in their respective villages representing to the government to resolve the problems of the village. 2. The regular meetings will take place on monthly basis among the parents, children and the youth to discuss	By the end of three years period separate strong dalit youth, parents and children’s clubs will be formed and regular activities will be evolved within the community to which regular schools will be run to continue the special focus on education and also resolving community socio, economic problems collectively by all the groups.
7	Campaign Against child labour & Migration	Ø 30 days campaign in the month of May & June after the 10^th class examination by all the students. Ø Stop the children going with parents at the time of migration. Ø Old people given responsibility to take care of the younger children. children enroll in the school means getting out of the work.	Stop the child labour and drop outs from the school. Develop the culture of community care for children’s education.
8	Tap the support of dalit bahujan employees from the project area	1. Collect all the addresses of people belong to target group who are well settled outside of the project area. 2. Invite them to be part of the educational programme going on in the project area in two ways (1) Visit the school when they come to village and share their experiences how they are developed. (2) Conduct area wise 3 meetings for these people when they come for the festivals in the project area.	We expect this group to become resource group in the future to sustain the centers in long run.

6) Level and Nature of involvement of the community at large, local residence and other constituency:

Participation of parents: The parents of primary school children have been formed as a committee at every village level. These parents are motivated to send their children to school on regular basis without assigning the work on school days. This has become useful attempt since the parents are convinced to send their children regularly.

Education Department: We believe the state should take the responsibility of strengthening the primary school education system. Since the government has not taken adequate steps to strengthen the process in rural area and also the increase of so called English medium schools to the mandal headquarters, there is dis-interest to send the children to school. Add to the misery, the government teachers at primary school level have been totally irresponsible in maintaining the school timings since they are staying in urban centers. In order overcome these problems we had to organize meetings with the formal school teachers and also bring the block development officials to the primary schools. Our efforts during the last 2 years though helped the schools to maintain the timings; it has developed animosity among those teachers who are not regular to attend the schools earlier. It is out of compulsion for them to attend the school on time.

This year we are planning to make this as Grama Sabha issue so that every member in the panchayat should feel responsible to watch the school functioning and also motivate the teachers to run the primary schools effectively. This way they will not be anger on SAHANIVASA team.

Children’s clubs at every village level: All the children in the village including dropouts have been formed into children’ s club and the dropouts and also the school going children are coming together in the evenings to attend the primary school that we run. Further, the participation and motivation meetings are helping to enhance the interest of dropout children to crave for school education.

Women’s associations are also interacting with the children both as part of parents committee and also as women association in order to develop interest on school education for their own children and also generate interest among the children in the school.

The union of agricultural workers and small farmers, farmer’s cooperative and women’s cooperative at mandal level has taken the decision to encourage the parents to send children for the school. The collective decision in times of dropout prone months will help to monitor the regularity of children in attending the schools regularly.

CAMPAIGN AGAINST CHILD LABOUR AND MIGRATION:

Due to cumulate impact of Drought lot of Migration is taking place in Rural area in search of employment. While the family migrates for 6 months, they are going with children. This is leading to child labour and also Children are dropping out of the school. Therefore SAHANIVASA is planning to take up campaign against the Child labour and migration. This campaign will be launched in the month of May and the beginning of June. This is the time parents get ready for migration and the children are supposed to go to school.

We feel it is the responsibility of our students in 10^th class to engage in the child labour campaign. This is the time they will be free after their public examinations. There fore we have planned for this campaign.

30 cycles will be hired per day for 30 days. 60 volunteers from the 10^th class students will work in 2 batches to around the villages. The first batch of 30 students will go as 2 teams having 15 each between 7 am to 12.00 am – afternoon. Similarly 2^nd batch of 30 students will go as 2 groups from 3.00Pm to 8.30 Pm.

The same Batch of students will work for a week days and new batch will take over in the next week. This way all the students will involve in motivating the parents in their respective areas to enroll the children in the school.

While the parents migrate the children will be left in the village. In each village old people will be identified and will be given responsibility to take care of the food needs of the children. The parents intern will make arrangements to take care of the old peoples basic needs. This arrangement being successful in 2 of the villages of our area which will be replicated all over with the involvement of students.

