Rural Education : NGO Interventions

Sabari Computer Education Project

Location	Nagpur District SubLocation: Backward Economically / socially boys & Girls school
Audience	Rural Children, Slum Children and children of Govt Schools upto SSC
Nos. of Schools	11 to 20
Beneficiaries	1001 to 5000
% Benefit	10
Initiative by	FORCE 3 ( Founder member Orion Scientechnic services Pvt Ltd )
Funded By	NGO oriented Individual entrepreneur
Implementing Organisation	NGO
Implementor Type	Others
Training By	Volunteers
Is Integral Part	Yes
Implementing Organisation	SETU - Collector office / To Tahsildar office based SETU project for Citizen information facilitation
Language	Hindi
Subjects of Training	Windows, MS office, Internet
Training Purpose	Education
Charges	Subsidised
Softwares Used	Microsoft Office
Computer & Software Suppliers	Our own
Sofware Designed by	Local Entrepreneurs
Teachers Trainer	Our NGO
Training Duration	2 months summer
Teachers Queries	Our Certified Instructors
IT Benefits	Word processing skills
Outcome	Reduction in drop out rate, Change of job profile of users
Sustainability	Not yet worked out
Additional Needs	We need upto 45 PCs more with 4 multi-media projectors to train annually 3000 students
Address	FORCE 3 View Profile

Maitri Computers for Educating School Childrens

Location	Doddabathi , Davanagere Dist , Karnataka SubLocation: 10 villages of Davanagere Taluk
Audience	Rural Children, Govt School, upto SSC
Nos. of Schools	51 to 100
Beneficiaries	25 000 plus
% Benefit	More than 60 Percent
Initiative by	Sri Maitri Association [R] , Doddabathi
Initiator Category	NGO
Funded By	State and Central Government
Implementing Organisation	Project Director , Sri Maitri Communications
Implementor Type	NGO
Training By	Special Teacher
Is Integral Part	Yes
ImplementingOrganisation	Maitri by GC Information Technology
Language	Kannada English
Subjects of Training	Basic Programmes Visual Basics Multi Media
Training Purpose	Education
Charges	Subsidised, 90
Softwares Used	Microsoft Office
Computer Suppliers	Government
Computers	10
Software Suppliers	Corporate
Sofware Designed by	Local Entrepreneurs
Teachers Trainer	Organisation
Training Duration	6 Months
Teachers Test	Test by Qualified Teachers
Teachers Queries	Technical Staff
Spare Computers	No
IT Benefits	Educate village Level
Outcome	More Interest in Education, Reduction in drop out rate
Sustainability	Grant for defined period
Additional Needs:	Computers , Salary for the staff and maintenance Charges.
Problems	Requirement of Grants
Training Requirements	If more qualified training can be given , our staff will attend for the taining
Amount Invested	Rs. 37 00 000
Room Refurbishment	Rs.1 00 000
Cost	Rs. 25 00 000
Training Software	Rs. 5 00 000
Other Fixed Expenditure	Rs. 3 00 000
Operational Expenditure Monthly	Rs. 25 000
Operational Expenditure Annually	Rs 3 00 000
Address	Sri Maitri Association [R] , Doddabathi View Profile

Mahithi Sindhu and Yuva.Com

Location	Haliyal , Joida and Yellapur Taluk, Uttara Kannda District, Karnataka SubLocation: 9 Government High Schools in 3 Taluks
Audience	Rural Children, Govt Schools upto SSC
Nos. of Schools	Upto 10
Beneficiaries	1001 to 5000
% Benefit	100%
Initiative by	NIIT Ltd with Aadesha Infotech Private Limited
Initiator Category	Corporate
Funded By	Government of Karnataka
Implementing Organisation	Aadesha Infotech Private Limited Dandeli - 581 325 Uttara Kannada Karnataka
Implementor Type	Corporate
Training By	Special Teacher
Is Integral Part	Yes
Implementing Organisation	Mahithi Sindhu & Yuva.Com
Language	Local, Kannada
Subjects of Training	Windows O.S. MS Office Web Centric Curriculum of NIIT SWIFT anf CATS of NIIT
Training Purpose	Education
Charges	Free
Softwares Used	MS WINDOWS XX Microsoft Office JAVA MS SQL C C++ Visual Basic 6.0
Computer Suppliers	Corporate for Mahithi Sindhu Project and Government for Yuva.Com Project
Computers	128
Software Suppliers	Government and Corporate
Sofware Designed by	NIIT Ltd
Teachers Trainer	Software supplier
Training Duration	25 days
Teachers Test	Yes
Teachers Queries	Hemanta Naik
Spare Computers	Yes for 2 to 4 hours per day
IT Benefits	To enable the IT literate India
Outcome	Improved Learning Outcomes
Sustainability	Grant for defined period
Additional Needs	No proper support by District Level implementing agencies and also no support by the financial institutions like nationalised banks as term loans or working capital requirements
Problems	No timely funding from the NIIT i.e. Quarterly funding donot come in time
Training Requirements	Good training to the faculty is required
Amount Invested	12 Lakhs
Room Refurbishment	Government and Aadesha Infotech Pvt Ltd
Cost	NIIT Ltd for Mahithi Sindhu and Govt of Karnataka for Yuva.Com Project
Training Software	NIIT Ltd
Other Fixed Expenditure	Aadesha Infotech Private Limited Dandeli
Operational Expenditure Monthly	Rs.80 000
Other Fixed Annually	Rs 10 000 Lakhs
Address	Hemanta R Naik Aadesha Infotech Private Limited I/637, Opposite C.M.C. Township DANDELI City Uttara Kannada District Karnataka State Phone - 08284 - 331527

