Helping Minds Team wishes Chatrapatti diploma student who has got a job

In 2009, we got a request from the student of Chatrapatti village. She was doing Textile Technology at P.A.C.Ramasamy Raja Polytechnic college, Rajapalayam. Considering her family background and her interest towards continuing education, Helping Minds supported for her college fees. Now the good news is that she has got a job. Helping Minds Team has conveyed wishes to her. She is currently working in Saravana Mills, Dindugal.

National Child Labor Project Schools

Helping Minds team discussed about the National Child Labor Project (NCLP) Schools and decided to find out how Helping Minds can extend support to NCLP schools.

As a first step, Muppi from our team visited Coimbatore to meet Collector Umanath IAS to check on NCLP Schools. Umanath IAS provided the details about the schools.

NCLP schools are funded directly by Central Government, and the fund is managed by district collector. General data about these schools in Coimbatore
Total NCLP Schools in Coimbatore : 21
Total Teaching Staff : 69 (Approx 3 to each school)
Non teaching staff for each school (Helper) : 1 (Cooking, cleaning)
Ages of students in school : 9 to 14
Coordinator for all 21 schools : 1 (Mr Vijaya Kumar)

The salary paid for the teachers in NCLP schools is very less and so the collector has written to government saying the salary can be increased for the staff to have better management of these schools. 90% of the students are immigrants from other state (Manipur, Assam etc). Most of them come here as cheap labour, once the work is finished, they go back or move to some other jobs. Making the students continue in the school and advising parents about the importance of education are really challenging tasks for the officials here.

Here are few statistics about Child labor in India -

Of 12.6 million children in hazardous occupations in the world, India has the highest number of labourers in the world under 14 years of age.

According to the New Delhi-based National Sample Survey Organisation, nearly 16.4 million Indian children aged 5-14 years are engaged in economic activities and domestic or non-remunerative work. The World Bank puts that figure at 44 million.

National Child Labor Project is a Central Government program, with the help of UNICEF, which aims to provide education for the children who were employed. The NCLP schools are different from the normal schools since the education needs of the students are different. The education needs and the aptitude of the students are assessed and they are taught here till they are good enough to be brought to the mainstream regular schools. In the state of Tamil Nadu, NCLP has helped more than 3,600 child labourers leave their jobs and be mainstreamed into regular schools.

Muppi visited three NCLP schools in Karunya Nagar, Kaaramadai and Rangarajapuram. Some school buildings are government owned and some are rented. There is just one small building, very small in size, with asbestos on top and side. Actually it is very difficult for the kids to sit there during summer time. The students were singing songs, rhymes etc to reveal their talents. Muppi and friends had a look at notebooks of each kids and checked them how good they are at what they have written and were amazed to see the way they were responding. The students are making very good progress overall.

Link to Coimbatore NCLP Schools visit photos:

https://picasaweb.google.com/muppitathi/KovaiTrip?authkey=Gv1sRgCO7rnqWdg6-T6QE&feat=directlink&fgl=true&pli=1#

More information about the requirements of NCLP schools will be posted in our future blogs.

