SACSAS ACADEMY - New Dampi Project

Project Brief: SACSAS Academy - New Dampi Village is the school which started its operations in 2010 and is the biggest among all the schools operated by SACSAS. It aims at primary education.
Project Type: Formal Schools (description)
Primary Focus: to go to formal school (description)

Secondary Focus: health and cleanliness

Area: Rural
Supporting Chapter Contact: Zurich
Status: completed - requirements ended
Project Steward: Namita Agrawal
Project Partner(s):
Other Contacts: shantikumar ningthoujam
Project Address: , Moirang Lamkhai,Moirang,Moirang,
Manipur  795133
Tel: +919856424724,+919436295832
Stewarding Chapter: Zurich
Apr 2012LondonGBP 3310
Dec 2011ZurichCHF 4750

Total = $8660.05015

SACSAS Academy is a secular organization dedicated to socio economic change in Manipur. In pursuit of this goal, SACSAS focuses on basic education in the belief that education is a critical requisite for socio economic change. It primarily aims at providing quality education to kids in the remote/far flung villages in Manipur where there is no form of education system. It has been successful in taking education to the first generation learners and to an area where education is not being adequately addressed by the government, probably due to lack of political interests in these areas.
SACSAS Academy, New Dampi Branch in Manipur started its operations in 2009 with Asha Houston acting as the steward for this Project. The entire school building construction at New Dampi was sponsored by Mr. Martin H. from London who approached Asha Huston initially for its approval. However, the recurring costs in the functioning of this school was a question at hand which led Asha Zurich becoming a part of the project to fund 50% of the recurring costs comprising salary of the teachers, study tools, uniform for students, text books, school maintenance and scholarships.
This school in New Dampi village caters to 9 surrounding villages and has strength of 164 students who study in classes from pre-nursery to class VI and is the biggest among all the schools operated by SACSAS
Asha-Zurich started funding fifty percent of the recurring expenses incurred every year from 2010.
1. To provide quality education to underprivileged and downtrodden (low-income) children in Manipur.

2. To nurture such small children (upto the age of 8) to have the habit of going to school so that they will ask their parents to send them to school once they come out of SACSAS Academy.

3. To encourage the formation of various local groups across Manipur to reach out to larger sections of the population.
SACSAS Academy is a secular organization dedicated to socio-economic change in Manipur. In pursuit of this goal, SACSAS focuses on basic education in the belief that education is a critical requisite for socio-economic change. It primarily aims at providing quality education to those kids in the remote/far flung villages in Manipur where there is no form education system.
email id: sk.khuman@yahoo.com, nshantikr@yahoo.com, sujit.acharya@gmail.com (Asha-Zurich contact)