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"The best way to find you is to lose yourself in the service of others''
---- Mahatma Gandhi
A.Palsamy Nadar Educational Trust
APN Educational trust, is a charitable organization formalized
in the year 2006 (Document no: 211/2006) but in service s inc e
1992. The primary objective was to empower the socially
under privileged children from the rural areas in and around
Sirkali Town, by providing free education, their fundamental
rights to realize their dreams. Subsequent to our registration
over a decade, we have subsequently played a major role in the
transformation of education for the underprivileged children in
our locality. The 12A registration no of the Trust is 31/2011-12
with the 80G Certificate order No : 7162 E ( 31 / 2011 – 12 / CIT
– II / Trichy).
APN Initiatives
Founder’s view is that the most appropriate way of raising the living standards
of the poor people in the rural and urban communities is to promote and
support activities which contribute to income generation, self-reliance,
economic independence, job creation and are self-helping in nature. In
selecting major educational projects an emphasis should be placed on those
projects, which will raise the social and economic potential of our youth and
adults.
APN wants to make a difference in improving the lives of people everywhere, and
joins the daily effort of its fellow advocates to raise awareness, educate and build
bridges. APN has changed the mindset gradually through their solution oriented
initiatives, by offering free of cost Nutritious food , Uniform, academic materials,
Transportation and technology enabled infrastructure.
In all our actions we strive for honesty and transparency. Decisions are guided by
a commitment to social justice as well as a long-term commitment to the
community we serve. We aim to undertake our responsibilities with care, wisdom
and love. We value and affirm children’s diverse backgrounds in our school. The
close relationship between our school and communities mean that we are able to
respond sensitively and effectively to the particular needs of the underprivileged
students – financially, socially, and culturally.
APN leadership has roots in the community and is drawn from the local migrant
population. This is one of the key strengths and affirms the right of people to make
their own decisions about the issues that affect their lives. As a local organization
APN are in a uniquely credible situation to deliver local development services
more effectively than outside organizations. It also means that APN do not have
an expensive administrative headquarters in a City.
Current Challenge
APN Trust as a whole will assume the responsibility of providing resource
support to the rural children around Sirkali town for implementing
programs of educational transformation, reducing disparities,
universalisation of elementary education, adult literacy, scientific and
technological research etc.,
As per the 2013 Population index over 1,47,000 kids in the locality are
below the age group of 10 years, whose families falls under the poverty line.
Not only that the existing 35 plus schools together can accommodate
maximum of 42% students only. Out of which 23 schools are privately run
institutions whose fees structure is not affordable to many families.
The APN Trust run school Campus is around 3500 Sq ft with the built-up area of
3000Sqft. From 36 students strength in 2006 the school has grown over 500
students in 2016. The school runs classes up to 5th standard and extends
sponsorship / scholarship to the selected children for further studies.
Scaling the school to higher secondary level would enable more under
privileged children to obtain their basic rights, education at free of cost.
Also minimum levels of learning will be laid down for each stage of
education.
As our school grows more, the challenges to solve grew complex. The major
challenge is mobilizing fund for the school Operations and capacity
development activities to accommodate more students. i.e to scale up the
level and accommodate more students’ essential infrastructure and
healthy fund flow is mandated.
In the past, the trust was relied on Volunteer or minimal contributions locally in
addition to the Trustees’ personal contributions. But constant increase in number
of students created a challenge to continue the free services with the limited
contributions. It was realized that the trust member’s contributions alone
would not be sufficient to run the institution as planned and decided to
seek support in form of Funding from corporates and individuals.
Fortunately around the globe there are amazing organisations like yours
filled with passionate, intelligent people working round the clock to
discover, formulate and provide solutions to the social cause? The trust is
approaching the corporates & Individuals for funding support in two
various initiatives, i.e Regular operations and Capacity development.
2. Capacity Development
The APN Trust is seeking to establish a School on the land donated by the
founder. APN construct a purpose-built school to provide a stable educational
environment (CBSE) with nominal fee structure. The campus will also
accommodate the existing Vani Vilas School within a safe and affirming
environment, an essential good education for children who have never received or
experienced in the State board curriculum. Also the Free education model will
scale up the standards by upgrading to higher secondary level.
In a longer run the CBSE School, from its revenue generation will fund the
expenses of the Vani Vilas School and protect its free education model. Towards
this cause we continue to actively raise funds through the work of our Trustees,
Corporates, Events and Funding Proposals involving our communities and
well-wishers in supporting the construction of the school. The new school will be
provided with adequate facilities, equipment and supplies to meet the needs of
students, parents and teachers.
The students of Vani Vilas School will have access to classrooms, computer labs,
the school library, gymnasiums, Auditorium, outdoor recreation areas and other
facilities during school, afterschool and Holidays. The timescale for constructing
the school is 18 months from the start date, when resources are available. Once
the school is open, it will run indefinitely. The school will be situated in a
rural area at Sirkali by-pass, off the Sirkali Town, in Nagapttinam district of
Tamilnadu state in India.
The School will require:
Building and construction materials for Kindergarten, Elementary, High &
Higher Secondary School blocks for both CBSE & State board schools. The
School is expected to provide education over 2500 children and employ 78
trained/qualified teachers and 42 administrative staff approx.
The structure of the Formal Education and Training System in the new school
constitutes three (3) years of pre-primary education, Five (5) years of primary
education, Five (5) years of High school (Ordinary Level) and two (2) years of
Higher Secondary (Advanced Level). In short 3:5:5:2.
The School will:
Enable children to reach their full potential by providing them with a good
education. This in turn will help them to mature psychologically,
emotionally and develop good social skills.
Provide local employment thus boosting the morale of those in the
surrounding communities.
Keep families together in a community context, as the school is a local
amenity.
Assist in the reduction of violence and crime through community-based
projects established outside of school hours.
The Scope of the project proposal document
This project proposal is about the School construction of which will be named on a
later date. Upon completion, it will have pre-primary education, primary
education and secondary education. Secondary education will consist of ordinary
level and high school level. The official language will be English in CBSE & Tamil
in State board school, which will be used at all levels.
As mentioned earlier, the scope of this project proposal will be to construct the
Full-fledged schools within five years, whereby pre-primary school and primary
school will start simultaneously in one year while building construction will be
progressing. Ordinary secondary school is planned to commence in year three and
advanced level in year four.
APN Trust will endeavor to raise funds through its Trustees, by approaching the
prospective Corporates, Individuals and conducting Events.
APN Trust is requesting support from you, as Donor, towards the cost of the
building and construction materials for the school.
Project Description
"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for
others and the world remains and are immortal."
--------Albert Pike
To improve the services and accommodating the increasing number of children,
the trust decided to acquire land and develop infrastructure / building additional
classrooms. So that the entire school can be shifted to the new premises with
better facilities. While some corporate houses have been active in collaborating
with NGOs by contributing to this most righteous cause, many more should take it
up as part of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) and donate for education
of kids in India that can help pay for basic infrastructure in schools, transport and
scholarships for the brightest students.
The overall total for the School Project at Sirkali Intersection is estimated at
INR 26,61,70,100 ( Twenty Six Crores Sixty One lakhs Seventy thousands One
hundred only) to build 1,87,407 Sq. feet concrete structure. The school project is
divided into smaller projects below:
Preliminary Works / General Obligations = INR 52,00,000/-
Should you feel that these amounts are more than you can contribute, we ask you
to consider the pleasing contribution.
We look forward to hearing from you and hope that we can work together in the
future.
Narasimhan
Trust Representative