Annual Report 2010 - 11 - Purkal Youth Development Society

Annual
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Deliver a
Dream
2010-2011

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PURKAL YOUTH
DEVELOPMENT
SOCIETY
annual report
2010-11

Content
About Us
History
Mission
Vision
Our Philosophy
Secretary’s Report
Governance
Programme Details
Measurable Achievements
Organisational Details
School staff
ECLC Staff
Administrative Staff
Support Staff
Accounts Staff
Donors and Network
Financial Information
Recognitions for PYDS
Success Stories
Legal details
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The Society is registered with the Registrar of Societies, Uttaranchal (Reg. No. 401/2003-2004/ 19209D). PYDS
is exempt from income tax under Section 12 (AA). We have also approvals under Section 80(g) and under
Section 35AC of the Income Tax Act. The Society is registered under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act,
1976 and registered as a Primary School and as a lower Secondary School.
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About us
A brief history
The program dates back to 1998, when after school
tutoring of four students began. Later, several
sponsors funded formal education in a local English
Medium Secondary School. The number of children
seeking help steadily swelled. The number of students
benefitting at the end of the current year was 230.
The school operated out of a house initially, used
cattle sheds and garages and finally moved into our
custom built school campus in December 2006.This
campus has steadily grown since with regular labs for
the Sciences and for computer instruction apart from
a library.
The Society was registered in 2003. Teachers became
full time in 2006. With improved instruction, the
grades at school improved impressively and there was
newfound confidence.
By March 2008 there were over 140 students. This
number grew to 154 by March 2009, to 206 by March
2010 and to 230 by March 2011.
While midday nourishment has been available almost
since inception, four feeds a day, which includes
breakfast and fruits is being given since July 2008
Since 2005 the children have used the Society’s
buses to go to a school in the city and later, many of
them to come to our school. As of March 2011 we
had two buses and a winger helping the children; the
teachers and the women with Stree Shakti commute.
As of March 2011, there were 55 students going to the
Jaswant Modern School in the city with our support
and sponsorship. This number will steadily reduce as
we get affiliation from the CBSE for classes 9 and 10
initially and later for classes 11 and 12.
In 2010 we took the first steps in setting up a primary
School, went on to a secondary school and then to a
senior secondary school to help us implement our idea
of holistic development of the child. These were set up
with recognition from the Uttarakhand Board. We run
a Day Boarding Programme and provide plenty of time
for all children to experience fun and learning.
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Our mission
The Purkal Youth Development Society is a
registered Society dedicated to enhancing the lives of
disadvantaged rural youth through education. While
doing so the children are to be sensitised and helped
to preserve the beautiful Himalayan environment and
the local cultural traditions.
Our philosophy
It is our belief that everyone has the potential to
succeed in life, regardless of his or her socio-economic
background, as long as there is effort, guidance and
good health. We therefore intend providing such
support as necessary to provide all these. Going
further, we believe that excellence is possible amongst
the poor if a sense of self-esteem and confidence
is built through good education, skill building and
opportunities. However, since we have scarce
resources in terms of school capacity, we shall, for the
present, confine ourselves to children with academic
potential and nurture them to excellence.
Apart from ensuring quality of learning, we believe
that it is important to make learning enjoyable and
meaningful for every child. It should be sensitive to
the development needs of the children and firmly
connected to the rural community. Good physical,
emotional and spiritual health is therefore as important
as the intellectual. The School will consciously build the
infrastructure necessary for the provision of all these.
The attempt is to build a replicable model to enhance
quality of education in rural India. Our goal is to
accomplish high levels of learning through the creation
of an adequate learning ethos and milieu. The quality
of the curriculum needs to be constantly addressed
and improved. We are convinced that it is difficult to
teach anyone and that experience and analysis are
the basis of learning. All that we can do is to facilitate
these processes.
We recognise the critical role of teachers in enhancing
the classroom environment and in transacting the
curriculum. We therefore appreciate the need for
a training environment and continuous teacher
development inputs that are closely linked with class
room practice and the needs of the teacher. Teachers
need to explore and learn with our students to inspire
the natural curiosity and intelligence that lies within
each of them.
We recognise that there is great risk in embarking
upon a venture of this nature without resources of
our own but we are determined that we shall not fear
the shadows but look for the light shining somewhere
nearby.
The eventual goal is to help achieve the political,
economic and cultural dimensions of equality
guaranteed to every citizen in our constitution. Our
Mission will bring the democratic right to education
and growth to everyone. Children and so eventually
our citizens will learn to be continually critical. We will
enable the building of values and leadership qualities
and so promote the political right of everyone to be
represented and represent. Cultural plurality is the
Indian tradition but the absence of cultural equality
needs correction. We also wish to correct the ever
widening gulf between religious communities, reducing
the influence of religion in the public sphere and the
growing intervention of religion in secular politics.
Our vision
We aim to help this rural community access quality
education. This we shall achieve through mentoring
along with attention to nutrition and healthcare. We
shall make our facilities available exclusively to the
poorest. We believe that effective delivery of education
is possible if we focus on the Girl child and so we
shall do so. We are hoping that the Education that
we provide will be enjoyable and meaningful and the
institution of our school would be sensitive to the
development needs of the children and firmly connect
to the rural community. The belief is that if bright youth
in this rural community are supported in this manner,
they would instil newfound hope and become agents
of change and catalyse the youth and bring about
transformation through demonstration.
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Secretary’s report
Birth of a new school
The year under review has been historical since it
marked the commencement of our School with the
approval of The Uttarakhand Board. Our School
commenced formally on the 2nd April 2010.
Segregation of Stree Shakti
Samiti
It was also historical for the reason that the Stree
Shakti Division of the Society separated into a different
Society known as The Purkal Stree Shakti Samiti. It
now has an identity of its own. This was necessary
to permit both the School as well as the women’s
empowerment activities to grow exponentially in the
future. The PYDS made a handsome donation of the
assets owned by that division to the new Society to
help it to prosper. The details of this donation have
been disclosed in the annual Reports of both the
Societies.
New Infrastructure
During the year the School added classes 3, 4 and 5
and thus managed 6 class rooms handling classes 3
to 8. Additional class rooms were built to make these
additional classes possible.
CCE implementation
The School also implemented with thoroughness the
Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE)
scheme now being prescribed by the CBSE. This led to
the children growing up holistically with their interests
spread over learning beyond the academic. They also
appreciated the effort of the school to cultivate the
physical, emotional and the spiritual Health in addition
to the intellectual.