Rural Integrated Development Trust

Location	Chengam, Tiruvannamalai District, Tamil Nadu SubLocation: 23 Villages in the Rural Chengam
Audience	Rural Children, Disabled, Adults, Govt Schools, Pvt Schools, Night Schools KG Pre School, upto Class IV, upto SSC
Nos. of Schools	21 to 50
Beneficiaries	1001 to 5000
% Benefit	70%
Initiative by	From Reputed Organisation
Initiator Category	NGO
Funded By	Azim Premji Foundation
Implementing Organisation	KIDS
Implementor Type	NGO
Training By	Special Teacher
Is Integral Part	Yes
ImplementingOrganisation	By Reputed Software organisation through our volunteers(Software professionals)
Language	English
Subjects of Training	Education
Training Purpose	Education
Charges	Free
Softwares Used	Microsoft Office
Computer Suppliers	Funding Agencies
Computers	100
Software Suppliers	Funding Agencies
Sofware Designed by	Reputed Software Designers
Teachers Trainer	Software Supplier
Training Duration	3 months
Spare Computers	Computers are used only 2 hours a day.
Outcome	Reduction in drop out rate, Interest in Education of self and children
Additional Needs	15 years
Amount Invested	2.95 crores
Room Refurbishment	For Hundred schools each school rent is Rs 5000/ per month total room refurbishment Rs 60 lakhs
Cost	70 lakhs
Training Software	25 lakhs
Other Fixed Expenditure	10 lakhs
Operational Expenditure Monthly	10 lakhs
Operational Expenditure Annually	1.2 crores

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IT in Education - Computers in a School setting to Improve the Learning Outcomes of Children

Location	Sangareddy Rural Area, Medak Dt, A.P SubLocation: Rural and Slum areas of Medak Dts of government Schools and muncipal schools 5 villages in Maddur Taluk
Audience	Rural Children, Disabled, Slum Schools, Municipal Schools, Govt Schools upto SSC
Nos. of Schools	51 to 100
Beneficiaries	1 001 to 5 000
% Benefit	70%
Initiative by	From Reputed Organisation
Initiator Category	NGO
Funded By	Azim Premji Foundation
Implementing Organisation	KIDS
Implementor Type	NGO
Training By	Special Teacher
Is Integral Part	Yes
ImplementingOrganisation	By Reputed Software organisation through our volunteers(Software professionals)
Language	English
Subjects of Training	Education
Training Purpose	Education
Charges	Free
Softwares Used	Microsoft Office
Computer Suppliers	Funding Agencies
Computers	100
Software Suppliers	Funding Agencies
Sofware Designed by	Reputed Software Designers
Teachers Trainer	Software Supplier
Training Duration	3 months
Spare Computers	Computers are used only 2 hours a day.
Outcome	Reduction in drop out rate, Interest in Education of self and children
Additional Needs	15 years
Amount Invested	2.95 crores
Room Refurbishment	For Hundred schools each school rent is Rs 5000/ per month total room refurbishment Rs 60 lakhs
Cost	70 lakhs
Training Software	25 lakhs
Other Fixed Expenditure	10 lakhs
Operational Expenditure Monthly	10 lakhs
Operational Expenditure Annually	1.2 crores

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IT in Education

Location	Latur District - Maharashra UDGIR Taluka, slum area and 11 villages
Audience	Rural Children, Slum Children, Pvt Schools, Night Schools upto SSC
Nos. of Schools	21 to 50
Beneficiaries	5001 to 25000
% Benefit	95%
Initiative by	Surya Sevabhavi Sanstha UDGIR - 413 517
Initiator Category	NGO
Funded By and Implementing Organisation	Surya Sevabhavi Sanstha Vikas Nagar Degloor Road UDGIR - 413 517 Distric Latur
Implementor Type	NGO
Training By	Volunteers
Is Integral Part	No
Language	Local, Marathi
Subjects of Training	Computers
Training Purpose	Education
Charges	Free
Softwares Used	Fundametals of Computer Operating System Wordprocessor Electronic Spreadsheets Graphics Database Management
Computer & Software Suppliers	Compucare Sales & Services
Computers	10
Sofware Designed by	Microsoft, Lotus, Wordstar
Teachers Trainer	Surya Sevabhavi Sanstha Udgir, His appointed faculties
Training Duration	2 Months
Teachers Test	Taken by NGO's expert for this programme
Spare Computers	Yes
IT Benefits	To literate the helpless people, who in return can be selfemployed
Outcome	More Interest in Education, Improved Learning Outcomes
Sustainability	Not yet worked out
Additional Needs	Funding Agencies
Problems	Not Yet
Training Requirements	No
Amount Invested	10 Lacs
Room Refurbishment	Well standard
Cost	3.5 lacs
Training Software	1.21 lacs
Other Fixed Expenditure	Furniture, Office rent, Place Rent
Operational Expenditure Monthly	Rs.20 000
Operational Expenditure Annually	Rs 240 000
Address	Surya Sevabhavi Sanstha

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IT Education for Rural Students of Kuppam Constituency

