School information: Location: Ambedkar Nagar, Rethibowli, mehdipatnam, 500028 There are around 120 houses in this slum area. (Kind of small slum when compared to many other areas in the city, surrounded by rich houses around. at the first glance, it is little difficult to acknowledge the existence of a slum in this rea. But it is true. all houses are very small in nature and belong to daily wage workers. it is not that they do not earn, they earn decent amount per day around 150 to 300, but they lack momentum especially in educating their children. you can find the photographs of the school and its environment in my picasa albums. http://picasaweb.google.com/harinathreddy/MehdipatnamSchoolAugust152008 http://picasaweb.google.com/harinathreddy/NoteBookDonation
The school: Classes - 1 to 5. facilities: 1 room, 1 hall (hall is built by donations). There are few donors like naveen of IBM(he donated computer), TMAD (not book and slippers donation). Teachers: 2 (Mr. Naresh headmaster, Mr. Tara singh). But at present Mr. Tara singh is on long leave pursing his higher studies(B.Ed). He will be joining the school after this december mostly probably). There is one private teacher(may be vidya volunteer) who is helping Mr. Naresh is running the school. Mr. Naresh (M.Sc, B.Ed) has brought good amount of motivation in the school children and specially the parents. He persuied them to keep their children clean and send them to the school properly. There is great change in the parents attitude as well, the way they used to come to school previously and now. Now they come better dressed and keeping themselves clean. Naandi foundation used to help the school, but right now there is no visibility of this foundation into this school activiites. I must mention Reddy foundation efforts, their volunteers help the students through cultural means.I met one Mr.Sudharshan who helped children to perform a skit called "Vennela" on august 15. it was a fantastic show. you can find the snaps on my picasa album (links given above). As Per Mr. Naresh, Mr. Srinivas reddy of SSA (Sarva Siksha Abhiyan) promosed to release around 4 to 5 lakhs to build 1st follor for the school, provided we gather 1 lakh rupee. Colony workers can help building the facility by working at low wages to build the same. Some time back I spoke with Mr. Srinivas Reddy, he confirmed the details about SSA contribution. He was really appreciative of our effort. If we can generate around 75K to 1 Lakh We can build few small rooms in the first floor and help the children have good education. Thanks Harinath On 8/16/08, ulprasanthi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Suresh, > > Touchwood. Seems to be TMAD is alive and kicking again. Every > project that we propose is being supported. > > This is the url for the school information > http://tomakeadifference.net/ed_Mehdipatnam.html > > We distributed books this year too. Photos are in Harinath's album. > > We have the photos of slippers distribution too. I think those > photos are in your account only on picasaweb. > > http://picasaweb.google.com/suresh.e/SDP > http://picasaweb.google.com/suresh.e/FDPJanFeb > (This is not our FDP but we distributed the food sponsored by govt. > and supplied by Naandi on the day that we gave the slippers to the > students) > > Naresh garu can give actual statistics in a detailed format. The one > that is in our Web site are last year's details. The strength is > more or less the same. > > There are few books but not in library sort. Space is the biggest > constraint for them. > > Karthik, Srinivas, Vani, Satyakrishna and Veena, please provide your > views about the children, the Headmaster, teachers etc., > > We discussed about this school at length in one of our monthly > meetings. We wanted to improve the standard of the children. Naresh > garu is very successful in keeping the children in school and > convincing the parents to send the children to school. But the > standards of the children are a bit low. If only they have good > space and a better teaching we can inspire students to aim high. > > Apart from Naresh garu, there are only two vidya volunteers. Three > classes in one room, we can imagine the plight of the children. > > More would be in the report. > > Karthik, > > I request you to get all the necessary information and we can host > the school's profile in our Web site as well as provide the project > report in a pdf format to TeluguPeople Foundation. > > > -- Regards... Harinath http://harinath.in http://sosoft.org/ciki Your information source of Hyderabad "Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive"
