Friends, On saturday morning, myself and Karthik visited Mehdipatnam school. (we have photos and will update by this weekend. There is a problem with my home connection and I couldn't access it for the past 10 days or so. Hopefully I can get it back in this week).
As Karthik said, the Headmaster is very dedicated and committed person. He will co-operate a lot. We distributed slippers to few students. There is a need for exchange. Sarath and Karthik went for exchange on saturday evening. This morning Headmaster might have distributed the slippers to all the children. I can see a long-term association with this school. The reasons being: 1. The school is near to some of our members - Karthik and Kalpana (she too might join Karthik's team) 2. Not so far to our other active members 3. Headmaster is co-operative and he can give us all the support I will write it in detail later (I didn't bring the book in which I noted down the points). This is the summary of their requirements: 1. They need notebooks and pens/pencils 2. Books for Library if we can provide 3. Uniform for boys (Naandi sponsored two pairs of uniform for girl students) I personally feel that we can provide the first two. As authorities are keen on getting the children to school, Uniform is not a constraint. If they can have good dress that is fine. The purpose of Uniform is something that children shouldn't differentiate among themselves and they should feel that they are all equal. If we can provide fine, but when compared to the first two, the third one is not so important. We have noted the strengths of children in each class and the requirements of books. (We have a set of note books - for 23 students, that we bought for Anikepalli children. We can use them here). They asked us to provide by June 25th or July 1st though the school re-opens on June 12th. This is just an update. There is a lot more to write about/on this school. Will write once we upload photos. -- Thank you. with regards, PRASANTHI. ---- When you want something, the whole universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