Location	Kuppam Mandal, Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh SubLocation: Government Schools in Kuppam Mandal
Audience	Rural Children, Govt School upto SSC
Nos. of Schools	11 to 20
Beneficiaries	1 001 to 5 000
% Benefit	90%
Initiative by	Ram Mohan Infotech, Kuppam
Initiator Category	Others
Funded By	Grama Seva Samithi, Santhipuram, Chittoor District
Implementing Organisation	Ram Mohan Infotech, Kuppam
Training by	Others
Is Integral Part	Yes
Implementor Type	Others
Implementing Organisation	Vidya by Aptech
Language	English
Computer Suppliers	Funding Agencies
Computers	20
Spare Computers	No
Sofware Designed by	APTECH, International Sources
Teachers Trainer	APTECH, Kuppam
Training Duration	45 days
Teachers Test	Faculty Certification Programme by APTECH
Teachers Queries	APTECH, Kuppam
Teachers Test	Faculty Certification Programme by APTECH
IT Benefits	Can Become socially aware and more confident Can Communicate effectively about complex processes, to become independent learners and self-starters Greater problem solving and critical thinking skills Ability to teach others
Outcome	More Interest in Education, Reduction in drop out rate, Improved Learning Outcomes, Increase in Enrolment Certification Programme by APTECH
Sustainability	Grant for defined period
Additional Needs	Required 40 more computers, 70% support for operational expenditure, support in continuing the project
Problems	Lack of computers, Facing severe problems in bearing monthly expenditure, lack of funds in continuing the project
Training Requirements	40 more computers, books, more teaching staff
Amount Invested	Rs 16, 50, 000/-
Room Refurbishment	Rs 4, 00, 000/-
Cost	Rs 9, 00, 000/-
Training Software	Rs 50, 000/-
Other Fixed Expenditure	Rs 3, 00, 000/-
Operational Expenditure Monthly	Rs 60, 000/-
Operational Expenditure Annually	Rs 7, 20, 000/-
Softwares Used	Microsoft Office, Win NT OS, Pagemaker, Corel Draw, Adobe Photo Shope, Typing Tutor
Subjects of Training	Computer Fundamentals Working with Win NT OS Multimedia MS Office Typing Tutor Internet D.T.P
Training Purpose	Education
Charges	Free
Softwares Used	Microsoft Office, Win NT OS, Pagemaker, Corel Draw, Adobe Photo Shope, Typing Tutor
Address	G. Ram Kumar C/o. Ram Mohan Infotech D.No. 14 - 90/2, Palace Road Kuppam Chittoor District - 517 425 Andhra Pradesh Phone : (08570) 256 242

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IT Education for Panchayats in Madhya Pradesh, Janpad Panager, Distt Jabalpur

Location	Village Sookha, Umaria choubey, Janpad Panchayat Panager, Distt. Jabalpur M.P SubLocation: Gram Panchayat Village Sookha, Umaria Choubey
Audience	Rural Adults, Govt School, Night Schools upto IV
Nos. of Schools	Upto 10
Beneficiaries	Upto 1 000
% Benefit	75
Initiative by	Prakruti Mitra Environmental Society, Jabalpur
Initiator Category	NGO
Funded By	None
Implementing Organisation	Yatish Jain, Anil Agnihotri
Implementor Type	NGO
Training By	Volunteers
Is Integral Part	No
Language	Hindi
Subjects of Training	Basics of Computer and Internet
Training Purpose	Education
Charges	Subsidised, 10
Computer & Software Suppliers	Government
Computers	2
Teachers Trainer	Govenment
Training Duration	3 months
Teachers Test	Yes
Teachers Queries	Subject Expert
Spare Computers	Computers are used only 2 hours a day
Outcome	More Interest in Education
Sustainability	Not yet worked out

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Youth Dreams - Bilana
Orissa is one of the most economically challenged states in India. Asha for Education, LA has been working toward improving the Government schools at Bilana, Rahania Sahi, Itagadi, Tulashipur and Kubera, five villages in Bhadrak district, a rural area 100km north of Bhubaneswar. Situated in an area with no electricity, the schools provide a valuable service to the community. Some of these schools have been operating since the turn of the last century.
This project was brought to Asha's attention by Dr. Deepak Nayak who grew up in Bhadrak. When Asha LA volunteers first visited these schools in 1993, the schools had dilapidated black boards, very few teaching aids, and only two teachers instructing all six grades. The first contribution of $800 provided for new black-boards, chairs, desks, benches, books, world maps, paper, and other basic utilities for the 560 children.
The schools also faced a severe shortage of teachers. With overpopulation and understaffing the teacher to student ratio was around 1 to 100. Usually, one teacher was hired by the government to handle 5 grades at Rs 3000 ($100) per month (in 1993).

One of the students being assisted with a special scholarship is Sanjulata Jena. She was the first woman to ever pass the 10th grade from her so-called lower caste community. She has also been provided with a bicycle and encouraged to take up higher education instead of sewing. Ever since Asha-LA got involved, these villages have come alive with renewed vitality.
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Welfare Association for the Rural Mass
WARM is an organization established in 1983 in Tiruvannamalai and Dharmapuri districts, Tamilnadu. They cover 60 villages in the area and plan to extend it to 20 more. Their mission is to create awareness among marginalized people (urban, rural, tribal poor) about their rights and make them believe they can become self-sufficient and self-reliant by their own effort. This goal is achieved through heavy community involvement in working toward the following subgoals: cultivating a strong community spirit, elimination of child labor, assistance for street children, enable people to use governmental self-help programs, network with other NGOs and the government to resolve issues relating to development, serve as a centre for exchange of views on development.

