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Adopt A School: Mohammad Hussain Govt. High School

› Focus
› About the Project
› Project Objectives
› 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 centre of quality education for the slum children in the area.

About the Project

Sakshum has identified the govt. school named 'Mohammad Hussain Govt High School ' located in New Hafeezpet, Rangareddi district, Andhra Pradesh, 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 slum school with one principal, 3 govt. teacher and 8 vidya volunteers. Total number of students are 472. 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.

End Goal

1. Education:

* To provide the students necessary aid for their studies.

* School does not have usable blackboards so need to be replaced.

* To organize social and interactive activities e.g. Parent/Teacher meetings in an attempt to control drop out rate.

* 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:

* Entire classroom area is muddy and becomes too difficult to manage in rainy season.

* School does not have a water motor to pump and store drinking water

* Making some virtual partitions in the classroom so that more than one class can be taught comfortably.

* There is a requirement of floor mats as children have to sit on cold floors.

* Need to paint lower area of the smaller classrooms to make it suitable for scribbling by children.

3. Health:

* Annual Eye Care I Care Camp
* Annual general checkup camp
* Annual Dental Camp
* Annual ENT camp

Project Coordinators

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
472	All classrooms have carpets for sitting All classrooms have blackboards There is water facility in the toilets Clean drinking water supply in school Muddy area of the school is fixed

Snaps

School's condition before adoption: school campus
Mohammad Hussain Govt High School Event coverage
Plumbing, flooring and blackboard completion event

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 .

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