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Project Brief: Urur Kuppam is one of 4 villages located in South Chennai along the coastline. About 550 children reside in these 4 villages. Urur kuppam middle school has upto 8th Standard.
Project Type: Other (description)
Primary Focus: to go to formal school (description)

Secondary Focus: health and cleanliness

Area: Urban
Supporting Chapter Contact: Stanford
Status: completed - requirements ended
Project Steward: Pradeep Jayaraman
Project Partner(s): Lakshmi Suryanarayanan
Other Contacts: Hari Kannan
Project Address: , Ururkuppam Middle School, Bajanai Koil street, Besant Nagar,,Chennai,
TAMIL NADU  600090
Tel: 044-42112404
Stewarding Chapter: Stanford

Asha Stars, if any:

Bhaskaran Raman

Mahesh Vinayagam

Sep 2011StanfordUSD 3265
Dec 2010StanfordUSD 3100
Feb 2010Tsunami Relief & RehabUSD 3515
Jul 2009BurlingtonUSD 2000
May 2009Tsunami Relief & RehabUSD 3515
Dec 2008StanfordUSD 2170
Apr 2008StanfordUSD 2598
Jan 2006YaleUSD 6977
Dec 2005YaleUSD 1
Dec 2003SingaporeINR 52000
Dec 2001BerkeleyUSD 1940
Dec 2001Silicon ValleyUSD 2148
Dec 2001General FundsUSD 2000

Total = $34362.6

Urur Kuppam is one of 4 villages located in South Chennai along the coastline. About 550 children reside in these 4 villages. Now UrurKuppam got the government recoginition to have upto 8th standard.The school is run by the local community with meager support from the government.

The school was inaugrated in 1939 by none other than Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The noon meal scheme was inaugrated by none other than Kamaraj . the school is in shambles severely under-staffed, unhygenic surroundings, cramped conditions for kids to study in. With asha constant support the school now offers upto class 8th. Having provided better teaching aids, a library and a computer class, high nutritional meals and richer school campus. The school now has a healthy educational environment.
- improve the quality of education provided to 200+ Middle School kids residing in the kuppam

- demonstrate the importance of education as an integral part of community development in the kuppam
The project (starting 2011) will be supported and supervised by Asha Chennai. Previously, Asha Honor used to support this project.
Asha Stanford is a funding chapter here are the details
http://ashanet.org/stanford
Contact Name: Pradeep Jayaraman
Email Address :pradeepjraman@gmail.com