Achievements so far:
Children: Non-formal education, transit school, supplementary class, creche, medical screening camp, shelter home, vocational training, counseling
Women: Mother and childcare health and nutrition Immunization and family planning Formation of women groups Formation of self-help groups Leadership training Income generation program Skill training
Youth: Leadership training Sports, cultural, vocation, skill training Youth club
Aged: Day care center Income generation program
General: Family counseling Consumer education Agricultural development
Social Mobilization: AIDS awareness, Public awareness seminars, workshops Campaign on children's rights, women's rights, child labor eradication

WARM has a fulltime staff of 33 and a parttime staff of 7, and 60 volunteers from the community. WARM has a strong relationship with other NGOs, and a lot of its work has revolved around using resources provided by the govt. for the people, and making them aware that such resources exist.
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The Vishwabharati Trust
The Vishwabharati Trust is located at Anavatti, a rural area belonging to Karnataka,India. The place is about 500 kms from Bangalore, well connected by road, amidst beautiful Malnad greenary.

The Vishwabharati Trust was started on 6 th October, 1997 to provide education to poor and physically handicapped children. The trust is presently running a school and 140 deserving children are now studying.

The main objectives of the Vishwabharati Trust are as follows:
1. To make the children self dependent.
2. To make the children aware of our rich culture and heritage.
3. To develop fine and strong character.
4. To develop the children in sports and extra curricular activities
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Vikasana
Vikasana is a rural centre for education that provides free education to children of all ages from landless farmers of the neighbouring villages. The children of migrated parents who cannot fit into other institutions also join the centre. Providing holistic and quality education, the class size is restricted to twenty five. Emphasis is laid on self learning. Vikasana also takes services of resourceful people in the field of crafts, health and cultural activities.

Project Type: Alternative Education
Asha works with many schools that attempt to provide quality holistic education to children from poor economic backgrounds. These schools come under a special category called "Alternative Education" schools (Alt-ed schools) because they seek to explore different alternatives in education. Such schools continue to encourage the spirit of enquiry in a child and help them make their choices based on nurturing the child's interest and learning. A lot of importance is given to the child's psychology at an early age so that they loose the psychological fears or complexes they may have towards learning. This encourages children to think independently and become more responsible. Most of these schools are engaged in creating and using innovative teaching methodologies that ensure that rote learning does not happen. As an example - some schools have developed excellent language teaching methodologies. Others may use creative games and experiments to explain difficult concepts in Math or Science. Some schools have changed the class room structure to encourage better children and teachers interaction. Such creativity is typically missing in the conventional education stream practiced by majority of schools in India. Alt-ed schools are often founded by persons with a strong interest in what education means, and what it should provide. Since the established patterns in the conventional education system in India are missing many aspects of what education is for - alternative education schools try to address these inadequacies and create a space for exploring alternatives in education.

Alt-ed schools that Asha supports have been especially created to not only address the pitfalls in the conventional education system but also ensure that children from poor socio-economic backgrounds are not deprived of the opportunity for high quality education. Alt-ed schools assist children in taking the main stream government exams. Alt-ed schools that Asha supports have been especially created to not only address the pitfalls in the conventional education system but also ensure that children from poor socio-economic backgrounds are not deprived of the opportunity for high quality education. Alt-ed schools assist children in taking the main stream government exams.

Primary Focus: children of migrant workers
This project focuses on giving an education to children of migrant workers who are usually on the move and do not stay at the same school throughout the year
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Tribal Empowerment
A school and three farms with the school (integrated).
(1)The school will be run as high quality as possible with subjects that can enabled students to get job, such as English grammar, sciences, commerce, economics, and Hindi. We will start with upto class 5, and every year one class will be added, till class 12. Longterm objective is to generate Asha volunteers by enabling Asha sponsored children get good jobs, year after year and create a chain reaction in fighting illiteracy and poverty in north east and in all India.
(2) Farms project will generate employments for disabilities, women and poor tribals. These farms will also support school which is aimed to run on no loose and gain basis in the future.

Benefeciaries of the project:500 children to start of, Out of these 300 children will be girl children, 200 will be boy children. Preference will be given to disabled children, orphans and very poor children. Out 500 hundred children, 300 children will be absilutely free, 100 children who are slightly better of will pay 50% fees, and 100 children who are from well to do families will be charged 100% fees. After 3 years, number of children will be increased to 1000, by increasing about 200 children every year. 8 teachers will get teachers job. As the school will start with lower classes, that is from nursery to class 5, we will have 6 female teachers and two male teachers. On the higher classes as we increase year after year we may have more male teachers. Qualified available teachers will be selected and rigorous given teachers' training.
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Timbaktu Collective
The objective of the Timbaktu Collective is to make a lasting improvement in the lives of the people of the area. They encourage the practice of permaculture - a sustainable and eco-friendly form of agriculture, organize women's sangams to deal with problems faced by women and run an alternative education program for children

The alternative education program is a part of which they operate a day school in each of six villages and a residential school in 'timbaktu', the land they bought to practice permaculture on. These schools are meant for children who have dropped out of the local government schools.
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Society for the Upliftment of the Poor
Objectives
to provide education to under-priveliged children,
to liberate children from burden and ties and make them independent and respectable citizens
to create oppurtunity for children to reveal hidden talents
to create feelings of co-operation and integrity among children
Plan: Basic education is to be provided to children of ages 4-15, and will be conducted on two levels; one is for the children going to school regularly, and the second for children who have dropped out of school.

Curriculum
The basic education should make children aware of their living conditions, about health, sanitation, environment, agriculture, small savings, public laws, pollution, arts & dance etc., integration and co-operation among children, critical analysis of every aspect, and basic reading & writing.