Scholarships for the year from April 2011

#	Date	Recipient	Amount
01	21-Apr-2011	Mess fees for Dharmapuri MBBS Student	2917
02	5-Apr-2011	Mess fees for Karaikudi Chemical Engineering student	1100
03	13-May-2011	Mess fees for Karaikudi Chemical Engineering student	1060
04	24-Apr-2011	College fees for Teacher training student	5000
05	13-May-2011	College fees for Sriviliputtur VPMM Arts College Student	10000
06	2-Jun-2011	College fees for Pollachi Mahalingam College Student	20000
07	3-Jun-2011	Mess fees for Dharmapuri MBBS Student	2759
08	1-Jul-2011	Mess fees for Dharmapuri MBBS Student	2920
09	1-Jun-2011	Mess fees for Arani Diploma Student	1085
10	30-Jun-2011	College fees for Kongu Engineering Student	10000
11	30-Jun-2011	College fees for Trichy Anna University Student	10855
12	01-Apr-2011	Support for Vellakovil Panchayath union middle school	1250
13	01-May-2011	Support for Vellakovil Panchayath union middle school	1250
14	01-Jun-2011	Support for Vellakovil Panchayath union middle school	1250
15	01-Jul-2011	Support for Vellakovil Panchayath union middle school	1250
16	01-Aug-2011	Support for Vellakovil Panchayath union middle school	1250
17	26-Jun-2011	Support for Erode Sengunthar College Student	10000
18	1-Jul-2011	Support for CMS College B.Tech Student	10000
19	22-Jul-2011	Support for VSB Engineering College Student	10000
20	22-Jul-2011	Support for PACR Diploma Student	9382
21	22-Jul-2011	Support for Tiruchengode B.Tech Student	16465
22	18-Jul-2011	Mess fees for Arani Diploma Student	1132
23	9-Aug-2011	Mess fees for Arani Diploma Student	930
24	5-Aug-2011	Mess fees for Dharmapuri MBBS Student	4129
25	5-Sep-2011	Mess fees for Dharmapuri MBBS Student	3201
26	7-Oct-2011	Mess fees for Dharmapuri MBBS Student	3357
27	17-Sep-2011	Mess fees for Arani Diploma Student	960
28	13-Oct-2011	Mess fees for Arani Diploma Student	910
29	7-Sep-2011	Mess fees for Salem Civil Engineering Student	1300
30	13-Oct-2011	Mess fees for Salem Civil Engineering Student	1019
31	01-Oct-2011	Salary for Nagapattinam tuition teachers	2000
32	01-Nov-2011	Salary for Nagapattinam tuition teachers	2000
33	01-Dec-2011	Salary for Nagapattinam tuition teachers	2000
34	20-Sep-2011	Children Magazines for Govt. School- Tirupur	716
35	29-Nov-2011	Mess fees for Salem Civil Engineering Student	1174
36	29-Nov-2011	Mess fees for Parthasarathy	963
37	29-Nov-2011	Mess fees for Dharmapuri MBBS Student	2983
38	28-Dec-2011	College fees for Saravanan	10855
39	29-Dec-2011	Mess fees for Salem Civil Engineering Student	1252
40	29-Dec-2011	Mess fees for Parthasarathy	991
41	29-Dec-2011	Mess fees for Dharmapuri MBBS Student	3022
42	7-Oct-2011	Mess fees for Parthasarathy	1088
43	22-Jan-2012	Support for NCLP School	846
44	27-Jan-2012	College fees for Vaishnavi	21360
45	27-Jan-2012	Support for NCLP School	20000
46	31-Jan-2012	Salary for Nagapattinam tuition teachers	2000
47	10-Feb-2012	Roofing for Kumaran High School Manjakollai	17500
48	15-Feb-2012	Mess fees for Parthasarathy	1728
49	15-Feb-2012	Mess fees for Salem Civil Engineering Student	1651
50	28-Feb-2012	Salary for Nagapattinam tuition teachers	2000
51	29-Feb-2012	Mess fees for Dharmapuri MBBS Student	6068
52	29-Feb-2012	Salary for the teachers in learning center	30000
53	23-Mar-2012	Mess fees for Dharmapuri MBBS Student	3453
54	23-Mar-2012	Siragu School - Sanitary facilities	5000
55	27-Mar-2012	Mayanoor School- Toilet facilities	25000
56	30-Mar-2012	Teacher salary for the schools,Mayanur-Government primary school,Ponmudiyar Corporation Girls Higher Secondary School-Goripalayam,Government High school-Porani Velliyanai	77000
Total			389381

The details of the scholarships for the year 2010 is available here, for the year 2009 is available here for the year 2008 is available here and for the year 2007 is at here

Support for Sriviliputtur VPMM Arts College Student

The student is doing B.COM in VPMM Arts and science college, sriviliputtur. Her parents are doing weaving. The student had scored 75% in her first semester and her major subjects mark average is 82%. Considering the family background, Helping Minds team decided to help her and had paid Rs 10000 on 13 May 2011 for her college fees.

Support for the teacher training student

The person is doing his teacher training. He has got information about Helping Minds from one of the teacher training candidates Helping minds had helped before. The person has got very good academic records. He has got 89.5% in 10th and 81% in 12th. His father is a tailor and mother is a flower vendor. Since he has scored good marks and the fees is high, Helping minds decided to support him and had paid Rs. 5000 on 24 April 2011.

Continuing help for Karaikudi Chemical Engineering student

HM has paid Rs.1100 for Chemical and Electrochemical Engineering student in Karaikudi on 5 April 2011 for her mess fees and also Rs. 1060 on 13 May 2011.

Continuing support for Dharmapuri MBBS Student

Helping Minds is continuing support to Dharmapuri MBBS Student and has paid Rs. 2917 for his mess fees on 21 Apr 2011

Support for Pollachi Mahalingam College Student

The student is doing computer engineering in Dr. Mahalingam college of Engineering & Technology, Pollachi. The student has good academic records. She had scored 91% in 10th std and 93% in 12th std. She had also scored 83% in her first semester. Their parents are working as day labors. For first year, they have some how managed with help of friends and families. The student is expecting help for second year. Helping minds decided to support the student with Rs. 20000 per anum.