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Project Proposal, Infant Jesus HS, Maravanur, Manaparai TK
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
PROJECT APPLICATION
| 1. | Name of the Project | : | Project Proposal to Provide drinking water to the students studying at Infant Jesus High School, Maravanur, Manaparai Tk, Tiruchirappalli Dt, Tamil Nadu, India. | |
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| 2. | Applicant | : | C. Maria Susai M.Sc., M.Ed.,
Managing Trustee and Head Master, Infant Jesus High School Maravanaur Samuthiram post, Manaparai -621306, Tiruchirapalli District, Tamilnadu, India. |
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| 3. | Legal Holder | : | Rev. Fr.S. Dhanapragasam,
President, Trichy HFH, 25, Annai Nagar, Pitchandarkoil – 621216 Tiruchirappalli (Dt), Tamil Nadu, India. |
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| 4. | Project to be Implemented | : | Infant Jesus High School,
Maravanur. |
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| 5. | Beneficiaries of the project | : | 581 Rural and dalit girls and boys, students of Infant Jesus High School | |
In order to provide and to promote secondary school education at the most backward rural area Infant Jesus High School was started in June 2002 by Millennium Educational and Environmental Trust. As there was no high school of any type within radius of 10Kms from the Village of Maravanur, the school enrollment has increased year after year.
The school strength for the Academic year 2009-2010 is given below:
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Std |
Boys |
Girls |
Total |
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VI |
43 |
30 |
73 |
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VII |
52 |
37 |
89 |
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VIII |
79 |
47 |
126 |
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IX |
92 |
60 |
152 |
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X |
76 |
65 |
141 |
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TOTAL |
342 |
239 |
581 |
All these students come from more than 40 villages and their parents are daily wages earners or cattle raisers. 42% of them are from Dalit families; 26% of them are from most backward families and the rest are from backward families. Education is freely given to all and we are committed to give quality education and holistic formation to these Children of God.
Infant Jesus High School is a Tamil Medium School, recognized by the Government of Tamil Nadu. The Government gives free text books to all students, free noon – meal for 340 students and free bus pass for 360 students. Our X standard result is always above 92% and our service at this rural area is well appreciated.
Water is life we say. Protected drinking water enhances health for all. Pure drinking water is essential for the normal growth and overall development of each student. The school had a bore well which provided water for drinking, Cooking, and washing. The bore well was in school ground and it’s was very near to NH 45. The Government is extending high ways on both sides of road, laying 4 ways which resulted in abolishing of the school bore well. We have lost the school bore well in January 2010 and we are in great trouble in providing water for our school students. At present water is brought from a nearby private well by two women. They carry water on their heads and it does not satisfy our daily requirements. At this context a project is prepared and is submitted for your kind and a favorable consideration.
Our Proposal
On the facts mentioned above, it has become an immediate and urgent need to dig a bore-well and construct over head tank for our school students. Water source is available at school ground. We have consulted water diviner and an engineer to confirm this and a grant is requested for $6,500.00. It is a one time grant which will make a big difference at school and will help us to solve many problems that we face now.
Our appeal and our Assurance
Infant Jesus High School is a Vernacular Medium High School in a hamlet, aiming at the service of the most backward, neglected poor children. Our students hail from very poor families and they manage to come to school because of free education, free test – books and free noon-meal. On behalf of these students I earnestly appeal to you to consider our project proposal favorably. Once the project is sanctioned, we assure you to implement it sincerely and will submit the completion report within three months.
PROJECT APPLICATION; Infant Jesus School, Sembarai Vinayagapuram
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
NAME OF PROJECT: Provision of Drinking Water to the children of poor families at Infant Jesus Higher Secondary School,Vinayagapuram, Lalgudi Tk, Trichy Dt. TN. India.
TYPE OF PROJECT: Deep borewell cum Overhead Water Tank and Motor with Pipelines and Taps.
Beneficiaries of the Project: 1100 children of poor, landless agricultural laborer families and rural dalit children in the age group of 11-16 years.