Support A Family
SURP has provided histories and photographs of 9 widowed families who are living in very miserable conditions, and requests temporary support until the families are self-sufficient. Support can be sent directly to the families (addresses provided), or thru SURP.
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Neel Bagh : Sumavanam
The children who attend the school are in the age group of 5 through 15 years. Sumavanam is in a remote part of A.P. and it provides quality education to 20 children who come from economically deprived neighboring villages. The school is based on the teaching methodologies of David Horsburgh of Rishi Valley.

The schools are able to arrest drop out rates by making children enjoy learning. This is done by providing an unique environment of co-operation, self and peer supported learning, along with crafts and hands on learning tools for lifelong support. These children, unlike most schools in this part of the country, have shown a great desire to attend the school, learn to read and master the subjects. The older children take part in teaching the younger ones. The students are also engaged in extra-curricular activities such as, painting, needle work, carpentry etc. They are extraordinary in their craft work and have great concern for the environment. They have taken part in putting out forest fires and have saved small animals in and around the school.

Purpose / Goals Objectives
To provide economically deprived rural youth with quality education -Empower them to better their lives and their environment -Introduce effective new and innovative teaching methods in a rural school .

About Sumavanam
Neel Bagh trust in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh (A.P.) runs Sumavanam village school. This school was started in 1974 by David and Nicholas Horsburgh, eminent educators who have written text books for grade schools. Mr. T. M. Narasimhan, a former scientist of National Aerospace Laboratory, India, is the present managing trustee of this school. He and his wife Usha moved to this area in the 1980s in order to set up the school. They were instrumental in turning an arid landscape into the green school campus that exists today.
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Sanskriti O Samaj Unnayan Parishad
With Asha's support SSUP is now running 17 Shishu Shiksha Kendras (Children Learning Centers) for Non-Formal Education for the last three years. There are about 25 children in each center. The schools are in blocks with very low literacy levels (31% for males and 16% for females) with a large population belonging to socially deprived classes. The funds are used for educational materials for the children (about 110 boys and 133 girls), training teachers from the villages themselves, holding cultural programs for the children and taking them to educational camps outside their villages. The criteria for student selection are that they have no other source of education and they come from a socially and economically backward or minority community. SSUP does not charge any fee from the students.
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Ushagram Trust
After constant negotiation, group meeting, awareness campaign, now almost all the families have become conscious of the need of education and other essentials. Now-a-days more than 12 hundreds children from those families are coming to education centres managed by Ushagram Trust. These Centres do not get any financial grants from the Government. The Centres are run by Ushagram Trust by collecting Donation etc.
If education be the greatest need of India, formal approach to impart education can only meet up partial need. It is to be supplemented by well planned non-formal vigorous mass approach for rapid removal of illiteracy along with continued education to the door step of every inhabitants of rural area.

Keeping this view in mind, Board of Trustees of Ushagram Trust has been conducting 10 elementary education centres since 1986 in the villages around Ushagram Vikash Kendra within Barasat Gram Panchayet of District Nadia. Mother's meetings are going on at these centres or in some convenient places.

Trust Board has very recently decided to continue and extend this non-formal approach under the guidance of a Central Mass-Education Centre, named Ushagram Aurobindo-Rabindra Gramin Pathagar. In other works we can call this attempt as a study centre movement for all under a Central Rural Library.
Ushagram Trust has already constructed small infrastructure in 10 villages and one at Ushagram. A few steps have also been taken for conducting five-fold programme stated here as under

(a) Main function of the Central Centre i.e. Public Library will be to give away suitable teaching materials regularly on loan to each of 10 study centres. After a certain period, those books will be returned and fresh books and magazines for neo-literates will be taken again and within 5 years the whole process will be extended to 15 villages covering entire area of a single gram panchyat.
(b) Folk Theatre - A folk theatre as well as dance and music wing will function to aware & animate the rural people about the problems - Primary Health Care, Sanitation, Personal Hygiene, Nutrition, Bad effect of using chemicals, insecticides, and pesticides, chemical fertilizer and of early marriage etc.
(c) Central Public Library - Central Public Library will be a lending section and a reading room section along with a book bank for higher class students and skill-trainees of vocational classes.
(d) Internet Connection wing for the spread of standard education to students and up-to-date information to rural common people.
(e) A wing for developing an archive, consisting of research papers, manuscripts, books, etc. in connection with rural development plans and attempts and results etc. of India, Bangladesh and any other countries of the world. These five fold activities of the Central Mass Education Centre will take the shape of a constructive and creative movement.
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Self Help Association for Rural Education and Employment
This is an after-school tutorial program for poor children in five villages. It is designed to improve their performance in school, encourage them to participate in village improvement, improve self confidence, discourage dropouts,improve awareness on sanitation and environment, encourage extracurricular activities, motivate children to keep up with current affairs, educate parents in social economic and health; and cultivate a spirit of national integration.
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Shanti Sadhana Ashram
Locations of the Schools: The Jeevan Sadhana Vidya Niketans (JSVNs) of Shanti Sadhana Ashram have been running schools in 4 districts of Assam (Kamrup, Sibsagar, Lakhimpur and Nalbari) that fall under 4 Development Blocks of Dimoria, Pachim Abhaypur, Narayanpur and Tamulpur.
All the schools are located in rural backward areas and cover children from at least 3-4 nearby villages.

