REWARD has sent us the proposal for 2013-14. To give some background about this project, we started funding them last year. Last year, they initially requested us to pay the salaries of 8 teachers (for April 2012 - March 2013 period) teaching in 3 schools in Koovathur, Tamil Nadu. Total requested funding amount was Rs 51,200 x 13 = INR 6,65,600. We sent them Rs 3,37,884 ($6163) in November 2012 for the first installment. During the academic year, couple of teachers left. Hence, for the second installment, instead of the initially earmarked amount of (332800= 665600/2), the requested amount came down to 114516. They asked us if we could pay the salaries for 3 additional months (April, May, June 2013) for amount = 94,200. We took a vote during the meeting and we approved to send them INR 114516 + 94200. For 2013-2014, REWARD has asked us to support salaries of teachers in 3 villages - Koovathur, Nerumbur, Neelamangalam. The total requested funding amount comes out to be ~ INR 13 Lacs. Here are the details: 3 teachers in Higher Secondary school @ pay scales of Rs 9500 3 teachers in High school @ pay scales of Rs 8500 3 teachers in Middle school @ pay scales of Rs 7500 3 teachers in Primary school @ Rs 6500 respectively + 1 month equivalent incentives . This works out to be about Rs 12,35,000/- on honorariums & incentives. They are planning to use the remaining amount for expenses on resource persons, stationery & postage, auditor and if available for giving enhanced pay for the better teachers. We got a site visit done recently. Please look at the REWARD wiki for more details. Please let us know what all additional information you need before we can present the proposal in the general meeting.