‘School Kit Drive’ is a time bound project (from April to July) started for the first time in Chennai last year where we raised funds to support 1000 children across Tamilnadu with their school stationary requirements. Through this initiative, we help those children go back to school who for reasons of not being able to buy a bag or notebooks or stationary, opt to drop out. A very small step to help many first generation learners to complete their schooling.
This year we increased our target to 3000 and reach out to the interiors of TN apart from Chennai city.
A School Kit consists of a school Bag, 10 Notebooks, Pen, Pencil, Scale, Eraser, Sharperner and a Geometry Box (for classes 8 & above). The contents of a kit have to be sourced separately and hence have to be assembled and packed before they are distributed.
In order to raise funds for this drive our volunteers engaged their friends and relatives, some even going to the extent of getting the permission to put up stalls in the office campus / building cafeteria. There were some who helped us identify the deserving children from various parts of the state. Thus, the entire project was completely driven by volunteers in every phase. We also had the opportunity to get CSR support of a few companies who wanted to associate with YFS for other volunteering opportunities in the future.
Over all we saw a very enthused participation from at least 60 volunteers who helped us right from sourcing the kit contents, to packing them, till their distribution at various schools.
The first distribution began with 14 volunteers travelling all the way to Karumandurai, a tribal village nestled in the hills near Salem. Children studying in Saraswathi Vidya Mandir school of the nearby villages received the School kits.
Below is the list of places where we did the distribution of school kits this year;
(Students from financially poor background are identified from Govt schools, study centres run by partner NGOs at slums, orphanages and vanavasi schools across Tamil nadu)
We could not have achieved our intended target without the timely financial support of the below sponsors:
Volunteers have shared their experience of SKD in the blog
If you would like to be a part of any volunteering activity in Chennai, then do write in to us at yfschennai@youthforseva.org
Happy Volunteering!
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This year we increased our target to 3000 and reach out to the interiors of TN apart from Chennai city.
A School Kit consists of a school Bag, 10 Notebooks, Pen, Pencil, Scale, Eraser, Sharperner and a Geometry Box (for classes 8 & above). The contents of a kit have to be sourced separately and hence have to be assembled and packed before they are distributed.
In order to raise funds for this drive our volunteers engaged their friends and relatives, some even going to the extent of getting the permission to put up stalls in the office campus / building cafeteria. There were some who helped us identify the deserving children from various parts of the state. Thus, the entire project was completely driven by volunteers in every phase. We also had the opportunity to get CSR support of a few companies who wanted to associate with YFS for other volunteering opportunities in the future.
Over all we saw a very enthused participation from at least 60 volunteers who helped us right from sourcing the kit contents, to packing them, till their distribution at various schools.
The first distribution began with 14 volunteers travelling all the way to Karumandurai, a tribal village nestled in the hills near Salem. Children studying in Saraswathi Vidya Mandir school of the nearby villages received the School kits.
Below is the list of places where we did the distribution of school kits this year;
(Students from financially poor background are identified from Govt schools, study centres run by partner NGOs at slums, orphanages and vanavasi schools across Tamil nadu)
- A total of 650 students from the Vanavasi Seva Kendra Tamil Nadu (centres in Coimbatore, Salem, Nilgiris, Dharmapuri, Kancheepuram, Villupuram and Tiruvallur districts) will be supported.
- 10 study centres in Chennai – Tiruvanmiyur, Velachery, Hasthinapuram, Manali, Perambur, Pushpa Nagar, Valsaravakkam, Dhamodharan Nagar, Vysarpadi and Ayanavaram. These are run by the NGO called Sevabharathi Tamilnadu and are situated in slum areas where children belonging to lower income group households attend. They run such study centres across TN. Total – 600
- 2 Orphanage Homes (called as Anbu Illam) run by the same NGO in Chennai, one each for boys and girls. Total – 55.
- A total of 162 children studying in Sri Krishna Sevashram Nursery and Primary school at Pillaipakkam, identified by a volunteer. The children attending the school belong to families who are daily wage labourers falling in the Below Poverty Line category.
- A Principal of a Govt school in Chennai is taking the initiative to identify students from the Govt schools in Chennai who are in need of kit sponsorship due to financial constraints at home. These schools may not fall within the Corporation limits of Chennai city. Total – 350.
- School identified by a volunteer in the villages of Vandhavasi & Tirunalveli. Total – 130.
- 4 study centres run in the slums of Perambur & Vysarpadi by partner NGO Vivekananda Educational and Human Resources Development Trust. Total – 100.
We could not have achieved our intended target without the timely financial support of the below sponsors:
- funds raised by the employees of eBay/PayPal
- & UDAAN – a Geometric 3DPLM Initiative
- Aasha Charity UK
- JAWAHARMAL CHANDAN CHARITABLE TRUST (JCCT)
Volunteers have shared their experience of SKD in the blog
If you would like to be a part of any volunteering activity in Chennai, then do write in to us at yfschennai@youthforseva.org
Happy Volunteering!
Team-YFS
Join us on Facebook
Register as a Volunteer -
http://youthforseva.org/volunteer/register-as-volunteer/chennai/
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