Asha School

Annual Report (2010-2011)

Collaboration: Asha-Silicon Valley, US

Organization: VARUN, Naugarh, Chandauli, UP

The foremost objective of running educational institutions in Naugarh block of Chandauli

Dist. is that there should be no illiterate boy or a girl for the reason that there are no

institutions and resources. VARUN will operate in a particular community or a village

until the time Govt. establishes and functions. Once a sustainable arrangement has been

made, VARUN has to work to such a level that the people in the community should be

aware and come to realize the importance of having a school so that they can take care of

its functioning for an uninterrupted and continual education to be given to their children.

Once established, VARUN creates a plan and starts to withdraw slowly from that village.

In this respect, VARUN’s role is very clear that it reaches out to educate such people who

do not have any means of education even till this day. There are quite a few examples for

these kind of schools: Amritpur, Horila, Lerha, Shahpur and Jharia.

Similar to what has been done the previous years, during last year of 2010-2011, in

Chandauli Dist. of Naugarh block that is in the middle of jungles and hills and affected

by naxalism, we are running schools in 6 villages (5 in UP, 1 in Bihar) and trying to

provide primary education to the children of destitute dalit communities. On behalf of all

the villagers, we would want to extend heartfelt thanks for supporting us for a good

cause.

Following is the progress report for the term of 2010-11, presented for your reference.

Table-1: Centre wise and class wise enrolment of students’ details:

Sn. No School Class I Class II Class III Class IV Class V Class VI Class VII Class VIII Class IX Class X

1 Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls

2 Pathraur 7 12 5 2 5 3 2 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 21 42

3 Dobahi 6 5 2 5 1 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 11 23

4 Hathini 4 3 3 4 2 4 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 14 24

5 Sukhdeopur 1 6 3 6 4 3 2 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 17 31

6 Shahpur 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 6 14 10 10 12 35 28 63

7 Danaogarh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Estimated 40

18 26 13 17 12 11 5 3 9 6 11 6 14 10 10 12 92 91 223

Note: It has been earlier mentioned that the number of children might be 240. Our guess is that the count would be 225. This includes children from Danaogarh.

Table-2: Caste wise Student details of the 1 to 4th

standard students:

Class/Catagory Dhobahi Pathraur Hathini Sukhdeopur Jharia

I

SC 13 21 0 25 44

OBC 1 0 15 23 33

Minorities 0 0 0 0 0

General 0 0 0 1 1

II

SC 2 11 1 4 8

OBCs 0 0 5 4 5

Minorities 0 0 0 0 0

General 0 0 0 0 0

III

SC 1 6 0 3 5

OBCs 0 0 0 9 1

Minorities 0 0 0 0 0

General 0 0 0 0 0

IV

SC 5 1 0 8 5

OBCs 1 7 4 9 2

Minorities 0 0 0 0 0

General 0 0 0 0 0

V

SC 2 4 0 1 5

OBCs 0 0 0 0 2

Minorities 0 0 0 0 0

General 0 0 0 0 0

Total 25 50 25 87 111

Total 298 Students were enrolled in the 4 education centre.

This year, 14 children who cleared 5th

grade will take admission in villages near to them

like Shahpur, Saraigarh, Kaliyari, Vaini and Naugarh. Similarly children attending

classes from 1 through 4 have been promoted to higher classes.

In Jharia, Bihar, where there was a school opened last year, Bihar Govt. has opened a

school. Teachers have been appointed and Shiksha Mitra has been implemented. Hence,

with the permission of villagers VARUN will not be running school for this academic

year.

But similar to this school there is a village called Danavgarh in Naugarh block where

people belong to Musahar caste. There is no school nor any awareness about education

but the parents want their children to be educated and attend the school. The most

interesting part is, no one in the village is educated. Upon their request, VARUN went

and talked to them after that the decision has been taken to start a school over there.

Number of children who are willing to join the school.

Table-2: Caste wise details of the Junior High School, Shahpur.

Class/Catagory VI VII VIII

SC 19 29 18

OBCs 9 4 7

Minorities 0 0 0

General 0 0 0

Total 28 33 25

Total 86 Students were enrolled in the Junior High School, Shahpur.

In the previous session, there were 86 children out of which 25 children have enrolled in

class 8. All these children have been registered and all these children have cleared the UP

board examination. Out of these 25, majority are getting ready to enroll in class 9.