Acknowledgments
The support that we received from the idiscoveri
XSEED Programme (courtesy Color TV Bombay)
helped us raise the bar in our class rooms and for the
teachers. Under the guidance of the Programme the
school delivered excellent results. Not only did the
teachers excel in their work with the children but the
children enjoyed the experiential learning practices
that the XSEED model follows.
We wish to acknowledge the most generous support
that we received from (tGELF) The Global Education
and Leadership Foundation, during the year for the
programmes were delivered by them free to us.
We continued to survive and thrive due to the
donations received from a large number of individuals.
All of them have been generous and very giving. We
are grateful. Since many of them have wished that we
do not publicise their contribution, we are not listing
the names of either the large or the small individual
donors. These names and addresses are available at
our office. We applaud their sense of giving without
seeking recognition.
However we need to mention those who sponsored
a whole class and this is an innovation in the current
year. The Punj Lloyds Group and the Hans Foundation
(who sponsored two of our classes) joined M/S Martek
Morgan Finch Inc. Canada, in doing this. The last
named helped us build the physical facility for the Early
Learning Programme and also volunteered to sponsor
the on-going cost of its upkeep.
The Jaswant Modern School continued to support our
Secondary and Senior secondary school students in
their school with a scholarship. We are grateful. The
school undertook responsibility for 52 students during
the last year. The schedule of fees prescribed by the
school has a fair percentage of subsidy component
and they have been very supportive of our desire to
help poor children with competence to succeed.
Future
We are looking forward to the future. We hope to win
affiliation from the CBSE and grow into a secondary
and thereafter into a senior secondary school in due
course. We also hope to strengthen our accounting
and reporting machinery so that we become more
transparent and accountable. The world’s perception
of our integrity has to be sustained.
We shall also attempt to use technology to ensure better
service to all our stake holders. Most importantly we
would like to evolve into an excellent school capable of
creating well informed human beings worthy of serving
a world of the future.
Appeal
We have plans to add to our Schools infrastructure
and this needs support. The several schemes for
supporting our cause monetarily along with a tear –
off that can be mailed to us have been listed. We are
also looking for volunteers who can serve our cause.
I appeal to you to join the “ Family of Purkal Friends”.
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Governence
All the members of our governing body work on a
voluntary basis and all of them donate. No sitting fees
or travelling expenses are paid and none has travelled
either in India or abroad at the Society’s expense.
None of them is related to each other. All directors
have been associated with the society since inception,
not necessarily as directors, and have contributed in
garnering support for its activities. This mission is their
creation and their challenge.
All directors have freely contributed their expertise,
counsel and contacts and enabled the growth of the
Society. It will be noted that while two of them have
extensive experience with education one of them is a
Development economist dealing with Education at the
global level. The others have considerable experience
with business while the Secretary is an Economist.
Board Meetings
There were three board meetings during the year
and no remunerations were paid. The decision to
start a Day Boarding Program, provide four feeds
everyday apart from guaranteeing medical support
for all children were the major decisions during the
year. Additional buildings needed to be erected and
investments made in equipment. The strengthening of
our academic structure involved the payment of better
salaries and a stronger administration was needed
to ensure compliance and promote transparency. All
these were approved with a vision and considerable
daring. As a consequence the Society could attract
support from several agencies who give their support
free of cost to the beneficiaries of the Society.
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Governing body
The names, occupation and designation of the
present members of the Governing Body to whom the
management of the Society is entrusted as required
under Section 2 of the Societies Registration Act,
1860, are as follows
Name Occupation Nationality
Office held in
the association
Mrs. Praveen
Langham
Company Executive Indian Chairperson
Mr. P.N.
Narayanaswamy
Tourism Professional Indian Director
Mr. Sujit
Banerjee
Dr. Pushpa
Chandra
Mrs. Sangeeta
Shahane
Tourism Professional Indian Director
Gynecologist Indian Director
Professor Indian Director
Ms. Shanti
Jagannathan
Development Economist Indian Director
Mr. Puneet
Kashyap
Tourism Professional Indian Director
Col. Arun
Mamgain
Retired Colonel & Educationist Indian Director
Mr. G. K Swamy Retired Economist Indian Secretary
Our Auditor
Mr. Ajay Khattak (M Com, FCA)
A: Ajay Khattak & Co. Chartered Accountants,
24 - Old Connaught Place,Chakrata Road,Dehra Dun - 248 001
Tel/Fax: +91-135-2715271, 2715509
E: ajaykhattak@yahoo.com
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Programme
details
Yuva shakti
On to life
Shishu shakti
Community Development
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Yuva shakti
Yuva Shakti is the central programme of
PYDS. It consists of two sub programs:
The Scholarship Programme for
Rural Youth (SPRY)
SPRY is what the institution started with in 1998. We
sponsored children to another school in the city and
enabled their success in education through support of
every kind and mentoring.
Today, out of the 230 students in our care, only 55
from the 9th to 12th class (11-18 years old) learn under
this scheme. The rest are part of our Day Boarding
Programme which is an in-house schooling facility.
The students under this scheme study at the Jaswant
Modern School (JMS), a good English Medium
School in Dehradun. JMS has been kind and given the
Society certain concessions in fees and the students
receive an education far more enriching than anything
they would have accessed in their villages.
support. They were then part of the SPRY Programme
and we did not have a school of our own.
With an in-house school at present, The Day Boarding
Programme is intended to translate into practice the
philosophy, vision and Mission of the School in a
thorough manner. During the year under review the
school ran Classes 3 to 8. The children under our care
are required to spend 10 hours each day, 6 days a week
over the entire year in the school. We may add that the
children spend these many hours in different activities,
not just studies; in sports, arts, theatre, dance, music,
reading, adventure, skill development and so on. All
teaching is child centered and encourages the children
to think and question and learn through enquiry.
Attention is also given to the nutrition and health
aspects of the children.
A visual representation of the numbers
under the scheme is provided hereunder :
These students return to our Learning Center after
school, to receive mentorship and help in overall
development. They also have the advantage of a
nutritious meal, a library, science and Computer
laboratories apart from yoga and sports facilities.
The Society’s school is attempting affiliation to the
CBSE Board and will start its own classes IX to XII in
the future. In that event, the SPRY Programme will be
wrapped up.
