By Sonal Shukla | Trustee
Dear friends,
Warm greetings from Vacha Trust. All of us in Vacha team are grateful to you for supporting our building fund for acquiring a small place of our own which will be a centralized place to carry on gender training and other activities.
Currently there is much upheaval in building industry due to demonetization of currency notes for INR 500 and 1000. This is for discouraging hoarding of notes for tax evasion. Fortunately we have done all transactions by cheque only and have booked space with one of the better construction companies. We have been promised possession in April 2017. We are all looking forward to it. Of course, we still have to make final payments including for 6 months of maintenance and also for all the amenities and for furniture. Still it is exciting that, after all these 30 years of functioning we will have a ‘room of our own’ as Virginia Woolf would recommend. We will have to continue hiring space elsewhere is our own space will be very small. Still it is great no one can throw us out from there. We hope you will visit us when/if you are in Mumbai.
This year it is only in November that we finally got permission to continue our inputs in Municipal schools for the poor. Since the children come from literacy deprived families they find it very difficult to cope with 2 of the three languages that are introduce in class 5. These are English, Hindi and Marathi. We will have to have a crash course for weaker students as we now have barely one semester to work on this. We will continue with other programmes in schools also.
The weather is pleasant now so our participants’ trips to explore local educational resources have started. The girls come from deprived families who cannot arrange such trips and their schools neglect use of these resources. This year’s trip included a visit to the newly updated aquarium and to Nehru Centre’s display on ‘Discovery of India’ and to famous Hanging Gardens and Kamla Nehru Park.
We hope you will continue with your generosity during the month beginning with the Giving Tuesday on November 29 so we can qualify for matching grants of various kinds.
With best wishes and regards,
Sonal Shukla
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