Sri Guru Raghavendra Charitable Trust®

Lakkasandra Village, Tubugere Post – 561205Doddaballapur Taluk, Bangalore Rural

Website – www.sgrv.org ; e-mail – shrirayaru@gmail.com

AgendaOverview Volunteers introductionSocioeconomic background of communityProgramsCommunity impactSustainability planFuture demandQuestions

OverviewSri Guru Raghavendra Charitable Trust (SGRCT)

located at an hamlet called Lakkasandra, 65 Kms from Bangalore.

Was established in 2001 by Mr. H. S Sheshagiri. Striving towards building righteous rural

community by dealing many social issues by fixing the root cause of illiteracy

Currently serving the community of 30+ villages with population of 330,000+

Direct beneficiaries 400+ and more than 25000 children indirectly influenced and benefitted by our activities.

OverviewMission – “ The mission is to endeavor for the overall

development of socially backward villages where Child labor, women bigotry, unemployment, child marriage, alcoholism etc are dominant by addressing the root cause of illiteracy. Strive to eradicate the ignorance of poor villagers and build a righteous society"

Vision – “ In the age of deteriorating values, principles and

human culture in the society - our prime focus is and would be to inculcate these values at an early stage among children who would be tomorrow's society. Poverty, illiteracy and ignorance should not be a blockade for the progress of the rural poor people."

Volunteer’s IntroductionThe NGO is run at a remote village lacking basic

facilities and the promoters lack exposure to outside world.

We volunteers are helping the promoters of the NGO by representing them in forums.

Volunteers – Suresh B C associated with NGO for over 6 years and

professionally a Project Manager at Cognizant Technologies.Prashanth M S associated with NGO for over 5 Years,

professionally a Senior software Engineer at Thomson Reuters.

Sudheer Kumar associated with NGO for over 2 Years, professionally a Team Lead at CISCO.

Sreedhar K R associated with NGO for over 3 Years, professionally a

Tech Lead at Oracle.

Socioeconomic background of communityLiteracy rate in 30+ villages of our project – less

than 25%.Average income range of family – Rs 20000 Per

Annum. Ignorance of villagers and their ‘No to Education’

attitude.Children are taken out/sent for farming and

feeding cattle there by making child laborers. Girl literacy ratio is less than 10%.Unemployment, poverty, addiction to alcohol,

child marriage, unhygienic livelihood are few of the social issues in the community.

Socioeconomic background of communityGovt of India states, elementary education is

an fundamental right to children and every Kilometre there should be a school.

But, this has failed in implementation in our project area.

The existent Govt schools do not focus on quality, the drop out children are not retained.

As the villages are remote in terms of accessibility and weak transportation facility, availability of faculty in Govt schools is inadequate.

Programs

1. Counseling to create awareness2. Improving access to education3. Vocational Training and Placements

ProgramsCounseling to create awareness

The charity is running a counseling program to the poor and illiterate  villagers to create awareness about sending their children, especially girls to school, instead of taking along for labor jobs

Counseling is also done about avoiding early girls marriage and continuing their education, vocational  training and getting good employment.

Covers other areas  like hygiene, healthcare, maintaining ecosystem, etc, which are absolutely necessary to the illiterate and ignorant village folks.

ProgramsImproving access to education

The school run by the charity takes care of counseled people's children and  gives them education till 10th standard and helps them to further their education.

Provide transportation to each village to bring children to school there by providing accessibility to schools.

Here, children belonging to all religions attend school, which shows non-religious nature of the charity

Our curriculum includes not only academics, but other topics related to general broadening of IQ, which increases their thinking power and eventually touches all aspects related to several issues haunting the community, especially child labor, bigotry on women, poverty, addiction to alcohol etc

Programs Vocational Training ,Placements ,

Computer literacyThe charity is on the steps of providing vocational

training in computers and relevant different courses to school/college dropouts and helps them to gain decent employment. 

This breaks the cycle of poverty, illiteracy and improves girls literacy ratio and has removed several social bigotries like early child, especially girls marriage, hygiene, healthcare and ecosystem, etc.

Also provides an sustainability factor to run the existing activities of charity.

Community impactSchool going children ratio has increased to 63%

owing to the counseling program in 30 villages.School going girls ratio has increased to 70% in

the project area. Accessibility to school for each children in all 30

villages is provided by the transport facility. School drop out children are Nil in the institution.Girl students are completing their elementary

education rather than dropping out once they attain puberty.

The popularity has spread to other 40+ villages and the potential beneficiary strength is increasing.

Sustainability PlanThe strategy NGO looking forward to

generate resource to run their programs is through village based non-voiced data entry BPO.

The plans are taking shape to set up an computer institute to provide computer literacy on job oriented skills to unemployed and college dropped out youth.

Looking forward to avail data entry projects and employ skilled resources to start with.

Future demand

There is an extreme demand from 30+ villages with 310,000 population to send their children to the institute.

The present infrastructure is holding the charity to serve more beneficiaries.

The classrooms are housed in temple premises and requires expansion to meet the demand.

Questions

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