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Adopt A School: Adarsh Prathmik Pathshala

› Focus
› About the Project
› Project Objectives
› Scholarship
› End Goal
› Project Coordinators
› Action Plan
› Statistics
› Snaps
› Volunteer/ Project Leads
› Sponsor

Focus

Improving the quality of Education, renovating the infra-structure and developing it as a center of quality education for the slum children in the area.

About the Project

Sakshum has identified the govt. school named 'Adarsh Prathmik Pathshala School ' located in sector 27, Gautam Budha Nagar district, UP, India suitable for adoption. Sakshum will be looking into the overall development of this govt. school. Sakshum's Adopt A School initiative is about bringing a positive change in the current setup of slum or other schools which lack basic needs and quality education.

Scenario at the Time of Adoption: It is a government run school with one principal, 4 govt. teacher. Total number of students are 331. All of them are from the neighborhood, most of them are the children of daily wage workers around the area. The students are not being charged any fee and any child is allowed to register in the school any day throughout the year. School receives quite less aid from the govt. Below mentioned End Goals provide the checklist to be completed to meet our objectives.

Mission: Our mission is to provide all the basic facilities for this school in the area of education, health and infra-structure and make it capable to provide quality education.

Project Objectives

1. To improve quality of education in the school by adding staff, and fulfilling basic requirements like notebooks for students.
2. To create awareness among students about prevention of corneal injuries and maintaining better eye hygiene.
3. Providing aids and treatment to all the affected children by taking them to good hospitals and helping in provding medicine, spectacles etc.
4. Developing/ renovating the infra-structure to make it a suitable place for education.
5. Controlling the high drop out rate in the school.
6. Ensuring children get nutritious food in mid-day meal.

Scholarship

In the loving memories of Sh. Jai Bhagwan Sharma (Father of Neeti) her family planned to fund a scholarship of Rs 10000/- every year for bright students chosen from our adopted schools. Please find more information here

End Goal

1. Education:

* To provide the students necessary aid for their studies.

* To celebrate important events like Children’s day, Independence day, Republic day etc with the children.

* Will arrange fun activities like a magic show or a puppet show time to time.

* To organize social and interactive activities e.g. Parent/Teacher meetings in an attempt to control drop out rate and address other problems that the parents might be facing in regard to their children.

* Getting involved in teaching the children, directly (taking classes in the school) or indirectly to improve the quality of education (working with existing teaching members to improve the teaching quality).

* Arrangement of computer resources and required training for it.

* Setting up a parents helpline to address the child education specific issues of parents.

2. Infra Structure:

* Will improve the basic facilities in the school. This includes improving the existing condition of the classrooms to make them suitable for teaching and learning, improving the school premises by keeping it clean and green; providing other facilities in the school within our capabilities etc.

* Will provide new carpets for functions in the school.

* Will provide toilet cleaning accessories like wipers, toilet cleaners etc.

* Will provide plates for the mid-day meal to the student who either do not have it or need a new.

3. Health:

* Arranging first aid box and required basic first-aid education about it
* Annual general checkup camp
* Annual Dental Camp
* Annual ENT camp

Project Coordinators

Sukham Lata Mahajan (latasuksham@gmail.com)
Vik (vik@sakshum.org)

Action Plan

Attached link has a detailed action plan. It lists all the requirements identified by Sakshum and status of various activities. Please access here the Action Plan.

Statistics

No. of children affected	Improvement Areas after Adoption
331	Children are now celebrating all the imp events Completed Eye Screening Program for all the children Improvements in the school hygiene conditions.

Snaps

Eye screening event
Oct 2nd Event coverage
Teacher's day Event coverage
Game Session coverage

Volunteer/ Project Leads

Sakshum welcomes every one who wants to volunteer in any of the upcoming project events. If you are interested to lead an event of project Adopt A School please send us an

Sponsor

We are always in need of funds to sustain our initiatives. We have to bear the expenses in organizing volunteers, entertaining school children/ staff, buuilding/renovating infra structure, transporting affected children to hospital and various other activities. To help Sakshum achieve its mission please