School Development Project of the Month
Bhunt Village School
Bhunt village school near Bhadrak, Orissa is currently just a kindergarten really with only 20 children, but it would like to develop and provide a better service to the many poor children of the community. To do that we need to first improve the school environment. This mud building that houses the school collapsed in a recent cyclone and we are trying to build a solid brick building in its place. Good news... we have, finally, arranged an electric connection, but still need to add a roof and doors to the outside toilets which are only built up to shoulder level, with the result that falling leaves keep blocking them up. A new water connection is also urgently required so that the children and staff will be able to drink clean water instead of the brackish water that is currently available to them.
Total cost of all this: around US $3000.
Once we have completed this construction work, we hope to start a free school for the poorest children of the community and will need sponsors for the teachers' salaries.... around $50 per month.
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Other School Development Projects
Shillong School, Meghalaya
The
school is located at Nonmynsong, a poor tribal area on the edge of town,
has 120 pupils in six classes. Nine orphans reside in a small orphanage
attached to the school. The school is running well and is popular with the
local people as the fees are minimal, yet the standard of education is high.
Great News: The school has now managed to arrange the funds and buy the part of its land that was rented.
Remaining Problems: The large classroom which houses 3 classes is very old, and the roof leaks. The school urgently needs to pull it down and build several classrooms on two floors in its place to accommodate all the school children.
Donations are urgently needed to help with this huge task.
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for this project
Vellore School and Orphanage
Vellore
school is located in Shenbakkam, a poor semi-rural area of Vellore, Tamil
Nadu, has now finished to plastering its verandah floor which is used as
a classroom for the local poor kids and a railing has also been built on
the stairs. A fledgling orphanage has 5 children. Before the school and
orphanage can increase their service to the community a lot of renovation
work is still needed, however:
Problems:
- The staircase needs plastering: Rs. 5,000 or US $100 .
- The house needs 8 windows: Rs. 19,000 or US $475.
- 4 doors: Rs. 8000 or US $210.
- A ventilator: Rs. 1000 or US $26
- The roof needs repairing: Rs. 15,000 or US $380.
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for this project
Belphari School, West Bengal
This
small school has over 70 primary children on its roll and 7 residential
students staying in a small hostel, yet its physical condition is extremely
poor. Progress has been slow... part of a boundary wall has been built to
solve a land dispute and the leaking hostel roof has been fixed, but the
2 unplastered outer walls of the building still need repairing to stop them
leaking in the rainy season. This needs immediate attention in order to
prevent serious structural damage. On top of that, a long hall housing 3
classes as well as a smaller classroom are also completely unplastered,
have no ceiling and no fans, with the result that the whole school becomes
as hot as a furnace when the summer sun beats down on the tin roof of the
school. Apart from these problems, the lack of partitions between the classes,
paint on the wooden shutters and the absence of a boundary wall seem minor
issues, even though the school is situated next to a cremation ground, where
delinquent boys come in the night to drink and smoke, posing a security
problem for the school.ool.
Cost of repairs to the roof, plastering of the walls and classrooms, plus ceilings and painting of the shutters: Around US $1500.
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Education in India
It is estimated that every year poverty prevents some 170 out of every 1,000 children from attending primary school. And for the children who do manage to continue to secondary school, at least 10 out of every 1,000 fail to complete their secondary education.
We believe that education is the birthright of every child, yet each year poverty prevents thousands of children from attending school. For those children who are initially able to attend school, it is likely that, due to poverty, they will be unable to complete their education.
Many children at the schools we support study free of charge or pay a minimal fee. Yet, the reality is that unless the students pay fees, the school will not have the income to pay the teachers’ salaries. As a result, the more qualified teachers leave in search of better jobs.
We
at POOR want to give these people hope for a brighter tomorrow.