7) Identify organizations, if any, that you collaborate within addressing the regional needs and challenges.

a) Agricultural Workers union

b) Marginal Farmers Development Council

c) Mahila Abhivrudhi Podupu Sangam - MAPS

d) Village Grama Sabha

These organizations have been involving to strengthen the school education process.

8) Future plan for sustaining this effort and strategy for building your funding base.

1. Dalits being most deprived community it is very difficult to raise the resources when they themselves are in acute poverty. However, their participation at different levels of programme is one of the important contributions that they have been rendering.

2. Ever since the project is initiated, there is acute drought in the project area where the people of our concern have been finding very difficulty to lead their life in their respective villages due to non-availability of work. Therefore for the last one year they are making a life with NREGA, Where APVVU and SAHANIVASA work collectively to motivate them to utilize the scheme. All our Community based organizations and also teachers have been motivating people to participate in such process to lead their life in villages, as there is no work even in towns. Hence we could not make our efforts fully successful. However we are hoping that we can start during this year expecting people will overcome the problem once the rain start during the monsoon.

3. We hope we will able to motivate at least 3 to 5 Dalit educated youth in every Dalit village to gradually develop interest and service attitude towards this school through which they will be able to teach the children of the same village by voluntarily.

4. This project period we are planning to initiate efforts to identify educated employees to be contacted to tap the resources from them in two ways. One is whenever they come to their native village they can spare one day to visit the centers and share their experience outside being freed from so much dependency at local level. This will encourage the children to study well. Secondly, we are slowly planning to tap the financial resource from these people since they have already came up well in their life. Hope by the end of the year we start this process.

9) Brief assessment of how your efforts are going to affect the lives of local people in the long run:

1) The cultures of enrolling every child in school have already been visible.

2) 10^th class studied children in our center have already joining either in technical courses or in any other employment after having the higher education with reservation policy. These students have developed the culture of relating to the community in whatever the manner is possible to strengthen the education process in the village.

3) Children’s education, elders life education will go together to build the values of collective action, community sharing for common purposes, culture of mobilizing state resources in rightful manner, building leadership within the community will be evolved.

4) 7^th class students never face exams until they attend public exam. Therefore, helping them to get through 7 is a stepping stone for future plan. This is the turning point where they generally drop out after fail to go for child labour. This will not be repeated in 10 schools where we take up the project.

5) Simultaneously their participation in strengthening the local Community Based Organisations along with equipping them with the skills of dry land cultivation alternative agricultural practices, alternative income generation schemes will be evolved to take care of the economic base of the people.

6) Self-confidence, self-respect, reflecting and reacting in pro-active way for the contextual changes in the society will develop in the community.

C) Project Evaluation:

F The success behind all the initiatives of SAHANIVASA is the effective participation methods that we adopted to monitor the program. Right from the planning to evaluation people involves in decentralized manner. Therefore, they own the program.

F Student’s performance will be reviewed by regular tests conduct by teachers.

F The teacher’s performance and the school functioning will review by the parents committee that meets once in three months.

F The Community Based Organisations promoted by SAHANIVASA will review the entire program once in every six months along with the team of SAHANIVASA. Besides this every year ending over all internal review will be carried on by the selective members from SAHANIVASA team, Community Based Organisations and parents committees.

10) How much money does you required for the proposed specific project?

We require Rs.5,46,000/- ($ 13,481)

Main Programs:

F Young graduates from the background of Science and Mathematics and English are appointed as teachers in all the 10 centers and their committed efforts gave the results up to 96% during the academic year 2006-07. This indicates their commitment towards the cause and the effective facilitating role of SAHANIVASA to run the centers. The coaching will be organized only for 7^th standard children who cannot afford to pay the tuition fees to get the extra coaching. 3 teachers will be appointed for each center concentrating one main subject per teacher in addition to one more subject. For example, Maths teacher will also teach Social studies, science teacher may teach Hindi, English Teacher will teach Telugu. The sequence is not be in exact manner as described, but based on the teacher’s ability and interest.