Education related various activities

Teachers meeting

Last year in 2010-11, there were 13 teacher meetings organized. Every month there are 3

meetings conducted specifically over education related activities. In this, Dr.S.P Singh,

education coordinator Shri Jay Prakash and teachers of all the centers participate and

discuss about the progress report of that month along with the challenges. Along with this

other issues related to villages are also discussed.

Student assessment

In every center, every month there is a monthly test, a quarterly test every quarter and

half-yearly exam every 6 months and an annual exam every year.

Teacher Training

Twice a year, there is a teacher training organized so that teachers can use the modern

methods along with traditional methods while teaching students.

Festivals celebrated at schools

In every center, Independence day, Gandhi Jayanti, Teacher’s day, children’s day as well

as Republic day are celebrated so that our national pride and tradition can be seeded in

our children’s minds.

Health Camps

In Shahpur, Pathraur and Sukhdeopur there was health camp organized on 25th

, 26th

February and 8th

March respectively. Dr. Asif Jamal and Dr. Omkar examined the

patients.

Various activities related to education

People from Dobahi, Sukhdeopur and Shahpur and people from other villages

also out of encouragement are building a wall.

On a particular Sunday, teachers voluntarily visit homes of children to update

their parents about the progress of their children.

Every month medicines are distributed at each center and this is supported by

local health bodies.

From 7th

to 11th

June 2010 to spread the awareness of education there was a rally

in 15 villages. All these villages are geographically situated in remote places

because of which they are cut off from the awareness about the Govt schemes,

etc. Through these campaigns, activities like wall paintings, posters, pamphlets

distribution and during the nights and afternoons alike more information about

these things are exchanged.

Date Venue Volunteer Attendees

7-6-2010

Jharia, khada, Pathhar,

Bhaganda. Vijay Lal, Jayprakash,

Ramkesh, Lal Saheb and

Dr. S P Singh

141

8-6-2010

Sukhdeopur, Shivpur,

Saraigarh 152

9-6-2010

Sonbarsa, Sonephool,

Hathini 117

10-6-2010

Gahila, Horila, Dobahi. 132

11-6-2010

Pathraur, Jamsoth,

Bhahpur 198

6 Days 15 villages 5 volunteers 740

From 7th

to 14th

June 2010, 10 children participated in a children’s function and

entertained people.

In Jharia, Bihar, there is a Shiksha Kendra started on demand by local villagers

and an interaction medium has been built between the villagers and the

educational institutions which has led to starting of MDM (mid-day meals)

program

Date Kendra Invited members # of

students

# of

villagers

25-2-

2011

Shahpur Shri.Chatrapal Singh and all

coords and teachers.

86 42

26-2- Pathraur Shri.Ashok Kumar and all coords 48 37

2011 and teachers.

05-3-2011

Hathini Shri.Vijay Lal and all coords and

teachers. 25 23

08-3-2011

Sukhdeopur Dr.S P Singh and all coords and

teachers. 80 38

12-3-2011

Dhobahi Shri.Vijay Lal and all coords and

teachers. 25 13

Primary sports: Running: 200m, 100m, Long jump, High jump, Needle and thread run, frog jump,

musical chairs, mathematical puzzles, kabaddi, world music, speeches, painting, letter

writing, etc.

In 2010-2011 beloware the details of RTI activities:

Gatherings Awareness Training Number of

gatherings Number of

villages Attendance # Sessions Attendance # sessions # villages

18 12 505 1 2000 7 7

As a part of this, there were 3226 pamphlets distributed to spread the awareness of

RTI.

During the year 2010-2011 few of the ground work activities:

Block Level Dist. Level Central Total # of

petitions

Resolv

ed

No. of

Depts. # of

Petions

Resolved No. of

Depts. # of

petitions Resolve

d

No. of

Depts. # of

petitions Resolv

ed

No. of

Depts.

04 04 04 03 01 03 09 02 02 16 07 07

As mentioned in the table above, at block level 4 applications in 4 different

departments have been applied and satisfactory answers have been received. At

district level, 1 application has been filed in 3 different departments and only 1 has

been resolved for now. There have been 2 that have been appealed at the Central

level. So in total there are 9 applications that are pending.

