Dear Team
On Saturday(Feb 28,2009) , we visited Annasandrapalaya & Kundanahalli School, Bangalore.
Visit by – Sivanarayanan, Ravikumar and UdhayKumar.
AnnasandraPalaya School:
No: of teachers : 3 (Out of which one is on maternity leave)
No: of students : 120
Students in Anganwadi : 70
- The school has been around from 1970’s, but very underdeveloped as many
we have seen in the past.
- The HM of the school Mr.Pooja Obalappa is highly enthusiastic personand
doing his best to elevate the school.
- Notebooks are donated regularly by some donors, so are uniforms(white &
white – Govt gives only Khaki).
- Water filter also has been arranged by the HM through donors.less than
40-50 feet not connected.
- Also a sump connectd to overhead tank(motor also there). Again crucial pipeline from main line missing !
- Unfortunately though toilets have been constructed, Pipe connection from
main line to school is absent. It’s surprising this is missing.
- Two out of three classrooms are used by class 1 to 5. One more room is
shared by children of the Anganwadi.
- Now BBMP(bangalore urban govt body)building 2 more classrooms.
- Books are there but no shelf to store.
Current Requirements:
- Pipleline to Toilet and the main sump for running Water supply. SHould
not cost more than 3000 according to the HM.
- Only 100 plates are there. But requirement is 170. No glasses are
present. Currently managed with plastic bottles.
- Few maps, educational charts, Globe are required.
- One teacher required to manage all the classes.
Address:
Mr.Pooja Obalappa (Headmaster)
Govt Lower primary school,
Annasandarapalaya, Vimanapura post,
Bangalore
Cell # 9632912942
Visit to Kundanahalli School:
- Already Ravi, Raaghu & few of our IS members had visited the school.
- Wanted to revisit the school to meet up the volunteer to see if we can
use to deploy as teacher in that school.
- But currently the academic year end work & vacation is pushing this
decision to june or later.
- We will reassess the requirements later in June to see if anything
important is required here.
- The volunteer Mr.Venkatesh is a very dedicated person helping this school
without salary besides his B.A degree academic studies.
Regards
Sivanarayanan
On Behalf of KA team