Organisation Description
Shanti Sadhana Ashram is one of the pioneer organisations in championing the cause of literacy in the backward districts of Assam, which it started as a "Literacy As a Movement of the People (LAMP)" in 1989. The National Literacy Mission, Govt. of India, recognized the Ashram's contributions to this literacy movement by giving the National Award on Literacy to its Secretary Mr. Hembhai in 1997. Since the beginning of the literacy movement the Ashram had an ardent desire to start some innovative schools for deprived children scattered in the remote areas of many districts.
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Social Awareness and Development Organization for Women
The Dindigul area has a literacy rate of 31%, and most of the people are agriculturist or coolie workers. This project plans to provide supplementary education for rural hill area children in 10 villages of Natham. The 10 villages were selected by a BaseLine survey conducted. The objective of this project is to reduce drop out rates in this area and provide at least primary education for these children.

The project aims to benefit 261 children. Since there is no one who can guide these children there is definitely a crucial need for this project.
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Ray Of Hope Foundation Inc

Educational needs of rural children
The development of the schools and its locational importance as the school caters educational need for several other small villages in the near by region. Project proposal is aimed to better equip the school with computers and other basic utilities.

Project is proposed to fund these three needs:
1. Annual Academic and Personal Needs: Books and supplies, tuition fees, scholarships, uniforms, mid-day meals, and health screenings;
2. Facilities needs: Computer lab, technical training center, science laboratory, library, and lavoratory;
3. Equipment and Training Needs: Vocational school machinery, computers, classroom furniture, Internet access, LCD projector, educational materials and training.
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Ravi Aluganti

• Training government school teachers in multi-grade teaching
• Research and develop learning material in various areas of primary education
• Develop a resource center for teacher training
• Facilitate teacher interaction from various schools to share knowledge, skills and experience
• Organise art and craft activities for teachers and children to develop their creative skills
• Initiate parental involvement in the school
• Organise simple science experiments for teachers and children to encourage experiential learning

Fellowship from ASHA
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Voluntary Health Association of Tripura : Ratanmani Vidyalaya
In 1994 the project started as non-formal education for the dropout and non-school going children. During the baseline survey the local community was motivated for their children's education and the school started with 40 children, some of the whom never went to school. The course curriculum was made in condensed way that they could complete the study upto class V standard withing 3 years. In the year 1997 the first batch of the children passed class V and got admitted in the government high school in Sabroom. Till the year 2000, every year one batch of students from this non-formal school passed class V. In 2000 the school got the recognition from the state education department as formal primary school. Now the school has 160 children with hostel facilities for 60 children . From the state Tribal Welfare Department 42 hostel children are getting stipend @ Rs. 15/- per day for 10 months a year. Which is very much insufficient for 60 children. Furthermore, their other source of funding from VHAI also ended in August 2003, as per the agreemnet.

Purpose / Goals
To promote primary education of the poor tribal children of the inaccessible rural areas of the state.
To promote health and health awareness among rural tribal children.
To promote cultural heritage among the children of the rural community

Organization Description
Voluntary Health Association of Tripura (VHAT) is a non-profit Voluntary organisation working since 1988 for promotion of health, environment, vocational and basic education and income generation for the people, specially for the rural mass of the inaccessible areas of the state. The organisation is federated with Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) , New Delhi. VHAI has initiated 17 khoj project for promotion of the condition of women and children throughout the country through the state Voluntary Health Associations and their member organisations. The Khoj Project of Tripura is run by VHAT at Baisnabpur of Sabroom sub-division since 1994.

It covers 14 (forteen) inaccessible tribal populated panchayats by the side of Chittagon Hill Tract of Bangladesh. But people from all over the Rupaichari block avail the facility of the project in respect to health care service. More than 99% of these panchayats are inhabited by tribals. The Khoj project has four activity components? health service and health education, primary education, income generation for women and environment promotion.
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Ambuja Cement Foundation
ACF felt that in its far flung villages access to education was woefully inadequate.

To bridge the gap, by strengthening and supporting village schools and anganwadis and providing teaching aids, material, furniture, sports equipment, and in some cases undertaking the renovation of schools.

83 village schools, in and around all our location covering thousands of children, have been involved in educational workshops and training sessions on environmental awareness.
ACF focussed on imparting training to teachers for developing teaching aids, provided teaching aids and conducted training programes and workshops for scholl children on topics of ecology, natural resource management, career options and importance vocational training. Existing, but dormant, village education committees (VECs) were reactived and motivated to improve the functioning of their village school.
In Ropar, the Ambuja Manovikas Kendra provides quality education to 54 intellectually challenged children. It also conducts on-going workshops for parents of these children, to equip them to cope with their children's condition.

 

 

Rural Education : Corporate Interventions

ACC
Education is imparted not only to children of ACC employees but also more importantly to children from rural areas who do not have access to any medium of information or education. ACC schools maintain high standards and are open to other children of the vicinity. Often these schools are the most preferred centers of learning in the district and adjoining areas. Wherever possible, ACC provides funds and infrastructure to help set up local schools, colleges and centers for learning and education.

 

Atul
Providing quality education to the local children is a prime concern for Atul Ltd.

B K Muzumdar Science College, Kalyani School and Atul Vidyalaya provide students of the region top quality education. B K Muzumdar Foundation is active with educational programmes in rural areas.

Atul Rural Development Fund (ARDF), the rural development arm of the Company, supports the surrounding villages in the area of education. ARDF has made significant contribution in supplying educational material to needy school children and providing the requisite infrastructure including building, electrification and drinking water. ARDF regularly organises mobile science exhibitions in far reaching villages of Valsad District in collaboration with District Science Centre, a governmental organisation.

