Latest news from the Foundation Kashi Mandir
Impulsis
Published: 14-07-2010 by Rutger.
We have been able to conclude a contract with big NGO Impulsis, a cooperation of Edukans,Icco and Kerk in Actie.They pay 50% of the amount needed for the next phase of development of Kashi Mandir School, the Kashi Mandir Foundation pays the other 50%.The total contract is about an amount of € 30000.
Important items in the coming 1½ year will be the constructing of a part of the schoolbuilding( classrooms,entrance, office), an improvement of the quality of education and refresher courses and graduating of the teachers.
Impulsis wants -together with Dutch private initiatives and local development partners - to stimulate the development of good quality education for all. Cooperation and durable solutions are important points of interest. Education is - also in India - a responsibility of the government, but cannot be seen apart from local educational facilities. Supported projects are linked to the regional and local policy of education and are renewing and innovating.
Impulsis supports the UN millenniumgoals, just like we do.
More information about Impulsis: www.impulsis.nl
Rotary Club Emmen
Published: 14-07-2010 by Rutger.
Rotary Club Emmen donated our foundation a considerable amount for the project in India in 2008. This year -2010 - a part of the benefits of the yearly golf tournament was reservated for our foundation and by this for Kashi Mandir School in Old-Khajuraho: € 5000 ! It is wonderful that this service club supports, together with us, these wonderful children in India.
Kashi Mandir Foundation suggested to use this money in the coming 1½ year for improving quality of education in the school. We think for instance of refresher courses and graduating of teachers, computers for the students, a small library, teaching materials, learning methods, coaching of former students, a parents committee etc.
In the struggle for its' survival all these matters don't have priority now in the school, but they are as important as building classrooms and collecting money for teachers wages.
We thank Rotary Club Emmen very much for their involvement and dedication.
Foundation Kashi Mandir
In april 2005 Margriet and Rutger Hoogeveen visit a school in the countryside of Madhya Pradesh, India. They are travelling in India for the second time and they get interested in the village-primary school of Kashi Mandir.
Enthusiasm
In the middle of the huge sub-continent of India in the village of Old-Khajuraho. The first thing they see is a real third-world situation: hardly any money, children of the poorest people, a few donations from tourists and an enthusiastic and motivated team of teachers working in very bad conditions in a very bad quality building.
Chance
There is a lack of almost everything necessary for good education; no money for educational equipment and salaries, a warm and stuffy building, small “classrooms” of about 15 m2 , hardly any windows , a lamp and a fan in every class, are the only visible objects noticeable.
There is no furniture at all : the very polite children are sitting on the floor.
The schoolchildren need only one important thing: EDUCATION!
They seem to realise that they become a chance others don’t have. We ourselves do realise too there are many children in this country who never become any school-education.
Our project
Within the five years of its existence there had been nobody who ever tried to help this project more structurally. Back in Holland, Margriet and Rutger, decide to help these children. Soon other people join them and support them in their effort to help. The attempt to help begins at a very small scale but this project is growing all the time. Although the hard work needs to continue and remains focused on our next targets. Out relentless efforts can make a big difference for a school thousands of kilometres away. Practically does it mean: we start as private persons, realise a working group in 2005 and establish a foundation in 2006.
There is often news from the people of the school by e-mail and telephone-contact between the headmaster of the school, Mr Prabhat Mani Mishra, and Rutger.
We donated several gifts of € 250 each. The school bought educational equipment : books, note-books, pens, pencils and schooluniforms for children from which the parents cannot effort this.
In 2005 120 children went to school in Old-Khajuraho, in 2006 160 and in nowadays 195, children who had not the chance to get any school-education otherwise. In and around the village 80 children do not receive schoolteaching, that is about 27 % of all children overthere.
Schoolteam, schoolcommittee and Kashi Mandir Foundation do have the ambition to reach the second UN-millenniumgoal: all children to school before 2015.
This project offers under-priviliged children a better chance in life than their parents ever had: education as a key for durable development. Do you help us with this project?
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