impact assessment report of fy 2019 2020...gurgaon which have experienced notable positive changes....

Impact Assessment Report

of

FY 2019 – 2020

SUPPORTED BY

GTPL

LOTUS PETAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

GALI # 5, PLOT # 3, SOUTH CITY-1 MARKET, GURGAON

REGD. NO. 23064

WWW.LOTUSPETALFOUNDATION.ORG

http://www.lotuspetalfoundation.org/

Impact Assessment Report of Sponsorship of Education for Less Privileged children – supported by GTPL

Education. Healthcare. Livelihood of 15

Contents I. Sponsorship from GTPL ............................................................................................................. 3 II. Impact Assessment .................................................................................................................... 3 III. Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on program................................................................................. 5 IV. School Activities ........................................................................................................................ 5 V. Case Study/Story of Change ...................................................................................................... 8 VI. Project Pictures ......................................................................................................................... 9 VII. Contact ................................................................................................................................... 12 VIII. Annexure A – About Lotus Petal Foundation ........................................................................... 13



I. Sponsorship from GTPL

GTPL has given a grant for INR 20,00,000 towards the sponsorship of education of the less

privileged children at Lotus Petal Foundation. The details of the programs run by Lotus Petal

Foundation is provided in Annexure A.

II. Impact Assessment

1. There was an increase in the number of classes and strength of the students over the academic year of 2018- 19, 2019-20 and for the upcoming session of 2020-21.

S. No. 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21

No of Classes 15 18 20

New Admission 145 191 146

Strength at start of academic

year

424 535 641

Drop Out 57 50

Graduated 22

Strength at the close of

academic year

359 495

2. Average students’ attendance in the academic session of 2019-20 was 97.33 % for the Vidyananda School (VS) and 96.45% for the Pratishthan Learning Program (PLC). 55 students had 100% attendance including VS and PLC session.

3. Examination and assessment have been conducted over a period of 3 terms. During the terms periodic test, class assessments were conducted, and 3 term examination was conducted in the months of Aug. 2019, Nov. 2019 and Mar. 2020.

4. Results are tracked, maintained and monitored. Parents are made aware of the results through personal meeting with the class/subject teachers and through the report card.

5. Parents’ teachers’ meetings (PTM’s) are conducted every 6 – 8 weeks. After every term exam, PTM is organized and the results are shared with parents in the PTM. That mode of communication is adopted, which is easily understood by the parents. Parent’s Teacher’s Meeting (PTM) was held 6 times during this academic year. Parents contacted over phone and informed about the result. The result sheet also shared digitally.

6. The Average PTM attendance for VS was 91.60% and for PLC was 83.70% for the academic session 2019-20.



7. The learning outcomes was met as per below in terms of % of student per class.

The above graph shows that learning outcomes of the students in all classes improved

over the 3-term exam. Class X and Class XII marks taken on the basis of pre-board

exam conducted by schools. The board exam is delay due to COVID-19.



8. The total number of meals served during the year was:

Breakfast and lunch served to all the students on a daily basis. The target is not to only give a quality education but a healthy meal also so that the students can focus and concentrate on their academics. In academic session 2019-20 total 209,717 no of meals served. The avg. protein/child /day was 17.73 gms and avg. KCAL/child/day was 548.41.

III. Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on program

1. Approx. 1200 no of classes didn’t happen due to current COVID-19 lockdown. 2. Approx. 15,000 no of meals will not be served to the students. 3. The board exam of class X and class XII students gets delayed. 4. PTM after 3rd term exam didn’t happen due to lockdown. 5. Yearly health test of the students for BMI/HB measurement gets delayed. The data for the

same will be collected after schools resumed and will be shared.

IV. School Activities

The students were given exposure to learning and development through various school

activities over the year which includes school excursions, educational trips,

mainstreaming, sports day, annual day along with activities connected to celebration of

various festivals, national day’s, educational session under employees engagement

from companies etc.

