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| Project Steward |
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Venkata Pingali
pingali AT isi DOT edu |
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Swapna Banerjee
swapna AT
tomorrowsfoundation DOT org |
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417, Hossenpur,
Kolkata, WEST BENGAL 700 107
India
Tel: (91)-(33)-(2443 1520) |
| Funds Disbursed |
| Dec | 1996 | Los Angeles | $1,500.00 | | Jun | 1997 | Los Angeles | $3,000.00 | | Dec | 1997 | Cleveland | $1,500.00 | | Jun | 1999 | Los Angeles | $4,500.00 | | Dec | 1999 | Cleveland | $1,500.00 | | Dec | 2000 | Los Angeles | $3,000.00 | | Dec | 2001 | Seattle | $3,000.00 | | Apr | 2002 | Los Angeles | $4,325.00 | | Jun | 2003 | Los Angeles | $4,600.00 | | Jan | 2004 | Santa Barbara | $1,000.00 | | Dec | 2004 | Los Angeles | $2,000.00 | | Jun | 2005 | Los Angeles | $2,700.00 | | Jul | 2006 | Los Angeles | $3,500.00 | | Jan | 2007 | Los Angeles | $2,700.00 | | Mar | 2007 | Toledo | $300.00 | | Jan | 2008 | Burlington | $3,000.00 | | Dec | 2008 | Los Angeles | $3,000.00 | | Mar | 2009 | Burlington | $3,000.00 |
Total = $48,125 |
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Project Description
Tomorrow's Foundation (TF) is an NGO with whom we (Asha-Los Angeles/Seattle) have been working for eight years. TF provides holistic education to street/slum children living in a high-risk social and physical environment at Kalighat, Kolkata's red light district.
Tomorrow's Foundation started by adopting Dharamdas Trust Model School, Kalighat. The range of activities expanded from modest after school classes for children to medical support, nutrition, rehabilitation and hostel placement, psychological and career counseling, vocational training, and adult education. For children who cannot complete the formal ten years of schooling, the Foundation trains and helps them take Open School Exam that is equivalent to Std. X board exam. Tomorrow's Foundation staff regularly visits the children's homes and schools regularly to ensure greater community involvement. The project currently supports 200 children. Approximately 1200 children have graduated from the Foundation school. No wonder it is a UNESCO model project!
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Asha is supporting setting up a scholarship called TOMORROW'S FOUNDATION AND ASHA EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP, under the initiative of Dr. S. Kundu and Ravindra Bansal, with matching contributions from Cisco. Each year $2000 is contributed, which in five years will form a corpus of $10000, the interest from this will be used for scholarship.
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Purpose / Goals
The purpose and goal of Tomorrow's Foundation is to guide them until they can. Asha has participated in the activity on the following fronts:
- meals and uniforms to motivate children to attend school
- books and teachers to make the education possible
- scholarships to sustain the attendance and encourage children
- computers for greater exposure and fun
- marketing outlet for merchandise to sustain income generating activities
Organization Description
Monthly Reports
Location: Kalighat, Kolkata
Staff: The total strength is 36. The distribution is as follows:
11 Primary school teachers
5 Pre-vocational class teachers
5 Cultural class teachers
3 Open school teachers
2 Adult education teachers
5 Administrative Staff
3 Assistants
The organization is structured in terms of cells, each of which is headed by one Foundation?s staff member who is helped by one or more assistants who are also from Foundation.
EDUCATION CELL: T.F. ensures good academic performance of children by holding regular exams and special classes. Constant feedback is given to both the children and the parents.
TFCP CELL: Tomorrow's Foundation Card Project cell provides prevocations and vocational training to children. Activities include greeting cards, lamp shades etc.
MEDICAL CELL: - T.F. looks after the physical health of every child, providing them nutritional diet, medical assistance. Medical assistance is in the form of visits to medical and dental camps twice a year, and follow-up in cases of complications.
COUNSELLING CELL:- T.F. has teams to coordinate home visits, provide psychological and career counseling.
REHABILITATION AND HOSTEL PLACEMENT CELL: - Prompt rehabilitated is provided to street children, children in distress due to social or domestic problems, and victims of sexual abuse. For this the Foundation collaborates with organizations such as Satyabharati, Milt Foundation and Khelaghar.
REGULAR HOME VISIT: - T.F. works closely with the local school to identify absentee children and take corrective action through regular home visits and addressing any particular health or other needs.
ADULT EDUCATION CELL: -T.F. not only takes care of the children but has also become involved with their parents with the active support of these parents the Adult Education classes are being taken place every Saturday and Sunday where the parents are being taught basis knowledge of writing and reading along with lessons of how to bring up their children.
SPONSORSHIP CELL:- This cell is responsible for the support a child program from the Foundation's side.
Other activities include child rights advocacy, NGO co-ordination and those related to publicity.
Merchandise
You can buy greeting cards made by the children as part of the Tomorrow's Foundation Card Project (TFCP). You can browse through the catalog and place orders here. The person in charge of the cards at Tomorrow's Foundation is Samir, you can contact him at
samir_painter@yahoo.com or over phone at 9831042423
http://www.tomorrowsfoundation.org - anita@tomorrowsfoundation.org
Project Type: Special Needs
(description)
Area: Urban
Additional Information Focus of this group also include: health & cleanliness & vocational training
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Abhijith Vijayakar
Anonymous
Boston, Massachusetts
Deep Bhattacharya
Dr. Kundu
Nitin Nahata
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