Annual Report 2012
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
ANNUAL REPORT Literacy India Its all about Education , Empowerment and creating Livelihood opportunities... Literacy India completed 16 years of work at a fervent pace towards educating, empowering & finding employment opportunities for our beneficiaries. Seeing children grow up as successful young adults who are doing well for themselves as well as giving back to Literacy India, makes us feel proud that we taught them right. ANNUAL REPORT 2012 Projects & Pedagogy - Page 2, Sujata @ Colombia Asia Hospital and at Literacy India Tarrannum - Marshal Arts Champion Pathshala & Gyantantara -Page 3 Champions of Change - Page 4 Gurukul Performers -Page 5 Vidyapeeth - Page 6 & 7 Karigari - Page 8 to 11 Total Reach Out - Page 12 Donors ,Team Members Audit & Accounts - Page 13 to 17 FOUNDER S DESK We thank Encore ,Teleperformance and KPMG for their ongoing support to Towards the year end – it is difficult to sum Vidyapeeth where Sujata passed out from up and prepare a synopsis of bucket load of and many other children growing up with work and activities carried out in various proper schooling. projects under challenging circumstances. Let me start with Sujata, our Vidyapeeth Karigari owes its gratitude to Godfrey success story as to how Sujata came to my Philips followed by well timed contribution rescue as my savior angel. For my yearly from Master Card on Women Empowerment Flying Medicals, I needed to get my across India specially at the remote villages ultrasound for my liver, I was in a hurry and of UP, Jharkhand,Rajasthan,Haryana & needed to get the report at the earliest. At WestBengal where many livelihood plans Colombia Asia, the Radiologist had no have been actioned Dynamic and confident Neha is an appointment slot for the next three days but assistant to the Front Desk Manager our 20 year old Sujata spotted me and came Adobe , American Express , PVR NEST at the chic ITC Hotel in Gurgaon. to my rescue. After finishing school in our continued its support bringing She is an alumna of Gurukul Vidyapeeth, she was General Assistant to transformation in many children on the the Radiologist. She made adjustments and Project under which children of streets who lead a life of abject poverty. convinced the doctor to fit me in. I was underserved background are touched and overwhelmed with pride. This sponsored in various public I specially owe it to the donors who helped was a true validation that our children have schools / colleges near centers of Literacy India`s Digital Literacy Program – become productive citizens and Literacy Literacy India – Pan India. DIGITAL DOST reach its completion which India provided her a platform to blossom. is being implemented at our Pan India remained determined to carve out strategies centers.Individual and anonymous donors My mind went back to ten years back, when for success .There is water and Power crisis always came from nowhere for a definite her parents had brought her brothers to be - roads and communications to the remote impact , Literacy India continues to be admitted, I remember telling them, “If you areas still erratic which slows down grateful to them for their support.Our want your sons to be admitted, bring your the progress.We hope for a better beneficiaries are Tribals from the forests , daughter first.” Today Sujata contributes year ahead. Villagers living in the hills to the Children majorly to the family income and earned from poor back ground in Delhi NCR - herself a respectable place in the family. Literacy India faced challenges yet the team Annual report 2012 1 ANNUAL REPORT Our Pedagogy & Projects this project is the first making of 2D providing employable skills to the animation film”Rooster and the Sun” youth. We offer courses in O – level • Pathshala (Open classroom): This can be found on Literacy India`s Classes under DOECC ( regd.),DTP, was our first project in 1996. Under youtube link. Web Design, Networking, Tally for this project we undertake remedial Accounting, Spoken English, Retail classes for school going children and • Vidyapeeth: This is the core program Management, Paper Bag Making and also help children who do not attend at LI wherein we run classes up to Housekeeping. We have partnered regular school to get into mainstream high school like any other school with Maruti Suzuki under their Road education. A stepping-stone to the children under this program are Safety Program for training in driving. mainstream learning process, here a exposed to excursions, and It is a matter of pride that many child can spend just 2-3 hours a day to inspirational interaction with well- graduating students are working with learn the basics. Here we use an known personalities. This is being run organizations like Maruti Udyog educational approach that aims to out of the school building at Village Ltd,Kuoni Destination Management , capture the interest of children. This Bajghera, New Palam Vihar, Gurgaon. B-CUBE, Reliance Fresh, and Big