Olcott Education Society - Olcott Memorial High School
Olcott Education Society - Olcott Memorial High School
Project Brief: Funding part of the operating budget of Olcott Memorial School
Project Type: Formal Schools (description)
Primary Focus: children from slums (description)
Supporting Chapter Contact: St. Louis
Project Type: Formal Schools (description)
Primary Focus: children from slums (description)
Secondary Focus: other
Area: UrbanSupporting Chapter Contact:
Status: current / ongoing
Project Steward: Chidu Subbaih
Project Partner(s): Sashikala Sriram
Other Contacts:
Project Address: , New No.2, (Old No.28) Besant Avenue,,Besant Nagar,Chennai,
Tamil Nadu 600090
Tel: 91-984109142
Stewarding Chapter: St. Louis
Project Steward: Chidu Subbaih
Project Partner(s): Sashikala Sriram
Other Contacts:
Project Address: , New No.2, (Old No.28) Besant Avenue,,Besant Nagar,Chennai,
Tamil Nadu 600090
Tel: 91-984109142
Stewarding Chapter: St. Louis
| Aug 2023 | St. Louis | USD 19764 |
| Mar 2022 | St. Louis | USD 26326 |
| Aug 2021 | St. Louis | USD 33160 |
| Aug 2020 | St. Louis | USD 35670 |
| Sep 2019 | St. Louis | USD 30423 |
| Nov 2018 | St. Louis | USD 24096 |
| Apr 2018 | St. Louis | USD 1562 |
| Oct 2017 | St. Louis | USD 23622 |
| Mar 2016 | St. Louis | USD 12063 |
| Dec 2015 | St. Louis | USD 15278 |
| Jan 2014 | St. Louis | USD 5224 |
| Aug 2013 | St. Louis | USD 8725 |
| Jul 2012 | St. Louis | USD 6000 |
Total = $241913
OMS is a Tamil medium free school serving the needs of the slum children in and around Besant Nagar in Chennai. The St. Louis chapter is supporting a portion of the ongoing operating budget of Olcott Memorial School (OMS).
OMS provides a range of services beyond formal education: Healthcare, nutritional oversight, a midday meal, counseling services for those with special needs, an English lab, and a starch (kanji) breakfast that helps sustain the children's energy levels for learning. High school students are also offered a craft course lasting 3 years that helps them gain marketable skills and see the results of sustained efforts. Administrators make the environment parent friendly. An awards program in conjunction with other institutions has been instated to reward and incentivize students to be leaders within their own vulnerable communities, emphasize interdependence and independence as well as physical sports.
OMS believes in the importance of providing high quality education to these children equivalent to those available to those of privileged socio-economic backgrounds.
These relatively innovative strategies offer the following important benefits:
1) Retains students.
2) Empowers them with the integral abilities and skills to rise above their social and economic enclaves.
3) Be able to operate amidst those in higher socio-economic levels.
3) Keeps the children free of chronic ailments and other stresses of their home environments. (OMHS was a leader in pioneering the midday meal scheme, and also innovative in offering breakfast and sustained medical infrastructure).
4) Fosters further change from within by empowering students to become integral leaders in their communities.
Asha St. Louis funding will support
- Notebooks and Stationery material
- Healthcare facilities
- Maintenance of library and labs, including computers
- Maintenance of crafts and introduction of vocational training
- Annual educational excursions / field trips
These items are substantially supported by St. Louis Asha Star, Mohan Chellaswami and family.
Asha Arizona and Silicon Valley will additionally support Teacher Training and Development as well as some of the Healthcare facility costs.
Asha Arizona, Silicon Valley & Portland have helped fund a project to bridge the digital divide for these children.
See: Digital Bridge Project Page
Asha Irvine and the Work An Hour Asha wide effort helped fund their high school improvement projects, including renovation of their water and toilet facilities, so that children can learn and practice hygiene, which supplements their marketable skills.
See: High School Improvement Project Page
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OMS provides a range of services beyond formal education: Healthcare, nutritional oversight, a midday meal, counseling services for those with special needs, an English lab, and a starch (kanji) breakfast that helps sustain the children's energy levels for learning. High school students are also offered a craft course lasting 3 years that helps them gain marketable skills and see the results of sustained efforts. Administrators make the environment parent friendly. An awards program in conjunction with other institutions has been instated to reward and incentivize students to be leaders within their own vulnerable communities, emphasize interdependence and independence as well as physical sports.
