ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016
ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016 RISHI PRAGATISHEEL SHIKSHAN SANSTHAN LITTLE STARS SCHOOL
SHANTI NIKETAN
WELCOME
2
OVERVIEW
3
WHO ARE WE OUR STUDENTS
3 4
WHAT'S NEW AT LITTLE STARS SCHOOL
6
DENTAL PROGRAM CLASS 12 AFTER CLASS 12
6 7 8
SCHOOL CELEBRATIONS
9
GANDHI DAY CHILDREN’S DAY HOLI
9 10 11
CONSTRUCTION AND RENOVATIONS
12
SOLAR PANELS NEW ROOMS ROOFTOP CLASSROOM BATHROOM RENOVATION
12 12 13 13
VOLUNTEERS
14
ESTI MATULEWICZ MEAGAN MCKINLEY EFKF PIERRE BRITTA ROMA SINGH EMMA WAGNER CORNELL GROUP
14 14 14 15 15 15 16 16
SHANTI NIKETAN
17
CURRENT HOSTEL GIRLS COMPUTER PROGRAM STRENGTH INDIA
17 17 19
FINANCIAL REPORT
20
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Table of Contents
1 THANK YOU
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ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016
WELCOME
2
The past school year, 2015-2016, was full of hard work, expansion, support, and accomplishments at Little Stars School and Shanti Niketan. We were finally able to expand our school to Class 12. Along with renovations to the old building, we were able to further develop our new building by constructing solar panels on the roof and two new rooms, which we hope will be occupied by a doctor and a social worker for our students. The hostel girls are as busy as ever with their studies
along with their new self-defense, reading groups, and computer program classes. In this annual report you will find the highlights of our year. As always, we would like to thank all of the friends and supporters of Rishi Pragatisheel Shikshan Sansthan who make all of our hard work possible. Thank you and enjoy!
OVERVIEW WHO ARE WE Little Stars School was founded by Asha Pandey in 1996 with 7 children on a rooftop. Asha was a public school teacher, Finally she decided to open a school for underprivileged children of Varanasi and now Little Stars School provides an affordable and complete (pre-nursery to Class 12) education to 900 of the most underprivileged students in the city. Asha opened the hostel, in 2004 on the second floor of the old school building, which provides a safe home for orphan, needy and street girls. The hostel usually houses up to 25
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-AshaPandey, Founder and Director
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girls ranging from 3 to 18 years old and offers these girls a nice place to live with an excellent 'Little Stars education', and a family environment. OUR STUDENTS The students of Little Stars School come from some of the poorest families in Varanasi, most of which live in Nagwa, the slum neighborhood where the school is based. Many of the families have recently moved to Varanasi from nearby villages and are struggling to find work and provide a better life for their families. This hardship causes many internal problems for families such as substance abuse, physical abuse, and child labor as they struggle to overcome poverty. Many of our students’ parents are illiterate and do not understand the importance of educating their children. The little girl on the pictures below used to beg in the streets but as you can see she is now enjoying a good education at our school.
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Our school works to help these families understand the importance and value of an education and female independence in breaking the cycle of poverty. Little Stars School offers these children a Hindi and English medium education with certain classes, such as Math and Science, in English. This affordable education helps keep these students from working and begging on the streets and gives them a chance of receiving a higher education and higher paid jobs.
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WHAT'S NEW AT LITTLE STARS SCHOOL
6
DENTAL PROGRAM 20 years ago, Britta, a long-term volunteer from Denmark who has been visiting and helping Little Stars for the past 17 years, initiated, financed, and began running a dental program for the school children.
This year Little Stars School provided Class 12 to the students, which was a huge step for our organization as we are now able to provide and ensure a complete education for our students from pre-nursery to Class 12. We offer three different tracks to our students: commerce, art, and science, giving them the ability to pursue and focus on their personal interests.
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CLASS 12
This is the farewell ceremony for class 12th
7
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AFTER CLASS 12
8
This year one of our volunteer Roma Singh, started a university scholarship project for the five top female students graduating from Class 12. This scholarship covers the cost for them to attend a local university for the next four years including the costs for their tuition, supplies, and spending money. These scholarships are helping change these girls’ lives, including 2 of our hostel girls.
These 5 students are lucky, they have a long term sponsorship by Sanjeev Singh as long as they keep studying.