The Day Boarding Programme
The Day Boarding Programme has in a sense been
provided since the beginning where children would
come to Purkal for coaching, mentoring and all round
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Table 2 Analysis of Class 12 result
Nutrition
The Society endeavours to provide wholesome
nutrition to all the children under its care. Thanks
basically to our generous donors under the Fund a
Meal scheme, we were able to provide.
• A wholesome breakfast.
• A fruit.
Vaccines to its children.
• Conducted dental and eye check-ups for all its
children. 164 children were provided required
dental intervention and 6 children were provided
spectacles free of cost. Besides the Society also
provided free spectacles to 18 women at the Stree
Shakti division.
Medical Attention.
• An unlimited lunch – consisting of rice, daal, a
vegetable and salad.
Our Results at Central Board for
Secondary Education CBSE
Our experiences with the rural youth have taught
us that these children are as talented as their urban
counterparts. Given an opportunity to excel they grab
it with both hands and prove equal to their resourcerich
peers.
The meaningful intervention of PYDS in the academics
of these children has seen them improve year on year
in their CBSE Board exams. A yearly analysis of the
class 10 and 12 results is given:
Table 1 Analysis of Class 10 Result
Sports and yoga
The Society aims at all round and holistic development
of the child. Good sports facilities have been provided.
At present we have on our campus, courts for
Basketball, Volleyball and badminton along with a Table
Tennis Hall, with 2 TT Tables. With the engagement
of Mr. B. S. Rawat, an ex-Army Physical Training
Instructor, the sports and physical fitness culture of our
school has improved. The children play during their
class sessions, every evening and a group of them
can be seen playing on campus every Sunday in the
forenoon.
Besides, the Society also provides regular Yoga
lessons to the children on campus.
We are proud to say that our brush with sports has
started yielding results:
• With a tally of 6 Gold, 5 Silver and 5 Bronze
medals, our students came out brilliantly in the
Sports Programme of the Jaswant Modern School
this year.
• Our students also formed the major chunk of the
Jaswant Modern School’s Volley ball Team – 9 out
of 12 in the boy’s team and 10 out of 12 in the girl’s
team. Both the teams ended up as runner-ups
in the Uttarakhand State in the CBSE Sahodaya
matches.
• Master Ritesh Singh and Master RohanPanwar,
both Class IX students, won 1st and 2nd prizes
in the Sahodaya School complex Table Tennis
Interschool Competition.
• Evening snacks.
to all our children every day; 6 days a week throughout
the whole year.
Total number of meals served in the year
2010-2011
• Breakfast – 35,941 Nos.
• Fruits – 35,941children.
• Lunch – 59,430 Nos.
• Snacks – 51,789 Nos.
Nutrition to Students.
Healthcare
The Society provides all round health coverage to all
the children under its care.
Towards this objective, we have started maintaining
a health register for each of them and we plan to
maintain it over a 14 year period. Also, a full-time nurse
is employed by the Society on campus.
Under the scheme, the Society:
We are thankful to the following Doctors for providing
us their valuable time and services:
• Dr. Prashant Singh, Dental Surgeon –Free oral
care to all our beneficiaries
• Dr. Vinod Arora, Free ophthalmic care to every one
of our beneficiaries.
• Dr. Anju Arora, Free Health &Physician’s care to all
our children
• Dr. Kalhan and (Dr) Mrs. Indu Kalhan for Free Gynic
and other care to all our girls and women.
• Dr. Sandeep Ahuja and The Jan Kalyan Hospital
for concessions in rates.
• Dr. Nitin Pandey, Child specialist for concession in
rates
• The Sakya Centre for all their generous attention
and care.
• Dr. J.V.Ramamurthy (Manager, Doon Hospital) for
making it possible for many villagers avail of the
hospital facilities.
• Provided 186 doses of Hepatitis B Vaccines, 177
doses of MMR Vaccines and 158 doses of DPT
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Training to be World Citizens
Thanks to the volunteers and other generous
supporters of our cause, PYDS children are exposed
to a number of non-academic activities that shape
their personalities, world view and help them emerge
as confident young citizens.
Mentoring through Lecture
Series:
• All the class rooms of the Society are now
supported by solar lamps thanks to a donation
of EURO 1100 by The Kiwani club, courtesy the
help from Daniella and Francoise and another of
US$ 1000 sponsored by Naina Gandhi through
American Express.
• An 18 day long tour of the North-East for a group
of 60 students and teachers. They enjoyed the
hospitality of Assam Rifles.
• A visit to the Asaan Barrage for all our children to
watch the winter migratory birds.
• A group of 20 students visited Delhi on 26th, 27th
and 28th of January, 2011 to attend the Republic
Day Parade, The Beating of the Retreat and the
N.C.C. Parade. Ms. Surekha Narain was generous
enough to conduct three Heritage Walks for them.
• Ms. Paige Noon, an environmentalist from the US,
conducted 3 sessions on ‘Bio-diversity.’
• Mr. Vivek Kukreti, a star gazing enthusiast, led the
students into an exciting sky watching exercise,
kindly letting the students use his telescope for
the purpose. The session was preceded by an
interesting lecture session.
• Sponsored by tGELF, Ms. Sonali Pundir and Ms.
Sonali Mishra participated in a camp at Delhi
offering them a platform to interact, exchange
ideas and hone their leadership skills.
• Mr. Saurabh Kapoor, a software engineer,
conducted a 3 week course on use of SCRATCH,
software that teaches students to programme
without involving Syntax. 30 students and 2
teachers benefited from the project.
and teachers were involved in the fabrication of a
live Hydro-RAM at the school premises with the
help of a volunteer Mr. Rene Imming from Holland.
Interaction with students of
another school
• The Mountain Children Foundation conducted a
workshop for our senior students on the use of the
Right to Information Act.
• Mr. Guy Brickley from England spoke on the
topic ‘Education of The Future’. A relationship
of sisterhood was also established between our
school and Mr. Brickley’s Culloden High School,
London.
• School Magazine – The students completed
the Annual School Magazine Suryodaya with
the assistance of Mr. Ashwani Singh Rajawat, a
volunteer from Aston University, UK.
• Courtesy Ms. Surabhi and her art gallery VINYAS,
a group of 16 students participated in an artist’s
workshop.
