Name of WAH 2005 Proposal: Needy Illiterate Children Education (NICE)
Summary
Total Amount Required (USD): 9100
Target Amount from WAH 2005 (USD): 19635
Cost Type: Recurring
Number of People Served: 65 Children & 10 no’s teaching and non teaching staff, Total = 75.
Project Location (State): Mynampadu Village, Nadendla Mandalam, kanaparthi Panchayathi, Sathuluru Sub Post Office, Guntur Dist, Andhra Pradesh,
Category: 80 G
FCRA Approval: N/A (will be applying in two months, as it has become eligible in April)
Nominating Chapter: Asha Hyderabad
Contact Person: Purna Chandra Rao
E-mail: Purna@nice-india.org
Website: www.nice-india.org
Site Visit: 6th of March 2005
Photos File: http://www.nice-india.org/project.htm
Organizational Information
Name of the Organization: Needy Illiterate Children Education (NICE)
Date of Establishment: 6th Of May 2002
Registration Number: 595/2002
Tax Exemption Certificate Number: DIT(E/50/804/2002-2003)
Exemption End Date: 31th Of mach 2005
FCRA Number: N/A
MOA: -
Brief long-term Objective: Provide free education, food and shelter to orphans and needy children. To provide based vocational training, like carpentry, animal husbandry, plumbing etc,
Creation and Activities:
Background of founder(s): Mr. Purnachander Rao (Secretary of NICE) one of the founders of NICE hails from a poor family background. He finished his schooling from a school offering free education and pursued his graduation with great financial difficulties. It was during his education that he felt the need to work for the education of the underprivileged; given the difficulties he had faced for his own.
After his graduation he worked for a private company for two years and had started volunteering for CRY and continued for 10 years involving himself very actively at the grass roots level. Later in 2001 he along with his friends conceived the NICE initiative and got it functional in May 2002.
Number of Staff: 10 (5 teaching, 5 non teaching)
Annual Budget: Rs. 863900/-
Previous Funding: $5000/-
US Contact: N/A
India Contact: Abhilash (+91-98661-97730) abhi13@gmail.com
Previous Sponsor(s) for the Project: Asha Berkeley 2004-2005 ($5000/-)
Previous support through WAH: N/A
Information about the alumni, if available: No passouts yet
Location and Demographic details: 5th km on Narsaraopet to Chilakaluripet:500 Voters:Literacy-5%
Identified as the most badly affected area reg. child labor by UNICEF (1999), ILO (2000), Velugu (2001)
Proposal Information
Goal of WAH project:
a. Total Amount Required: Rs. 8,63,900
b. Target Amount from WAH 2005: Rs. 4,00,000/-
Beneficiaries of the project: Orphans and needy children
Expected outcomes for people served by the project: Promotion of literacy and rural entrepreneurship
How long will the benefit last: Life long
Number of people reached: 40
Provide itemized budget for WAH project
|
|
Cost/Student |
2005-2006 |
2006-2007 |
2007-2008 |
|
No. of Students à |
|
65 |
90 |
115 |
1 |
Textbooks |
650 |
42250 |
58500 |
74750 |
2 |
Vocational study (estimated) |
|
0 |
0 |
8000 |
3 |
Uniform |
400 |
26000 |
36000 |
46000 |
4 |
Food (for 335 days) |
6030 |
391950 |
542700 |
693450 |
5 |
Bedding (once in 2 years) |
200 |
8000 |
10000 |
23000 |
6 |
Personal Hygiene Consumables |
180 |
11700 |
16200 |
20700 |
7 |
Facility maintenance |
1000 |
12000 |
15000 |
18000 |
8 |
Salaries |
|
372000 |
448200 |
523200 |
Total per year à |
863900 |
1126600 |
1398100 |
||
Per month à |
71992 |
93883 |
116508 |
Other sources of funding (confirmed and anticipated): door-to-door fundraising campaign in Hyderabad and parts of Andhra Pradesh.
Duration of the project: Permanent, on a continuing basis.
Government Involvement: No.
Personnel Involved: Purna Chandra Rao, G. Anjaneyulu
References: K Prasanna Kumar (98480-41661), M.V. Rami Reddy (98480-42174) Plot No. 672, Vivekananda Nagar Colony, Kukatpally, Hyderabad - 72
Minutes with Q&A of meeting or conference call at which the project was approved by the chapter:
It so happened that Prasanna Kumar had visited the school and had given his report to Asha Berkeley when he visited Berkeley in 2003. And it was approved based on his discussion with volunteers at Asha Berkeley and as such there wasn’t any discussion between volunteers at Asha Hyd and Asha Berkeley to provide you the minutes of Q&A of the meeting or conference call at which the project was approved.
You could contact Prasanna Kumar (Asha Hyd volunteer/ex-coordinator) at +91-9848041661 or pkashahyd@emailuser.net
P.S: In ref. to the table under item 31. in the project proposal form (pdf) attached, please cosider the entry in the 6th row’s last column as 20700 instead of 11700.