Chandanagar Sarada Sadhan Vidyalaya for Girls

Project Brief: The major beneficiaries of this school project have been the poor girls, many from the refugee community, whose families routinely engaged in the jobs of house-servant/rickshaw pulling/manual labor/vegetable vendor etc.
Project Type: Non-Formal Educational Centers (description)
Primary Focus: children of dalits/tribals (description)

Secondary Focus: vocational training

Area: Urban
Supporting Chapter Contact: Arizona
Status: completed - requirements ended
Project Steward: Gautam Banerjee
Project Partner(s):
Other Contacts:
Project Address: , Hazinagar, Lichutala,P.O. Chandannagar, Dist. Hooghly,,
WEST BENGAL  712136
Tel: 91-33-2683-5511
Stewarding Chapter: Arizona
Apr 2004ArizonaUSD 4000

Total = $4000

The children belong to the socio-economically backward community. The children come from very poor families with their mothers working as maidservants. Most of the male guardians are rickshaw-pullers, hawkers, mason, or daily-wage earners.

The completion of the classrooms with the requested funding will improve the present situation in holding classes and improve the teaching-learning activities. For the vocation trainings, the school is already in touch with respective training organizations who are willing to impart training to the students in return for the use of the school facility after hours to train other fee-paying customers. This will allow the school to effectively utilize its resources for the benefit of its students.

2004-2005 UPDATE
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The mission of Chandannagar Sarada Sadhan Vidyalaya (CSV) has always been to impart free education to the poor local girl children, the majority of whom belong to the refugee
community from erstwhile East Pakistan. The children come from very poor families with their mothers working as maidservants. Most of the male guardians are rickshaw-pullers, hawkers, mason, or daily-wage earners.
Asha Arizona has helped in funding the infrastructure of several classrooms affecting approximately 690 students to provide the children with in-class learning and also vocational training for senior students to make them capable of standing on their own in society. The children enjoy going to school and it is well supported by the parents and community.
To impart up to secondary education to the girl children from the economically backward section of the local community.

To further train the students in certain effective vocational training (such as knitting, sewing, specialize computer software operation, etc.)_in order to help them transition to healthy life after graduation and not become burdens on society.
The organization was informally started in 1947 with only a primary section. Later, with the approval of the Dept. of Education, Govt. of West Bengal, the secondary section (Std V to X) were established in 1962.

The mission of the organization has always been to impart free education to the poor local girl children, the majority of whom belong to the refugee community from erstwhile East Pakistan, settled initially in 1947, at the time of Partition of India and later in greater number during and after the Bangladesh liberation movement.