MANGALURU: A non-profit organization that helps rural schools that are in dire need of a strong and safe infrastructure across the country, has funded and constructed classrooms, washrooms, and a midday meal kitchen at Karnataka Public School, Kanyana, Bantwal taluk.
The facility which will benefit close to 750 students studying from Kindergarten to undergraduate was inaugurated and handed over to the institution on Thursday.
This is thanks to One School At A Time (OSAAT) Educational Charitable Trust, founded in India (Bengaluru) in 2011. The total cost of the project undertaken is Rs 85 lakh. Vijaya and Vasantharam Somayaji, Jaya Holla and Vinod Menon, and their family members, who are staying in the USA, have fully funded this project. Most of the donors are techies.
According to Balakrishna Rao, one of the members of the NGO, this is the 78th school project completed by OSAAT across India and the 56th project in Karnataka. Also, this is the first project undertaken in Dakshina Kannada. Around 20 years ago, a similar project was launched at UBMC, Bajagoli, Karkala, Udupi. However, the aided school has been shut down.
The members of OSAAT said the request to help this school came from their donors. Secondly, the school spread in 16.5 acres and has children studying from KG to UG, who would benefit from the project. “We have stringent criteria while executing the projects and the Kanayana school met them,” said a member.
Under the Kanyana project, OSAAT has built four new classrooms, two washroom blocks and a kitchen block. Each classroom can accommodate around 40 students. They have provided benches and desks for these classrooms. Classroom walls are painted with educational drawings as per the Building as Learning Aid (BaLA) concept. Complete construction was managed by OSAAT’s engineering team.
Since its inception, OSAAT has transformed the crumbling, dilapidated, dangerous buildings of many schools into strong, functional, “home away from home” to thousands of children in impoverished rural areas of India.
“We follow very strict criteria to select schools for our intervention – it should be a rural government school with good student strength; and the teachers and SDMC members should be very active and keen to improve the school. These factors are important because we want to make sure that the new facilities provided by OSAAT are maintained well and that the school shows a good overall improvement in the coming days. We have also implemented our OSAAT Digital School Infrastructure (ODiSI) solution in more than 50 schools in Karnataka. The NGO is planning to undertake a similar project at a school in Bellare,” a member added.
The facility which will benefit close to 750 students studying from Kindergarten to undergraduate was inaugurated and handed over to the institution on Thursday.
This is thanks to One School At A Time (OSAAT) Educational Charitable Trust, founded in India (Bengaluru) in 2011. The total cost of the project undertaken is Rs 85 lakh. Vijaya and Vasantharam Somayaji, Jaya Holla and Vinod Menon, and their family members, who are staying in the USA, have fully funded this project. Most of the donors are techies.
According to Balakrishna Rao, one of the members of the NGO, this is the 78th school project completed by OSAAT across India and the 56th project in Karnataka. Also, this is the first project undertaken in Dakshina Kannada. Around 20 years ago, a similar project was launched at UBMC, Bajagoli, Karkala, Udupi. However, the aided school has been shut down.
The members of OSAAT said the request to help this school came from their donors. Secondly, the school spread in 16.5 acres and has children studying from KG to UG, who would benefit from the project. “We have stringent criteria while executing the projects and the Kanayana school met them,” said a member.
Under the Kanyana project, OSAAT has built four new classrooms, two washroom blocks and a kitchen block. Each classroom can accommodate around 40 students. They have provided benches and desks for these classrooms. Classroom walls are painted with educational drawings as per the Building as Learning Aid (BaLA) concept. Complete construction was managed by OSAAT’s engineering team.
Since its inception, OSAAT has transformed the crumbling, dilapidated, dangerous buildings of many schools into strong, functional, “home away from home” to thousands of children in impoverished rural areas of India.
“We follow very strict criteria to select schools for our intervention – it should be a rural government school with good student strength; and the teachers and SDMC members should be very active and keen to improve the school. These factors are important because we want to make sure that the new facilities provided by OSAAT are maintained well and that the school shows a good overall improvement in the coming days. We have also implemented our OSAAT Digital School Infrastructure (ODiSI) solution in more than 50 schools in Karnataka. The NGO is planning to undertake a similar project at a school in Bellare,” a member added.