SCHOOL CELEBRATIONS
GANDHI DAY On 2nd of Oct. It was wonderful to see the students celebrate nonviolence and a life of simplicity and devotion As part of the celebration, we had a contest where we invited any student who wanted to participate to come to school in their best Gandhi costume , Article on Gandhi, and then a winner was chosen by our Chief Guest! Winners received a prize.
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As part of our cultural program, we not only give students a break on major holidays but also facilitate festivities to give our students a safe space to celebrate away from the chaos of the streets.
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CILDREN’S DAY / Sports Day Children’s day or “Bal Divas,” which was celebrated on November 14th, was quite an event this year. This holiday, celebrated on the birthday of Chacha Nehru, a children rights activist, celebrates the rights, care, and education of children. Here at Little Stars we invite our children to participate in our annual Children’s Day food fair and Sports .
Christmas and New year 2016 Hostel girls are welcoming all the teachers for new year's wishes and a good lunch..
10
HOLI Festival : symbol of love and unity Most recently , everyone
students got to enjoy playing with colors in the courtyard along with the teachers, staff, and volunteers.
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celebrated Holi, the festival of colors, on March 23rd. At Little Stars School we had a school celebration a day early and our
A spiritual lecture for children by Baba Hari Ji.
11
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Workshop on youth day
12
CONSTRUCTION AND RENOVATIONS SOLAR PANELS This year our major construction project was the solar panels that were installed on the roof of the new building. We were able to make this installation thanks to the generous support of Roma Singh, who raised the funds for the solar panels in Singapore. The installation will not only help Little Stars School save money but it is also much more environmentally friendly. NEW ROOMS Along with the solar panels, Roma also fundraised money for the completion of two rooms in the new building. These rooms were built for the purpose of a school doctor and social worker. Our hope is to be able to hire two professionals so that our students have access to
ROOFTOP CLASSROOM / As our student body and programming keeps expanding, the number of students we serve keep growing! We are currently working on securing funds to expand our pre-nursery to UKG classes by hiring more teachers and staff members to manage those students and the appropriate curriculum; however, this means we would need extra classrooms. This year, we were able to construct a classroom on the rooftop of the old building in efforts to help keep classes small and manageable. This extra space really helps in maintaining the quality of education and atmosphere we offer our students. Renovation-- Bathroom / water tank at the old building With the new building complete, we are focusing most of our construction funds on renovations for the old building, which means bathroom renovations this year. Students in the old building now have access to clean and nicely tiled bathrooms.
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resources that will help them remain healthy both physically and mentally.
New underground whole for water at the new school . 13
VOLUNTEERS Each year, we welcome new and old faces to be a part of the Little Stars community. Below you will find some of the volunteers who made this year full of excitement, joy, and hardwork. A big thank you goes out to them and all the volunteers who came before them.
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ESTI MATULEWICZ
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Esti arrived in October with Princeton’s Bridge Year Program and has spent the last seven months working in the office, fundraising and doing administrative tasks alongside Asha. Some afternoons, she would spend time tutoring, cooking or playing with the hostel girls. MEAGAN MCKINLEY Meagan is an American student who attends Global College and decided to do her internship at Little Stars School. She spent 4 months in the fall helping with different projects and office work; meanwhile, she was also collecting information and taking notes for her senior thesis! EFKF In January, Little Stars School welcomed a group of about nine volunteers from Denmark who came to teach English and led
PIERRE Once again, Pierre returned from Holland in October for the 9th time this year and stayed for 5 months. Pierre spent the majority of his time planning and supervising the construction and renovation projects He's always a big help to the school and Asha. BRITTA has been our friend for 20 years now. here, she is giving scarves to every teachers for her Birthday.
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teacher training workshops for three weeks. Their Global Education Program ran by the English For Kids Foundation offers three intensive weeks for our students as they prepare for exams as well as support and resources for our teachers so that they may learn to utilize different teaching methods.
.
Roma singh a volunteer from Singapore, came to Little Stars School in December to gather all of the necessary documentation of the solar panel installation for her donors back home. During her time here, she also initiated a new scholarship for five of the top girls of Class 12 so that they may continue their studies at university.
