Generous commuters put prof's school for poor kids on track - Times Of India
Prof. Sandeep Desai's social service began in 1997 when he quit his job and took up other assignments to fund Shloka, a free English-medium school for children from the Goregaon slums. "After Shloka, which we started in 2005, we began our second school at Ratnagiri for poor rural children, but the construction got delayed due to a shortage of funds," he says. That's when he decided to collect money directly from the common man. "The response has been great. In just five months, I have collected over Rs 4 lakh,"
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Friday 30 March 2012
Monday 26 March 2012
IDF - DWARAKA BAL GURUKUL , HYDERABAD
Indian Development
Foundation (IDF) has launched 3rd BAL Gurukul in Hyderabad on 26th March 2012 at Dwaraka High School,Gandhinagar ,Secunderabad.
This is the 74th Bal Gurukul started in India by IDF , 5th in AP and 3rd in Hyderabad.
Education is of prime importance. IDF in its
diversified objectives has included education programmes into its fold. There
are many first time school-goers in a family. In such cases, the children
attend schools but do not get proper educational guidance from home. Indian
Development Foundation (IDF) has found a method to remove this barrier by
opening up `Education Programmes’ – `Bal Gurukuls’ in India. These Bal Gurukuls
not only provides quality education to the underprivileged children but also
facilitates in raising the literacy level of the district. IDF also believes in
providing `right education’ to those who need the most. To know more about IDF Pl click on www.idf.org.in
Dwaraka high school was established in 1979 as a
primary and middle school by the Gandhinagar Association (an association of the
residents of Gandhinagar colony). Dwaraka High school is run by the Gandhinagar
Association – The building is given free by the association to run the
school.
IDF is happy to announce the starting of
"Dwaraka Bal Gurukul" on 26th March 2012 .
Around this residential colony there are four big
slums which house nearly 2000 families. Children from these slums study in this
school. The school has classes from Nursery to X class – Co-Education. Earlier
the strength was good but due to various factors the strength started dwindling
and now they have around 225 students in the school. This school does not have any
government funds or aid. State bank of Hyderabad, Kavadiguda, Hyderabad donates
the entire books for the year to all the students. The same bank donated 12
computers to this school.
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The children attend
schools but do not get proper educational guidance from home as there
are many first time school-goers in a family and drop outs are
more as parents do not see any visible change.
The staff and students feel that if some additional coaching
is given by conducting extra classes after school hours they would perform
well. But again students cannot afford to pay for the tution fees. In
this Bal gurkul students of 5th and 6th class are selected and
empowerment classes with an external teacher is conducted (No fees charged)
after school hours to ensure the overall performance of the students
improves soon.
We are sure that with this support these children
will improve their performance in school which in turn will convince their
parents to let them continue their education.
IDF Social Ambassador Mr.Sanjay Ram, School committee members Mr.Ramakrishna(Correspondent),
Mrs.Swaroopa(Principal) , Mr.Ramesh Mallam(President Gandhinagar Association),Mr.Srinivas, Mr.Buchi Das (Core Committee Members), Mr.P V Rao (V R Research Executive Search), the Staff and
the students were present for the event.
The School Committee were very
happy that we have selected their school for the Bal Gurukul and their children
would get the benefit.
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