Project
Dream and Light
|
SNo
|
Work
Item (and what was executed)
|
Amount
Budgeted
|
Amount
Spent (approx)
|
1 |
Rishiyur Primary school land
purchase. This was moved from earlier allotment for infrastructure
improvements. |
Rs 33,000 |
Rs 33,000 |
2 |
Teachers’ salaries |
Rs 60,000 |
Rs 53,000 |
3 |
Students’ uniforms |
Rs 30,000 |
Rs 31,100 |
4 |
Classroom materials |
Rs 23,000 |
Rs 5000 |
5 |
Bureau for Headmasters’
room |
Rs 2500 |
Rs 2700 |
6 |
Sports equipment |
Rs 3000 |
Rs 2000 |
7 |
Tape Recorder and 10 tapes. |
Rs 3000 |
Rs 3600 |
8 |
Mats for the classroom floor |
Rs 5000 |
nil |
9 |
Playing Materials for
children, cupboard and a tape recorder for each of the three
Balwadis |
Rs 90,000 |
Nil |
10 |
Vilakudi Balwadi
Infrastructure Improvement |
Rs 20,000 |
Nil |
11 |
Vilakudi Primaru school –
Classroom materials. |
Rs 46,000 |
Nil |
12 |
Volunteers/interns Travel |
Rs 15,000 |
Rs 2,300 |
|
Totals |
Total Funds Received:
1,28,000. |
1,29,700 |
Plans for 2004-05
The ongoing work at Rishiyur Primary school would
continue for this year. This includes the additional teachers provided by
Asha, uniforms for the children, etc. Further we need to enhance the
support we have provided in terms of classroom materials. We expect to
baseline the educational standards of the school this year with the help
of the local teachers. This would then become a yardstick for us to
measure ourselves against. We also hope to provide an A/V room for
the school if the new school building provided by SSA becomes operational.
This would contain a computer and TV. This would enable them to use the
contents we have created as part of ECTAL.
During the year 2003-04 we had not undertaken the
improvements of the Balwadis at Rishiyur and Vilakudi primarily because of
lack of funds. With a better funding situation currently, we expect to be
able to take these up this year.
Project
Details and Estimates for
Year May 2004 to April 2005
SNo
|
Work
Description
|
Cost
Details
|
Total
Cost for Asha
|
Rishiyur Primary School |
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1 |
There are 5 teachers
appointed by Asha. We need continued funding for these teachers. If
the government sanctions additional teachers we may be able to
reduce this number. But this seems unlikely to happen in the near
future. |
The teachers are paid a
salary of Rs 1000/ month for a total of Rs 60,000 / year. |
Rs 60,000 |
2 |
The government provides one
Uniform per year for children. One uniform doesn’t allow the
children to change daily and maintain their cleanliness. An
additional Uniform would help greatly. |
Uniform costs approx Rs 140
per child. 250 children are expected this year. |
Rs 35,000 |
3 |
Several items are needed in
each classroom to better equip then for providing good education.
These include story books, geometrical instruments, slates,
teachers’ kits, plastic trays, colour crayons and pencils,
educational games, and a bureau to keep these in. |
The cost of the school (with
5 classes) Books – 7500 Geom. Instruments – 1500 Slates – 100 Teachers kits – 1000 Trays – 1000 Colours – 3000 Edu. Games – 3000 Bureau – 12000 Note each of the above
expense is for six sets for the six classes plus some buffer. |
Rs 30,000 |
4 |
Sports equipment (football,
cricket paraphernalia etc.) |
|
Rs 5,000 |
5 |
Medical Expenses (for
medical camp, basic medical supplies at the school, paying a
visiting doctor – twice a month etc.) |
|
Rs 24,000 |
6 |
Computer and TV for the A/V
room. |
Comp – 25000 TV – 20000 Aver Key for TV display –
5000 |
Rs 50,000 |
Three Balwadis (One in
Rishiyur and Two in Vilakudi) |
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7 |
Playing Materials for
children, cupboard and a tape recorder |
Rs 10,000 for each Balwadi.
The details of the materials for the Balwadi is provided in the
attached document. |
Rs 30,000 |
8 |
Vilakudi Balwadi Improvement |
For flooring, repairing the
walls/roof and repainting the total cost would be about Rs 40,000.
We expect the villagers to bear Rs. 20,000 in cash and labour. Arjun
would absorb any additional expenses. |
Rs 30,000 |
Vilakudi Primary School |
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9 |
Vilakudi primary school has
reasonably good facilities. Mr. Arjun and family have been less
involved with the Vilakudi primary school than the Rishiyur primary
school. Therefore we are not completely sure about the level of
cooperation from this school. So we intend to just provide the
classroom material covered under point 4 above (for Rishiyur school)
and that too contigent upon the teachers from that school attending
our training. |
There are 10 classrooms
compared to the 5 in Rishiyur. Therefore the cost would be double
for all items. |
Rs 46,000 |
Common Items |
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10 |
Volunteers/interns from Asha
Chennai would need to make one trip a month for two days to the
villages to monitor the work, retrain the teachers and report back
to Asha. |
Each trip would require the
following, Train Tickets + transport
– Rs 500 Local Accomodation – Rs
500. Food – Rs 100. There would be 10 trips.
Some times two volunteers would travel. So we expect a total of
about Rs 15,000. |
Rs 15,000 |
Fund Requirement/Schedule Summary
Rishiyur Primary School | Rs 2,04,000 |
Three Balwadis | Rs 60,000 |
Vilakudi Primary School | Rs 46,000 |
Travel, Training and Monitoring | Rs 15,000 |
Total Project Funding Requirement | Rs 3.25 Lakhs = Approx US $7200. |