MNREGA- Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act

Sn.

No.

Venue of

Meeting

Date No. of

attendees

Agenda

1 Parsahva 03-12-2010

28 To spread awareness

amongst people about the

work being done in various

departments under 2 Gadwa 28-09-

2010 32

3 Gangapur 02-10-2010

36 MNREGA program’s.

4 Bagahi 10-04-2010

39

5 Lauradi 04-12-2010

27

6 Parsiya 02-01-2011

51

7 Ledha 29-07-2010

27

8 Chakkarghatta 12-09-2010

32

9 Korila 10-03-2011

34

10 Shivpur 14-10-2010

28

11 Sukhdevpur 22-04-2010

30

12 Majhgava 01-04-2010

49

13 Jayamohini 07-04-2010

46

14 Majhgai 10-12-2010

38

15 Choura 08-12-2010

37

Sn

No.

Venue Date No. of

attendees

Meeting Agenda

1 Basauli 22-04-2010

43 Through the medium of this meeting,

people have been helped in securing

job cards, invitation for the

workshops, enroll in job-cards and

being counted in payroll, money being

deposited in bank accounts in timely

manner, opening bank accounts on

Rs.0 balance, help in getting

unemployment allowance if

unemployed, etc.

2 Lauari 24-04-2010

45

3 Devdattpur 25-04-2010

69

4 Bhahpur 26-04-2010

57

5 Latahra 28-04-2010

67

6 Naugarh(5) 29-04-2010 23-10-2010 10-11-2010 21-11-2010 22-11-2010

179

7 Dobahi 30-01-2011

18

Under MNREGA, job guarantee act, following are the details of number of petitions

and bank accounts opened:

Sn.

No.

# of villages # of job

petitions filed

by job-seekers

# of bank accounts

opened

New job-card holders

1 32 2432 & &

2 16 & 244 &

3 22 & & 265

During the year 2010-11 activities done by VARUN under health programs.

Sn.

No.- Namve of village

# of blood samples taken

# of positive malia cases and type

Malaria

1 Aurvatand + 26 04

2 Nonvat 22 04

3 Ledenha 16 02

4 Devkhat 19 05

DOTS/TB

1 Chakkarghatta 08 01

2 Narkhoria 06 01

3 Majhgaien 05 01

4 Amdahaa 07 01

5 Gadva 07 01

6 Devdattpur 05 01

Janani Surakhsha Yojana (Women health scheme)

1 68 Beneficiaries

Rs.1400@beneficiary 95200-00

Vasectomy

1 Majhgaona 06 Rs.6000-00

2 Amdaha 02 Rs.2000-00

3 Katia,

Sonbhadra 01 Rs.1000-00

4 Bardai,

Sonbhadra 02 Rs.2000-00

5 Naugarh 01 Rs.1000-00

6 Rithia 01 Rs.1000-00

7 Gangapur 01 Rs.1000-00

8 Deodattpur 03 Rs.3000-00

9 Thatwa 08 Rs.8000-00

10 Baidan,

Sonhadra 01 Rs.1000-00

11 Deora 03 Rs.3000-00

12 Basauli 05 Rs.5000-00

13 Deokhat 07 Rs.7000-00

The Infant protection program started by the India Government’s health and family

ministry stipulates that before the birth of the first and the second child, if the pregnant

lady registers at A.N.M/ Asha facility and the babies delivery happens in a govt hospital,

then she is entitled to Rs 1400 check.

As part of this program 60 women were registered and their delivery happened in govt

hospital and they received 1400 Rs with the aid of varun. This way 68 women got a total

of Rs 95,200.

In the same way as part of the “tying the tube program” each woman is entitled to Rs

1000 from the government. In the appropriate villages the women were educated about

the benefits of small families and they were encouraged to tie their tube which resulted in

Rs 41000 given out by govt.

