Latest news from the Foundation Kashi Mandir
Kashi Mandir in Good Targets Top 50!
Published: 21-11-2011 by Rutger Hoogeveen.
On Saturday 19-11-2011 the Dutch newspaper Trouw published the Top 50 2011 of Good targets. In he category International Help we stay on the list on place 19! Not bad for our small organization, because 450 others have been tested.
We hope to continue our policy of openness, information to the public, various activities etc. And we appreciate very much the support he had from organizations in society and private persons. Thank you!
Primary School De Vlonder
Published: 26-10-2011 by Rutger.
Primary School De Vlonder , our partner in Emmen went into action again for the children in India. Parents and teachers collected and contributed € 300 for the good cause in July. We thank everybody involved for this good result!
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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 nowadays 225, children who had not the chance to get any school-education otherwise. In and around the village 70 children do not get any schoolteaching, that is about 22 % 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?
We hope you will be a little bit curious now. Please read more on the next pages!
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