A group of 14 students and 2 teachers from the
American School, Delhi, spent 2 days with us at our
school. The interaction saw the students of both the
schools complete together 4 projects, namely – a) A
comparison of American and Indian Villages, b) The
significance of the Middle East crisis, c) Construction
of an FM Radio and d) Identification of ethnic plants of
the region. A friendly basketball and another volleyball
match were also held between the two schools.
• Mr. Rajiv Chenchania made a beautiful visual
presentation on the Ramayana. He had used a
collection of miniature paintings,craft and art done
on wood, leather, paper and so on collected from
a variety of sources and from around the world
Creative Arts: Students also got an
opportunity to participate in the following:
• Making of a movie – A group of 15 students were
introduced to the art of movie making when they
made a movie – “India in Purkal” – with the help of
Mr. Malcolm McKay of BBC.
• Construction of a Hydro-RAM – A group of students
Green Initiatives
• Wood stove – Eight of our senior students, under
the guidance of Haaris, our Science teacher,
successfully participated in an environment
related project involving a 2 month long research
into the possibility of using a new wood stove;
this project was kindly sponsored by Ms. Paige
Noon.
• Earth Charter – Project on the Earth Charter that
was launched with the help of Ms. Elly Richards
was completed after a period of 2 months and
final evaluation of the five participant groups was
conducted on December 17th, 2010.
Exposure Trips:
A number of visits were organized throughout the year
for the benefit of our children. The following are a few
of them:
• A weeklong trip to New Delhi for a 90 member
strong team of teachers and students in the month
of October. The GOC EASTERN COMMAND,
KOLKATA took complete care of them
• A visit to the Survey of India, Dehradun for a group
of older children giving them an opportunity to
learn about things such as Geo-Stationary Orbit,
the Great Arc and the Global Positioning System.
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On to life-Post 12
Supports:
This program is aimed at assisting children who have
graduated from our school to transition successfully
to a self-sufficient useful adulthood. We provide
assistance with placement for work experience; help
in admission to professional institutions and finally
financial support and loans through a small corpus
that we own and through finding sponsorship support.
We have 48 students graduated from our school till
this year end. The first two batches have completed
their tertiary studies and all of them have their sights
on careers. Since all of them are prepared for careers,
children have pursued becoming tourism professionals,
Chefs, Chartered accountants, software and hardware
engineers and teachers.
Mr. Anoop Seth supports two of our students and is also
supporting Ankit Naudiyal in his B.Tech Programme.
• Work experience for about 45 days is arranged
for all children who complete their 12th. We assist
by linking children with an office or an industry
as appropriate. We notice that this gives them a
sense of pride and confidence, and a new maturity
and independence.
• About ten of the students belonging to this group
have been given loans and encouraged to pursue
higher education. A few others have enjoyed
financial support and scholarships in the past
years. We still need to strengthen this arrangement
so that we should be able to confidently implement
this programme in the future.
• During the current year sponsorship support has
been found for Meenakshi Pal. Two sponsors have
chosen to not only finance her college education
(BBA) but also fund her living expenses during this
period.
• Scholarship support has been provided to Swati
Pundir again this year by the Khemka Foundation
to enable her to pursue her BBA.
• An international scholarship of US$ 10,000 per
year has been won by Kritika Kumari from the
Asian University for Women, Chittagong for a
period of 5 years.
• Career Counseling is given to all students from
Class 9 upwards and they are helped to select a
career path and a suitable professional programme.
• Help is provided for admission into one of the
professional Institutions. Help is also provided for
applying to various scholarship programs. Small
interest free and security free loans have been
given to more than 10 students to enable them
pursue these goals.
• A Small Corpus Fund has been created and this
is meant to provide interest free and security free
loans to these students and help them to pursue a
good professional programme.
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Shishu shakti
Our experiences with the young mothers of Stree Shakti
division suggested that their little children needed care
if they had to work and supplement their income. The
Shishu Shakti programme was born to meet this need
and has today blossomed into an important initiative
of the Society.
The Shishu Shakti Programme had 43 children last
year – 23 boys and 20 girls – from 40 needy families.
The children, aged 3-6 years, will stay for a maximum
period of 3 years after which they get an opportunity
to compete for entrance into Class I of our Yuva Shakti
programme.
The programme aims at all round early development
of the children and provides complete nutrition – daily
fruit, lunch and evening snacks – and medical care.
An independent kitchen is maintained and the division
employs a group of 7 teachers to take care of these
43 children.
Stree Shakti
This activity has been separated into a new Society and
a review of its activities is being published separately.
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Community
Development
Stove Project: A Project that is meant to conserve
timber and save the forests has been launched. It is
intended to encourage the use of an energy efficient
wood stove which is comparatively smoke free. It
helps the use of twigs instead of logs of timber and
so saves the women from collecting and storing
branches of trees cut laboriously in winter each year
for use through the year. A pilot initiative of the year
will hopefully succeed into a wide movement that will
make a difference eventually.
Anti-Plastic Campaign: Two volunteer groups have
commenced a campaign that aims at getting rid of the
menace of plastic garbage The plan is to completely get
rid of this danger by manually picking up and cleaning
the garbage once every week in two identified villages.
Door to door campaign supplemented by garbage
pits built to help the removal of the non-degradable
garbage will hopefully establish two villages that will
serve as models in six months’ time.
Gardening: Gardening to make the environment Clean
and planting trees; efforts are on to plant more trees in
the neighbourhood and nurture more on the roadside.
Gardens that will ornament the area is another effort
that is being pursued.
Workshops:
• Workshop for awareness on HIV and Tuberculosis
by Hope Foundation.
• Workshop on awareness about RTI thanks to the
Mountain Children Foundation and their President
Aditi Kaur.
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Summary Score Card:
• Number of Children who received free education
in 2010-11: 230
• Percentage of enrolled children attending school
overall every school day: 99%
• Number of Drop-outs during the year 2010 -11:17
• Percentage completing the academic year 2009-
10 successfully and moving to the next level: 99%
• Percentage of children from Grades 9/10/11/12
provided career counselling: 100%
• Number of children added to school during the
year from families belonging to the lowest possible
economic strata: 41
• Number of weak children provided remedial help
by additional teachers: 45
• Percentage of children provided training in physical
health development: 100%
• Percentage of children provided Dance & Music,
Yoga, and Theatre: 77%
‘’Missing Links identified the last year’’
• Sports teacher was appointed for the proper
implementation of the Physical fitness programme.
• Sanskrit & Yoga teacher was appointed in order
to teach our students Sanskrit as a third language
and for making them familiar with Yoga.
