Sukhe Dukkhe
Organisation is working in the field of education and upliftment for
underprivileged children. Since February, 2011 we are working with the street
& poor children, staying on pavement at Gallif Street and other places of
Bagbazar area of North Kolkata, through our Edu-Care Project for
Underprivileged Children at our Registered office, 13/B, Santi Ghosh Street,
Kolkata 700 003. It’s a Non-formal
School imparts education
to 25 children in between the age group of 5 to 16.
Before giving the idea
of our teaching, let us first concentrate their problems. These children
belongs to the people reside in the slum, mainly laborers and mostly belong to
the below poverty line. Though the students are registered in Formal Municipal
Schools, but due to the poor teaching and inattentiveness towards these
downtrodden kids, neither they are able to comprehend what the teacher tries to
explain, nor are having the courage to express that feeling in fair of the teacher.
Thus, they become less interested in study, thereby increased their absence in
the school. Non-participation in other activities in their school being slum dwellers,
also make them indifferent towards co-curricular activities. Symptoms like low
confidence, non-attachment, and indifference towards the education systems
become visible in their innocent faces.
They become inattentive in classes, resulting in poor performance in
exam and assessments. The parents, who
are already struggling to meet their both ends, soon lost interest in their
children’s study, and after sometime their interest of earning money diverted
these children from school to work places as domestic helps, helper at tea
shops, small factories as child labour, sometimes the teenagers being prone to
danger of being engaged in crime or being exploited.
After these root cause analysis, we
understood that the foremost important is to build the confidence in them that
they have the potential to be the best student in their school and they can
also participate in various co-curricular activities along with other students.
After that we prioritize their health and nutrition as they could not get
enough nutrient foods required for a developing child of their age. Then we tried to understand their
socio-economic conditions, and the way to upgrade the same. Increase in
awareness among the parents towards and their child’s improvements are also to
be taken care to take them in confidence that their child can achieve success
in education also.
We started with giving
them supportive education in our Registered Office. The students become
attentive towards their study because of endless efforts from our volunteer
teaching stuffs. It identifies and develops their talents in their field of
interest which may vary from art and craft to computers. Besides the curriculum
set by the West Bengal Board, educational excursions, drawing, music, yoga,
acting, dances, art classes, workshops on environment and hygiene are being
arranged at regular intervals. Regular parents-teacher meeting, guardian
counseling and several workshops & awareness programmes are the other
important activities areas where the project focuses on. We are also
distributing them some nutrient food twice in a week according to our ability.
They are performing on the occasions of Rabindra Jayanti, 15th August, Netaji’s
birthday, Swami Vivekananda’s birthday and many other occasions. We are also
providing them new copies, pen, pencils, school bags, new dresses and
umbrellas. We also arranged for some plastic sheets to repair their homes
affected by storms and rain.
The families of those
students are very poor and maximum time they spent on the pavement. We are
trying our best to bring them in the main stream of the social life. Many well
wishers helping us for this purpose besides the members of the Organisation. At
present we have 25 students. Their main problems are lack of nutrition and
proper treatment against their perennial ailment due to unhygienic
inhabitation. Some elderly students are working as domestic helper for their
family’s livelihood and are trying to keep their existence in education. Some
other male child students also working in local open market for flower, dog,
birds and aquarium fish on every Sunday from dawn to dusk to earn extra money
for their family’s livelihood.
Being a grass root NGO
working for only 1year and 9 months, Sukhe Dukkhe Organization is yet to get
any major funding from Government or any Corporate. We are sustaining our
efforts by our membership contribution, and donations from well wishers. We
know, that it is not possible for anyone to support a project on individual
capacity, but if we unite together, we can collect as much as required for this
project.
Therefore, we are
introducing some children specific scholarship schemes and some activity
specific sponsorship scheme for our Edu-Care Project. We request you to please
choose any of them as per your capacity, and enlighten the bright smile in
those innocent faces. We promise to spend the whole amount on the Children
incase of Children Specific Scholarships and on the Activity in case of
Activity based Sponsorship donations.
Regular progress report of the student who gets your scholarship will
reach to you, and Activity Report on Sponsorship will also be updated through
our correspondence, newsletters etc.
We hope, you will spread these within your
friends and colleagues so that they can also choose to be a part of this
Project.
Sponsorship
Programmes
1. Sponsorship of one week
nutrient food for 25 students - Rs.
1100/-
(This includes 2 days nutrient food
distribution)
2. Sponsorship of One Student for
a year - Rs. 3600/-
(This includes Nutrient food, Medical
treatment if any, Cost towards copies & others)
3. Scholarship
of one student for a year - Rs. 7200/-
(to Relieve from child labour)
(This includes Nutrient food,
Medical treatment, one time Meal, Cost towards stationery, copies)
4.
Sponsoring a part of total activities of Edu-Care Project … Any amount
1.BRIG.(Retd.) D.S.C. Varma taken the responsibility of one student for scholarship for one year and donated us Rs. 7,200/-
2.Smt. Ananya Das has taken the responsibility of sponsorship of 3 students for a year and donated us Rs. 10,000/- for this purpose.
3. Sri Subhashis Adhikari has taken the responsibility of 2 students for scholarship for one year and donated us Rs. 15000/-
3. Sri Subhashis Adhikari has taken the responsibility of 2 students for scholarship for one year and donated us Rs. 15000/-
We are grateful to them. We need more help for other students.