Type of Meal FY 2019 – 20

No of days 255

No of Meals (Lunch &

Breakfast)

209,717

Avg Protein /Child (goal is 16

gms/day)

17.73

Avg KCAL/child (goal is 550

KCAL/day)

548.41



5/ Annual Day Celebration 2/ Yoga Classes

3/ Painting Competition



4/Science classs 5/ Science exhibition

5/Companie’s corporate office visit 6/Participation of students in Airtel

Delhi Half Marathon



Anne Swain

PLC- 1st Year

V. Case Study/Story of Change

A telephone ring circulated her life by 180 degrees, Anne

Swain, a student of Pratishthan Learning Center had faced a

lot of challenges in her life. When she was in the UKG class,

her life took a turn as her father, Baikunth Swain passed

away and her family left with unpaid debts. At that time, she

was a student of a convent school and she had all the

facilities in her life. Dresses, toys, family dinners, and

vacations were the way of living for her. Her father, Late

Baikunth Swain was a Contractor and he used to migrate

due to his work. Everything changed when one morning,

Annie’s mother, Malina Swain heard from her brother about

the death of her husband on a phone call.

Due to her father’s death, she and her mother had to shift in

a slum area, her education was stopped and her mother,

Malina Swain started working as a domestic help in her

neighborhood to run the house. Annie joined Lotus Petal

Foundation in 2018. In the beginning, she was a little annoyed

& shy girl and now, she has transformed into a very confident, intelligent and sharp-minded

one. As per her teachers, it was difficult for her to understand the format of writing an answer in

the beginning but now, she has scored full marks in Science and performing brilliantly in other

subjects also.

According to the Counselling Cell, she takes her time for opening up as it took her months to

share her life story with them. She’s a quick learner and she completes her work on time, says

the Counselling Cell. Her teachers believe that she has leadership qualities as once when she

was the class monitor, the way she used to control the class was the same as a teacher does.

She is always eager to learn through understanding the concept thoroughly as once she was

seen solving a mathematics problem on the blackboard at lunch time, claims her teachers. This

meant that when everyone was having lunch, she was more interested in learning.

Annie likes dancing, acting, singing and she is always curious to learn new things. In her spare

time, she learns cooking and tailoring from her mother. She likes watching a serial come on

Startv, Yeh Jaadu Hai Jinn Ka. She aspires to become a Doctor as she believes that there are

a lot of people who do not have the privilege to afford good hospitals and she wants to help

that section of the society by giving them free treatment.

Despite the challenges and hardships of her life, she has never compromised on her studies.

That’s what makes her a studious student!

She can be explained as a “tree with strong roots who stand still when storms arrive”.



VI. Project Pictures

1 / School Campus



2/ Student interacting with teacher



3/ Students having lunch

4/ Health screening of the students



5/Library 6/ Deworming medicine distribution under

Physician Supervision

VII. Contact

For further information please write or call us

Aprajita Verma Kaushal Ray

Manager Resource Mobilization Community Manager

[email protected] [email protected]

+91-9811309515 +91-8607938463

mailto:[email protected]



VIII. Annexure A – About Lotus Petal Foundation

Lotus Petal Foundation - a for purpose organization located in Gurgaon, working since

2011 in getting less privileged children into the formal job market based on its programs in

the areas of education, healthcare and skill development.

Since inception we have directly benefited 11700 children people out of which 2900

were benefited in the year 2019 alone. Alumni from our programs are now placed in formal

jobs in both domestic and multinational companies. Some students are in higher

professional education like medical.

Delivering transformational outcomes for the beneficiary based on processes with scientific

rigor, systems, organizational culture at low cost is our key strength. We have also

leveraged this strength in being a catalyst for change in various government schools in

Gurgaon which have experienced notable positive changes.

BSR Affiliates (KPMG) is our statutory auditor and our administrative costs are 7.5%. In

2018 we had the highest industry score of 91 on the Trust Index survey conducted by Great

Places to Work.

In India some of our long-term partners are Fidelity, United Way, Concentrix, Cargill,

Phillips. In the US we have part of employee payroll giving match program in Google,

Cisco, Intel, Vmware, Apple, Synopsys.

In 2019, we engaged 632 number of people in 61 employee engagement events with our

corporate partners.