Special Coaching for Seventh Standard Children:

Context:

During the year 2005, SAHANIVASA has Conducted a campaign against Child labour with 30youth, organizing a cycle rally for five days. During the cycle rally a questionnaire is prepared to collect the data on the child labour. We have identified 182 Child labour in the area. The main survey findings for the causes of Child labour are as follows:

There are three stages of Child Dropouts:

The primary school level	59	32%
Seventh Standard level	82	45%
10^th standard level	41	23%

1. The primary school level dropouts take place is basically within the one year of the school enrollment. The reasons are,

F Children are not able to cop up with the school environment where the teachers maintain fearful situations in the school in the name of discipline.

F Parents discourage the children as they find difficult to send the children school on time and feed them in between etc., that way the mid meals schemes in the school is additional benefit for the children and also parents to manage

F Children are not able to match the study with too much discipline and their freedom out of the school. When choice come what is the best, they prefer out of the school rather than being inside with too much discipline.

F Other children in the home are relatively influential factor in the dropouts. If other children going school there is a less chances of dropouts.

F Due to lack of educational materials like slate, slate pencil, books etc.,

F Dress patterns are also influencing the children. When all other children have better dress the comparison lead to dropouts if the child do not have proper dress.

2.The reasons for Dropouts at Seventh Standard:

F Failed in public exam is the main reason. The policy in Andhra Pradesh is that the children do not have examinations from primary to 6^th standard. Since they fact the first public exam in seventh standard and those of the children who cannot have self-motivation will get tensed which lead to the fail in the examinations.

F This is the age where children can go as a labour to contribute the family. If they fail in 7^th standard, parents will send them for work and most of the times children also do not show interest in go for schools to sit with the juniors.

F The girl children are much vulnerable at seventh standard as most of them get puberty and also have to go to the school in risky situation – walking on the bunds of sugarcane fields, etc., so the parents stop them at seventh standard or soon after puberty in order to get assistance in the house hold work. These are the children get married so early as the parents, later also find vulnerable to leave them in houses when they go for work. We have also noticed that the child marriages are more among the girls who stop the school at seventh standard.

F When parents are migrating for work the children at seventh standard, will be taken along with them, in order to get the additional resource for the family.

In the survey it is realized that 45% of the children are dropouts at 7^th standard for the above reasons. Therefore, we feel the need of starting extra coaching in the similar lines of 10^th standard in the same schools were we have 10^th class coaching.

Experience during the year 2006-07:

Based on the previous experience in 10^th class and primary school education, SAHANIVASA has applied for 10 schools for 7^th standard coahing during the year 2006& 2006. Though ASHA BOSTAN appreciated the plan, due to financial constraints they could support 6 out of 10 applied. We have got good results as explained in the below table with the committed effort of 18 teachers having 3 for each covering English, Science & Mathematics.

The results of the students are as follow:

S.No	Centre	No. of students appeared			No. of students passed			Percentage
		G	B	T	G	B	T	G	B	T
1	Thalambedu	18	10	28	18	10	28	100%	100%	100%
2	Vepanjeri	23	22	45	23	22	45	100%	100%	100%
3	Nellepalli	22	23	45	22	23	45	100%	100%	100%
4	Bangareddy Palli	8	13	21	8	13	21	100%	100%	100%
5	Siddampalli	32	18	50	32	18	50	100%	100%	100%
7	Mukkalthuru	19	16	35	16	10	26	84%	62%	74%
	Total	122	102	224	119	96	215	97%	94%	96%

Name of the proposed schools for this year:

1. Bangareddi Palli

2. Thalambedu

3. Mukkalthuru

4. Gangamma Gudi

5. Nelle Palli

6. Vepanjeri

7. Akkadevatal Kandiga

8. Siddampalli

9. Pedakanti palli

10. N.R.Peta

SPECIAL COACHING:

Special coaching will be conducted for 7^th standards, as the children have to write the public exam. Dalit children and most needy children will be given special coaching for all the subjects and special attention to the subjects like mathematics, science and English in which the children find them tough to face the exam.

