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A German once visited a temple under construction where he saw a sculptor making an idol of God. Suddenly he noticed a similar idol lying nearby. Surprised, he asked the sculptor, "Do you need two statues of the same idol?" "No," said the sculptor without looking up, "We need only one, but the first one got damaged at the last stage." The gentleman examined the idol and found no apparent damage. "Where is the damage?" he asked. "There is a scratch on the nose of the idol." said the sculptor, still busy with his work. "Where are you going to install the idol?"

The sculptor replied that it would be installed on a pillar twenty feet high. "If the idol is that far, who is going to know that there is a scratch on the nose?" the gentleman asked. The sculptor stopped his work, looked up at the gentleman, smiled and said, "I will know it."

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Under privileged, Under performing students – Tragic Combination - Spandana NGO

From: Prasanthi Uppalapati Date: Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: Under privileged, Under performing students – Tragic Combination
To: birdsofsamefeathers

Courtesy: N. Nageswara Rao

You guys brought a good topic for discussion.

Some NGO's are over reaching the Under privileged, meritorious students based on news articles in Press.

Some NGO's just announce the scholarship (in terms of money) for toppers in the school, they don't even worry about their financial background.

Forget about under performing students , none of the NGO's are really working towards supporting under privileged, averagely performing students.
As you are all aware, there are several valid reasons behind their average performance like brought up, illiterate parents and financial background etc.
As Prashanti rightly said, you will find majority of them in Government schools where you find demotivated teachers and discouraging environment.

With the help of little support from us, they can perform exceptionally good in their academics. I am telling this based on our experience.
Let me explain me how we are executing a model to achieve this....

We at Spandana Foundation , primarily concentrating on this issue, and trying to resolve this issue to some extent.

What we do :
We encourage our volunteers to adopt a government school at their native place
Request them identify government schools

Select around 20 meritorious but poor students from those schools
Every year we increase the number of students we support in each schools if needed to motivate the remaining students so that every students work hard try for the scholarship next year.
Support them by providing all basic needs

We don't give even a rupee also directly to students as part of this schoarship
We provide: One pair uniform, Stitching charges, Note Books, Text Books, Pen, Geometry Box, School Bag.

Exam Fee, School Fee, Transoportation are optional components and will be provided on need basis.
Give moral support to Government teachers to motivate them Monitor their performance every quarter and attend their academic needs Provide basic infrastucture to those schools to improve the environment in schools by providing Benches, Wanter tank, Class rooms, Library etc.

Oragnize competition like elocution, essay writing, debates, sports and games Health check-up and eye screening for all students In other words, we ensure the entire school that we are behind them to
support for higher studies if they perform average or more.

Spandana Foundation is supporting around 3000+ students from 160+ schools in this academic year 2009-10.

http://www.spandana.org/index.php?option=com_lqm&application=9&query=82&Itemid=506

Most important aspect about this entire project is , it's completely executed from USA. Hundreds of volunteers work towards this project everyday.

I had already announced this project once in this one month back. I got ZERO response.

Please let me know if anyone in the group wants to adopt any govt. school in any corner of Andhra Pradesh. Spandana expects you to donate 30 hours of volunteer time in return back to the organization to support 14 students in a Govt. school.

More details about this project: (Take a look at all the links on RHS) http://www.spandana.org/pratibha2009annualdrive.html

http://www.spandana.org/pratibha2009annualdrive.html

More details about Spandana Foundation: http://www.spandana.org/Forms/Spandana_Presentation.pps

Thanks
Nageswararao Nidamanuru
www.spandana.org

http://www.spandana.org/

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