Bharat Calling ….. Creating leaders in rural areas through higher education

Annual Report 2013-14

An initiative of Shri Ramesh Prakash Samajik Sansthan www.bharatcalling.in

Logo designed by Sujoy Carl Canton

Dear well wishers,

At Bharat Calling we are committed towards, empowering rural government schools

by making their access to higher education

We feel proud in saying that from a pilot to project it has become an ideology and

while writing this annual report also there are 100 more associated people will be

speaking of the cause of inclusive education.

In the year 2013-14 we were able to—

1. Reach out to 132 interior rural government schools with our awareness pro-

gram on higher educational opportunities .

2. We were able to motivate 177 teachers in government schools to act as higher

education friend

3. Trained 200 youths in the ideology of Bharat Calling fellows, where they

played a vital role in our core operations.

4. Inspire 3 Bharat Calling fellows to start their own venture

5. We conducted 12 summer camps attended by 310.students

6. We were able to create role models in 36 villages with the light of higher edu-

cation studying in prestigious colleges of India.

7. Replicate our program in 2 more districts of India.

8. Witness our second batch of .rural youths graduating

9. Witness our alumni getting into post graduation

To reach out to more and more students we have developed ouself as youth volun-

teer driven program and our playground includes the rural government schools.

Inspite of the scale we were able to maintain the bonds with the alumni and they

have motivated 100s of students from their knits to higher education . As we say-

“we are the family of rural leaders”.

Of course, no matter how many youths we reach , there are so many we need to

reach out still. With your support we will be able to achieve our mission of creating

role models in 5000 villages of India by 2024. This will be lead to fulfilling of our

vision—every desirable student gets into higher education irrespective of their poor

social, economical and cultural condition.

Co-founder & director

Showing the world what

can we achieve and aspire

To attend schools they come from kilometers away by bicy-

cle and on foot. Over mountains, through jungles. They

work during vacation to manage expenses. They do what-

ever they have to do to complete schooling, where they can

study and shape their futures.

Bharat Calling, acting as a source of ―Social‖, ―Cultural‖

and ―Economic‖ capital to raise the higher educational aspi-

ration notch higher in the 132 rural higher secondary gov-

ernment schools of Hoshangabad district of Madhya

Pradesh State of India. Initiative works on the concept of

building of psychological well being if one gets into higher

education. Which results in sharpening of aesthetic appre-

ciation, imparting resources for satisfying use of leisure

time, help in the establishment of successful interpersonal

relations and impart knowledge and develop skills and un-

derstanding to help deal with virtually any life’s problem.

On the societal level we see higher education as promoting

tolerance, reducing prejudice, reducing intergroup tensions,

enhancing informed participation in the political process,

and solving of social problems.

We have played transformative context which facilitates

transition from basic and post basic (Higher secondary) edu-

cation into developmental outcomes (essentially a question

of the developed value of education for individuals and for

society in general). We outweigh the professional and socie-

tal emphasis on valuing solely the economic and vocational

utility to individuals to society as a whole.

Bharat Calling was the first to pioneer this ―teach a man to

fish‖ approach. We have a minimal and powerful interac-

tions, amalgamated with the intense follow up mechanism.

We train youths coming across India to act as guide, voy-

ager and torch bearer to raise their aspirational notch higher.

This is a scalable, impactful and inspirational way to reach

out to many. .

Many students have never boarded on trains, interacted with

someone who is from outside their state. Each school is full

of possibility to create leaders in rural areas. Successful in

linking 100s of rural students in higher education we were

able to inspire and motivate the existing system to raise their

aspiration notch higher for the students associated with

them.

“I was leading a mob, now I lead a team”- Rajkumar Gujjar hails

from a communal tense village and now studying forestry at central

university and leading a college team.

We don’t do everything.

We do one thing Other than to do a little of everything, we focus on the students directly to act as decision maker for the

future career. However the sources to connect with the students remains diverse . We follow and inspire

them continuously—

Follow up

Aware-

ness

session

Work flow diagram of Bharat Calling

Work in detail …..

Co l lab ora t ing

with 132 govern-

ment schools July– August

We have one room office and all our activities are conducted in the government premises.

Right form the beginning we decided we will act as a support to the India’s biggest education

provider not creating system of our own. We make presentation to the government officials to

seek their support in designing and putting the model in government schools

“If I would have had Bharat Calling at my time, my life would have changed”- Rtd. District

education officer

C o n d u c t i n g

177 Awareness

s e s s i o n s /

reaching out

to 10 org.

