Project Brief: The project aims to cater to the educational needs of the children in the surrounding area, and to get CBSE affiliation in order to expand its activities.
Project Type: Formal Schools (description)
Primary Focus: to go to formal school (description)

Secondary Focus: creating resources

Area: Tribal
Supporting Chapter Contact:
Arizona

Status: CLOSED - ENDED
Project Steward: B Ramakrishna
Co-Steward: Susan Seats
Project Partner(s): Aninja Rajagopal
Project Address: Sai Kripa
Z 133-134, Sector-12
Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201 301
Tel: (0118) 4531146, 4536416
Stewarding Chapter: Arizona

The project aims to cater to the educational needs of the children in the surrounding area, and to get CBSE affiliation in order to expand its activities.

The school is serving a very dire need in a community, which has begun to embrace the sincere efforts of the founder and teachers. The students are eager to be at school and the parents can see the bright and smiling faces of their children. The enrolment at the school has increased and the facilities can barely support the existing numbers.

Children receive value based education at their door-step . Since children do not have to travel far to reach school, they are getting enrolled by the age of 4 years itself. This has shown marked improvement in their personality, inter-personal relationships and ability to communicate.

- More than 50% of the school children are girls. The village girls until recently, were resigned to remaining indoors doing household chores, looking after their younger siblings and the like; but today most are at least aware that, like their brothers, they too can attend school, receive education and acquire knowledge.

- This awareness has helped them realise their inner potentials which is amply proven by the fact that the Sai Shiksha Sansthan girls show better results in exams than the boys.

- The women are taking more initiative in sending their daughters to school. Through exposure to the TV, media and interaction with Sai Shiksha Sansthan staff who have taken great pains from time to time in motivating the villagers in trying to create awareness on the importance of education, the villagers, especially the women are more keen that their daughters attend school, having realised what they have missed in life and not wanting the same bleak future / ignorance for their daughters. The men too are gradually realising this and there certainly is an obvious change in their attitudes.

- The villagers, having realised the importance of education today are, on their own initiative, trying to get land from the government, by putting pressure on the local political leaders.

2004-2005 UPDATE
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$ 3600.00 was sent in July 2004 and this
will support four areas that were requested by the administration. It will (a) pay for salaries of three teachers who are needed in order to keep up with the increase in enrollment at the school (b) cover the
cost of 20 field trips for the children from the Vazidpur and nearby villages to educational /sightseeing venues such as the zoo, doll museum and historical monuments in Delhi. Most of the children have never gone to Delhi which is less than50 kilometers from their villages (c) pay for two sets of Uniforms for 150 children and provide tuition scholarship for 50 needy children