Atul allocates substantial resources every year to various charitable institutions in the region.

 

Coca-Cola at the fountainhead of education
We understand the value of education in a progressive world. And in tune with our corporate vision and objective of adding values to society as a commercial enterprise, Coca-Cola lays special emphasis on education in India. As a responsible business entity, we strive to make the world a place to celebrate and refresh in knowledge, wisdom and prosperity.

Illiteracy is still a major problem plaguing India, especially the disadvantaged and the unprivileged. Coca-Cola recognizes the plight of those who never see the light of education, the most precious attributes man can have on earth. Thus the Company is actively supporting Government efforts to extend educational opportunities to weaker sections and emancipate them from the dark alleys of illiteracy and the clutches of backwardness that would doom their future for exploitation.

Coca-Cola has tied up with local NGOs and communities to offer a variety of educational initiatives such as informal education, remedial learning, vocational training and IT instruction, especially in backward and rural areas.

Our alliance partners include several leading NGOs of the country— Child Relief & You (CRY), Pratham, Prayas, Naandi Foundation and Literacy India. While they help in designing and executing the projects with community participation after identifying the thrust areas for accruing maximum possible benefits, Coca-Cola serves as the overall project facilitator and provides financial support and continuous supervision, with employees also volunteering their time and resources. Communities contribute infrastructure and daily supervision and also form self-help groups, nominating volunteers to come forward and help lead classes. In fact, all our units across the country are actively involved in citizenship activities for the communities.

The notable initiatives include support towards eight Jagriti (Awakening) Learning Centers, which provide educational resources and opportunities to nearly 2,000 underprivileged primary school children in areas near Coca-Cola offices and bottling plants. Coca-Cola is also working with community leaders to put on street plays on the theme of community awareness, such as a series that was conducted in 50 villages in Gurgaon reaching nearly 500,000 villagers.

Key Initiatives – Literacy Mission Drives
Jagriti Learning Centres - CRY, Pratham, CII & Literacy India

Literacy India - Jagrukta (The Awakening)
To bring community issues to their doorstep, we launched the Jagrukta campaign - a series of street plays in the villages of Haryana and Delhi in partnership with Literacy India. This entertaining medium of communication highlights issues such as education, hygiene, lack of attention to the girl child. It covered nearly 500,000 villagers.

Naandi Foundation
partnership with Naandi Foundation we support Govt. schools in Ameenpur and Byramalaguda, Andhra Pradesh to provide wholesome education at the Primary level to children belonging to weaker sections, where till date over 800 poor children have benefited from this exercise. Our support includes infrastructure such as Qualified teachers, books and stationary.

Education Initiatives of Dasna
Supporting Balwadi Education, Non Formal Education & Women Self Help groups with a local NGO, GNK. The basic objective is to improve their overall quality of life.

Balwadi Education
Over 200 children benefited in the age group of 3 - 5 years.
Besides reading & writing children are being introduced to various activities such as games, environmental awareness & quizzes etc.

Self Help Groups
Objective of the program is to overcome the socio-economic challenges and in improving the quality of life

Educational Support
In Wada, Maharashtra our unit has adopted 16 schools in the nearby villages which benefit thousands of disadvantaged children. Similarly in Jamshedpur, the unit provided infrastructure support to KBP School by repairing the building & providing books, stationery & basic health facilities to the students.

Key Initiatives – Social Empowerment Programmes
Jal Bhagirathi Foundation : Youth Development Project
We partnered with JBF on education in Rajasthan to create opportunities for the children & young adults for self & professional development, their sensitization for social environment problems etc. About 300 unemployed youth are benefited with computer education and information technology classes & library - which provide them with a platform to interact, gather information, facilitate self development and aid empowerment. These centers also provide sports facilities besides aiming to improve existing educational apparatus & teaching methods in villages.

 

Eicher : Goodearth Education Foundation
The mission of Goodearth Education Foundation is to educate India’s children with a special emphasis on the girl child starting with primary education for the rural poor.
The work of the Foundation has, as its focus, interventions for improvement in quality of education initially in the government primary schools in rural areas.
Work started in 1996 by providing support to an initiative based in Rai Bareilly district in U.P. This project covered 63 schools and has benefited about 15,000 children over a period of 4 years. In 1998 further efforts were initiated in Thane district (Maharashtra), Alwar district (Rajasthan) and Solan district (Himachal Pradesh) where in the first phase we are covering a total of approximately 90 schools and 9,000 children.

What does Eicher foundation do ?

 

Gujrat Ambuja
Problem : We felt that in our far flung villages access to education was woefully inadequate.
Solution : To bridge the gap, by strengthening and supporting village schools and anganwadis and providing teaching aids, material, furniture, sports equipment, and in some cases undertaking the renovation of schools.
Results : 76 village schools, in and around all our location covering thousands of children, have been involved in educational workshops and training sessions on environmental awareness.
We focussed on imparting training to teachers for developing teaching aids, provided teaching aids and conducted training programes and workshops for scholl children on topics of ecology, natural resource management, career options and importance vocational training. Existing, but dormant, village education committees (VECs) were reactived and motivated to improve the functioning of their village school.
In Ropar, the Ambuja Manovikas Kendra provides quality education to 50 intellectually challenged children. It also conducts on-going workshops for parents of these children, to equip them to cope with their children's condition.

