Education for 300 Indigenous Children in India

ARV team has been identified 35 tribal children who are not going to school and accompanying parents to collect waste materials to sell for recycling. All the children belonging to Narayanapuram Yanadi colony, before going to school these children go outside along with their parents to collect waste and sell to recycling for survival and earn around 150 rupees per 2days thus the average monthly income of the family is around Rs. 1,500 per month (around Rs. 75/- per day).  The family has to survive on this meagre income.  These families did not have a Ration Card to get subsidised foodgrains under Public Distribution System.   They were unable to eat at least two meals a day as their income is not sufficient to buy foodgrains for the entire family.  Most of the days, the families depends on the food collected by their children by begging, Although these children joined in schools but still they are going to collect food by begging for their morning breakfast.  In the total of 95 families 4 are working as PH workers in municipality, 20 families depends on fishing and remaining all are depends on collecting waste materials and sell for recycling sometimes they also do works like drainage and septic tanks cleaning without any machinery, there was no access to drinking water also they collect and store water from municipality tanks that too weekly twice. Due to lack of proper toilet system in the colony they do open defecation in front of their houses. At present these families are living in houses provided by government which are not in good condition they are almost damaged.

5 children from our children education centers appeard for 10th standard examinations and all have secured good marks and passed . They are now prepareing to join in 11th standard. 

Spoken english materials distributed to 15 members  who are intrested in learning english language.

ARV organised Community Counseling program about children's education at Narayanapuram ST Colony, Machilipatnam. ARV invited Krishna district tribal welfare department officer  on this occasion  distributed notebooks and bags for 35 school dropout children. He said that each and every parent should send their children to school without fail for their good future and development.

We are indeed thanked to Starving No More being supporting 52 children for their education through scholarships on monthly basis. There are 4 children education tutoring centers running and providing more than 300 children education with the appointed qualified teachers. But now we are in tough time to run the centers as there are no adequate resources to pay salaries for teachers and school supplies for children. If we don't mobilise resources to run the education centers there is no way to continue the program. Hence requesting all the donors to support once again and share this information to your wellwishers.