• B.ED teachers were appointed as it was a need
for getting the affiliation as a school. All our
existing teachers have now enrolled for the B.Ed
Programme so that in a short time all teachers of
the school would have this qualification.
Challenges faced in the current
year
• Lack of Classrooms: Three new class rooms were
built
• Lack of Footwear and their safety during school
time; All children were provided suitable footwear
and a new shed for storing them was also
constructed.
• Inexperienced teaching staff; Apart from the XSEED
Programme, a 9 day work shop was conducted
for all our teachers. All of them are now preparing
for the B.Ed Programme under IGNOU.
Measurable
achievements.
• Lack of structure in the Organisation: New positions
were created and a Role Analysis defining the
duties prepared.
• Landslides; Embankments were built to protect
the school building and its environs.
Sound Administration
• Respond to all client contact within reasonable
time.
• A new data base was built and is now operative for
all administrative records/correspondence. These
are carefully filed and available for scrutiny by any
interested party
• Send student reports three times a year to every
sponsor.
• 100% complaints re school property listed in
complaint register reviewed within 2 days.
• All accounts available for scrutiny by any interested
party.
• Bus service operates 100% of working days
• Water supply, toilets and electrical equipment
operational on all working days.
• All civil works carefully maintained. The premises
regularly cleaned and maintained in an operational
condition.
• All transport equipment in a state of good repair
and operational at all times.
• Website well maintained and updated on regular
basis.
• Kitchen kept clean and regularly supervised to
ensure healthy and whole some food.
• Every scheme of the Society is now closely
supervised by a teacher at the time of its delivery
to ensure optimum results.
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Organisational
details
The organisation is now being geared up to meet the
needs of this institution which is aiming to become
world class. The first steps towards this goal are the
setting up of a hierarchy in the organisation, designation
of roles of the several levels and improving the quality
of staffing. Elementary understanding of a succession
plan has also begun.
The staffing now includes members who can
provide time and attention to our co-curricular and
extracurricular activities. The need for continuous
training of staff is now recognised. The intention is to
get our staff find that working with us is both satisfying
and self-actualising.
The administrative role of the office has been
streamlined to achieve better accountability to our
entire stakeholder community. The intension is to
provide continuous monitoring of our work so that
transparency is achieved and the question of our
integrity better established.
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Staff:
All our staff members are provided free lunch and
transport. Every one of them has been covered under
Society Staffing:
An Ornogram of the organisation shows that while the
ECLC and School are handled by two independent
principals under the overall guidance of the Secretary,
the administration, Assets & Account are directly
supervised by the secretary of the society.
the provident fund scheme. Four of our employees
won The Smt. Sarla Tandan Memorial Award for the
year 2010-11 to applaud their commitment to the
Society. This new award was instituted by Mr. Alok
Tandan in memory of his mother.
The Society wishes to extend its thanks to the staff
and workforce that have been instrumental in its day
to day running.
Teaching Staff:
G.K.Swamy
Secretary of the
Society and School
Correspondent
Ornogram for the PYDS
Kusum Kohli
Manish Chandel
Principal
Vice Principal
Early Childhood Learning Center
Haaris Jamil
Curriculum Coordinator
Suman Sudan
ECLC Principal
Rachna Rawat
Class Coordinator
Sneh Bisht
Nurse/ECLC Teacher
Meena Gurung
Class Coordinator
Babita Joshi
ECLC Teacher
Vandana Arora
Class Coordinator
Ekta Sharma
ECLC Teacher
Arun Raturi
Activity Coordinator
Pooja Joshi
ECLC Teacher
Sandhya Sud
Teacher
Radhika Mittal
ECLC Teacher
Upama Gupta
Teacher
Shristi Joshi
ECLC Teacher
Neha Bhandari
Rukmani
Teacher
Teacher
Administrative Staff:
Nisha Kumari
Lalita Bisht
Jasbir Bajaj
Eva Gautam
Richa Negi
Teacher
Teacher
Teacher
Teacher
Teacher
Manjeet Singh
Haw. Clk. Sandeep Rai
Neeraj Dangwal
Ankit Kumar
Adm./Web
Administrator
Administrative Assistant
Office Assistant
Office Assistant
Mamta Singh
Payal Joshi
Neelam Joshi
Teacher
Teacher
Librarian
Accounts Staff:
Budhi S Rawat
Sandeep Pundir
Accounts Executive
Account Assistant
Dance, Music, Sports, Yoga &
Arts
Ruchi Joshi
Mahesh Chandra
Art Teacher
Sanskrit & Yoga
Teacher
Bharti Bhardwaj Bhandari Music Teacher
Support staff
Devender Pundir
Devender Dutt
Bhoj Kumar
Gulab Singh
Assets Manager
Gardner + Van Driver
Driver
Driver
Sarita Payal
Dance Teacher
Pawan Kumar
Driver
Birendra. S. Rawat
P.T.I
Murari
Bus Helper
Sunil Dangwal
Assistant P.T.I
Saheb Singh
Cleaner
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The Salary and Benefits of our Staff
The highest paid staff member and the lowest paid staff members
Head of the organisation: (including honorarium) Rs. 0 per year
Highest paid Full Time Regular staff: Rs.1, 32,000
Lowest Paid Full Time Regular staff: Rs. 36,000
NOTE 1: None of our personnel (including volunteers) have undertaken International travel at Society’s Cost.
NOTE 2: Total cost of national/domestic travel taken by Staff at Society’s Cost: Rs. 4161
NOTE 3: None of our Board received any remuneration or reimbursement of any kind in 2010-11.
Note 4: The accounts of PYDS are constructed on the Accrual basis.
Administration costs for the year were 22% of the total as compared to 23% last year.
Salary Table:
Slab of gross salary(in Rs) plus benefits paid to
staff per month
We Are Thankful To
We would love to express our thanks and gratitude
to the following Volunteers and Donors without whose
kind support and encouragement the year gone by
would have not been anywhere close to what it was.
Apart from the doctors and the speakers mentioned
elsewhere, we need to acknowledge the following:
Mr. Harwant Singh:
For conducting a nine day long Teacher’s Training
Programme during the summer break and for taking
continuous interest in our teaching skills.
Mrs. Mariah Noah from Colarado:
For making some wonderful pictures of the work of our
Society, particularly the Stree Shakti division.