Special coaching timings in all the schools:

Morning : 7.30 -- 9.30 Two Subject

Evening : 4.40 -- 5.40 One Subject

Sunday : 8.00 -- 12.00 and holidays Three Subjects

WEEKLY TESTS & MONTHLY REVIEWS:

From the time the school starts functioning every week special tests will be conducted in order to assess the students’ capacity to absorb the subject. Similarly once in a month tests and also reviews will help the students to pickup towards end of the year.

EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES:

· SAHANIVASA has been providing teaching aids and encouraging the students by conducting essay writing competitions- elocution competition in high schools.

· Drawing, crafts , games and cultural activities will conducting to primary school students. High school students are participating mandal and district level science fare, games, sports and other competitions.

· They are linking to the struggles and campaigns locally

· Teachers will participating in all the movements took place at their mandal level and district level and in many campaign

· The children are given social awareness with regard to issues like low wages & unequal wages, domestic violence, child labor etc

Debates on Special Themes:

Based on the syllabus both in languages and subjects, specific topics will be converted into debates between the students where everybody participate and learn from the discussions. These debates will be conducted once in every fortnightly in every school.

Required Budget:-

S.no.	Particulars	People’s contribution	Request from ASHA
1	Teachers honorarium 10 schools X 3 Teachers X Rs.1200X10months		3,60,000
2.	Teachers Trainings: 30 teachers X Rs.1000 per head		30,000
3.	Educational Materials : @ Rs.2,500 per school X10 schools		25,000
4.	Teacher’s Monthly Meetings: @ Rs.75 X 30 TeachersX12Months		27000
5	Parents Motivational meetings: @ Rs.2000 X 12 months	14000	10000
6	Coordinators Travel for monitoring@ Rs.1000X12 months		12000
7	Office Furniture and Chairs		10000
	Total Rs. USD @ 40.5 Indian Rs per $ as on today	14000	4,74,000 $. 11,703

Teacher’s Honororium: Altogether 30 teachers will be working 10 schools sharing all the six subjects between three teachers – 2 subjects each person. Rs.1,200 is budgeted per head as all the teachers will be from the back ground of graduation.

Teacher’s Trainings: These are the teachers will be appointed freshly who intern deserve training to handle the classes in innovative method, so that the children can enjoy the education. Since there are 30 teachers we can have training in chittoor where the resource persons will be invited from other places. We have budgeted Rs.1,000 per head for the training. This includes their food and accommodation resource person travel and fees.

Educational Materials includes printing of test papers and Stationary materials. Rs.2,500 is budgeted per center.

Teacher’s Monthly Meetings: This is one activity brigs teachers to come together where there share plan and review the work as there salaries are very low coming to the central place is financial burden for them. Therefore we have budgeted Rs.75 per meeting for their travel and food for the day.

Parents Motivational Meetings: This is an important element of this program because the parents always expect 7the standard is the deadline for the girl’s and also boys education in order to engage them for household work and also for child labour respectively. Therefore, we have budgeted Rs.2,000 per meeting and we also expect them to share for the meeting expenses as budget.

Coordinators Travel for Monitoring:

Coordinator’s salary is budgeted in ASHA BOSTAN support project for 10^th Calss and Primary school Education. Extra travel amount is budgeted here as the coordinator has to visit the centers frequently to meet the children, school Head masters, other regular teachers and also visit the parents meetings.

Office Furniture:

ASHA project has lot of Educational Materials to keep and so far we did not have any rack for keeping the Test papers, books and materials. As a result, we are feeding the rats. In order to avoid such problems we need a rack and also have few chairs for office. Hence, it is budgeted Rs.10,000.

Conclusion:

This is the Project of 3 years prepare to cover different components of school education in primary schools – 7^th & 10^th Standards. Though some of the programs narrated in the proposal do not fund by ASHA SILICON, but it is covered with the support of ASHA BOSTAN. Therefore, we have budgeted only, 7^th Class Children Education in this project hoping that the primary school and 10^th Class special education components will be supported by ASHA BOSTAN who have been the long-term partner in this collection effort.

We request ASHA SILICON to sanction the requested project budget.

Submitted by

P.SURIA RAJINI

Executive Director

Date: Wednesday, 13^th June 2007.