1)
Name of WAH 2006 Proposal: Needy Illiterate Children
Education (NICE)
Summary
2) Total amount required (USD): Rs. 5,31,000 (11,800 USD approx.)
3)
Chapter’s target to raise in WAH 2006 (USD): (7000 USD)
4) Cost Type (Fixed/Recurring): Recurring
5) Number of People Served: 100 to 105 (90 to 95 students and 14
teaching and non-teaching staff)
6)
Project Location (State): Mynampadu Village,
Kanaparthi Post, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India
7) Category: Residential School for Orphanages, Single Parents and Needy
children
8) FCRA Approval (Yes/No): Applied (yet to receive, delayed because of
bureaucratic hassles (government officials demanding bribe) and red tapism.
9)
Nominating Chapter:
10) Contact Person: P. Purna Chander Rao
E-mail: nice_hyd@yahoo.com Phone #:
098482-35103
11) Project Website: www.nice-india.org
12)
Link to latest site-visit: http://www.ashanet.org/projects-new/documents/418/SiteVisit_NICE_30_04_2006.html
13)
Link to photos of the project: http://www.ashanet.org/projects-new/documents/418/SiteVisit_NICE_30_04_2006.html
Info required
to transfer funds to the project:
14) Name on the Bank account: Needy Illiterate Children Education (NICE)
15) Bank account number: 514
16) Name of the bank: Andhra Bank, Kukatpally
17) Branch and city that DD will be encashed at:
Kukatpally, Hyderabad
18) Address of recipient (not bank): Plot No 30, Satavahana HMT Colony
Kukatpally, Hyderabad,
India, 500072
19) Landline number of recipient:
None
20) (opt) mobile # 098482-35103
21) (opt) email of recipient: nice_hyd@yahoo.com
Organizational Information
22) Name of the Organization: Needy Illiterate
Children Education (NICE)
23) Date of Establishment: 2002 May
24) Registration Number: 595
25) Tax Exemption Certificate Number: HYD/13(04)/80G/05-06
26) Exemption End Date: 31-03-2008
27) FCRA Number: Applied (yet to
receive)
28) MOA (if available):
29) Brief long-term Objectives: The
aim of NICE is to provide Food and Shelter of children currently employed as
laborers. NICE also caters to the needs of orphans and children of single parents.
Apart from food and shelter, the school also looks into the health and career
needs of these children.
Even though currently NICE takes care of the needs of only boys, there are
plans to start a residential school for girls as well in the near future.
Search is on to buy a good area in and around the current residential school
and start construction.
30) Creation and Activities: The
residential school provides basic literacy and vocational training for its
students. No fee is collected from the children. All expenses are borne by the
school itself. NICE aims to motivate parents of children subjected to child
labor to liberate them from their hardships impart vocational based training
and help them become entrepreneurs who will eventually serve their communities.
30*)
Blurb of organization
(200
words, this text will be used in the WAH projects page)
Needy
Illiterate Children Education (NICE) provides balanced academic and vocational
education to orphan, poor and severely deprived children in rural Andhra
Pradesh. A free residential school, NICE admits primary school dropouts and
puts them through a 1-year bridge curriculum before starting high school
education in CBSE curriculum. NICE wants to turn these deprived children into
rural entrepreneurs by imparting vocational education along with formal
education. NICE takes its responsibility to its donors very seriously, and is
run extremely transparently. All its accounts are published on the Internet and
Annual Reports are sent to all its donors.
Progress
made: There
were additional classrooms and library constructed this year compared to last
year and the number of students is expected to rise to 90 to 95 from 65 this
academic year. It has been observed that the quality of education and health of
the children has improved considerably.
31) Background of founder(s): Economically
poor, working full time for his organization and Asha Hyderbad Chapter.
32)
Number of Staff: Presently 5 teachers (two more to be recruited in one
month) and 7 non-teaching staff
33) Annual Budget: Rs. 10 Lakhs
34) Previous Funding: 2004 – Asha Berkeley - $5,000.00, 2005 – WAH 2005
– INR 240,000.00
35) US Contact: Abhilash Nama (abhi13@gmail.com)
36) India Contact: Giri Kolanupaka (kolanupaka@yahoo.com)
37) Previous Sponsor(s) for the Project: None
38) Previous support through WAH: WAH 2005
39) Information about the alumni, if available: None
40) Location and Demographic
details:
School is near a rural village called Mynampadu 4 KM away from Narsaraopet
Town. The people of the village are mostly illiterates and daily wage laborers.
41)
Goal of WAH project
(This
text will be used in the WAH projects page)
42)
Total Amount Required: Rs.
5,31,000 (11,800 USD approx.)
43)
Beneficiaries of the project: School teachers and non-teaching staff
(salaries) and students
44)
Expected outcomes for people served by the project: The teachers
will get paid and will work for the benefit of the needy children.
45)
How long will the benefit last: One year
46)
Number of people reached: 7 (non-teaching staff) and 5 (present) + 2 (teachers)
47)
Provide itemized budget for WAH project:
Teachers (7) Salaries:
No. of teachers |
Salary per month |
Total |
6 |
4000* |
2,88,000 |
1 |
3250 |
39,000 |
TOTAL |
|
3,27,000 |
Non-teaching Staff (7) Salaries:
No. of Staff |
Salary per month |
Total |
2 (Cleaner, Ayah) |
1000 |
24,000 |
2 (Cooks) |
1000 |
24,000 |
2 (Head Master, Administrative Assistant) |
5000 |
1,20,000 |
1 (Other Staff) |
3000 |
36,000 |
TOTAL |
|
2,04,000 |
Total budget requested from WAH2006 =
3,27,000 + 2,04,000 = Rs. 5,31,000
(11,800 USD approx.)
* Teacher’s salaries ranges from Rs. 4000 to
5000 per month. Requested for Rs.4000 per teacher and is expected the same for
the two new teachers expected to join in a month.
48)
Other sources of funding (confirmed and anticipated): Save the Child (UK based NGO), likely to fund if NICE
has FCRA
49) Duration of the project: On going
50) Government Involvement: None
51)
Duration of Chapter's involvement: 3 years
52)
Personnel Involved: P. Purnachander Rao
53) References: Giri Kolanupaka (kolanupaka@yahoo.com),
Abhilash Nama (abhi13@gmail.com)
54)
Minutes with Q&A of meeting or conference call at which the project was
approved by the chapter: