Enabling Quality Education and Healthcare for the Underprivileged
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KEY MILESTONES TRUSTEES & ADVISORY BOARD Achievements in last 5 years: Syed Safawi Business Leader, Start-up Evangelist, and Philanthropist • Supported quality education of more than 17,000 children Meenakshi Kumar Special Educationist in 3 districts of UP – Farrukhabad, Lucknow and Kanpur. • Focused exclusively on underprivileged children and Dr Amir Ullah Khan Economist, Academician, and their families. More than 80% students are first generation Health Policy Expert learners. Najmul Hasan Rizvi Banker and Philanthropist • Ensured over 55% of those enrolled are girls. Dr Rajiv Kumar Economist, Founder, Pahle India Foundation • Achieved high learning levels of students. Independent assessments by EI show, E&H Foundation supported Ronesh Puri Managing Director, Executive children perform at par with best CBSE schools in India. Access (India) Private Ltd Arvind Kumar • Ensured all overhead costs are covered from internal Public Affair and Public resources, enabling all donor funds to be used directly for the Policy Professional & Philanthropist Enabling Quality education of children. Suresh Satyamurthy CEO, Tarnea Technology Solutions Education and • Developed partnerships with 5 corporate houses and more Ulhas Vairagkar Senior Corporate Leader, than 400 individual donors. Entrepreneur and Educationist Healthcare for the • Winners of Airtel Delhi Half Marathon Raise-A-Thon 2017 Rajat Jain Venture Capitalist and by LetzChange. Start-up Evangelist Underprivileged HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT US? KEY TEAM MEMBERS In 2018-19, E&H Foundation is supporting education of 7000 Sanjeev Kumar Gupta CEO children in Farrukhabad and Lucknow and aims to reach Dr Saumya Singh Director – Partnerships and 100,000 children by 2025. Resource Mobilisation To support us or volunteer with us please scan the QR Code: Rachitaa Gupta Manager - Communications CONTACT US E&H Foundation, 1-D, 1st Floor, or email us at: [email protected] Shahpur Jat, New Delhi 110049, or Contact :+91 9999987493 India You can support a child @ Rs 5,000/year and a classroom(of 25 children) @ Rs 100,000/year. All Indian donations carry Tel: +91-11-40634830, an exemption of 50% income tax u/s 80 G. Field visits to Mobile: +91 9810523350 supported classrooms and schools are facilitated for those Email: [email protected] interested. E&H Foundation is also FCRA certified and can Web: www.enhfoundation.in accept foreign donations. To provide quality To aid this process, our Board education and BACKGROUND decided to tap into their strong preventive healthcare conviction that large number of to the underprivileged E&H Foundation was set up in individuals, corporate houses, VISION in Uttar Pradesh. 2012, with the vision to provide and institutions understand quality education and healthcare the critical developmental services to the underprivileged challenges and want to in India with a special focus on support action to change this Uttar Pradesh (UP). It is one of inequity. The Trustees backed the largest states in India with the idea with seed funding RURAL MODEL URBAN MODEL 16% of country’s population, yet for the programme and very low human development That is, approximately 25 lakh have committed to fund all E&H Foundation started its E&H Foundation identified indicators. Approximately one- children do not have access to overhead costs. journey by partnering with Education Support fifth of India’s underprivileged any formal education system. Bharti Foundation (http:// Organization’s Gyan live in UP. However, the most serious challenge UP faces is the www.bhartifoundation.org/) Shala model (http://www. quality of education. PROGRESS and facilitated setup and gyanshala.org/) as an STRATEGY operation of three primary appropriate model to provide After doing in depth research, According to the Annual Status schools in rural areas of quality education in urban E&H Foundation follows the E&H Foundation started its of Education Report (ASER) Farrukhabad district of Uttar slums of Uttar Pradesh. This strategy of building long term journey from Farrukhabad 2016, at least 57% class V Pradesh. These three schools model has a proven track partnerships to realise its vision district of Uttar Pradesh. The children in UP schools cannot are providing high quality record in providing quality Maternal Mortality Rate* in UP of enabling quality education Foundation identified and read a class II Hindi textbook; education to 720 children out education to more than is 360 (per 100,000 live births) and preventive healthcare for collaborated with following 77% cannot do simple of which 60% are girls. There 40,000 underprivileged compared to 212 for India. underprivileged children in India. two models for primary division; and 82% cannot read is high enthusiasm amongst children in Gujarat and Mortality Rate* for children The education crisis in India education: simple English sentences. children and learning levels Bihar. In June 2013 the below the age of 5 is 94 (per is an issue of scale and the These children, having spent are high. Demand from Foundation replicated this 1,000 birth) as compared to Foundation firmly believes that 1. Bharti Foundation to provide precious years in schools and underprivileged families for model in Farrukhabad, 64 for India. UP ranks amongst there are several organisations, quality education in rural not learning, are not only put admission to these schools UP along with Education bottom 5 states in India in both with remarkable solutions, areas at a disadvantage but also continues to be very high. Support Organization and the critical health indicators. doing good work on the ground, suffer both economically and The Foundation is now in 2016 expanded to two except their inability to scale 2. Educational Support Similarly, overall literacy rates socially in life. E&H Foundation looking to partner with more districts – Lucknow up these solutions. Hence, E&H Organization (ESO) for the in UP falls way short at 69%, Trustees stand against this models to enable quality and Kanpur providing quality Foundation decided to partner Gyan Shala model in the against national average of injustice and realised the education for these children education to 12000 children with proven, successful, and urban slums 74%, despite a 29% increase in critical need to act and uphold from classes 6-8. (55% are girls), out of which replicable models and help last 20 years and is ranked at 5th the right to quality education 80% are first generation scale them up in areas of urgent position from bottom amongst for every child. Hence the idea learners. need in UP. This is achieved by To provide quality the Indian states. of E&H Foundation came into providing financial resources, education and existence. Despite huge improvement in improving monitoring and health care facilities enrollment rates in UP schools, impact measurement, and to 100,000 4.9% children in age group 6 -14 strengthening linkages with underprivileged years, are out of school. community and Government MISSION children by 2025, agencies. with a special focus *Source: Census 2011 on the girl child..