Connect Rural and Urban Indian School Children
Support Indian school children
Summary
Urban students contribute supplies to their rural counterparts. School to School is a unique solution to the lack of infrastructure and basic facilities critical for a rural child to learn.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Normally rural students don’t even have a pencil or notebook, a bag, school uniform, shoes, table and chair are a distant dream while resources are in abundance in urban schools where students are ignorant of the realities of their rural counterparts. This recycling, environment-friendly effort sensitizes and motivates urban students to donate their re-useable school material. The project acts as the carrot to get village children to school and enhance their learning.
Activities
• Forums and awareness building in urban schools to highlight realities of rural life • Forum to bring together rural and urban children to bring a sense of equality among these two groups. • Activity centers in village schools created
Funding Information
This project has been retired and is no longer accepting donations.
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This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
Urban children will have more empathy and compassion towards rural children and their issues. The reuse of a vast quantity of material, which would otherwise only raise the piles of dumping grounds, will help sustain a better environment.
Project Message
The concept is simple yet has the potential to influence education trends. Without burdening urban schools, children or parents, it offers a unique win-win solution for the donor and the beneficiary.
- Anshu K. Gupta, Founder Director
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Anshu K. Gupta
Founder-Director, GOONJ
J-93, Sarita Vihar
New Delhi, India 110076
India
011-2697 2351
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Project Sponsor
Organization
GOONJ
J- 93
Sarita Vihar,
New Delhi
110044
India
2697 2351
http://www.goonj.info
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Where this Project is Located
Country
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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 November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on February 22, 2006
Latest Update from the Field
Update on School to School program
By Anshu Gupta - Project Leader, March 20, 2007 02:21 PM
* Urban Schools Meet: Giving a stronger driving force to S2S programme, GOONJ organized a meeting of its urban partner schools, on 29th January. The informal open forum design of the meeting facilitated a lot of discussions and sharing of ideas among the school representatives and GOONJ.
* PRATIBIMB 2007: Preparations for this annual S2S event (rural –urban school children interface) are in full swing. Kids from the villages all over the country will be with us in Delhi for 5 days. It is a unique opportunity to learn about their extraordinary courage against immense adversity. For more event related details & volunteer opportunities, call us today and for report on last years event,
refer- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/06/south_asia_children_discover_delhi0s_wonders/html/1.stm
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