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EMMA WAGNER
16
Emma, who is an American student on her gap year, arrived in Varanasi in late March and volunteered at Little Stars School for three weeks. She spent most of her time helping organize the office computer and spent her afternoons with the hostel girls. CORNELL GROUP In December, we also had a group of five students from Cornell University come teach at Little Stars. They spent their time teaching the less advanced children so that they could catch up and be ready for their exams in March.
SHANTI NIKETAN Shanti Niketan is our hostel for needy and orphan girls ranging from age 5 to 16. This year we wanted to give a brief information on the new major hostel projects that were initiated this past year. Let's see what is going on here..
self-defense class ---Our neighbor Lhamu is teaching karate to the girls on the roof top. COMPUTER PROGRAM . Thanks to Grace and her friends ,
we were able to start a computer program for the hostel girls. With their generous donations, we bought 7 new laptops and a printer for the hostel. A computer teacher comes three times a week for afternoon classes. The hostel girls are all very excited about this new technology and are
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This year Britta continued her dental program with the hostel girls specially irregular teeth of Swadha , Netra ,Mukta and Payal . Britta also made sure to still spend plenty of time with the hostel girls.
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having fun learning how to use different computer programs .
Girls distributing food to the hungry at Assi Ghat on 15th of January .
Vidhi's birthday
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is the same day, she got a blessing from a very old lady at Assi ghat.
Girls did not forget to play with colors on Holi festival.
Vidhi, with the blue dress and Chitra with the black one received the honors for best helping girls.
Girls are learning
beautician class herbal and homely way. 18
with
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All these girls arrived by C W C (Child Welfare Comity) at Shanti Niketan. They're all in police custody but they will stay here until their court case are over. Some ran away from home and got married before 18, and police caught them. Some other ran away from home due to an hostile environment for the past few years and were seeking for a safe place to grow up. Their parents were not taking any action due to their poverty.
STRENGTH INDIA Strength India is a new NGO in the United States that is working toward becoming registered in India as well. Their mission is to create “Active Spaces, designed to engage girls in forward thinking conversations through fun and empowering activities. They have started a program with our hostel girls that includes a self-defense class and will include a book club in the near future. These activities are aimed at helping empower the hostel girls as well .
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FINANCIAL REPORT This year was yet another success financially as we received a grand total of Rs. 45,07947 ($ 68,302.23, €60,105.96 ) in donations from organizations and private donors! We are so happy to receive all of this overwhelming support from so many different organizations and individuals and are excited to see that we had many reoccurring donors this year!
ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016
Below you will find the Income Breakdown, illustrating who and where our income is coming from as well as the percentage each group makes up of our income. You will also find a table showing the total income and expenditure in rupees, American dollars, and Euros for the different costs our organization must manage.
Income Breakdown Sitaram Jindal 1%
Asha For Education (USA) 16%
Friends of Little Stars School (UK) 2%
Milagro Foundation 16%
Roma 9%
Gupta Foundation 10%
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Grace and Friends 5%
Individual Donors: India 7%
Other 11%
Benares Schoolfund Foundation (Holland) 30%
Individual Donors: Other Asia and Austrailia 0%
Individual Donors: North America 1%
Individual Donors: Europe 3%
INCOME USD General Expenses Hostel Expenses
EXPENDITURE
EU
INR
USD
EU
INR
29213.53
25707.91
1928093.00
19254.56
16944.01
1270801.00
13122.14
11547.48
866061.00
12372.35
10887.67
816575.00
14262.47
12550.97
941323.00
25791.79
22696.77
1702258.00
Construction
8141.97
7164.93
537370.00
3881.60
3415.80
256185.00
Special Projects
3562.12
3134.67
235100.00
7500
6600
495000.00
68302.23
60105.96
4507947.00
68800.30
60544.25
4540819.00
Teacher Salary
Conversion 1 USD = 66 INR , 1 EU = 75 INR
Finally, we would like to thank all of the friends and donors of Little Stars School and Shanti Niketan. It’s only through your generous contributions to our community that we are able to continue our work and grow by implementing new infrastructures and programs.
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THANK YOU
Special thanks go out to the following organizations for their continuous support over the years. Here are all our dear supporters: -The Benaras School fund Foundation
-Sitaram Jindal
-The Milagro Foundation -Asha for Education -The Gupta Foundation
-Grace and Friends
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-The Friends of Little Stars School (UK)
-Roma Singh Roshani projest
-VSEI K.Raman
-Org. Shrin Fozdar and National Youth Council )
And lastly special thanks to all of our individual donors, who really do their best to bring more learning, life, and fun into this organization.
