Sneha Hasthaalu

1. SnehaHasthaalu Feb 2014

2. AGENDA • About Us • Goals & Vision • Activities • Achievements • Our Impact • Cost & Expenses • How You Can Help • Contact Us

3. About Us • Friends from various IT companies started SnehaHasthaaluwith a goal to serve the poor & talented youth • Trustees include employees from companies like • Cisco Systems • Infosys • Broadcom • Intel .. etc. • Started in 2005 with 8 board of trustees as of today. • Registered and commenced major operations in 2012. • Grown to 200+ community of contributors at various levels • Obtained U/S 80G of Income Tax Act for Tax Deductible donations.

4. Goals & Vision “Empower Rural Youth Through Education and Skill development” Our goal is to enable rural youth to reach their full potential in life by providing them tools and encouragement through education and other activities.

5. Activities In order to achieve out goals, we focus on following activities: • School Adoption • Financial Support for talented poor children • Setting up Computer training and other off-campus training systems • Conduct Career Guidance classes for 10th & 12th class students • Setup free libraries in rural villages which accessible to everyone. • Help villages in natural calamities • Beautify and greenify our villages through tree planting.

6. School Adoption Adopt rural government primary schools • Partner with teachers and help them improve quality of education during the foundational years of children. • Provide materials to schools (uniforms, stationary, drinking water and others) • Provide computers and UPS to schools and prepare kids for tomorrow’s competitive world. • Appoint mentors to monitor and improve efficiency and effectiveness of education. • Augment teaching staff where needed. • Encourage and incentivize the parents and kids to improve the attendance rate and decrease the dropouts. • Provide after-school tuitions. • Provide Spot gifts and stars to students and teachers to encourage them achieve more. • Works out better with logistics and cost effective to adopt a block (10+) of schools than individual schools.

7. Financial Support • Identify qualified youth who are talented and poor • Provide financial support through out their education. • Help them achieve their career aspirations through counseling. • Qualification criteria includes excelling in a competitive entrance exam. • Other criteria include their financial status, history of previous education track records .. etc. • Setting the condition that they have to pay back in 3 years after education.

8. Off-Campus Training & Career Guidance • Providing Computer training for +2 students and teachers from the adopted schools. • Arranging computer for every school adopted. • Creating IT awareness for school children through off-hour classes. • Providing infrastructure to use advanced internet learning classes through internet/DVD etc. • Career guidance to students to prepare them for real word: • Annual event with the help of Doctors, Bank Managers, Cops, coaching center professionals etc.

9. Free Rural Libraries • Established a rural library in one of the villages. • Main purpose is to establish as a knowledge center for rural children, youth and farmers. • Make various personality development books, knowledge books etc available for free to rural youth. • Provide content through various media as well: • Daily newspapers • Magazines, • Books • CD/DVDs etc. • Provide internet access to make use of e-governance portals. • Plan is to provide a common place and infra to empower rural women self-help groups achieve their goals.

10. Help in Natural Calamities &Greenify the villages • Establish infrastructure to respond to disasters ASAP. • Provide logistics support to locals to recover faster from floods etc. • Provide materials (e.g. food, cloths, transportation etc) for stranded people • Plant trees and flower beds along the schools, roads and other areas in villages. • Provide Tree Guards to protect these trees. • Adopted schools to take care of planted trees. • Encourage students and schools to maintain them through green-school awards.

11. Achievements by numbers • 51 schools adopted impacting 3400 students • Supported 15 students financially through out their education • Established 2 rural libraries. • 2 mentors, 5 teachers, 4 tutors, 2 librarians working for our foundation. • One water purification plant providing clean water at minimal cost. • Planted 1400 plants with 680 tree guards • Arranged 60 computers (donated by Infosys) • Provided Computer Training for 110 students in summer • Distributed about 36K books, 1000 plates for midday lunch, 500 school bags

12. Our Impact • Reduced drop out rate from government schools • Improvement in attendance, taking kids away from work to schools. • More number of girls moving from 5th grade to high school. • Teachers taking extra care to make measurable improvements in quality of education. • Around 140+ kids came back from private schools (non-affordable) to government schools • Parents more willing to send their kids to school than to work.

13. Our Impact • Streamlined system Completely streamlined system of school adoption that can be mirrored and repeated easily. • Our system has been followed to adopt 12 schools by other charitable trusts (By NNR Trust). • Partnership with other NGOs • Sikshana came forward to train the mentors and school teachers • Infosys provided 60+ computers and monitors • Partnership with Telugu People foundation to provide financial support to talented and poor students. • A lot of other foundations providing charitable donations to help us improve our operations. • Local Support We are able to establish a support system with local authorities (MEO, MDO, MLAs) to provide logistic as well as administrative support. • Local SBI provided water filters for schools • MDO came forward to provide a borewell to supply water for the schools

14. Costs & Expenses • Here is a rough guidance of expenses involved in our activities.

15. 2014-15 and beyond & How You Can Help • Need to find a permanent building for existing library. (about 3,00,000 INR) • Continue Supporting ~3500 existing students in adopted schools. (about 14,00,000 INR/Year) • Add to existing schools based on incoming donations – Target is to add 1500 more students – 6,00,000 INR/Year extra) • Establish 2 more rural libraries (4,00,000 / library, 72000/year/lib) • Tree Plantation – Another 1500 trees (2,25,000) • Continue with Computer coaching for 150 students (1,50,000/year) • Financial support : 4 continued + 4 new (2,00,000/year) • Empower rural women self-help through training in embroidery and other skills (2,00,000 one time cost, 6000/month)

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