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It started only with one school

SAVIDYA UPASAMITI2014 – 15

PROJECT MID TERM REPORT

Jayant Joshi & Kalyan GhatakApril 29th 2015

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Project Overview

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The Savidya Upasmiti project seeks to improve the quality of school education and Health Care of children in the Champawat region of Uttarakhand by

providing additional resources in the public schools, and by

increasing awareness in the local community regarding the importance of education and the people’s right to quality education.

The project is Managed and Run Primarily by Executive Committee under the direction of Secretary & Principal Functionary Dr H D Bist,(Prof Retd IITK),of the Himalaya Water Service Tatha Vikas Avam Paryavaran Sanrakshan Samiti (HWSTVAPSS) and has been funded primarily by the Si V chapter AFE (Asha-SV) since the project’s inception in 2005.Other Agencies like SSF and ICA

The following slides contain:

A report of the project activities during 2014-15, and

An output of the site visit conducted in February 2015

Mid Term Progress Overview

Achievements/events conducted post project renewal in oct 2014

The website “Himwats.org” represent the post renewal activities after Oct 2014 till March 31 2015under 2014-15 activities

Site Visit Report conducted by Harshit Upreti

Overall status, challenges

Request for release of approved funds remaining for 2014-15

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Support -A-School 67%

Administrative Expenses 11%

TeahersTraining Wrishop 4%

SiddhaJagranSeva 6%

Learning ResourceCenter 12%

2014-2015 key Project plans

Events from 2014 – 2015…

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1. L.A.S.R.C workshop, Feb. 2015 (skeleton).2. J. Kulethi: Pankaj Joshi participated on Vigyan mahotsav in state level with

certificate and medal awarded3. Rohit kumar and his group (j. Kulethi) who participated on Ball vigyan congress in

state level also was awarded certificate and medal.4. Science fair conducted in S.R.C Kulehti; all volunteer and govt. teacher, guardian

appreciated science models, experiments5. National science day 2015 planned: The theme is “IYL (International Year of

Light) 2015”

Key accomplishments from 2014-2015

Six students from Primary school kulethi got admission in Navodya School

Three students cleared the NTSE(National Talent Search Examination)

Five students from Primary School Kulethi participated in state level sports competitions

From Primary School Champawat, two students participated in Taekwondo competition at district level while two students were awarded first prize in folk dance competition at district level

Six students from Primary School Khark Karki participated in state level sports competitions

Four students from Junior School Khark Karki participated in state level sports competitions and three students were selected for National Level

Many students from the schools won various cultural and sports competitions organized at the block level

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Pics from the winter training program (December 25th to Jan 31st)

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Winter work All volunteer work in winter vacation. extra classes in all Adopted schools. Volunteer use this time to help students for getting selected in Navodya, N.T.S, and for Science stream with STEM emphasis ,taking help of internet

Nation Science Day 2014: Feb 28

Science exhibition, Cultural program, Smarika-release, Inauguration, prizes, scholarships, certificates of excellence, workshop on Disaster Management

Projector and Computer Teaching 2014

Projector Teaching P. Kulethi- Projector Teaching

Volunteer Rekha Adhikari Teaching Computer

Presenting Good Habit Teaching with the help of projector

Projector and Computer Teaching 2014

Projector Teaching P. Kulethi- Computer teaching

Volunteer Rekha Adhikari teaching Science N.S.D with the help of projector and laptop slide show conducted.

1- P.Kulethi – Workshops about Food Chain.2- P. Kulethi- Volunteer Deepak Tamta inform about Food chain need.3- All Students participated by group.4- J. Dungra sethi Workshop About plants.

Science workshops 2014

Achievements cont…

The exceptional progress seen after SV support has continuedOn March 31 2015 two students have succeeded in entering Rajiv Navodaya keeping the tradition of free education to these poorest of the poor students in Govt Schools.Mr Aakash Baloni, a UK resident in London and British Civil Service ,having connections with Mumbai and Bangalore has chosen to spend 6 months (to one year) helping children in Himwats adopted schools in English, Science and Maths. He chose Champawat after his research of 200 NGO’s helping poor children in Govt Schools


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Site Visit Report1

Site Visit

Site visit conducted by Harshit Upreti, NMIMS, Mumbai and Mr Nirmal Pandey, HIMWATS Haldwani OfficeVisit dates: 15-16th Feb. 2015Visit conducted in all Adopted Schools undertaken by Asha SavidyaVisit report uploaded at: http://www.ashanet.org/projects-new/documents/636/

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Site Visitor-Harshit Upreti

Site visit highlights

In all the schools students of primary school can read and write English. The understanding of the subjects is thoroughStudents were aware about the day-to-day happenings and general knowledge was found to be sound. All the students were wearing the government distributed school uniform. The records for distribution of free medicines (Liv 52) to students and distribution of notebooks were maintained properly. The library book issue details were also properly documented.


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Site visit highlights

The volunteers regularly take classes in the science center and demonstrate the concepts of refraction (using prisms), lenses, lasers, centre of gravity etc. which are not part of the curriculum but students of the school have a clear understanding about them.

All the schools regularly schedule demonstrations using CD/DVD for every class.

Water filters donated by Banks, other organisation are installed in all the schools for providing clean drinking water.

In the primary school Khark Karki, many guardians told that because of the quality of education in HIMWATS adopted schools they have admitted their kids to these schools from private schools.

The absenteeism in school is handled by the volunteer quite nicely as they go to the homes of the children not present in the school and request parents to send their children to the school daily. On an average, the attendance of students is around 80-85%.


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Challenges seen

Volunteers who leave are not replaced easily and school activities suffer.

The enrolment in some of the schools is declining every year and the faculties have attributed this to

less kids in the villages

parents prefer sending their kids to private schools as they are perceived to be providing better education as compared to government schools.


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Recommendations from site visit

The salary paid to the volunteers is quite low (maximum – Rs 5000) as compared to the amount paid to government teachers (Minimum Rs 25000). The volunteers are doing good work for the students hence they must be paid more in order to retain them for a longer period of time. The science center has a huge repository of equipment which can be used better if a more qualified person is recruited for demonstrating the experiments to the students on a daily basis.


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Recommendations from site visit cont..

It was observed that in some schools there were few or no volunteers (one volunteer had resigned and one was on maternity leave), so with the understanding amongst the volunteers and under the guidance of knowledge club members, volunteers can rotate on a weekly or monthly basis so that the work of the organization is not stopped.

In the meeting a new idea came up, the idea was to set up an assessment level of every subject in every class and the volunteers will ensure that all the students must be able to clear the assessment level. The state government has provided the schools with a chart for every class which states the level of understanding a student must have in a subject with time. Students will be promoted to the next class as per the mandate by the government.


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Funding: Release 2nd Installment budget of 2014-5

The total approved budget of 2014-15 Rs. 18 87 ,700Released 1st Installment in Oct-Nov 2014 Rs. 9, 50,000/

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Budget 2nd installment to be released Rs 9, 43,850

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