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1-Bhagirath Jalann
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2- Keshav Gupta
4-Kieran Archer 5-Williamson and Liam Mc Family Garry
3-Lex and Neti Hogenbosch 6-Moti Mahal
7-AnupamaRao 8-Minnie Meredith 9-Cecile Doron Glomseth (Katha Pandu Ranga Vittal ) 10-T.V.Chella Rao , Sikandrabad
11-Mechaela Disaro
12-Namrata Shah Dubey
13-Rajiv Agarwal
14-Sanjay Kao
15-Abhik Mitra
16-Anand Kapoor
17-Shiv Prakash Upadhayay
18-Dinesh Mahale
19- Austin Lobo 20-Nagbhushan R. Gubbi
21-Conny Van Stalen
24-Brownwyn Mc Bride
25-Anju Agarwal
26- Rajesh Singh
27-Puja Gaurav Sharma
28Christophe
29-Brouno, and Patricia Delor
30-Sameer Vishwas Delhi
31-Jiuli Ida Maria
32- Vittorio Tango 33- Dr .Gurumohan Singh
34- Jiuli IDa Maria
35-Sujata singh
36-Members fee
37- Nancy Joliet
38-Parents donation
39-David M Smith
40-Mr.Garbriel
41-Rama Asaf
42-Vivek Asija
43-Plika Robinson
44-Gretchen Woelfel
45-Santosh Gupta
46-Shailesh Bhakta
47-Jesica Burell
48-Karen Beghly
49-Erin Jurkovich
50-Ralph Perry Mary Selden
51-Rochelle Pollens
52- Justin
53-Terry and
54-Jeanette
Beghly
Sinead
Stevens
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22-Sanjeev Km 23-Vijay Km. Singh Gupta
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55-John and Dale O'Brien
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Conny Van Stalen is a long time supporter of the school, every year she visits the school to meet the children and their parents. That's always very fruitful.
Thanks again to all our supporters, volunteers and visitors! Hope to see you again this year.
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SHANTI NIKETAN
WELCOME
2
OVERVIEW
3
WHO ARE WE OUR STUDENTS
3 4
WHAT'S NEW AT LITTLE STARS SCHOOL
6
DENTAL PROGRAM CLASS 12 AFTER CLASS 12
6 7 8
SCHOOL CELEBRATIONS
9
GANDHI DAY CHILDREN’S DAY HOLI
9 10 11
CONSTRUCTION AND RENOVATIONS
12
SOLAR PANELS NEW ROOMS ROOFTOP CLASSROOM BATHROOM RENOVATION
12 12 13 13
VOLUNTEERS
14
ESTI MATULEWICZ MEAGAN MCKINLEY EFKF PIERRE BRITTA ROMA SINGH EMMA WAGNER CORNELL GROUP
14 14 14 15 15 15 16 16
SHANTI NIKETAN
17
CURRENT HOSTEL GIRLS COMPUTER PROGRAM STRENGTH INDIA
17 17 19
FINANCIAL REPORT
20
ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016
Table of Contents
1 THANK YOU
21
ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016
WELCOME
2
The past school year, 2015-2016, was full of hard work, expansion, support, and accomplishments at Little Stars School and Shanti Niketan. We were finally able to expand our school to Class 12. Along with renovations to the old building, we were able to further develop our new building by constructing solar panels on the roof and two new rooms, which we hope will be occupied by a doctor and a social worker for our students. The hostel girls are as busy as ever with their studies
along with their new self-defense, reading groups, and computer program classes. In this annual report you will find the highlights of our year. As always, we would like to thank all of the friends and supporters of Rishi Pragatisheel Shikshan Sansthan who make all of our hard work possible. Thank you and enjoy!