Male Staff
Less than 5000 8 4
5,000 – 10,000 7 19
10,000 – 25,000 4 3
25,000 -50,000 0 0
50,000-1,00,000 0 0
Greater than 1,00,000 0 0
Total 19 26
Female
Staff
Cathy Jordan from Australia:
For making operative the new Website of the Society,
covering both its divisions.
Danielle and François, France:
For spending a whole month inducting our new
children through the English theatre. Also for the
Triathlon International Du promoting our Stree Shakti
production and raising funds for our cause
Mrs. Kelly Bowman von Stroh from Colarado:
For assisting Cathy develop the wonderful website of
Stree Shakti Division www.purkalstreeshakti.org.
M/S White Light Design, New Delhi:
For the help in designing of our annual report. Also
for creating an identity for Stree Shakti, particularly its
logo and the new tag line.
William Sackville from UK:
For organising a cricket match at Madrid with his
friends and generating support for our sports activities.
Zoe Reason, London:
For maintaining the account “Friends of PYDS” to
assist the collection of small sums for the society.
Haydée von Sternberg of The Chaplin School:
For donating valuable books on Mathematics and
Sciences for our senior classes.
Nargish Khambatta:
For helping us with the sponsorship of the first year’s
Calendar by “Dubai Modern High School, Dubai”.
Mr. Ashutosh Bharadwaj:
Civil Engineer for all his support and advise in matters
of construction and maintenance.
Mr. Ekansh Anand:
For all his advice concerning matters of interior Design.
Mr. Ajit Singh from Delhi:
For being closely involved in all activities and for the
guidance and help that he constantly provides.
Donors and Friends:
We continued to survive and thrive due to the generosity
of a large number of individuals and corporates. While
the names of every one of them and their addresses
are available, they are not being published; respecting
the desire of many to remain anonymous. However we
need to mention those who sponsor a whole class and
this is an innovation in the current year. The Punj Lloyds
Group and the Hans Foundations(who sponsored two
of our classes) followed M/S Martek Morgan Finch Inc
a Canadian company, who not only helped to build the
ECLC facility but also volunteered to sponsor its ongoing
cost of upkeep.
Mr. Ranjan Tandon
contributed Rs. 29.5 lacs toward our building fund in
memory of his late mother Smt. Sarala Tandan.
Eicher Goodearth Ltd
contributed Rs. 5 lacs towards our building fund.
Mr. Anil Chandra
sponsored our library in memory of his son Mr. Pushkin
Chandra
Dubai Modern high School
helped us to make our first ever school calendar containing
the pictures made by our students. Ms. Kusum Kohli and
Mrs. Kavita Chandana took a keen interest in this work.
Over 400 donors from India and abroad contributed to
our cause. It helped us to sustain our work smoothly.
We acknowledge:
We would love to express our gratitude to the following
institutions for their sustained and kind support to our
cause:
• idiscoveri, New Delhi
• MITR Club
• Dr.Bhai Mohan Singh Foundation
• Give India
• The Global Education and Leadership Foundation
(tGELF)
• Akshar Cultural Trust
• Kiwani Service Club
• International Award for Young People (IAYP)
• AFS Intercultural Programs India
• The Johri Family Trust
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Financial
information
Auditor’s Letter
Balance Sheet
Income and Expenditure
Schedules to Accounts
Financial Statement Analysis
Donations Received
Analysis of utilisation
Budget Comparative Statements
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Auditor’s Letter
Balance Sheet
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Income & Expenditure Account
Schedules to Accounts
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Schedules to Accounts
Financial Statement Analysis
Internal Audit and half yearly audit introduced: The society has appointed an internal auditor and internally
audited accounts are now placed on our website every quarter. The society’s auditor certifies our accounts
twice each half year, instead of only annually.
Donation Received
• Donation Rose by 33%.
• Indian Contributions by 23%
• Foreign Contributions by 48%
• Donations rose due to better transparency, accountability and credibility. Our Vision of targeting the poorest
and helping them achieve excellence is also perceived positively
Analysis of Utilisation
Absolute figure of administrative expenses went up during the year due to the transition into the running of a
whole time day boarding in house school for the first time. Further, we have excluded expenses of a sum of
Rs. 16, 44,540/- (fixed assets, cash and raw materials donated to the Purkal Stree Shakti), a new Society spun
out of the existing society. Our existing division became a different Society as shown in the Balance Sheet. It
also excludes a sum of Rs. 1, 65,000/- expended against a specific donation received for the printing of the
annual calendar.
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Analysis of Utilisation
Budget Comparative Statement for the Financial Year 2010-11
DAY BOARDING AND SPRY
S.No Particulars Budgeted Actuals Variance
Direct Expenses Amount(Rs) Amount(Rs) Amount(Rs)
1 Teachers Cost 17,78,720 19,85,551
(2,06,831)
Cash and Bank Balances
• The Bank Balance increased from Rs. 11.83 Lacs to Rs. 45.91 Lacs
• The Corpus Fund, which is considered to be capital of the trust accumulated to Rs. 25.65 Lacs during the
year and was held as fixed deposit in the State Bank of India.
• The interest on the FDs was permitted to accumulate and the value of the investment were Rs. 27.67 Lacs
as at the end of the reporting period.
