Improving the quality of Education, renovating the infrastructure and developing it as a centre of quality
education for the slum children in the area.
Sakshum started this project with the adoption of a
govt. school named ' CNN Thanda' located in Madhapur, Hyderabad. Sakshum
adopted this school as a pilot program to better understand all the implications. We aimed
at the overall development of the school. Sakshum's Adopt A School initiative works to
bring positive change to the current setup of slum or other schools which lack basic needs
and quality education.
Sakshum doesn't want just adopt a couple of schools and stay with them forever. Rather
the goal is to replicate the model by applying our learning and experiences to every
place in India where we can recruit a team of volunteers willing to adopt a school for the betterment of the society. In brief, after
adopting a school we look into following areas:
1. Education:
We focus on improving the quality of education by
supplementry teaching with the help of volunteers, hiring additional well-qualified
teachers, providing necessary stationary, bringing innovative teaching methods with the
help of flash cards, symbolic objects, picture stories, etc. The overall aim to provide the best teaching aids
and resources for the students.
Another important thing we aim in this area is minimize the drop-out rates in these
schools by counseling the parents, as well as the students and trying to break the
barriers that restrict these children from continuing their education.
2. Healthcare:
Without ensuring good healthcare it does not make much
sense to just focusing on education. Sakshum tries to ensure various health checkup camps like eye care, ENT checkups, dental check and
a general checkup can be conducted annually.
Sakshum also tries to ensure basic amenities which are essential for good health.
3. Infrastructure:
However, we try to spend minimum in the area of
infrastructure as it is the job of govt. but still we invest for the things which are bare minimum required for children to keep motivated to come to school. Some of
these are toilet facilites, drinking water, electricity and blackboard repairing etc..
Mission: Our mission is to eliminate the most common barriers to education, health
and infrastructure for the adopted schools and move on to adopt another similar school.
The document on 'Model Replication' which a work in progress can be accessed at
here
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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 to provde medicine, spectacles etc.
4. Developing/ renovating the infrastructure 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.
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
Sakshum defines end goal for every school adopted under this project. These goals are
divided into two categories viz. one-time and recurring. One-time goals are the once
like fixing electricity setup, ensuring good water facility etc. whereas, recurring
goals are like health checkup camps, ensuring ample teaching material and
stationary for the students etc.
The attached link has a detailed action plan. It lists total budget requirements and amount raised for the various
schools adopted by Sakshum.
Action Plan Sheet. Action plan of individual schools can be accessed on school wise project pages listed
below.
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
We are always in need of funds to sustain our initiatives. We have to bear the expenses in
organizing volunteers, entertaining school children/ staff, building/renovating
infrastructure, transporting affected children to hospital and various other activities.
To help Sakshum achieve its mission please
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