OVERVIEW WHO ARE WE Little Stars School was founded by Asha Pandey in 1996 with 7 children on a rooftop. Asha was a public school teacher, Finally she decided to open a school for underprivileged children of Varanasi and now Little Stars School provides an affordable and complete (pre-nursery to Class 12) education to 900 of the most underprivileged students in the city. Asha opened the hostel, in 2004 on the second floor of the old school building, which provides a safe home for orphan, needy and street girls. The hostel usually houses up to 25
ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016
-AshaPandey, Founder and Director
3
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girls ranging from 3 to 18 years old and offers these girls a nice place to live with an excellent 'Little Stars education', and a family environment. OUR STUDENTS The students of Little Stars School come from some of the poorest families in Varanasi, most of which live in Nagwa, the slum neighborhood where the school is based. Many of the families have recently moved to Varanasi from nearby villages and are struggling to find work and provide a better life for their families. This hardship causes many internal problems for families such as substance abuse, physical abuse, and child labor as they struggle to overcome poverty. Many of our students’ parents are illiterate and do not understand the importance of educating their children. The little girl on the pictures below used to beg in the streets but as you can see she is now enjoying a good education at our school.
4
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Our school works to help these families understand the importance and value of an education and female independence in breaking the cycle of poverty. Little Stars School offers these children a Hindi and English medium education with certain classes, such as Math and Science, in English. This affordable education helps keep these students from working and begging on the streets and gives them a chance of receiving a higher education and higher paid jobs.
5
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WHAT'S NEW AT LITTLE STARS SCHOOL
6
DENTAL PROGRAM 20 years ago, Britta, a long-term volunteer from Denmark who has been visiting and helping Little Stars for the past 17 years, initiated, financed, and began running a dental program for the school children.
This year Little Stars School provided Class 12 to the students, which was a huge step for our organization as we are now able to provide and ensure a complete education for our students from pre-nursery to Class 12. We offer three different tracks to our students: commerce, art, and science, giving them the ability to pursue and focus on their personal interests.
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CLASS 12
This is the farewell ceremony for class 12th
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AFTER CLASS 12
8
This year one of our volunteer Roma Singh, started a university scholarship project for the five top female students graduating from Class 12. This scholarship covers the cost for them to attend a local university for the next four years including the costs for their tuition, supplies, and spending money. These scholarships are helping change these girls’ lives, including 2 of our hostel girls.
These 5 students are lucky, they have a long term sponsorship by Sanjeev Singh as long as they keep studying.
SCHOOL CELEBRATIONS
GANDHI DAY On 2nd of Oct. It was wonderful to see the students celebrate nonviolence and a life of simplicity and devotion As part of the celebration, we had a contest where we invited any student who wanted to participate to come to school in their best Gandhi costume , Article on Gandhi, and then a winner was chosen by our Chief Guest! Winners received a prize.
ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016
As part of our cultural program, we not only give students a break on major holidays but also facilitate festivities to give our students a safe space to celebrate away from the chaos of the streets.
9
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CILDREN’S DAY / Sports Day Children’s day or “Bal Divas,” which was celebrated on November 14th, was quite an event this year. This holiday, celebrated on the birthday of Chacha Nehru, a children rights activist, celebrates the rights, care, and education of children. Here at Little Stars we invite our children to participate in our annual Children’s Day food fair and Sports .
Christmas and New year 2016 Hostel girls are welcoming all the teachers for new year's wishes and a good lunch..
10
HOLI Festival : symbol of love and unity Most recently , everyone
students got to enjoy playing with colors in the courtyard along with the teachers, staff, and volunteers.
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celebrated Holi, the festival of colors, on March 23rd. At Little Stars School we had a school celebration a day early and our
A spiritual lecture for children by Baba Hari Ji.
11
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Workshop on youth day
12
CONSTRUCTION AND RENOVATIONS SOLAR PANELS This year our major construction project was the solar panels that were installed on the roof of the new building. We were able to make this installation thanks to the generous support of Roma Singh, who raised the funds for the solar panels in Singapore. The installation will not only help Little Stars School save money but it is also much more environmentally friendly. NEW ROOMS Along with the solar panels, Roma also fundraised money for the completion of two rooms in the new building. These rooms were built for the purpose of a school doctor and social worker. Our hope is to be able to hire two professionals so that our students have access to
ROOFTOP CLASSROOM / As our student body and programming keeps expanding, the number of students we serve keep growing! We are currently working on securing funds to expand our pre-nursery to UKG classes by hiring more teachers and staff members to manage those students and the appropriate curriculum; however, this means we would need extra classrooms. This year, we were able to construct a classroom on the rooftop of the old building in efforts to help keep classes small and manageable. This extra space really helps in maintaining the quality of education and atmosphere we offer our students. Renovation-- Bathroom / water tank at the old building With the new building complete, we are focusing most of our construction funds on renovations for the old building, which means bathroom renovations this year. Students in the old building now have access to clean and nicely tiled bathrooms.
