Shyama Memorial Welfare Society - Sathwara

Project Brief: Imparting formal basic education to children at the Government Primary School - Sathwara, Lucknow.
Project Type: Community Awareness Programs (description)
Primary Focus: other (description)

Secondary Focus: other

Area: Rural
Supporting Chapter Contact: Zurich
Status: current / ongoing
Project Steward: Guratinder Kaur
Project Partner(s): Anoop Gupta
Other Contacts:
Project Address: , I Care India,3/445, Vivek Khand, Gomti Nagar,Lucknow ,
UTTAR PRADESH  226010
Tel: 091-52-240-004-90000
Stewarding Chapter: Zurich
May 2020ZurichCHF 3769
Oct 2019ZurichCHF 2994
Jan 2019ZurichCHF 723
Nov 2018ZurichUSD 2830

Total = $8214.477678

- To encourage, engage, inspire and improve quality of education available to children in government primary school (upto 5th standard).
- To inculcate the habit of going to school regularly in children.
- To provide a report every five-months to Asha Zurich containing the details of the educational goals achieved, planned educational goals for the near future and expenditure incurred (along with receipts) and the foreseen expenditure for the next six months.
- Keeping Asha Zurich informed about the immediate next destination of children after their studies with ANKURAM.
- Identifying students with scholastic and extra-curricular potential and recommending them to Asha Zurich for scholarships.
- To make sure that the ANKURAM program at the government school is running well and the kids are getting quality education.
- Monitor the volunteers and coordination with teachers to and maintain the quality of education.
- Co-ordinate with the school committee, villagers and parents of the kids in the
Community.
The current situation in government primary schools is so pathetic that even thinking about imparting education to the children going there is facetious. Improving education environment at Government primary schools, through micro planning and improved processes, in an organized manner, using Student Volunteers(YOUTH) energy and skills with support of local community & senior learned citizens is the objective of this joint mission. This is a pilot phase of this programme and will be taken at state level in phased manner at next stage.
icareIndia is an entity of the Shyama Memorial Welfare Society (SMWS), a non-profit organization established in 1992 under the Society Act of 1860 by Dr Surya Prakash. Born in 1942, Dr Prakash is a retired senior scientist from CSIR (a government of India research organization). Since 1993, he has been working toward imparting quality and value-based education to underprivileged children in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. SMWS runs an academic institution that offers high quality convent education (up to class 7) to children from poverty-stricken families at minimal fee. The school provides uniforms, shoes, books and stationary to the deserving children free of cost. With state-of-the-art infrastructure, the school sprawls over 4500 square feet and boasts of a library room, computer lab and science lab.

Dr Prakash’s son, Anoop Gupta formally took lead of icareindia on July 11, 2015. After working for more than 16 years in the IT industry across Europe, Anoop returned to India to fulfil his mother’s dream.

In association with the Uttar Pradesh government and Lucknow University, Anoop has linked more than 1700 college students (from 47 universities & colleges) with 100 government primary schools (more than 13500 children) in Lucknow. Under the guidance of DM Lucknow and Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, icareindia’s programmes involve direct administrative participation through a district committee.