• Beneficiary Identification
• Immediate Developmental Needs
• Strategy Localization
• Project Implementation

Beneficiary Identification

Among the 279 schools present in Puttur, about 208 (forming about 75% of total schools in Puttur) of them are public schools managed by the state government. The rest are privately owned- either aided or unaided schools. Out of the enrolled students about 65% of the children are enrolled in public schools. A further survey of the enrolled students in the region yielded that 79% of all the students come from a rural back ground and 18% among belong to the scheduled tribes (indigenous to the land and generally inhabit forest and hilly regions) and scheduled casts (socially/economically marginalized groups). The public schools are dependent on government aids and often remain in the lower rung of development. They hence fall behind in infrastructural and overall development, in comparison with the private counterparts, who enjoy higher financial security, thanks to generous donations and private funds. The government schools are often under-funded and have short comings that exhibit tremendous scope for improvement. The rural sections of the society are also often deprived of basic amenities (such as shelter, water, electricity etc) that the urban society enjoys. These factors limit the possibility of sustenance of education in the rural sector, especially in public schools. Therefore at Kanchana Foundation, we believe that Government/ Public schools offer us a tremendous opportunity to effectively out reach the project and implement them.

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The Alanthaya Government Higher Primary School

To realize these goals, a survey of the most backward regions and its 208 schools in Puttur region is made. The educational and social settings are studied. A beneficiary school is then selected. The developments concerning education, children, teachers and the society in general are studied. The basic strategy in providing a set of tailored solutions is based on the following idea. When the resources and capacities are among the underprivileged are limited and the when they not benefited by the existing resources, the foundation works on these elements creatively to reconfigure and effectively utilize available resources and providing additional resources to bring in utility and sustainability. With these objectives in mind, we have identified a school in one of the remote village areas of Puttur region. The government higher primary school in the Aalanthaya village has been found as the most deserving beneficiary of our sponsorship and implementation of the projects (Read More).

The school imparting education from class 1 to class 7, has about 102 students, among them 60% origin from the family belonging to below poverty level (BPL) group. Almost all of the students belong to backward class community and among them nearly 41% belonging to scheduled cast and scheduled tribes.

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Immediate Developmental Needs

The school has 4 government appointed teachers, among them one being the head teacher. That leaves effectively only 3 of them for the job of teaching, and one teacher handling the administrative tasks. A detailed study about the school including discussions with school teachers, parents and school betterment committee clearly showed following issues:

• Need of teachers- at least two more teachers are required for an effective level of teaching.
• Resourcefulness among the existing teachers- Teachers need to be trained on various aspects of teaching, modern educational aids and resources.
• Need of a physical training teacher.
• The students though regular in their attendance, the standards of learning need to be increased to a greater degree.
• Complete absence of computer, laboratory, science aids, modern teaching aids etc to effectively impart education. The children currently merely imagine various scientific experiments and no actual demonstrations are done.
• Complete lack of extracurricular and physical activities.
• Though the books and writing material is provided by the government, children lack enough dresses to wear it to school, lack of eating plates for the free food provided by the government.
• Lack of health scheme and regular health checkups.
• Parents of the children themselves are unable to provide suitable environment for the children to appreciate and take education to higher levels.
• One of the main issues also includes educating the parents of the children on the important issues of necessity of education and need to send the children to school and keep them educated at least till the university education level.

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Strategy Localization

To begin with, the Kanchana Foundation will provide following resources as an immediate response to the issues faced by the school:

• Sponsor two unemployed, trained teachers
• Provide monthly training to the parents as a means of educating them in various topics like Government plans, Introduction to Health schemes, Benefits of Agricultural schemes etc.
• Introduce students to computers
• Award prizes ( 1st ,2nd ,3rd) to meritorious students from class 1st to 7th- as a fillip to keep continued interest and passion in learning.
• Provide plates and glasses to effectively run the midday meal scheme.
• Arrange medical/ dental camps for students and parents to monitor health conditions.

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Project Implementation

On 8. February 2012, a Memorandum of Understanding drafted by the Department of Public Education (Government of Karnataka) was officially signed by Mr. Sundar Bhat Kanchana, the Representative Head of the Kanchana Foundation, thereby officially adopting the government school in the Alanthaya village. By signing this MOU, the Kanchana Foudnation will provide assistance to the school for the next 5 years.

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