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resources that will help them remain healthy both physically and mentally.
New underground whole for water at the new school . 13
VOLUNTEERS Each year, we welcome new and old faces to be a part of the Little Stars community. Below you will find some of the volunteers who made this year full of excitement, joy, and hardwork. A big thank you goes out to them and all the volunteers who came before them.
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ESTI MATULEWICZ
14
Esti arrived in October with Princeton’s Bridge Year Program and has spent the last seven months working in the office, fundraising and doing administrative tasks alongside Asha. Some afternoons, she would spend time tutoring, cooking or playing with the hostel girls. MEAGAN MCKINLEY Meagan is an American student who attends Global College and decided to do her internship at Little Stars School. She spent 4 months in the fall helping with different projects and office work; meanwhile, she was also collecting information and taking notes for her senior thesis! EFKF In January, Little Stars School welcomed a group of about nine volunteers from Denmark who came to teach English and led
PIERRE Once again, Pierre returned from Holland in October for the 9th time this year and stayed for 5 months. Pierre spent the majority of his time planning and supervising the construction and renovation projects He's always a big help to the school and Asha. BRITTA has been our friend for 20 years now. here, she is giving scarves to every teachers for her Birthday.
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teacher training workshops for three weeks. Their Global Education Program ran by the English For Kids Foundation offers three intensive weeks for our students as they prepare for exams as well as support and resources for our teachers so that they may learn to utilize different teaching methods.
.
Roma singh a volunteer from Singapore, came to Little Stars School in December to gather all of the necessary documentation of the solar panel installation for her donors back home. During her time here, she also initiated a new scholarship for five of the top girls of Class 12 so that they may continue their studies at university.
15
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EMMA WAGNER
16
Emma, who is an American student on her gap year, arrived in Varanasi in late March and volunteered at Little Stars School for three weeks. She spent most of her time helping organize the office computer and spent her afternoons with the hostel girls. CORNELL GROUP In December, we also had a group of five students from Cornell University come teach at Little Stars. They spent their time teaching the less advanced children so that they could catch up and be ready for their exams in March.
SHANTI NIKETAN Shanti Niketan is our hostel for needy and orphan girls ranging from age 5 to 16. This year we wanted to give a brief information on the new major hostel projects that were initiated this past year. Let's see what is going on here..
self-defense class ---Our neighbor Lhamu is teaching karate to the girls on the roof top. COMPUTER PROGRAM . Thanks to Grace and her friends ,
we were able to start a computer program for the hostel girls. With their generous donations, we bought 7 new laptops and a printer for the hostel. A computer teacher comes three times a week for afternoon classes. The hostel girls are all very excited about this new technology and are
ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016
This year Britta continued her dental program with the hostel girls specially irregular teeth of Swadha , Netra ,Mukta and Payal . Britta also made sure to still spend plenty of time with the hostel girls.
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having fun learning how to use different computer programs .
Girls distributing food to the hungry at Assi Ghat on 15th of January .
Vidhi's birthday
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is the same day, she got a blessing from a very old lady at Assi ghat.
Girls did not forget to play with colors on Holi festival.
Vidhi, with the blue dress and Chitra with the black one received the honors for best helping girls.
Girls are learning
beautician class herbal and homely way. 18
with
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All these girls arrived by C W C (Child Welfare Comity) at Shanti Niketan. They're all in police custody but they will stay here until their court case are over. Some ran away from home and got married before 18, and police caught them. Some other ran away from home due to an hostile environment for the past few years and were seeking for a safe place to grow up. Their parents were not taking any action due to their poverty.
STRENGTH INDIA Strength India is a new NGO in the United States that is working toward becoming registered in India as well. Their mission is to create “Active Spaces, designed to engage girls in forward thinking conversations through fun and empowering activities. They have started a program with our hostel girls that includes a self-defense class and will include a book club in the near future. These activities are aimed at helping empower the hostel girls as well .
