Help Educate A Child ensures that the schools are well equipped with the minimum requirement to foster the learning experience of a child. We provide educational materials, books,sports items, toys for anganwadi children etc. We have also funded the schools to improve the infrastructure. Today the schools are fenced by barbed wire to prevent wild animals entering the school compound. We have also appointed teachers’ aides to teach children as there is a shortage of Govt. appointed teachers in the area.
In a nutshell we facilitate the educational environment in schools.
There was no power or water in the schools.
To alleviate this problem, each student was provided with a solar lantern which can light for 4-5 hours on a complete charge. The charging station for solar lanterns is installed in the school (solar panels fixed on top of the existing school building). The children get their battery pack to schools to get them charged which indirectly prompts the students to attend the school.
One of the major challenges in the schools was to fetch water for cooking meals for lunch from the existing wells. Help Educate A Child with the help of Mu Sigma Business Solutions Pvt. Ltd installed solar water pumps through which water is pumped directly into the 2 tanks installed on top of the school building - one for cooking/drinking and the other for cleaning/sanitary purposes.
We have appointed 11 teachers aides to help the teachers in the schools.
Help Educate A Child puts in its best efforts to improve the living standards of a child by promoting education. Our team consults the teachers and villagers to gather requirements for the betterment of schools. We constantly follow up and stay in touch with the teachers of the school to find out the progress of the students.
It is very rare for children in these schools to pursue higher education. The Government schools have facilities only to complete up to 5th or 7th grade only. The children have to travel to MM Hills for pursuing higher education which is the biggest challenge for many children as parents don’t wish to send their children far to study further, especially the girls.
Activities during 2023-2024:
1. Continue providing notebooks to all children – notebooks and accessories were delivered to all the 21 schools during Feb/2018 at a cost of Rs. 4.28 lakhs.
2. Increase the number of teachers aides in the schools.
3. Increase the number of individual students we support for their higher studies.
HELP EDUCATE A CHILD – registered in 2010, is an NGO which has supported students and schools in remote areas situated within 35 kms. radius of Male Mahadeshwara Temple (located in Chamarajanagar Dist).
We started working with 4 schools, and are currently supporting 31 schools and 28 anganwadis, 3000+ children. These are very backward areas where there is no power, water in the schools, or any other basic amenities. Parents could not afford to buy notebooks for the children, hence they did not send the children to school in many cases. Due to the road conditions (as there are no roads at all, only pathways on boulders) we can travel to only some of the schools by rural jeeps, and the rest of the schools can be accessed by walking to them, many times, more than 6-7 kms. one way.
Some activities of Help Educate A Child over the years:
1. Provide notebooks, and other required stationary requirements for all the students who study in the schools we support. During academic year 2023-2024, total cost of this project was Rs. 9.46 lakhs
2. Have installed solar lamp facilities in Thulasikere, Indiganatha, Padasulanatha, Thokere and Doddane schools, benefitting 405 children.
3. Have installed solar pumps in Thulasikere, Indiganatha, Padasulanatha, Doddane & Alambadi schools, so that 440 children have water in the schools.
4. Support individual students who wish to study further - during 2023-2024, we supported over 49 students, to an extent of Rs. 7.00 lakhs
5. Appoint teachers aides to help teachers to teach the children, as there is a shortage of Govt. Appointed teachers in these areas.
6. Libraries and computer centers are set up in all the schools we support.
7. Conduct educational/medical and dental camps.
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