Aug.– Dec.

A 45 minute face to face session, includes the component of Walker cycle—

Mind jog– What after school

personal connect– Factors and hurdles in continuing for higher education

Information exchange— What are the opportunities ahead

Information application– Follow ups by us and you and continuous support to nurture your

dream.

Real world connection—What some of your seniors from school have achieved, you can also

do that. Taking their personal details for follow up

“We feel motivated and get direction, for the first I have attended session on post schooling”-

A tribal student post the session

“Conducting the sessions have built my confidence, I feel I have achieved something and re-

gained the confidence I lost”- Vivek Gupta, the fellow post conducting the session

Follow ups to

touched 7300

students Dec.– March

Information is power, following this. Letters and phone calls are done in order to update the

students on various entrances. We also guide them that they have to invest a bit for a better

future ahead

“I was working on field, while I got a call from Bharat Calling. I got the information and ap-

plied for JEE now I am a chemical engineering student”- Jeetesh Ahirwar during the farewell

of summer camp

12 summer

camps/ per-

sonal follow

up

April

A fifteen days summer camp was organized at different twelve locations of government

schools. Other than preparation for the entrance the camp was aimed at raising the aspiration

notch higher and making them realize the components of psychological well-being which

come while doing higher education. The camp coins the concept of power of togetherness,

when students comes together for preparation, it gives lot of confidence and space for co-

creation

“Entrance exam preparation and getting into higher education is a celebration here”- Ms.

Shweta Choubey a summer fellow

“It changed my orientation towards life and broadened my attitude towards education”- Vis-

hal now a student of Bachelor of fine arts

C o u n s e l i n g

support to 310

summer camp

a t t e n d e d /

touched stu-

dents

May– July

Attempts were made to encourage students to appear for exams in groups, they were oriented

and connected for the same. Timely updates on first, second and third counseling was made,

Most of the informations were available only online and was close to seven days. The selected

students were also connected with the alumni network of Bharat Calling to take care of them

when the students venture into big cities.

“I felt like I am at my home town, in a big city where I came for the first time”. Ishan now stu-

dent of B.Sc forestry

“I cannot connect with internet again and again, travelling kms from my village, timely update

helped me to get into physical education”- Kamla B.P.E. D.A.V.V. Indore

Post admission

follow up

Through out the year

The students who got into big cities and colleges experiences cultural shocks, there was con-

tinuous support from the alumni of Bharat Calling and core team member.

“The 30,000 rupees fees at the time of admission was adjusted with the scholarship, on talking

to the director of institute”. Meharban Singh Chemical Engineering 3rd year Jiwaji Univ.

Gwalior

As per the records from Bahrat Calling

Taking Bharat Higher Tehlka –Aircel (In the book 20 Inpirational Indians)

12 summer camps

Replicated in Betul

and Khargone dis-

trict

36 villages students

in prestigious col-

leges

200 young Bharat

Calling fellows/ vol-

unteers across India

7300 students

touched directly

through awareness

130 rural govern-

ment schools

“We feel secured when India is in hands of youth, who are bringing change through ini-

tiative like Bharat Calling”—Mr. Amitabh Bacchan on Anokhi Misaal of India at KBC

2014

2013-14

2010-14 at a glance …...

“When we started in2009 one student use to come just in the hope that we will show

a movie on laptop”- Incident from the first summer camp

Targets Numbers Remark

Government schools 294 The schools we are targeting

Blocks 17 The total number of blocks we have spread ourself

Students in 10th or 12th

standard touched with

awareness session

42600 The 45 minute session we conduct to aware students on

various higher educational opportunities and an invite to

attend the summer camp

Summer camp conducted 40 The 15 days summer camp at various government

schools conducted by volunteers from across India.

Students attended summer

camp

966 Students who became part of the summer camp

Students selected 568 Students applied to various prestigious colleges and got

through

Students took final admis-

sion in prestigious colleges

189 Students who took admission in prestigious colleges and

are studying in prestigious colleges

Total number of villages

benefited

728 The reach of Bharat Calling Ideology with our students

Analysis of the students in prestigious colleges category wise

“Even if one student get into the targeted colleges, it will be a achievement”- Dr. Sushma Pare—Lecturer at Kesla Excellence—at the time of first awareness session in 2009

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Letter from our student to D.B.S. ………….