project is now reaching out to street Sponsors like Charities Aid Bazaar etc. Corporate like Wirkle children as also to children who are Foundation, COTW, FEEL Group, technogies ,GE and Aricent have given working as domestic help. Under this American Express, Encore and many technical teaching support to this umbrella, we have also introduced individual donors are supporting program adult literacy classes. This project has Vidyapeeth. Children appear for their received support from organizations Board Exams through National Open • Indha: This is the brand under which like PVR Nest, UPS Foundation, School.Children of Vidyapeeth have we sell handcrafted products made by Kathpal Foundation ,DELL and many their own Science Blog too and village women. LI has taken the individual donors. updated with their latest science initiative to empower rural women by experiments. equipping them with special skills to • Shiksharth: This is a unique program earn a little income along with that aims at providing a platform to • Gurukul: Supports meritorious managing their household work. slum children for bringing out their students who show an inclination for Indha products have become quite creative talent in various art forms continued education and desire to popular among many donors and can such as painting, pottery, theatre, receive mainstream English education. also be found on the shelves of many dance, etc. This motivates children to We sponsor their education at public shops and online portals like ebay , continue their academic education. schools such as Rotary Public School, craftsville & shopclues. This experiment has met with great St Soldier School and Little Ones success and it is one of the key Public School by meeting the entire • Health Post: A health initiative was elements of the holistic learning model cost of their education. Under this started at Village Bajgera in 2006, as that LI has developed over the years. project we also support students who health facilities were virtually non- It is a matter of great pride that wish to pursue vocational courses such existent around the village. A Doctor several of our children have performed as fashion designing, interior has been made available 6 half days a for the past President APJ Abdul designing and even a MBA .We have week. On weekends we have started Kalam at Rashtrapati Bhawan, recently tied up with Rai Foundation Doctor on Wheels, wherein doctors Governor of Himachal Pradesh, who are sponsoring professional holds camps in neighboring villages. besides performing for varied education for girls passing out from Specialist medical camps are held audiences in Shimla, Chandigarh, higher secondary classes. This project covering eye, dental checks, Kolkata, Bhopal, etc. and have acted has many individual donors and orthopedic, etc. These have been very in leading feature films such as Corporate sponsors like Amrican successful and the villagers are now Omkaara , Blue Umbrella and lately Express , HSBC,PWC,OSC & receiving proper health care. Youth Character – Millimeter of 3-Idiots is Charities Aid Foundation , India , UK Reach has been funding its recurring our beneficiaries. We have also & America. cost with Rotary Club Chanakyapuri introduced computer animation and help kick start and set up the photography under this program. This • Karigari: This was established to project.This also has a support of program has been supported by provide a platform for vocational Brit Marine Company based organizations like Adobe, Youth Voice training to those students who showed out of UK. and Phat Phish, the music company a lack of interest in formal studies or that helped us release our music were dropouts from school. Here we album.Another Breakthrough under organise programs with an eye on 2 annual report 2012 ANNUAL REPORT PATHSHALA & GYANTANTRA - DIGITAL mind, survey and need assessment was and other soft skill such as computer DOST carried out in few areas in West Bengal, literacy, personality development and Jharkhand and UP. Four new centres came spoken English. Apart from that, LI This year Pathshala had set its own target into operation at Chuikhim at Darjeeling, observed that girl children even in urban in three specific areas: 1) Escalating and Khatanga at Puruliya, Raipurajaigir & slums, are being discriminated against. replicating the concept of Pathshala in Pan Monoharthana at Rajasthan. There are few They became drop-outs after completion of India context 2) Gyantantra- digital dost centres in the pipeline at North 24 Board Exams, awaiting marriage. In most implementation in Delhi NCR and Pan Paraganas at West Bengal, Chandan of the cases, it was found the marriage India centre 3) Facilitating a new and Keyari and Khetadi in Jharkhand, either broke or was in turmoil. With that advanced shape to existing Pathshala background, Career Grooming is a new centre along with street children project. Centres had aggressively implemented area that comes under purview of Gyantantra- digital dost across Pan India.