10 November 2008

Bangalore:
We have been to the bank. For the current account passbook will not be given and only cheques. The cheques also has been delivered to the Vinay's address.We went to school in to take snaps of the children for the web site creation.

Chennai:
We went to school as a Team (Prakash,Senthil Arasu, Pandimurugan, Vignesh Babu , Antony Jasmine and Venkatachalem( Prakash's office staff)). The school name is National Primary school in Pallavaram. This school has 252 students from class I to VIII. It is running for past 75 years. It is running in the rented building. The management is not able to take care of the school, so the condition of the school is not good. We reached the school 7:30 in morning and we met the teachers.We had good discussion with the Staffs and children in the school. Then We attended the prayer in the school.

1. What is the go forward plan of the management regarding the school? How are they planning to run, maintain and take the functioning of the school forward?
The management doesn't have any plan on running the school. The management pays only the rent of the building and they are asking the staffs to run the school.

2 .Need to be absolutely sure that the management has no doubts on functioning of school in future also.
Yes. There is not doubt that school will be functioning. It is Government aided school so it cannot be closed. The important point we observed here is each and every one of the student in this school have some problems in their family like many are orphans and some don't have father or mother. Even if they have parents, they are daily wages and they are not able to pay even for the admission fees. So if we join these students in normal school, they will suffer to survive.

3. Are they eligible or supposed to receive any kind of aid from Government for running the school? If that is the case, we can try out some options in those lines as well in addition to the support from our side.
They are already receiving help from the government for Mid day lunch, staff salary and under the SSV scheme they are receiving around Rs7000(not exactly) yearly , cards for teaching the students and some educational CDs also. They have given the petition collector and Minister for the help, as it is Government aided and the management is different the higher officials said they cannot help.

4. Have they approached anyone for help earlier and has anyone approached them with help earlier.
Yes. They have approached many people for help. But they have got help as one time and not further. They have got small help from Medical shops and some other people for benches and screens. No one/Group has come forward to help them fully.

5. Are they/are they not, working with the intention of spreading any religion?
No. They are not working in the intention of spreading the religion. They work fully in the intention of giving education and service mind.

6. MOU need to be signed saying that we are here working for the said purpose and what support we need/expect from the school/staff
We have talked to the staff and need to be done later.

7. Need to know if the school also wants to have classes for 9th and 10th standard also
The school doest have any good infrastructure and space to expand. So as of now it cannot be done.

8. Need to visit the school with the Team.
Done !

Their Urgent requirement
• Building for the school.(This cannot be done by us, we can get some help from other originations if possible)
• Roof of the Building.
• Whitewash to the existing building.
• Mats to the students to sit.
• Benches to the students (we have to discuss about this).
• Cans to store the water.
• Toilet facilities.
• screens to hide the sun light for the afternoon session
• Black Board

Photos of the school is uploaded in the given link: http://picasaweb.google.com/visitprakashindia/National_school#

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