Laxmi was featured on Development Bank of Singapore Calendar and was featured as ―Chote

Pankh Badi Udaan‖- Sahara Samay news channel- ( http://youtu.be/oQse4oUafWI )

)

The support from the fourth pillar of Democracy— Electronic Media

Our students were featured as ―small wings high

aim‖ on Sahara Samay

“Laxmi a student of rural development at central

university, has travelled the distance from muddy

road of her village”- Reporter

A documentary was made on Bharat Calling by DBS

and we were called as “portrait of purpose”

We were featured as anokhi misaal of

India by KBC at Sony television

“Today we label youth as internet genera-

tion, this is wrong they also put ahead

hands for the person in need”- Mr. Ami-

tabh Bacchan on KBC

We were featured as 15 revolutionary of India on

the eve of Independence day on Zee News

“Meet the revolutionary of India, who is developing

the nation with light of education”- Mr. Om Puri

the anchor of the program

We were featured in DBS website

“Higher Calling, through Bharat Calling they are

helping youths of Rural India”- The tag line at DBS

website We were made international by DBS,

when we were given the opportunity to

showcase our work at DBS-NUS Social

Venture Challenge at Singapore

Find full videos at- ( https://www.youtube.com/c/bharatcalling)

In Print Media…….

Other off shoots programs

Other participation -

Participated in Lead India Fellowship as Lead Cohort and completed changelooms fellowship at CYC-Pravah

Visit by Don Bosco institute M.S.W. students and a Gandhi fellow

Construction of the office is in progress

An online fundraising campaign at milaap is ongoing www.milaap.org/bharatcalling

Attended our well wishers and soul supporter Plustrust meet and Caring Friends meet

Project Vikalp

One of our summer fel-

low Ms. Shweta started a

new wing of vocational

education, with the mo-

tive of adding dignity to

work. You can find more

at—www.ourvikalp.org.

Eight students were

benefited our of this.

Scholarship

A scholarship was set up with

the support from Mr. Rahul and

Mr. Anuraj Ji. Seven students

from Below poverty line were

benefited from this. It will act

as foundation to help many oth-

ers.

We are working closely

under the guidance of

Dr. Satyajit Majumdar

and Mr. Ravi Durwas for

the rural entrepreneur-

ship program. The pro-

gram will be aimed at

creating entrepreneur in

rural area. We are nar-

rowing down all our

learning from project

vikalp to shape this pro-

gram.

Rural Entrepreneurship

Three housewife, one

college finished girl ,

two Bharat Calling team

mate and one farmer was

motivated apply for

IGNOU course of certifi-

cate in functional Eng-

lish. This will act as a

foundation stone to moti-

vate many to continue

their discontinued study.

Center of lifelong learning

Future projections …...

We are envisioning to—

Increasing our outreach, with the more number of volunteer base

Increasing our engagements with teachers

Giving shape to the ideology through research and publications

Increasing the activities in the advocacy zone

Increasing investment of time and resources on core team members training

“You may be running behind one child, but we had to keep our eye to reach to many

like her”- Guided by Dr. Lalitha Iyer when we were designing the future strategy

Replicating the

model to 5 more

places other than

H o s h a n g a b a d

district

More investment

of time and re-

sources on team

training every

year

Converting the awareness sessions

into a rural exposure program

where youths across India will be

trained in our ideology and they will

conduct the sessions

Starting the rural

counseling cen-

ters in 10 col-

leges across In-

dia. These col-

lege s tudent

owned centers

will act as sup-

port system to

overcome and

tackling the cul-

tural shocks to

rural students on

admission to the

colleges. Hence,

reducing the post

admission drop

out. We target to

help 15000 stu-

dents through this

in starting year.

Increasing the

crowd source

funding. We want

to make ourself

people’s sup-

ported and owned

initiative. We

want to increase

people’s stake to

80% in our initia-

tive.

Five research pa-

pers and docu-

mentaries around

the access and

equity of rural

students in higher

education with

our experience

from our ground.

Deciding the

boards structure

More engage-

ments with the

teacher and com-

munity members

on ground

Susant is Post Graduate in Rural Development from TISS Tuljapur work-ing as project coordina-tor . He loves doing yoga and likes working on field

Neeraj is graduate in Ru-ral development from T.I.S.S. Tuljapur. He is acting as field coordina-tor. He likes travelling.

Ruchika is graduate in C o m m e r c e f r o m P.G.D.A.V. college Delhi University. She is acting as astt. Project coordina-tor She likes watching movies

Deepak is a commerce graduate from M.G.M. College from B.U Bhopal. He is acting as field sup-port. He is interested in reading.