The governance structure has a 7-member Governing Body with 3 Trustees one of whom is

full time working voluntarily as Managing Trustee. There is a full time COO handling the

overall academics and daily operations.

Lotus Petal Charitable Foundation is registered under sections 80G and 12(A) of the Indian

Income Tax Act and has permanent registration for FCRA. It is also tax exempted in US,

CA and UK.

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Our Programmes

The Foundation’s programmes deliver education for life, skill development to enhance family incomes, and access to organised healthcare with emphasis on less privileged children, youth and women. Its programs are as follows:

1. Vidyananda School Vidyananda in Hindi means “Joy of Education”. It is the primary section of Lotus Petal that runs classes from KG to Grade 7. The class curriculum followed is on the state approved, centralised guidelines prescribed by the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT). Emphasis is given to the overall grooming of the child and several confidence building activities are conducted regularly to ensure that the student is primed for higher education. Medium of education is English and special attention is given to spelling and handwriting skills. Theatre, use of library and performing arts help develop the language and interpersonal skills of a child. Regular parent teacher interaction through Parent Teacher Meetings and counselling helps motivate the parent to keep the child in the education system. We have 374 students enrolled in this program as on March 2020.

2. Pratishthan Learning Centre Pratishthan’ in Hindi means foundation. Pratishthan Learning Centre is the secondary section of Lotus Petal that runs from Grade VI to Grade XII. The medium of education is English and based on the NCERT curriculum. Students complete their high school education and move into professional courses or jobs based on vocational skills. Depending upon their talent and capabilities, each student is counselled to make a relevant career choice.

Many students enrol into Lotus Petal directly into the Pratishthan Program, having completed their elementary education from government/private/NGO run elementary schools. They are often lagging in academic levels by age due to fractured education. At Lotus Petal, they are put on a fast track program to complete their grade 6 to 10 in 3 years, so they can graduate from grade 10 at the appropriate age. Inter school competitions, communication classes, dance, theatre and a fitness program are woven into their schedule for all their confidence and personality building. Post completion of Grade 10, majority of students enrol in skill development programs in government run technical institutes and also complete Sr Secondary thru Lotus Petal. A few students enrol with coaching institutes to prepare for entrance exams for professional higher education and also complete Sr Secondary through Lotus Petal. We have 259 students enrolled in this program as on March 2020.



3. Aarogya Wellness is a healthcare program that provides free food and medical access to students of Lotus Petal Foundation. Under Aarogya, all the students are served fresh, clean and a well-balanced breakfast and lunch every day and receive food and nutrition supplements. This leads to healthy body healthy mind and thus makes learning impactful and easier. Through Arogya, each student and their entire family access free medical services through regular doctor visits and health camps within the school. Twice a week free OPD that takes care of primary/secondary healthcare and also invasive surgeries. Over 8000 cases have been treated so far, including 2 heart surgeries. Outreach program for health awareness has covered more than 2000 students in various government and other non-profit schools.

4. Jeevika is the In-House Skill Development Program which

provides skilling opportunities for wide base of educational

levels. The skill development will be focusing on sectors that

have incremental human resource requirements. These are –

Banking & Financial Services, Electronics & IT hardware

industry, Healthcare Services, IT & ITes, Transportation and

Logistics, Retail, Telecommunications and Tourism &

Hospitality. There are presently 27 students in this program and

in future this will expanded to include not only long-term

programs of 12 -18 months for the students in Vidyananda &

Pratishthan but for students in short term (ST) & Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)

programs (3 months – 1year)

5. Sahyog is an outreach program that provides infrastructure development & academic

support to government schools and other non- profit schools. Under Sahyog we upgrade

the infrastructure of the government schools in terms

of classrooms, toilets, drinking water, lights, fans,

computer labs, STEM labs and have continued

engagement by sending teachers to provide lessons

in various areas of science, computers, English,

theatre, art and fitness. So far one government

school with 110 students has been benefited. We will

be extending similar benefits to another government

school located in Silokhera village with more than

500 students in year 2020(MOU has already signed

with government authorities for the same).

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