Vaccination Details [ 0-5 years]

S No Village Details of vaccination Measles Vitamin

A

BCG DPT 1 DPT 2 DPT 3

1 Parasia 19 19 14 11 10 10

2 Masgawa 20 16 10 10 10 10

3 Shahpur 17 15 11 7 6 68

4 Nonwat 14 12 11 8 8 8

5 Patharaur 12 18 8 3 3 3

6 Devdatpur 12 9 8 3 3 3

Pregnant Women Details

S No Village # of pregnant

women

TT1 TT2

1 Parasia 19 16 3

2 Masgawa 22 19 3

3 Shahpur 16 15 1

4 Nonwat 13 12 1

5 Patharaur 8 6 2

6 Devdatpur 18 14 4

Women Empowerment Program

As part of the women empowerment program Varun has implemented at a block level a

women federation which has around 2000 members. These members have been divided

into small units across the society. Every month they have a meeting in which they

discuss the current issues as well as their personal issues. This way when there is a

vacancy in any government program or scheme then Varun identifies the appropriate

members and associates them with these programs. This why they get associated with the

societal program and this also improves their family’s financial situation. Varun has done

such programs during 2010/2011 and below are the details of such programs.

S No Post Name Village Department

1 Asha Jamwanti Devi

Hajra Devi

Paudhari Devi

Phulraji Devi

Shakuntala

Devi

Masgawa

Parasia

Nonwat

Bharwatand

Tatwa

Health

2 Anganwadi Anita Devi

Budhana Devi

Indravati Devi

Phoolvanti Devi

Usha Devi

Lakshminpur

Bharwadi

Jaimohini

Parasia

Lauare kurdh

Child

development

and nutrition

3 Helper Rita Devi

Tetri Devi

Sonmathi Devi

Chandravati

Devi

Kiran Devi

Indravati Devi

Jhokani Devi

Pushpa Devi

Lakshminpur

Barwadi

Jaimohini

Parasia

Lauare kurdh

Devkhat

Nonwat

Vishesharpur

Child

development

and nutrition

4 Siksha Mitra Sunita Devi

Saraswati Devi

Barwadi

Jamsoth

Education

Asha devi

Kanchan Devi

Poonam Devi

Thenduah

Badhi

Bausauli

5 Cook Kalai Devi

Amravati Devi

Dilwanti Devi

Munni Devi

Shamrathi Devi

Maheshwari

Devi

Munni Devi

Phool Kumari

Devi

Kalawati Devi

Idhan Devi

Kusum Devi

Shanthi Devi

Tetra Devi

Santra Devi

Jhari Devi

Kunta Devi

Subchani Devi

Vidhwanti Devi

Bhagwanti

Amrawathi

Devi

Lalthi Devi

Kismati Devi

Rukhmani Devi

Ramdulari Devi

Prema Devi

Shahpur

Shahpur

Jamsoth

Jamsoth

Semersadhopur

Semarsadhopur

Chakarghatta

Bajardiha

Barwadi

Barwadi

Barwadi

Aurwatand

Nonwat

Nonwat

Lidha

Lidha

Parasia

Parasia

Parasia

Parasia

Parasia

Masgawa

Masgawa

Tindua

Badhi

Education

[MDM]

In addition there are other Varun volunteers who are associated with these programs and

their details are below

Punu Singh – Horila, Chulhan – Nonwat, Ram Swarth – Shahpur, Prem Narayan –

Aukatad, Ram Chandar – Nonwat, Rajaram – Devarikala, Kailash Singh- Hanumanpur,

Ram Vilas - Laltapur, Devadatpur, Shiv Murat – Devadatpur, Nandalal – Gahila,

Shambhu – Ghamshot; Ashok Kumar – Vasauli

The details of the women’s self help group programs are below

S No Self help

group #

# of villages Employment Number # of

beneficiaries

1 9 8 Pumpset 11 9

2 11 2 Chukan 11 11

3 3 2 Making Bidis 3 3

4 11 6 Goat rearing 49 49

5 3 3 Lalar 3 3

6 2 2 Tent House 20 20

7 1 1 Tractor 1 1

8 1 1 Pickup Van 1 1

9 18 9 Vegetable

farm

45 45

Organic Farming

In 2010/2011 organic farming was implemented by the farmers with the help of Varun in