Varsha is post graduate in commerce from B.U. Bhopal. She is acting as office support. Her hob-bies include listening to music.

Sandeep is post graduate in social entrepreneur-ship. He is acting as pro-ject director. He likes drawing, reading and interacting with new people.

Kuldeep graduate in Chemistry from B.U Bho-pal acted as astt. Project coordinator for the year 2013-14 and has left to pursue his post gradua-tion from T.I.S.S.. He likes drawing

Vandana post graduate in commerce from B.U Bhopal acted as field sup-port for the 2013-14 and has left for doing her Master’s from TISS Mum-bai. He loves interacting with new people.

Shweta post graduate in Rural Development from T.I.S.S. Tuljapur acted as project coordinator for project Vikalp for 2013-14.

Narendra worked as of-fice support for the brief time of 4 months in the program.

Training the trainers- torch bearer/fellows/volunteers- Huma, Roza, Priyanka, Sujoy, Pramod, Aman, Pinki, Kalpana, Ashish, Suraj, Sujay, Rahul A., Kalpana, Moyitree, Sangeeta, Ra-

hul. S, Renuka, Atul, Naveen, Bharti, Sandeep, Adarsh, Chetan, Nalini, Karan, Shweta, Ankita, Deepak, Vishal, Vikas, Milti,

Ankita, Amit, Rajat, Sandeep J, Vikas, Somreeta, Salma, Mukesh, Archana, Ratnmala, Abhishek, Rajesh, Narendra, Ravi, Avi

Karan , Nidhi , Surbhi and many more …:)

Board of Advisor

Dr. Satyajit Majumdar Chairperson C.S.E. TISS

Helped us in designing the strategy of our work and putting the future plans in place

Dr. Lalitha Iyer Founder Plustrust

Supported us to reach out to new networks

Dr. Bino Paul Professor S.M.L.S. TISS

Helped us to publish as case study

Mr. Vinayak Lohani Founder Parivaar

Connected us to like minded organization and helped in team building

Dr. Sushma Pare Lecturer Kesla Excellence School

Championed our cause in local area

Mr. Pramod Kulkarni Founder Prearana

Got us connected to the organizations

Mr. Vinay Dabohlkar Catalign Innovation

Kept us motivated to move

Unity is strength—the team

Core team ….present and past

Balance sheet, Income and expenditure and receipt and payment account

Tata Institute of

Social Sciences

The institute shaped the venture right

from the idea stage. It continue to be-

stow its support.

DBS Bank India

They are like family to us and their as-

pirations has always been high from us

Caring Friends Our savior and friends for all the hard

times we have been. With the network

of caring friends we feel we have miles

and ,miles to go

Plustrust

The organization who trusted when

where few did has been guiding us

Pravah-CYC Who have given structure to our pro-

gram and helped us to design and facili-

tate in much better way

Lead India The organization who have taught us to

incorporate leadership in the design

Prerana They have supported us in all our hard

times and has helped us to start new

initiatives

Our soul supporters

You can support us at our online fundraising campaign- https://milaap.org/campaigns/BharatCalling

You can choose from one of the option and can support us directly

Bharat Calling

Shri Ramesh Prakash Samajik Sansthan

12 A number - CIT/BPL/Tech/12A/91/14-15/42

Account Number– 2915000103029242

Bank Name– Punjab National Bank

Branch– village-pathrota, Itarsi M.P

IFSC Code– PUNB0291500

400 rupees for one 45 minute awareness session in an interior area on helping students to make informed career choices- we have total of 150 schools totaling cost of 60000 rupees

2000 rupees for food arrangement of the student to reside in higher education preparation camp for 20 days- we will target 150 students this year totaling cost of 300000 rupees

3000 rupees for the remuneration to the volunteers from various colleges of India, to teach, motivate, inspire and facilitate youths in summer camp for 20 days- we will have 20 volunteers this year t

4000 rupees for the food arrangement of the volunteers during camps- we will have 20 volunteers thus totaling up 80000 rupees

Where the fund will go- Towards conducting the 20 summer camps preceded with awareness sessions in various 150 schools in rural parts benefiting 1000 students for getting into colleges of their own choices.

Every contributor will get an impact letter

Postal address—

Bharat Calling-Shri Ramesh Prakash Samajik Sansthan

Village– Pathrota, Via– Itarsi, District– Hoshangabad M.P 461445

+91-8871700672, mail2bharatcalling@gmail.com