OMS believes in the importance of providing high quality education to these children equivalent to those available to those of privileged socio-economic backgrounds.
These relatively innovative strategies offer the following important benefits:
1) Retains students.
2) Empowers them with the integral abilities and skills to rise above their social and economic enclaves.
3) Be able to operate amidst those in higher socio-economic levels.
3) Keeps the children free of chronic ailments and other stresses of their home environments. (OMHS was a leader in pioneering the midday meal scheme, and also innovative in offering breakfast and sustained medical infrastructure).
4) Fosters further change from within by empowering students to become integral leaders in their communities.
Asha St. Louis funding will support
- Notebooks and Stationery material
- Healthcare facilities
- Maintenance of library and labs, including computers
- Maintenance of crafts and introduction of vocational training
- Annual educational excursions / field trips
These items are substantially supported by St. Louis Asha Star, Mohan Chellaswami and family.
Asha Arizona and Silicon Valley will additionally support Teacher Training and Development as well as some of the Healthcare facility costs.
Asha Arizona, Silicon Valley & Portland have helped fund a project to bridge the digital divide for these children.
See: Digital Bridge Project Page
Asha Irvine and the Work An Hour Asha wide effort helped fund their high school improvement projects, including renovation of their water and toilet facilities, so that children can learn and practice hygiene, which supplements their marketable skills.
See: High School Improvement Project Page
.
The school was founded in 1894 (more than a century ago) with the special purpose of providing educational opportunity for the children who were not able to go to school because of caste difficulties.
Today, the school continues to support this demographic. Children from fishing villages or urban fishing enclaves are particularly susceptible to social discriminations.
Project purpose is to support the effort to give these young people the chance to be self sufficient and rise above these caste and family profession based discriminations.
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Today, the school continues to support this demographic. Children from fishing villages or urban fishing enclaves are particularly susceptible to social discriminations.
Project purpose is to support the effort to give these young people the chance to be self sufficient and rise above these caste and family profession based discriminations.
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Colonel Henry Steele Olcott of the TS started the school in 1894 (118 years ago) with the vision of bringing about social change through the education of the underprivileged.
The school is located in Besant Nagar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The community that lives in the area comprises of the rich and the very poor. The gap in the social status is extreme.
Most of the students, boys and girls, in the school come from poor and below the poverty line families. These children also belong to the socially under privileged sections who are trying to break through the shackles of class discrimination The mission of the school, is to provide a better tomorrow for them by imparting proper education and skills.
The students will leave the school with the right values of hard work and ethical practices and skills in at least one income generation activity. The school aims towards the students passing the 10th standard creditably. The school average attendance figure is more than 85% last year in all classes.
The school does not charge any tuition fees or any other fees. No charges are collected for any activity for the 600 to 750 children. The campus is green with spacious grounds and has good play ground area adjoint.
Today, the school has 22 class rooms, meeting hall, craft center, Library, Resource Room and Computer room, Audio Visual Room, a language lab, a computer room. All of this has slowly been put together as a result of the goodwill of philanthropists.
Among the staff of 45 committed teachers, and many are computer literate. All teachers are comfortable with the use of computers. Some of our teachers are creating material for Technology Aided Learning (TAL), involving a few students. The Headmistress of the OMHS has been in the field of education for over 30 years and is committed towards bringing a social change in the lives of the downtrodden families and children through Education.
For details and pictures please visit:
The school is located in Besant Nagar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The community that lives in the area comprises of the rich and the very poor. The gap in the social status is extreme.
Most of the students, boys and girls, in the school come from poor and below the poverty line families. These children also belong to the socially under privileged sections who are trying to break through the shackles of class discrimination The mission of the school, is to provide a better tomorrow for them by imparting proper education and skills.
The students will leave the school with the right values of hard work and ethical practices and skills in at least one income generation activity. The school aims towards the students passing the 10th standard creditably. The school average attendance figure is more than 85% last year in all classes.
The school does not charge any tuition fees or any other fees. No charges are collected for any activity for the 600 to 750 children. The campus is green with spacious grounds and has good play ground area adjoint.
Today, the school has 22 class rooms, meeting hall, craft center, Library, Resource Room and Computer room, Audio Visual Room, a language lab, a computer room. All of this has slowly been put together as a result of the goodwill of philanthropists.
