Neduvasal Project — In Progress
Neduvasal Project -One Headmaster’s attempt to modernize primary education for needy young kids in a govt school that was oft considered as a punishment school with poor connectivity, frequent students’, teachers’ absenteeism. His methodology of leveraging various government schemes, fundings from NGOs and trusts have proven instrumental in developing the infrastructure of the school and the nearby village, earning trust and respect of the locals. Rightly so, it has been bestowed “The Best school in the state “for holistic development by State Education Board on Aug 15,2010. To scale up this success by extending to the children in the vicinity and to cement the nutritional deficiency of the children in the school our team initiated the ”NAVADHANYA scheme“- Daily Morning nutrients ingredient drink for 70 students of the school through quarterly commitment of 20,000 for it and extended scholarships ( books,uniforms,need based funding) to 20 needy students across different standards.
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Projects Ideas in Research
Displays in Grid format existing project ideas in pursuit| Idea # | Story # | Contact # | Sponsor/Research Team Info | Status | Priority |
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| SPONSOR a STUDENT referred by the student's professor and one of DaD Members | Student 1: A needy student referred by her professor from Loyola College - Master in Social work course. One of the top 5 student in the class, whose family situation is not financially viable to pay her 2nd, 3rd and 4th semester fees. | Available on request from the Sponsor. | Vignesh M | Funded Rs.25000 as of Feb 2011 Research Completed 17 Jan 11: Ramya's Education to be funded. In Research 15 dec 10: Vignesh reached out to the professor and the student. Vignesh, about to propose a plan for funding to DaD's Group-DM (Decision-Makers) | High |
| AID India-Adopt a Village's Education Center | Brief Story and Note on Eureka_SuperKidz Project | Kiran ( AID contact person, refered by Vignesh) : 9884407885 | Vignesh M Shyam A | Funded Rs.25000 as of Oct 2011 for village: Puthur near Krishnagiri. In Research: Vignesh has contacted Kiran to find out their current Report plan and if they will provide the village name that DaD can adopt ? Shyam will reach Kiran to find out if they still need the funds and understand their plan. | High |
 | Organization started and run by a Muscular dystrophy patient. Fighting for her life but at the same time in her remaining short period, trying to make some progress for muscular dystrophy patients like her. At present they are giving physiotherapy and accu-pressure treatment for the patients who live near by in Salem, TamilNadu. Her long term plan is to build a home with hospital and school. Help needed financially and from physiotherapists to provide medical help to new needy patients at low cost. | Vanavan Mahadevi: 9976399403 Sivaraj: 99656-89020 kawthihills@gmail.com Info: Aadhav Trust Website | Shyam A Abdul Wadhood Karthick A | Not-Funded as of Oct 2011 In Research: In-Person-Due-Diligence-Visit to Salem done by Abdul. Phone conversations with Vanavan Mahadevi done by Shyam and Karthi, to understand what she would be requiring. | High |
| Neduvasal Project-Phase 2.0 | Release of Phase2.0 funding for Neduvasal project | Neduvasal HM Mail: arkaru70@yahoo.com Phone: Home:04373272333 School:04373192108 Mobile:9442474893 | Karthick A Vivek R Shyam A | Not-Funded as of Oct 2011 In Research: Karthick and Shyam are obtaining more info from Karuppaiyan to arrive at the need for phase-2.0 funding and the impact of previously funded phase-1.0. | Medium |
 | Good Neighbors India, an NGO started in 2009 is currently working with Chikkajala, Bangalore quarry workers to run a day-care center. These parents are migrated from Northern Karnataka, Tamilnadu and part of AndraPradesh. The youth and adolescents living in the quarry area in Chikkajala are a group who are lacking educational and employment opportunities. The children of these families are dropped out from the school, to come along with the parents to work. Hence many of them are without any other option but to follow the footsteps of their parents. The girls are married away in a very young age, their dreams remain as dreams, the boys frustrated end up working for other unskilled jobs and this life style does not augur well for the development of this community. Dollar-a-Day in collaboration with Good Neighbors India is planning to address the vocational needs of the youth/adolescents. The program envisaged, is to run a professional training center in-collaboration with hiring-firms to train them with job oriented skills (tailoring, communication etc), and follow-up with placing them in their first jobs. DaD is working currently with Meena(Project manager), Muniraj(Director) of Good Neighbor India to finalize the implementation plan/deliverables. | GNI Director (Muniraj): muniraj1960@gmail.com GNI-Chikkajala Project Manager (Meena) meenaarun88@gmail.com | Vignesh M | Not-Funded as of Oct 2011 In Research: In-Person-Due-Diligence-Visit to Chikkajala done by Vignesh. A tentative plan with timeline and deliverables sent by Shyam. | Low |
 | CTC-Chennai Trekker's club's social aspect group is actively collaborating with less-funded, remote homes and children's needs. | CTC-Social Aspect Coord: S.Thilak(9840873859) the_luck_in@yahoo.com CTC Social Group Mailing list: sachennaitrekkingclub@googlegroups.com Chennai Trekkers Group - Parent Site | Shyam A | Not-Funded as of Oct 2011 In Research: Phone conversations with S.Thilak done by Shyam to understand what help he would need. | Low |