 

HLL : Rural Education
Khamgaon: HLL is also developing a Rural Education Programme, which aims at using audio-visual aids, like video cassettes and CDs. These tools enable teachers to explain basic concepts in mathematics, like operation on numbers, fractions, algebra and geometry, to primary school children in villages

 

HLL Shakti
We have partnered with Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL) to leverage a reading campaign for rural children with the support of "Shakti Ammas" (Women distributors for HLL Products) in 25 villages of Mandya District. This six-month pilot is a multi pronged and community service oriented effort. The objective is to motivate the Shakti Ammas to run village based libraries with the co-operation of the Education Department officials, the school headmasters, the village panchayati members, resourceful village elders, not forgetting the parents of children who recognize the significance of joyful reading and learning for children.
The pilot has a primary social objective of getting children interested in reading from the primary school level and making them literate which will enable them to have a range of options for a better future. The project being implemented in 2 phases over the six-month period (June-September '04 and October -January '05).

The comprehensive plan starts with

A 45-day accelerated reading program to help children to learn to read better has been planned as the second phase of the project.
The project is also expected to positively impact in other areas as well. Health and hygiene coupled with healthy reading interventions are expected to lead to all round development of children in the District. A total of 1,500 rural children in 25 villages are expected to benefit from the project.

 

Indo Gulf
To identify and nurture talented youngsters in the rural areas, Indo Gulf held a Talent Search Test. The students so selected, have been recognized through conferring awards on them. The spin-off has been remarkable and has resulted up scaling of the standard of education as well.

Indo Gulf has also instituted a scholarship scheme for students in the rural areas, who secure a first class in their Board exams. To pursue their studies, they are given Rs 125 per month for a two-year period.

At Dahej too, education is an area of priority. Employees at Birla Copper have taken on the responsibility of facilitating the education of the poorest of poor students who live near the plant. Every month all employees contribute
Rs. 100 for this cause, and reach out to 90 students.

 

Ispat donates computers to rural school
Speaking on the occasion of the Republic Day celebrations, the principal of Janata High School, Gadab, heartily thanked Ispat Industries Limited (IIL) for donating two computers to the school students.

The school authorities hailed the generosity displayed by IIL and recounted instances in the past when the company had come forward to help it out of difficult situations. The two computers donated by the company, they said, would go a long way in familiarizing their students with the functioning and handling of computers. To this Dr B Yadava, director (Community Development), IIL, responded that the company believed it was its duty to lend a helping hand to the needy.

IIL was represented at the function by Aloysius Lobo and Kanchan Kothekar of the Land Department, Geetapuram.

The Republic Day celebrations at the school premises included flag hoisting, calisthenics and a variety of entertainment programmes, with almost the entire village in attendance. Later in the afternoon, a kabbadi tournament sponsored by IIL was held adjacent to the school.

School uniforms and books
IIL routinely distributes textbooks, school uniforms, notebooks and computers to students of schools in the vicinity. This is done to reduce the dropout rate in the area. IIL believes that helping a student by motivating him to complete at least his schooling would enable the child to get a slightly better chance in the outside world.

 

ITC
Educating Rural Children
Today more than 9000 village children like Banno go to schools that are supported by ITC's primary education programme. The programme aims to overcome the lack of basic infrastructure in village schools. By constructing and improving school buildings; providing toilets and electrical fixtures; making available books, school uniforms and satchels; making school-going that much more exciting, thereby maximising enrolment. ITC has also created supplementary learning centres to help students from poor and illiterate families cope with their lessons, reducing dropouts. ITC aims to make it possible for thousands of children across rural India to have the greatest asset they can aspire to - education for a brighter future

ITC's primary education programme emanates from its aspiration to create enduring value for the nation. For ITC, it is yet another expression of a commitment beyond the market. Of a conviction that country must come before corporation. Of a true pride in being Citizen First.

 

Nestlé : Education and Training
Nestlé supports initiatives to create awareness about the right to education and encourages the communities around its factories to send their children to school. Nestlé India employees have developed a special play 'Let Us Go to School' for this purpose. This has been staged amongst the communities around our factories, and its recordings screened at smaller gatherings along the milk routes
Nestlé India supports local schools, helps in the maintenance of public parks and green belts, facilitates blood donation camps and health awareness programs.

 

Tata Chemicals
Babrala
Education
TCSRD believes that basic education for village children will result in rural development Towards this end, it has distributed school bags with educational material. In Mehua Hasan Ganj, the Society has provided furniture for students and teachers in the secondary school.

 

Titan : The education of the rural poor
In the year 1989, Titan introduced a scholarship scheme to provide financial assistance to young residents of the economically backward Dharmapuri district of Tamil Nadu. The only criteria were need and the ability to benefit from the assistance. In keeping with the Tata tradition, Titan ensures that there is neither gender nor communal bias in identifying the beneficiaries. This is ensured by empanelling our managers in the selection of the beneficiaries. Each year, there are fresh panellists who constitute the panel.

The emphasis is on enabling deserving youth to acquire vocational skills through enrolment in Industrial Training Institutes and polytechnics. Several young men and women have also been assisted in pursuing careers in engineering and medicine. On the average, forty beneficiaries are identified every year. The assistance provided annually is of the order of Rupees 350,000. To date, there have been over four hundred beneficiaries. Total disbursements to date have exceeded Rupees 2.30 million.

 

TVS Motor Company
Education and Literacy In addition to providing infrastructure facilities like new buildings for school, the Company helps establish computer education programs for school children. The Srinivasan Services Trust has successfully achieved 98% primary school enrollment in the adopted villages.