Funds Requested: $ 7,500
Infant Jesus School is situated in Sembarai Vinayagapuram, a rural interior economically and educationally backward village, 12 kilometers away from Lalgudi, a small taluk town in Trichirapalli District of Tamilnadu. As the prime objective, the school was started with 61 children in June 1989 by Depressed People’s Welfare Association in order to provide secondary school education to the poor children, the children of landless agricultural laborer families and the children of dalit families and orphan children of the surrounding villages.
Infant Jesus School has been very prompt in providing quality education from its inception. The school had gradually developed with good academic results in the past 20 years of its service. Year by year the enrollment of the children has been increasing. There are around 1100 children in the school in the age group of 11 years to 16 years having secondary and higher secondary education from 6 grade to 12 grade. These children are belonging to the landless agricultural landless laborer families, poor and dalilt families from the surroundings of Sembarai Vinayagapuram. Out of 1100 children, 450 stay in the school as boarders and the remaining children are attending to school as day scholars from the near by villages. Owing to the commitment and hard work of the teachers, the school makes 100% results every year and occupies the best school in the educational district till date.
SAFE DRINKING WATER THE ESSENTIAL NEED: Thanks to the financial support from various funding agencies, friends from abroad, DPWA was able to provide basic infrastructures such as class rooms, dormitory building, play ground, science lab, library, dining hall, prayer hall and toilets for the children. Though the school is having such infrastructure, it has been a great challenge for us to provide safe and protected drinking water to the children. At present the students use to drink water brought from the farm well situated near the school which is not sufficient to the children as they use the same water for drinking and washing. And the overhead tank situated 500 meters away from the school is the main water supplier through pipe lines laid under the paddy fields and these pipe lines have got strangled and damaged owing to constant use of power tiller during active agriculture season. There is one hand pump installed in the school campus. The only hand pump could not serve all the children. Hence here is a proposal for safe and protected drinking water to the children through installation of deep bore well with the construction of water overhead tank with pipelines and motor with electricity connection which could serve all 1100 children inside the school campus.
We most humbly appeal to you to help us with US Dollars 7,500 for the provision of safe and protected drinking water to the needy children at Infant Jesus Higher Secondary School at Sembarai Vinayagapuram through construction of a deep borewell cum overhead water tank and motor with pipelines and taps.
Yours Sincerely
Fr.S.Dhanapragasam
President, DPWA
Hospital in desperate need for Water
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Last month I attended the opening ceremony of this water project and in “faith” I handed a check for some 300,000 rupees which should be sufficient to pay for all the work being carried on there so that the hospital might have sufficient water. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFMSgfwh7nI - a link to the dedication video.
The project entails a deep bore well at over 300 feet, a submersible pump and motor, a lot of PVC piping, gate valves and distribution points along with a water storage tank capable of holding thousands of liters of water.
I hope to post soon a few of the achievments being realized by the hospital in their fight against leprosy and HIV/Aids.
We still need your help in paying for this “faith” gift. Give today knowing that everything you give goes towards life!
If you are interested in the particulars, please click on the word Hospital project below to read about the need and if you want more information; email or call me and I will be happy to discuss this project with you.
School Project
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
There is 1 final school project which I would like to fund before year’s end and it is highlighted below. To participate in funding a part or even the entire project, simply make a donation (mail Wells for Life a check or give online using your credit card) and mark the memo portion of your gift with the name of the project.
(Pictures posted are of previous school projects where we have brought water and serve as an example of the impact we want to make in these new areas.)
Manaparai: Infant Jesus High School is located on the National Highways at Maravanur nearer MANAPARAI. The school is located 30 kilometers south of Trichy and there are 700 children in the age group of 11 to 16 years. A deep borewell already exists along with an overhead tank yet some years back this was demolished for the ongoing National Highway extension work by the government and the school was not compensated for the tank being destroyed. As a result, the school has been without a water system for the past 9 months. The need exists for the overhead water tank to be replaced along with a structure to hold the tank in place. The tank, supporting structure and necessary pipe and fixtures are all that is necessary to bring water back to this most deserving school.
Project cost $ 7,000