Budget Comparative Statement for the Financial Year 2010-11
EARLY CHILD LEARNING CENTRE
S.No Expenses Budget Actuals Variance
1 Teachers Salaries 3,85,058 3,75,762 9,296
2 Food Expenses 1,45,459 1,30,412 15,047
3 Medical Expenses 3,867 1,617 2,250
4 Uniform 92,250 82,000 10,250
6 Books 33,600 17,618 15,982
7 Sanitation ,Contingency and Repairs 36,000 32,983 3,017
Total 6,96,234 640,392 55,842
2 School Vehicle Running Expenses 7,75,480 10,61,189
(2,85,709)
3 Food Related Expenses 9,83,460 9,62,640 20,820
4 School Fees Paid To Jms 6,30,000 5,09,260
5
6
7
Yoga,Sports ,Entertainment Events And
Tours Expenses
Yoga, Sports ,Entertainment Events
And Tours Expenses
Books And Learning Support
Programme Expenses
160,000.00 544,092.00 -384,092.00
1,60,000 5,44,092 (3,84,092)
4,82,650 3,26,002 1,56,648
8 School Uniform Expenses 5,31,950 3,20,953 2,10,997
9 Medical Expenses 2,51,400 2,10,435 40,965
9
Computer Maintenance And
Laboratory Expenses
45,000 51,839 (6,839)
TOTAL (A) 56,38,660 59,71,961 (3,33,301)
Indirect Expenses
10 Administrative and Welfare Expenses 8,45,840 11,39,303 (2,93,463)
11
Postage and Stationery& Repair and
Maintenance
1,95,000 3,11,985 (1,16,985)
12 Telephone/water & Electricity 1,15,000 1,72,294 (57,294)
13
14
Rent , Charges and Sanitation
Expenses
Recruitment ,Volunteer ,Dormitary and
Sundry Expenses
1,45,000 1,07,978 37,022
1,17,000 1,26,008 (9,008)
TOTAL(B) 14,17,840 18,57,568 (4,39,728)
GRAND TOTAL(A+B) 70,56,500 78,29,529 (7,73,029)
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Recognitions
for PYDS
What People Are
Saying About Us
The Society has been recognized by the following for
its work over the year gone by:
• The Government of India has recognized our
Society for the purpose of granting the donors
to our cause 100% business exemption under
Section 35AC of the Income Tax Act. In order to
place the finances of the Society on a firmer base,
the Society decided to set up a Corpus Fund of
Rs. 5 Crores. This was set up during the year and
all contributions to this Fund attract the benefits of
Section 35AC of the Income Tax Act.
• We have received accreditation from the Charity
Aid Foundation, a body that carefully audits
institutions seeking charity. Many large Corporates,
both Indian and International, depend on this very
important validation to decide on their ability to
consider supporting a charity.
• Mr. GK Swamy, Secretary, PYDS, was nominated
to the “Spirit of Uttarakhand” Award for the year
2010. This award is instituted by the Hindustan
Times group. A congratulatory message from Mr.
Banking Details of our Organisation:
Ramesh Pokhriyal, Chief Minister, Uttarakhand
was also received by him as a nominee for the
Award.
• GiveIndia, Mumbai has recognized PYDS as
an NGO to receive online donations through its
channel. We can be accessed on the GiveIndia
website through the link www.giveindia.org/m-
1073-purkal-youth-development-society.aspx
• The International Award for Young People, India has
licensed PYDS as a YES Centre. This relationship
should enhance the life skills of our students and
groom them into becoming Leaders and shape
them into useful members of the community.
• Idiscoveri decided to grant us free access to their
programme. Earlier year it was Colors TV that
sponsored us through them.
• tGELF, The Global Education and Leadership
Foundation which trains our teachers and students
in leadership skills. They provide all their services
free of cost to our organisation.
The society has three operative bank accounts .The details are as under:
• State Bank of India Saving Bank A/c– 10901537185, Main Branch Dehradun
• State Bank of India Saving Bank FCNR A/c- 10901537196 Main Branch DehraDun for monies received
under the FCRA Scheme.
• HDFC Current Bank A/c -02252560003019, Rajpur Road Dehradun
Daniela Rocha, Mexico:
I am very happy to help in a inspiring project. I was
very moved with the school, the children, and for the
light that blows from your generosity.
Charlie Oliver, Canada:
Looks fabulous!!! …………… my and our collective
spirits are there with you!!! It is an achievement for us
all!!!
Jyotsna Brar,Principal Welham Girls,Dehradun:
What superb progress PYDS is making. My admiration
for Mr. and Mrs. Swamy knows no bounds. The most
well-off children do not get such a well-rounded
education in the best of schools. This is also a very
well designed site for the bulletins and I love getting
news of PYDS………………………
Capt. E Raman,India:
Nice to read about the achievements of your young
guns! Keep up the good work. Best wishes.
Vineeta Bedhotiya, India:
You have a very dedicated faculty and lovely, cultured
children. PYDS has by far the most satisfying
environment and the most fulfilling work that one could
hope to do.
Simon Mark, London:
It was wonderful to see the new school, and how
fabulous it all is. The science department was especially
impressive……. I break out into a cold sweat just at
the thought of Maths and Chemistry!!!
Vikram Lal, Chairman, Eicher Motors:
You have many irons in the fire and I hope you will
achieve all your objectives. That will bring about a
radical change in the fortunes and capabilities of the
children and their families and raise a large number of
people from poverty to confident prosperity.
Jo Firmin, UK:
Very Impressive. I know one of the young girls that
attend the school and she is highly educated.
S.C.Jain, India:
A pious and great job being done. Very neat and clean
infrastructure seen and disciplined atmosphere is very
effective for upbringing the children.
Ase Stenberg,USA:
Beautiful Work!!! I am moved deeply and very inspired.
I have worked for different NGO’s which work in India
and Nepal before. In comparison your work is really
very good.
Ranjan Tandon, USA:
Thank you Swamyji for your wonderful work
………………….. Swamyji, like Alok, I also find it a
pleasure and very uplifting whenever I visit the school
and to witness the energy and dedication you put into
this endeavor.
Zachary Wahl, USA:
It is incredible to see how quickly things are moving
forward. You guys are doing a great work!
Andrea Ferencikova:
So lovely to see the sparkle in the children’s eyes and
the hope in their hearts.
Sanchari Mahapatra:
It was simply great to see and listen to the humble
beginning and great going! Keep Scoring.
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Success Stories
Narratives / stories written
by Anupma Khanna
Education provides dignity:
“Priya was born in an impoverished family with nine
siblings and a single uncertain source of minimal
earning. In conditions where getting two square meals
a day was a fight, dreams of an educated dignified
life seemed a battle already lost. That was ten years
ago when we proposed to support her in our learning
program. The parents’ response was quick and loud,
they would not spend a dime on the ‘useless big word’
called education. It took an unequivocal assurance
that they would not be asked to expend any money
on their young daughter’s learning that Priya became a
part of PYDS family. A decade on, the deprived aimless
child has grown into a confident well-read woman
excited about her forthcoming graduation. Determined
to do her bit in spreading education, she has decided
to become a college lecturer. Having undergone an
awakening, her parents who censured education as
a waste of money and time are now advocates of
literacy. In an attitudinal reversal, they are making sure
that each of their children, even those who missed
schooling, don the wings of learning to fly high.”