Among the staff of 45 committed teachers, and many are computer literate. All teachers are comfortable with the use of computers. Some of our teachers are creating material for Technology Aided Learning (TAL), involving a few students. The Headmistress of the OMHS has been in the field of education for over 30 years and is committed towards bringing a social change in the lives of the downtrodden families and children through Education.
For details and pictures please visit:
Sep 2024 Olcott Project Metrics 2024.pdf
Sep 2024 Olcott Proposal for 2024-2025
Aug 2023 2023 Project Metrics
Aug 2023 Budget 2023-2024
Jul 2023 Olcott Site Visit Report July 2023
Jul 2023 Asha Saint Louis Olcott proposal 2023-2024 .pdf
Jul 2023 Asha Saint Lous July 5 2023 Project Metrics.pdf
Jul 2023 Olcott Site Visit Report July 2023
Jun 2023 Asha Olcott proposal 2023-2024.pdf
Mar 2022 Olcott Proposal 2022-23
Jul 2021 Zoom site visit
Jul 2021 Olcott Proposal 2021-22
Aug 2020 Olcott Proposal 2020-2021
Jun 2020 Olcott Proposal for the year 2020-2021
Jun 2020 Olcott Proposal for 2020-2021
May 2019 Olott Proposal for 2019-2020
Feb 2019 Olcott Site Visit Report February 2019
Nov 2018 Olcott Proposal for 2018-19
Nov 2018 Olcott site visit October 2018
Nov 2018 Olcott Proposal for 2018-2019
Mar 2018 Academic Qualification Assistance
Sep 2017 New Updated OMHS 2017-18 Proposal
Aug 2017 OMHS 2017-18 Proposal
Jul 2017 Site Visit Report
Feb 2016 2016 Proposal
Jan 2016 Jan 2016 site visit report
Nov 2015 Bank letter
May 2015 OMHS proposal
May 2015 2015 Proposal
Jul 2014 SiteVisit-2014
Jul 2014 July 2014 site visit
Jun 2014 Proposal_2014-15
Jan 2014 Poorna vidya proposal
Jan 2014 Proposal 2013-14
Jan 2014 Site visit report
Dec 2013 Utilization Summary
Dec 2013 2014-15 Proposal
Aug 2013 SiteVisit Pictures 2013
Aug 2013 Site visit report
May 2013 Project Proposal
Jun 2012 Site visit report
May 2012 05-26-12 Funding Decision Minutes
May 2012 Project proposal
Apr 1991 FCRA
Sep 2024 Olcott Proposal for 2024-2025
Aug 2023 2023 Project Metrics
Aug 2023 Budget 2023-2024
Jul 2023 Olcott Site Visit Report July 2023
Jul 2023 Asha Saint Louis Olcott proposal 2023-2024 .pdf
Jul 2023 Asha Saint Lous July 5 2023 Project Metrics.pdf
Jul 2023 Olcott Site Visit Report July 2023
Jun 2023 Asha Olcott proposal 2023-2024.pdf
Mar 2022 Olcott Proposal 2022-23
Jul 2021 Zoom site visit
Jul 2021 Olcott Proposal 2021-22
Aug 2020 Olcott Proposal 2020-2021
Jun 2020 Olcott Proposal for the year 2020-2021
Jun 2020 Olcott Proposal for 2020-2021
May 2019 Olott Proposal for 2019-2020
Feb 2019 Olcott Site Visit Report February 2019
Nov 2018 Olcott Proposal for 2018-19
Nov 2018 Olcott site visit October 2018
Nov 2018 Olcott Proposal for 2018-2019
Mar 2018 Academic Qualification Assistance
Sep 2017 New Updated OMHS 2017-18 Proposal
Aug 2017 OMHS 2017-18 Proposal
Jul 2017 Site Visit Report
Feb 2016 2016 Proposal
Jan 2016 Jan 2016 site visit report
Nov 2015 Bank letter
May 2015 OMHS proposal
May 2015 2015 Proposal
Jul 2014 SiteVisit-2014
Jul 2014 July 2014 site visit
Jun 2014 Proposal_2014-15
Jan 2014 Poorna vidya proposal
Jan 2014 Proposal 2013-14
Jan 2014 Site visit report
Dec 2013 Utilization Summary
Dec 2013 2014-15 Proposal
Aug 2013 SiteVisit Pictures 2013
Aug 2013 Site visit report
May 2013 Project Proposal
Jun 2012 Site visit report
May 2012 05-26-12 Funding Decision Minutes
May 2012 Project proposal
Apr 1991 FCRA