13 villages of Naugad block. Details below

S

N

o

Village Number

of

Member

s

Groun

d Area

Kharif Ravi Vegetable

Farm

Nurser

y

Yiel

d

Groun

d

Yield Grou

nd

Yield Grou

nd

1 Masgawa

h

14 7.45 Dha

n

2 Wheat 1 Parwal 1.5 -

Mustard 0.5 Potato 0.5

Onion 1.25

Garlic 0.15

Tomat

oes

0.5

2 Parasia 10 7.6 Dha

n

2 Wheat 1 Parwal 0.25 Papita

Mustard 1 Potato 0.5 Amrud

h

Onion 1 Amla

Garlic 0.25 Sahjan

Tomat

oes

0.5 Onion

3 Lahuradi

hi

4 1.75 Mustard 0.5 Tomat

oes

0.5

Dhani

ya

0.5

Onion 0.25

4 Bhoj 4 1 Tomat

oes

0.75

Onion 0.25

5 Batawa 3 3.25 Dha

n

1.00 Wheat 0.5 Potato

es

0.25

Mustard 1.00 Onion 0.5

6 Aurwatan

d

7 4.00 Ash

wag

and

ha

4

7 Devrikala 1 0.1 Mango

,

papita,

Amla,

Guava,

Ber

8 Badhi 1 0.1 Carrot Mango

,

papita,

Amla,

Guava,

Ber,

Anar,

Sahjan

9 Gadwa 4 1.75 Dha

n

0.5 Wheat 0.5 Potato

es

0.25

Onion 0.5

10 Lidha 5 3.25 Dha

n

1 Wheat 1 Potato

es

0.25

Mustard 0.5 Onion 0.5

11 Nonwat 7 4.25 Dha

n

2 Wheat 1 Potato

es

0.25

Mustard 0.5 Onion 0.5

12 Shahpur 5 3.25 Dha

n

2 Potato

es

0.25

Mustard 0.5 Onion 0.5

13 Vishesha

rpur

5 5.15 Dha

n

2.00 Wheat 1 Potato

es

0.25

Mak

ka

0.5 Mustard 1 Onion 0.75

Garlic .15

Since the Naugad block does not have irrigation facility it is dependent on rain water. The

farmers have small part of land and the sand is red leterite. So in hand the land is less the

other had the soil is not fertile. For the farmers, farming is the source of income for 6

months. Understanding this need Varun has implemented 37 farmers club constantly

updates them with modern techniques for farming.

Below are the details of the farmers club

S no Village Meeting Farming Burmi Nadep

Number of

Meetings

Number of

Members

Club

Meetings

Bed Unit Compost

1 Masgawa 3 116 3 22

2 Parasia 3 122 3 8

3 Lawradeeh 2 44 2

4 Bojh 1 21

5 Batawa 3 33 3

6 Aukatand 4 82 2

7 Devrikala 1

8 Badhi 1 1 1

9 Gadhwa 1 22 2 2

10 Ladha 3 67 2 7

11 Nonwat 2 68 2 6

12 Shahpur 2 52 2 2

13 Vishesharpur 2 60 2 3

Seed and Grain Bank

Initially due to poor financial condition they could not buy high yielding seeds from the

market. When they formed self help groups and were able to save some money and the

bank was also able to give them loads. Slowly they were encouraged to buy high yielding

seeds from the market.

In the beginning to encourage the seed bank, Varun also supplied them with high yielding

seeds. After some time the seed bank becomes grain bank. This way they are able to sell

the grains and buy from the market new varieties of seeds which are deposited in the seed

bank.

Below are the details of the seed and the grain bank.

Details of seed and grain bank

S.No Gram Seed Bank(Kigra) Grain Bank ( Kigra)

Karif Ravi Chawal Dhan Wheat

1 Ledha 140 105 410 135

2 Naunwat 610 455 502 185

Activities as part of the Panchayat Raj

In Sept 2010 the elections for UP Panchayat’s were complete. During the elections in all

villages Varun encouraged people to elect good candidates. In this endeavor its worth

mentioning the role of the women and their groups. In some villages the women groups

had put up their own candidates for the election. The results of the elections were

unexpected. The details of the elected candidates are below.

Position Total Female Number of people elected by the group

S.N

o

Member

s

Member

s

Total

Member

s

Female

Member

s

Othe

r

Cast

e

Backwar

d Caste

Norma

l

1 Gram

Pradhan

27 10 05 02 04 01 0

2 Shetra

Panchaya

t

Member

33 12 7 2 4 2 1

3 Gram

Panchaya

t

Member

345 160 92 47 78 14 0

4 Zilla

Panchaya

t

Members

1 1 1 1 0 1 0

5 Block

Head

1 1 0 0 0 0 0