Toilets provide dignity to women:
“Given the financial scarcity of the community, till
around ten years ago most homes here had nothing
for a bathroom or a toilet. The concept of hygiene
virtually did not exist among them. The worst affected
were the women of the village, who had no option but
to bathe and excrete out in the open. Relegated to an
undignified lifestyle, they sneaked to covert recesses
before dawn and after dusk, making abortive attempts
to escape impious eyes. Shocked, our Society took the
lead and with the support of an NGO called ADOPT,
constructed 52 washrooms in these houses. Besides
the direct benefit, a positive spin off has resulted in an
attitudinal shift where even at an extra cost, all new
houses in the community are being built with toilets.”
More newspapers in this knowledge loving
community:
Increased youth literacy due to the society’s integrated
learning program has led to a more knowledge-loving
community. From a single newspaper copy at the
neighbourhood tea-shop serving the 1000 strong
population when the society began functioning, today
there are over 40 subscriptions from villagers of the
community. The demand is primarily from village
children studying in the English medium schools. “
Small family – more fulfilled homes:
“This is one of our greatest achievements; for the
first time these villagers have felt prosperity arriving
in their lives. Mechanical existence has replaced a
community-wide desire to ‘live’; hopes have taken
form. Dreams of progress have made these villagers
conscious of restricting their family sizes to improve
their living standards. In a bid to give a good future to
their children, almost all newlyweds in the community
now have been limiting the number of their offspring
to two. We see in Purkal today smaller, more fulfilled
homes.”
Ignited dreams:
“With a million dreams, they need wings of fire...
From a scenario when finding a spot as a policeman
or a soldier defined the upper limits of achievement
in the community, the ambitions of Purkal’s children
have witnessed a heartening ascent. With a dramatic
improvement in their education levels, they walk
shoulder to shoulder with youth from the affluent class;
and aim to become the best. We have today among
the poor hut-dwelling first generation learners of the
community, aspiring civil service officers, doctors,
engineers and scientists. The confidence good
education has instilled in the children has given a new
prideful face to their professional goals.”
Tourism:
“A small initiative to train young men for a career in
India’s growing tourism industry has yielded results
and is being expanded. Supported by our society,
four students completed a three year undergraduate
degree in Tourism from IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National
Open University), India’s most reputed open learning
university, and are now advancing Travel Executives.”
Engineering and Technology:
“Breaking away from the shackles of hopelessness
and illiteracy, 6 of our underprivileged students have
competed and secured admissions into engineering
colleges of repute. Displaying an uncommon grit to
ameliorate their lives, these teenagers are working
hard and showing good results. They are determined
to make it to the world’s best IT companies. We are
confident that they will.”
B.Pharma:
Living in a house with a thatched roof with the family’s
income coming from selling a rice meal out a pushcart,
Poonam Joshi was under the care of a hardly
educated father and a subservient illiterate mother.
She had little to look forward to from her future. A short
time with Poonam was adequate to sense that she
was desperate to break away from the existence she
had been cast to. Persistent persuasion resulted in
approval of her parents and the child got admitted to
a good English medium school. Early in her teens, she
realised that the one thing she breathed was the dream
to engineer science! What followed was a trail blazing
life. Today, Poonam is in the seventh semester of her
Bachelors in Pharmacy; working towards upholding
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her record of securing the 1st position in her college in
each of the past 6 semesters.
Aiming for Harvard:
A deprived village girl with nothing much except big
dreams and an indefatigable spirit to ameliorate her
life, she worked hard, competed against the best and
emerged triumphant. Fable-like, this real narrative of
Purkal’s Kritika Kumari manifests that most often what
really distinguishes is the will to succeed. Kritika’s
father, a watchman at a local supply depot, is the
only bread-earner in an unlettered family of six. They
lived in a dilapidated mud hut with limited power and
water connection. Belonging to the lowest rung of the
economic strata, first generation learner Kritika has
bagged a $10,000 annual scholarship and admission
to the distinguished Asian University for Women,
Chittagong, Bangladesh. On successful completion
of her course, Kritika is likely to go to the Harvard
University. She aspires to become an IAS Officer and
later, join politics to contribute to India’s development.
Women heading the social revolution:
Typical of a male dominated underdeveloped society,
majority women in the area were relegated to routine
emotional and physical abuse within households.
Having no earning power, wives were disrespected
as being incapable and suffered misbehaviour of their
husbands. Getting slapped for asking for a nominal
amount of money to run the house was a daily affair.
It was this inequality that Stree Shakti (woman power)
sought to change. What started as a small project
operating from the house of the Swamys, has now
grown into a social revolution sustained by employment
avenues for the women of Purkal. Around 90 women
have been trained professionally in handicraft and are
creating splendid pieces being exported to several
countries. Each of these women carries home a
monthly earning of an average of Rs. 2,500, many
of them earning twice this amount with experience.
The effect has been phenomenal. Being financially
independent, these women have gained confidence,
a sense of self -worth and have successfully battled
domestic exploitation. In several cases, the wives are
earning more than their men.
Access to opportunities through English:
A major limitation of underprivileged children in the
country has been lack of English communication skills.
Poor children get to learn only in Hindi, while affluent
youth attend quality English medium schools. This
disparity has stalled upward mobility of disadvantaged
children, robbing them of self-confidence and denying
them access to opportunities. However, the rural
children of Purkal present a success story that we wish
to replicate throughout India. Access to mainstream
English medium schools coupled with our constant
stress on creating an English speaking environment
has honed these young ones into strikingly confident
and well groomed individuals with an impressive
command over the English language. The refinement
and communication skills exhibited by these children
belie the shoddy backgrounds that they hail from,
gleaming as hope in their dreamy eyes. There is also a
great accent on the learning of Hindi, its poetry, novels
and drama.
Integrating nutrition with education:
A fundamental philosophy of PYDS is to integrate
nutrition with education. Ever since its inception, the
Society has been providing a breakfast, fruits a full
meal and a snack to each child in its care. Medical
attention to each of them is also guaranteed. We are
extremely happy to witness the visible improvement
this has caused in the health of the poor children; as
reflected in the increased BMI (Body Mass Index) of
these kids. One can sense the happiness that comes
out of a well fed,healthy care free childhood.
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PYDS - Initiating circle of growth
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Purkal Youth Development Society
Purkal Gaon,
P.O. – Bhagwantpur
Dehradun, 248009
Uttarakhand
India
email: purkalsociety@hotmail.com
website: www.purkal.org
Contact Person: Mr. G. K. Swamy (Secretary PYDS)
9837337660, 0135-6452320(o)
design courtsey: www.whitelight.in