By J.K. Sinha | Founder-Chairman
A Silent Revolution – Helping the Helpless
This project aims to provide quality education to the children of the musahar (rat-eaters) the most deprived and exploited community in India. The project runs a fully free English medium residential school for them. Thanks to the understanding and generosity of the donors, this project received the second largest donations and won a bonus of $2000 at the Global Open Challenge Round in December 2009. Since then the school has admitted 58 children in January 2010. The school hired extra floor area adding one more dormitory and two more classrooms to accommodate the new admissions. Presently the school has 204 students. All the new admissions were in pre-school class and a few in class I.
The school augmented its library by adding a few hundred more books in English and Hindi. These include encyclopedia for children. Room to Read an NGO founded by Mr. John Wood, generously donated 970 books to the school library. The school has also established a laboratory for chemistry and physics but lot more needs to be done to improve the laboratory facilities and bring it to acceptable standards. The school also purchased one acre of land for the proposed school building another acre adjoining the land purchased will be bought this year. The plan is to have a residential school to accommodate 1000 children eventually.
An Impact Story
14 year old Papu and his his parents live in a musahar ghetto called Pakhur-Pali in the Patna district. His father is a landless laborer who makes very little money. In the two years that Pappu has been at Shoshit Samadhan Kendra, he has shown remarkable aptitude and progress. He has been appointed the captain of Dr. Ambedkar House. He was one of the few musahar children who improved his academics through self study. His academic performance is excellent.
• Class VI 2007 English – 66% Hindi – 77% Maths – 91% Science – 89 % Social Studies – 78% • Class VII 2008 English – 73% Hindi – 73% Maths – 95% Science – 70% Social Studies - 70%
Pappu as well as the others at Shoshit Samadhan Kendra shall undoubtedly make a quantum jump in life when they pass-out from the school. They will act as catalysts of change for their deprived and unfortunate community. Your donation and support for Pappu will ensure a bright future for him and give new meaning to the lives of his parents!
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