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FINANCIAL REPORT This year was yet another success financially as we received a grand total of Rs. 45,07947 ($ 68,302.23, €60,105.96 ) in donations from organizations and private donors! We are so happy to receive all of this overwhelming support from so many different organizations and individuals and are excited to see that we had many reoccurring donors this year!
ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016
Below you will find the Income Breakdown, illustrating who and where our income is coming from as well as the percentage each group makes up of our income. You will also find a table showing the total income and expenditure in rupees, American dollars, and Euros for the different costs our organization must manage.
Income Breakdown Sitaram Jindal 1%
Asha For Education (USA) 16%
Friends of Little Stars School (UK) 2%
Milagro Foundation 16%
Roma 9%
Gupta Foundation 10%
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Grace and Friends 5%
Individual Donors: India 7%
Other 11%
Benares Schoolfund Foundation (Holland) 30%
Individual Donors: Other Asia and Austrailia 0%
Individual Donors: North America 1%
Individual Donors: Europe 3%
INCOME USD General Expenses Hostel Expenses
EXPENDITURE
EU
INR
USD
EU
INR
29213.53
25707.91
1928093.00
19254.56
16944.01
1270801.00
13122.14
11547.48
866061.00
12372.35
10887.67
816575.00
14262.47
12550.97
941323.00
25791.79
22696.77
1702258.00
Construction
8141.97
7164.93
537370.00
3881.60
3415.80
256185.00
Special Projects
3562.12
3134.67
235100.00
7500
6600
495000.00
68302.23
60105.96
4507947.00
68800.30
60544.25
4540819.00
Teacher Salary
Conversion 1 USD = 66 INR , 1 EU = 75 INR
Finally, we would like to thank all of the friends and donors of Little Stars School and Shanti Niketan. It’s only through your generous contributions to our community that we are able to continue our work and grow by implementing new infrastructures and programs.
ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016
THANK YOU
Special thanks go out to the following organizations for their continuous support over the years. Here are all our dear supporters: -The Benaras School fund Foundation
-Sitaram Jindal
-The Milagro Foundation -Asha for Education -The Gupta Foundation
-Grace and Friends
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-The Friends of Little Stars School (UK)
-Roma Singh Roshani projest
-VSEI K.Raman
-Org. Shrin Fozdar and National Youth Council )
And lastly special thanks to all of our individual donors, who really do their best to bring more learning, life, and fun into this organization.
ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016
1-Bhagirath Jalann
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2- Keshav Gupta
4-Kieran Archer 5-Williamson and Liam Mc Family Garry
3-Lex and Neti Hogenbosch 6-Moti Mahal
7-AnupamaRao 8-Minnie Meredith 9-Cecile Doron Glomseth (Katha Pandu Ranga Vittal ) 10-T.V.Chella Rao , Sikandrabad
11-Mechaela Disaro
12-Namrata Shah Dubey
13-Rajiv Agarwal
14-Sanjay Kao
15-Abhik Mitra
16-Anand Kapoor
17-Shiv Prakash Upadhayay
18-Dinesh Mahale
19- Austin Lobo 20-Nagbhushan R. Gubbi
21-Conny Van Stalen
24-Brownwyn Mc Bride
25-Anju Agarwal
26- Rajesh Singh
27-Puja Gaurav Sharma
28Christophe
29-Brouno, and Patricia Delor
30-Sameer Vishwas Delhi
31-Jiuli Ida Maria
32- Vittorio Tango 33- Dr .Gurumohan Singh
34- Jiuli IDa Maria
35-Sujata singh
36-Members fee
37- Nancy Joliet
38-Parents donation
39-David M Smith
40-Mr.Garbriel
41-Rama Asaf
42-Vivek Asija
43-Plika Robinson
44-Gretchen Woelfel
45-Santosh Gupta
46-Shailesh Bhakta
47-Jesica Burell
48-Karen Beghly
49-Erin Jurkovich
50-Ralph Perry Mary Selden
51-Rochelle Pollens
52- Justin
53-Terry and
54-Jeanette
Beghly
Sinead
Stevens
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22-Sanjeev Km 23-Vijay Km. Singh Gupta
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55-John and Dale O'Brien
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Conny Van Stalen is a long time supporter of the school, every year she visits the school to meet the children and their parents. That's always very fruitful.
Thanks again to all our supporters, volunteers and visitors! Hope to see you again this year.
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