Asha for Education March 19 2006 Monthly Meeting Back 2 School Phase II Project Proposal

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Asha for Education March 19 2006 Monthly
Meeting Back 2 School Phase II Project Proposal
Support for Tsunami Affected Children
Asha AZ Project Champions Mukund Asha Chennai
Contacts Lakshmi and Rajaraman
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Background
More than a year since the Tsunami hit the coast
of Tamilnadu. A lot of children have suffered
from this tragedy. Their schooling has also
been impacted. Many children lost their school
books, notebooks, uniforms etc. The schools
play an important role in returning to these
children a sense of normalcy. It further
provides them a secure environment away from
their home. Thus it is important that we get the
children these materials so that they can resume
their normal schooling activities. It is with
this intention that Asha Chennai provided Back
to School support for about 2500 children last
year (for the academic year 2005-06). We are
continuing to receive requests for the Back to
School support for the year 2006-07 as well. The
regeneration of many of the affected communities
is a slow and ongoing process. Therefore this
help is required for the continuing education of
these children.
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The schools that have been identified for support
by Asha, are schools where a majority of the
children are affected by the Tsunami. In a
couple of cases the intended beneficiaries of the
project are not children of a specific school but
children from an affected village that go to
different schools. There is no plan for
long-term involvement with these schools. The
volunteers (they are the people who have
identified the needs working in these areas plan
to follow up with the children in these areas at
least once a week).
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Schools Identified

• Some of the schools and organizations are
  identified below
• The children will be from areas identified
  through
• CLEAD / UWF an organization we worked with in
  the earlier Phase I of the project. The children
  will be from Nadukuppam near Triplicane, Kasimedu
  Kuppam and Pazhaverkadu 250 numbers from KG
  classes to college level- 4 to 18 years age
• These children go to different schools mostly
  aided by the govt. These schools do not get
  uniforms and have to make their own arrangements
  for notebooks.
• Children identified from govt. schools and aided
  schools in Akkarapettai by the headmistress of
  the Sinthanai Sirpi School. These children are
  from the neighbourhood of her school who go to
  the schools very close to hers in Classes 1-12. -
  200 children 5 to 18 years of age
• There is also a Balwadi very close to the
  Sinthanai Sirpi School In Akkarapettai where the
  children do need support with clothes and play
  materials, crayons and colours- 50 children 3 to
  6 years of age

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Since this list is continuing to expand, we are
treating this as an open ended project. The list
of schools and children actually helped as part
of this project is captured elsewhere and would
be posted in the webpage along with this
proposal. We are currently requesting support
for an additional 500 children at the cost of Rs
1000 per child.
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Fund Requirement Information/Summary
Support Details Budget For each student we
intend to provide the following Note books for
children The notebooks varies starting at 2
ruled, 1 unruled, 1 maths and 1 drawing notebooks
for classes 1 and 2 to 1 unruled, 2 long
composition books and 6 long unruled 200 page
notebooks for classes 11 and 12. Pencil box for
all classes with pencils and pens (higher
classes). Colour pencils and crayons for children
upto 6th standard. Geometry boxes for 7th to 12th
standard children. One lunch box per child. One
school bag per child. One activity book for fun
and games for coming to terms with the effects of
the Tsunami Two sets of uniforms or civil clothes
(esp. for college students or Balwadi children)
at an average cost of Rs 250 per set for each
child. Note we will initially give one uniform
for the children and give the other set after we
are able to cover all the children. Total Cost
per Child for the above items Rs 1000. Total
Support Required for the Project 500 Rs 1000
Rs 5 Lakhs
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Proposed Asha Arizona Funding
Furniture for the classrooms etc. Rs 1.3 Lakhs
( USD 3,100.00) Teaching/Learning materials Rs
1.2 Lakhs ( USD 2,900.00) Teacher Salaries and
Miscellaneous Expenses Rs 1.5 Lakhs ( USD
3,600.00)
Total Cost for the Asha AZ part of the funding
USD 9,600.00 Rs 4.0 Lakhs USD 9,600.00 _at_ 1
Rs 42 (This is what they get after bank charges)
Current balance of Asha AZ Tsunami funds USD
13,613.41