For the past 7 years, the Children’s Project Trust has helped provide residential living and education to destitute and street children, offering them a chance at a future that would otherwise have been impossible.
CPT’s primary goal is to provide a safe, healthy and enriching atmosphere for these students, empowering them to become productive members of society.
Fully residential school, run in a self-owned coffee plantation close to the town of Madikeri, in the Coorg district of Karnataka
Currently, enrollment stands at 45 students, with about 5-10 joining in a year
Aims to serve the urban homeless such as street beggars, with a focus on the girl child
Non-Formal Education program, with innovative and practical curriculum, designed to be adapted to an individual student’s ability and needs
Registered as an open school with NIOS scheme, making it possible for students to join college or vocational training later
Your contribution to CPT will help cover half of their annual organizational expenses.
More on CPT
This year, all the girls passed the 10th standard exam with first class rank
With teaching ideas drawn from both the disciplined British school system and the child-centred Montessori ideas, the CPT combines strict structure and high standards for all the children with individual support and flexibility when it comes to children's individual circumstances, exemplifying the WAH ’09 theme of ‘Quality of Education.’ Given that the CPT’s students come from such diverse yet uniformly deprived backgrounds, their achievements indeed speak to their credit, such as the fact that 7 girl students who learnt the alphabet two years ago are now ready to appear for the Class X examinations.
Since the children join the CPT at all different ages and academic abilities, it has adopted the flexible NIOS program , with students being grouped in small classes with peers of their ability. As the CPT is a home as well as school, learning extends after class hours throughout the entire day. Students work closely with staff to learn about the local environment, art, sports, music, dance and crafts. Often, after the normal academics, kids also have specialized workshops taught by international and local volunteers. By making such intelligent use of the few resources available to them, the CPT has focused on providing its wards a high quality yet practical education, helping them well-rounded individuals capable of giving back to society.
While the CPT has plans for construction of new buildings, food production and self-sustenance through organic coffee farming, for now the Asha Chapter at Stanford has pledged to support half of the annual organizational expenses. Through WAH ’09 you would be helping in this drive, with 2/3rds of your contribution going to cover the basic requirements for caring for the children, considerable given the centre runs round the clock. A bulk of the remainder, a full 1/5th of the total, would be used in supporting educational expenses like books.
