Education support to 300 Slum Children of Rayagada

PROJECT FINAL REPORT

Name of Pogramme: Education support to 300 slum children of Rayagada

Implementing Organization: Shakti Organization, Rayagada, Odisha, India.

Project Achievements:

SHAKTI started 12 Education centers in 12 Slums of Rayagada town from 1st Sept.2014. These centers enrolled 300 children of marginalized community, out of them 125 are girls and 175 are boys.

• By impact of the programme, 37 school dropout children became now regular in school and since the initiation of this programme, there is no further dropout.
• 185 students have made improvements in their half yearly examination in Dec.-14.
• In addition to educational focus, as, we emphasized on hygienic practice of students, we 271 students are now regularly cutting their nails and washing hands with soaps before taking food.
• In the March-15 annual exam, our Programme has shown some good impact, 23 students stood within the best tenth in their classes, 46 students got position among first 20 good performers in annual exam in their classes.
• In the March-16 annual exam, 68 children secured more than 60 %, 147 children secured more than 50 % and 85 children secured more than 40%.
• 112 students’ Hand writing style is improved.
• Though the original planed project period was for one year (Sept.-14 to Aug.-15), we extended the period for another 1 year 4 months, till Dec.-16.
• The project served 300 children from 12 Slum from Sept.-14 to Dec.-16 and 50 more children from 2 additional slum from

From Children’s voice:

Harika, a student of class 6^th told, “my parents never sent me to any coaching class, because of financial constraint, but fortunately, I got the chance and benefited a lot from this free coaching programme, now I am able to compete with my other friends, and stood 2^nd position in my class.

Kumar, a student of Class 5^th shared his experience, “I was an irregular student in my class, I enjoyed playing street games in school hours, but after the Didi’s(Education center Teacher) repeatedly approach (motivation), I am now a regular and good student”.  

Bhavani, a student of class 6^th shared her experience, “I thank to the teacher of our Education center, who has personally taken care of my study and I am now a meritious student in my Basti(Slum) and my mother is proud of me”.

Sukanti, a student of Class 5^th told, “I was afraid of mathematics, now, in the last annual Exam. I got 68 marks out of 100, I am happy now”.

After 2 years 4 months managing the programme, the programme is handed over to the community, i.e. Slum Education Committee to manage the education centers out of their contributions. As they realized the benefits of these education centers to their children, we expect they will manage it seriously. But still out of 14 Education centers, 7 centers successfully handover to the community.

Gratification:

We are very much thankful to the donors, who supported this programme and the community who has taken the ownership of the pogramme. The progress of the community managed Education centers will be uptodated regularly through Shakti Website for information of all supporters. It can be viewed at www.shaktiorg.com.

General Secretary,

Shakti Organisation, Rayagada, Odisha,India.

• Project Final report (PDF)