Saranalayam Charitable and Educational Trust - Project Nelson

Project Brief:
Project Type: Non-Formal Educational Centers (description)
Primary Focus: other (description)

Secondary Focus: other

Area: Rural
Supporting Chapter Contact:
Houston
Status: UNKNOWN
Project Steward: Thomas Isaac
Project Partner(s): Contact information unavailable
Project Address: Saranalayam Charitable and Educational Trust - Project Nelson
Neyveli Main Road
Cuddalore District, Tamil Nadu
Vadalur, Tamil Nadu 607303
Tel: 91 9361259734
Stewarding Chapter: Houston
Sep 2010HoustonUSD 6000

Total = $6000

SARANALAYAM – means a shelter for the deprived. Saranalayam Trust is a registered non-profit, voluntary organization registered under Indian Trust Act, under the leadership of Mr. John Nelson, a young innovator and man of ICT knowledge. The vision of starting this Trust is to provide better living standard in rural areas through organizing local knowledge and adapting the external knowledge and support to address the rural issues.
Saranalayam aims to work for a just order human friendly society where human life is valued and every human being is facilitated to perform his/her fundamental responsibilities to bring about a just order society.”
Major Objectives:
• To work for the improvement of the poorest in the society
• To provide educational access to the needed rural children
• To use Information and Communication Technology effectively for the community development
Saranalayam uses non-conventional ICT based learning. All section of the learning is user friendly and customized to the users with age graded participatory learning methods. More practical and demonstrative sessions with innovation thought investigating techniques.

Saranalayam is doing counseling and career guidance as well as referral service to this students to ensure continuity in education and right direction for higher education.

Saranalayam is an interactive learning away from school which is more like by all the students. Students are more attracted to Saranalayam’s ICT based learning. The education method is non-formal but user friendly, customized to the need and expectation of every individual student according to his or her ability and perceptive power and memory.