Dear
Friends,
Our
team visited the organization: ‘Child
Foundation of India’
on 11th Aug,2012.
FA
gathered the below information:
ü The
organization
is being ran by Mr. K. Surya Rao (a Doctor) from the past 22 years in
Visakhapatnam and is taking care of street children.
ü Achieved
an National Award in the year 2000 from the Government as the street
children are being turned as engineers and doctors etc.
ü Currently,
82 students are being taken care by the organization. The students are
provided with the facilities like School(1st to 5th standard), hostel, food,
water and with electricity supply (to Fans, Lights and
Television).
ü Around
70 thousand rupees being spent by the organization per month to provide
the facilities to the 82 children and to pay the warden(Name:
Ratnam).
ü The
foundation is running a school from 1st standard to 5th standard with
children divided into 3 class rooms(due to lack of faculty). The students of
2nd and 3rd standards are combined and are seated in a single class room. The
students of 4th and 5th standards are combined and are seated in single class
room. And this is apart from the 1st standard students.
ü Special
case of many students with an example:
When a street child is joined in the foundation, he might be of the age 10 yrs.
Even though the student doesn’t know alphabets, the student will be placed in
5th standard as per his age limit. Such students will be seated on one bench in
the class room and are taught alphabets along with other students who are
studying 5th standard.
ü Even
though the foundation is taking care of 82 children, the foundation is not in
a position to spend amount on providing faculty to the school. Even the 2
teachers who are teaching the students in the school on regular basis are being
sponsored with the salaries by the outsiders.
ü Currently,
some of the trainers who are being trained in BHPV are teaching the students
in the evenings for an hr or 2 hrs on regular
basis.
ü All
the students are having the note books and text books currently.
Requests
to our FA team by the warden:
ü As
there are already 2 regular teaching staff and trainers from BHPV teaching the
students in the evenings, the students are being confused as there are multiple
teachers for them for each subject. So, they are expecting only one faculty
for each student.
ü And
teaching the students in the weekends doesn’t meet the requirements with a flow
in the regular subjects. So, they are expecting for a faculty on regular
basis.
ü As
we are interested to teach in the weekends, we are requested to teach the
topics other than regular subjects like Yoga, Ramayana, Mahabharata, General
Knowledge etc
Actions
and Options available with FA:
1) Providing
employment to a faculty to teach on regular basis:
Ø The
warden informed us that there is a girl (who studied intermediate) approaching
the school regularly requesting to provide employment as a faculty to the
students. As there is no sponsor to sponsor the salary for the teacher, the
warden have been rejecting her from a few weeks.
Ø 1500
rupees per month is the pay to the faculty who work on regular basis in the
school. This is decided by the foundation as per the salaries being provided to
other faculty.
Ø FA
is ready to provide employment to the girl suggested by the warden as a faculty
on regular basis in the school and sponsor the pay of 1500 rupees per
month.
Ø As
the organization: ‘Child Foundation of India’ is government registered, the
organization provides us an official letter mentioning that we are sponsoring
the pay to the faculty of their foundation.
2) As
we have a strength of 49 interested members to teach the
students:
Ø We
can plan for teaching General Knowledge, teaching Ramayana and Mahabharata,
teaching the life history of Vivekananda etc in the
weekends.
Ø We
can even plan for teaching: drawing, encouraging the students in sports
etc.
3) As
per the suggestion from one of our friends in our
team:
Ø Better
to buy a small projector. Even, we can look if anyone can come forward and
sponsor the projector.
Ø We
can make use of the projector to project video tutorials using CD’s or DVD’s
to the students. This idea can be implemented to all the students across
all the government schools.
Ø We
can even make use of the projector for giving seminars to the students in
various colleges or schools.
Ø We
can even make use of the projector for organizing the social awareness drives
in public.
We planned for
a team meeting in Visakhapatnam on 14th
Aug,2012 for the final decisions on the above mentioned
actions and options available with FA.
Thanks & Regards,
Friends Association
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