
With the children in kammanavarapalli
Date of visit: 16th n 17th March.
Members visited:
Jayasree From India Sudar , Arvind from SaiGM foundation.
Places of visit:
Villages around puttaparthi , including Kamanavarapalli ,puttagundapalli , brahmanapalli
Observations:
- There are govt schools in each of these villages upto 7th class.
- Putagundapalli however has only till class 5.
- Beyond that the children go to the near by townships to pursue their education.
- There are very minimum facilities here also as we have seen in most of the cases.
- The average school going children in each village may be around 75.
- The detailed break has been collected and sent to me by a volunteer in SaiGm. Mr.pandu who is willing to be our filed cordinator who is also a localite there.
- Few schools definitely need a library. I have attached the image of a library, its a string in which couple of books are hanged.
- Teacher deployment can be done once we talk with the head master this however will come in a little later stage.
- There is computer centre the image of which i have enclosed. Its donated by a foreigner This is in a orphanage home and there are around 200 beneficiaries but there is no proper faculty. We have been requested (by Isaac*) to deploy a computer teacher here for the next academic year. I seek the help of Sameer Kola to do this. I also have a sponsor who is ready to sponsor this activity. Sameer , please do get in touch with me.
- Most of the schools are till 5th std only and the students like in all village schools come bare foot and only one set of uniform provided by the govt. And there is NO local organisation supporting them. We can consider this. I want mention about Mr.Isaac Trigett whom i met during this visit. He is the founder of Hard Rock cafe and he has donated in millions to the sai baba super speciality hospital. Now he is full time into service and is willing to partner with service organisation to find the right resources and enable the service oriented activities. I am sorry for sending this out so late. I got busy with some other stuff. I sincerly hope that we together team can extend our suupport these students and expand our service activities in andhra and create a very strong base here. Link to photos : http://picasaweb.google.com/jjayasree/AndhraVillageVisit#5335203927305536386