Child-Friendly Schools

Summary

Divya Disha is a community that seeks to be an agent of change, empowering individuals and organizations in their journey towards holistic development progress reportread updates from the field

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $845 was raised for this project.

Received $845 from 1 donation from people like:

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The Child Rights Campaign organized by Divya Disha in the schools needs to be strengthened, and this will be done by focusing on the issue of Positive Discipline in schools. Statewide workshops, for Educationists, Teachers & Children will be organized at various levels. The beneficiaries are Children in schools.

Activities

• Workshop on Positive Discipline at the State Level • Orientation Programmes at Mandal Level • Training of Teachers • Teachers Resource Group • Child Rights Committees in Schools • Zonal Meetings involving children in schools

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $845

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $845.  The original project funding goal was $8,500.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Resources

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Teachers trained in positive discipline •Campaign materials evolved •Impact visible in 1 Mandal (approx 30 schools)-violence free govt schools •Children play greater role in process •Impacting systems •Bringing Policy level changes

Project Message

What is needed is a policy change towards making schools child-friendly and ensuring that views of the children are accepted without any prejudice
- Isidore Phillips, Director, Divya Disha

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Ms Genevive Angela,
Project Manager
H.No.9-1-103/A, Tatachari Compound
Secunderabad 500 025. Andhra Pradesh,
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh 520 025
India
91-40-55209788
Email:

Project Sponsor

Ashoka Innovators for the Public

Organization

Divya Disha
H.No. 9-1-103/A Tatachari Compound
Secunderabad
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh 500 025
India
91-40-55209788
http://www.divyadisha.org

Learn more about Divya Disha and the project team.



Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in India and can also be found under Education.

For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 09, 2005.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 26, 2004.

Latest Update from the Field

Update

By Divya Disha - , August 09, 2005 12:00 AM


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