'Maitri - 100 Days School – In our Village, Melghat - 2013-2014

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For the past two years Maitri has been conducting educational projects in Melghat with the help of volunteers. In

the first year a residential ‘100 Days School’ was set up in Chilati (Melghat) for a group 40 school drop outs during

Dec to March. In the next year the ‘100 Days School project was expanded to include Zilla Parishad schools in 3

villages whereby we could reach out to around 70 children. When the project ended last year, the parents from all

three villages told us that it would really be helpful for the children if they get this sort of guidance throughout their

academic year. Hence this year’s project has been planned with a view of connecting the volunteers and locals all

year round. A brief summary of the same is given below.

� Gaav Mitra (Village Buddies) have been chosen in 11 villages.

� These Gaav Mitra will gather children from their respective villages an hour before school starts and teach them

the basic skills required to understand and apply concepts taught to them in school. The main problem faced by

the children is that of understanding the Marathi language. The Gaav Mitra are originally Korku but can speak

Marathi fairly well, so we feel they will be able to communicate comfortably with the children.

� There will be a workshop held in Chilati village every month. Volunteers will go for this workshop. Volunteers will

train the Gaav Mitra during this workshop. This training will basically include an action plan for what is to be

taught to the children in the next month. This will be done via demonstrative classes for the Gaav Mitra. The

volunteers will also visit two villages and actually teach the children there.

� The old volunteers will impart training while new volunteers will assist them and also help make teaching

material for the project.

� Ramesh and Ashok will oversee the project and will stay in Chilati, Melghat. Both are local youths and have been

onsite coordinators of our projects in the past years. They will help and guide Gaav Mitra in all the villages.

� Children will be given some exercises and worksheets to be solved as homework. In this way, to some extent,

their parents will also be able to familiarize themselves with their children’s education

Action Plan for 2013-2014

• Total Villages - 11

• Duration – July 2013 to March 2014

• Volunteers – 40 (4 to 5 per month)

• Total children – 250 (20 to 25 per village)

• Total Estimated cost – Rs 5 Lakhs (Approx)

Volunteer Batch Time table : (Those who want to stay

longer are welcome to do so.)

Batch

No

Batch Period Start from

Pune

Return from

Melghat

starts

1 17 - 22 July 17 July 21 July

2 14 - 19 Aug 14 Aug 18 Aug

3 17 - 22 Sep 17 Sep 20 Sep

4 16 - 21 Oct 16 Oct 20 Oct

5 13 - 18 Nov 13 Nov 17 Nov

6 18 - 23 Dec 18 Dec 22 Dec

7 15 - 27 Jan 15 Jan 26 Jan

8 12 - 17 Feb 12 Feb 16 Feb

9 12 - 17 Mar 12 Mar 16 Mar

How can you Participate?

� Going to Melghat for 5 days as a volunteer

� Providing financial help for this project

• Expenditure on one child for a year Rs. 2000 /-

• Expenditure on one village for a month Rs. 5000 /-

• Expenditure on one Gaav Mitra for a month Rs.

500 /-

• Expenditure on jeep for one workshop Rs. 6000 /-

• Expenditure on snacks for a workshop for all

children Rs. 6250 /-

• Expenditure of a volunteer Rs. 2000 /-

• Expenditure on Printing material for children every

month Rs. 500 /-

� Providing help in Kind for children

• Stationary items like notebooks, pencils, slates

• Material for Art & Craft activity (origami, drawing

books, crayons, sketch pens etc)

• A4 size papers for printing, Rough papers and Files

� Spreading information about this project to others.