Fund a Kitchen, feed 900 underprivileged girls

We, at BSPES, greatly appreciate all our donors. It is your donations that have helped us achieve our goals, and we hope that you all will continue your support. 

The new kitchen is not completed but is still underway. In the last quarter we managed to collect $104. Thank you to all who donated. But we still have a long way to go and we hope you all will continue to support us in whatever way you can. Every penny will count towards brightening some young girl’s future. This kitchen when completed will be able to provide all the 900 girl students with at least 1 meal. This meal for many of the girls might be their only proper meal of the day. With proper nourishment these highly ambitious girls are able to concentrate and focus, as they strive to fulfill their ambitions. 

Inspite of all the hardships at home the average attendance of girl students in both primary and junior/senior sections was 85% in July. 

Here are some of our success stories. It is these successes that reinforce in us that we are moving in the right direction with these girls, who under different circumstances might be put to work to earn a living, or then married to someone much older to reduce the burden on their parents. With this school they are now able to get an education and learn to be financially independent. 

Beyond finishing high school at BSPES - 

1. Gajal has completed her diploma course at Nettur Technical Training Foundation (NTTF), Bangalore, and has landed her first job at Samsung R&D Institute India as an associate. 
2. Kajol has completed her diploma course at NTTF as well, and landed herself a job at Wimera Systems Pvt Ltd. Bangalore as a software tester. 

Seniors at BSPES - 

1. Sarvesh and Jyoti graduated this year from BSPES and have been selected for a 3 year diploma course at NTTF, Bangalore 
2. Bhavana has been selected for the Masters in Commerce (M.Com) program at Banasthali Vidyapeeth University in Rajasthan
3. Rekha Rayka has joined an Administrative Course offered by the Community College Initiative Program at Denver, USA. 
4. Avanu applied and got selected for her Masters in The Yoga & Consciousness Program at SVYASA Bangalore, India.

Health, Hygiene, and Social Sector - 

1. Dr Taneja Donated a Haemoglobin Machine and has performed health checks on the students as well
2. Mr Mahesh Ramchandran, living in Austin, TX USA (he initiated the new Kitchen project) visited our school. 
3. Two batches of self-employed tailor training has been completed at BSPES with the support of NBCFDC (National Backward Classes Finance and Development Corporation  
4. Our sewing center has sewed 50 uniforms for our students. 
5. We distributed 115 Sanitary Napkins to students who have 90% attendance.  
6. NBCFDC has provided a Sanitary Napkins Dispenser and incinerator for our students.  Mr Kathuria (GM) of NBCFDC & his team visited our school and we conducted a health and hygiene program with their support. Mr Kathuria inaugurated The Sanitary Napkins Dispenser & Incinerator. 
7.  We have initiated the Sukanya Samridhi Yojna account for NS and 1st grade students, supported by RTI team members. 

Primary Section - 

1. Make your own Play Doh activity - Nursery to prep class engage in fun activities using their fine motor skills. They have fun making different vegetables and fruits using their imagination with the play doh made with flour  
2. Hand Wash Activity - Nursery to Prep class is learning the importance of hand washing and the reasons for making this a habit. 
3. General Knowledge Competition:- One of our new teachers, Ms Mohini Sharma, has started a competition where she puts up questions in the hallways and the 6-7th grade students write down the answers they know. 
4. Role play, hands-on learning are some of the new and exciting ways in which the teachers are beginning to teach and assess the student’s knowledge base. 

Junior/Senior Section - 

1. Using Technology in Academics - Our 11th & 12th grade Physics classes are completely taught through video lectures by ASHISH SINGH and PRADEEP KSHETRAPAL. Their YouTube videos have taken over the position of teachers since it is hard to find high caliber teachers in this part of the country for these subjects. These lectures are highly appreciated by students. However this does require more laptops and projectors to conduct these YouTube sessions. 
2. The 11th and 12th grade Economics classes have also employed the same teaching approach. So far we have set-up five rooms as projector rooms, but we are definitely looking to get more set up with additional devices.
3. Some IITians (Students studying at IIT - Indian Institute of Technology) also visited our school and taught Calculus and Vectors to the students. They motivated the students to self-study as they talked about focus and self-discipline.
4. Junior/senior teachers are being trained on incorporating thinking skills in teaching and assessments (Bloom’s Taxonomy). Sessions with teachers have been taken on developing questions on different domains of learning with examples from Sociology, Civics, Maths, and English Teachers practiced and developed similar questions on different topics of their subjects. Now they have added these domains in their lesson planning.  Teachers training also included how to split and organise the syllabus of different subjects All the teachers teaching BOARD classes have split-up their syllabus and are following it in their teaching classes. All are confident to finish their syllabuses before September last or October mid. After this continuous practice and assessment will be done with these classes  
5. One of our graduates, Indu, she graduated from high school last year, is being trained as a computer tech. After just a week’s training Indu is able to open laptops/computers, replace hard discs, RAMs, CMOS battery, install windows and all necessary software, and to do general troubleshooting/diagnosing. 

Links:

• A video showing the students working in the kitchen
• Our website