Dear Volunteer

Thanks for conducting this site visit.

The following set of questions is only a suggested guideline. Some of the following questions may not be relevant or applicable to the particular project you are visiting, but please do try to answer as many of them as possible. Please note that Part sB & C necessitate that the information be gathered through conversations with the children and their parents, and not simply the group's teachers and staff.

Please feel free to attach any documents/photos you feel are pertinent to the project.

Thanks.
- Asha for Education

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Date: Dec. 8, 08	
Name of the Project: Parijat Academy 	
Name of the Organisation Running the Project (if different):      	

Was your site visit announced?      Yes, it was planned 		No, it was a surprise visit 

	Project Contact	You Name
(Asha volunteer conducting the visit)	
Name	#
Uttam Teron	#Biju Borbaruah	
Address	#Parijat Academy, Pamohi P.O.
Garchuk, Guwahati-781035,
Assam, India	#Asha Darshan

P.O. Tamulpur, District: Baksa-781367, Assam,  India  	
Phone(s)	#9864041711	#03624-287364, 94351-98562	
Fax	#     	#     	
E-mail	#parijatacademy03@yahoo.com	#bijuassam@rediffmail.com, 
darshan_asha@yahoo.com	

PART A: Particulars about the organization and its environment

1. What are the different focus areas of the organization? (give a rough estimate of the % of their total effort/funding)
Community development #5%	Education 80%	Health 10%
Other 5%  (please specify) #     	
2. What is the administrative structure of the group (e.g. Board of Directors/Grassroots-based)?
#There are 7 members headed by Sectary and president.
 President is the project director responsible for implimentation of the project.	

3. Are there any other organizations working in the area providing any one or all of the services provided by the visited organization? (Briefly mention their names and their objectives)

Organization	Objectives of the organization	
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PART B: The organization and the community it serves
(Information to be gathered from parents and children)

1. Approximately how many families live in the area? #     
* Aproximatley 700 familiese live in the area. 	
2. What do the parents do for a living? (Agricultural worker, Daily wage laborer etc.)
#Agriculture and daily wages labour.      	
3. At the time of enrolment, does the school ask for the names of both parents?
Yes #		No, just the father’s name #		No, just the mother’s name #	
4. How often do the teachers meet the parents?
#There is teachers and parents meeting majority of  community esrved is karbi trib next is Boro and others are general Assamese.	
5. How do the parents participate in the organization's activities? (e.g. by contributing their time, money or labor in the school’s activities etc.)
#Parents contribute free labour for school.	
6. Are there any Government Schools in the area? 	There are two Government schools more than 1 km. But the teachers are not regular.
		
7. If yes, how far are the Government Schools from the community? #2 - about 2-3 kms away from Parijat Academy	
8. Why did the parents choose this school over the Government School?
#This school is near, teachers are regular and students are well taught..	
9. When you visited, how many children were present in the class? #There were 300 students present When I  visiteed the school..)
What is the regular class strength? #478
Comments: Children  enjoying  coming to Parijat  regularly. I saw  all class room  . I was walking from one end to others classroom.  Those student of Pamohi area  and nearby villages  earlier failed two three times in different school also enrol  their name at Parijat. Uttam Teron and his teacher  team motivated their viallgers. There should not be school drop out in the nearby viallges of Pamohi. Parijat Academy whole team is maintaining to make disciplined the  children of Parijat as much they can. There is school library  facility. there is a small play groun for children.	
10. Do the children seem to enjoy coming to school?
#Yes. Children enjoy coming to school. The teacher using is different small teaching materials like chart, cuting and pasting, colour, tape recorder in the classroom, reading in library, there in computer. 	

PART C: Project particulars
(Information to be gathered from students and staff)

1. What is the mode of teaching in the school? (Check the appropriate choices)
A. Formal (State Board, Central Board etc.) # Formal and as per state board syllabus.
	till what class? #VIII
B. Non-Formal Education (NFE) #			
C. Vocational #       
D. Other  . Please specify      

2. If A (Formal), up to what grade(LKG, 5th, 7th etc.) does the school conduct classes?
 From nursery to class VIII ,.The Subjects taught in the class are Assamese, Hindi, English, Science, Mathematics, Social Studies, Environmental   Studies, General Knowledge	
3. If B (Non-Formal Education) how many of the children also attend formal schools in the area?
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If none do, does the project plan this for the future? #     	
4. If Non-Formal Education, does the organization create its own study material (books, games)?
#The schools follows a formal curriculum and I noticed a lot of books and play material in the classrooms.
	
5. If C (Vocational), what do the children do after they finish training?
#No.	
6. How many staff or volunteers are recruited from the community? #All the teachers are received from local communitese.There are 17 staff with Uttam Teron. I met  15  teachers ( Jogen, Jitu, Utpal, Pranay, Trishna, Lakhimi, Rina, Archana, Baijayanti, Manomati, Anita, Hore Krishna,  Lilimoyee, Munmuni, Anila) who talked to me about what subjects where taught.
How many of the staff are women?  #11	
7. How many teachers have left the school in the past one year, and why?
#2 teachers, for better salary	
8. How many new teachers have joined in the past year? #5 teachers in this year
	
9. Does the organization train the teachers? 		Yes #		No #
If yes, how do they provide the training? #The president is a trained teacher. He traines and guides the teachers.	
10. How much is the staff paid? #Upto Rs 1500- 2000 per month. 
Is it on par with the salary paid to the staff in the Government schools? 	Yes 	     No 	

PART D: Financial resources of the organization
(Feedback from the person conducting the site visit)

1. Do you think the proposed amounts in the budget are reasonable? 	   

The budget is on the lower side.
	
2. Are all items covered in the budget? 	Yes      No      Maybe
Comments: #     	
3. Is there anything you think should be added or removed from the budget?
Yes      No 
If you recommend any changes to the budget, please explain your reasons for this.
	
4. Did you discuss the proposed changes with the project? If so, please describe their response.
#No