Annual Report 2013-14 Report 2013-14 “Empowering youth through education” An initiative to...
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Annual Report 2013-14
“Empowering youth through education”
An initiative to support underprivileged, bright youth pursue higher education leading to
higher levels of literacy and employment
FRIENDS OF CHILDREN, PUNE
Plot 497, Sector 28, Pradhikaran, Pune 411044
www.focpune.org
Table of Contents
Vision & Mission
Beliefs
Aims & Objectives
Founders Speak
Accomplishments
Student distribution regionwise
Student Details
Success stories
Highlights of the year
Summary of the budget ( 2014 -15 )
Annexure I - Individual Donors for ( 2013 - 14 )
Annexure II - Identification Process and Selection Criteria
Annexure III - Trustees, Working Members and Volunteers
Vision
Every meritorious student regardless of religion, caste, gender, or socio-economic background must have the opportunity to have the right education equipping him / her
to lead a successful life.
Mission
To provide every student with effective, high-quality guidance, learning experiences, monetary support instilling the right values to make a good citizen of India.
Beliefs
Education is a right in democracy and provides the tools to create a more egalitarian and just society.
All children and youth have a right to a high-quality, comprehensive education. We model what students learn — by what we say, what we do, how we treat each
other, and how we organize and run our programs & workshops. To learn effectively, students need their basic needs met— Academic fees, books,
food, shelter, clothing and respect for their individuality.
Aims & Objectives
Financial support to meritorious students who are unable to continue their higher education due to financial difficulties.
Motivate people participation at large to contribute for development of education. Post finance support to students to achieve academic excellence and generate
greater employability. Promote volunteering for the cause of society.
The Journey………
Friends of Children (FoC), began as a dream in 2002 to lend a helping hand to
society. The objective was to reach out to deserving youth using education as a
medium and help them grow as strong individuals with an opportunity for a
sustainable livelihood.
It has been a twelve year journey. Today we do not focus only on financial
support, but have expanded to providing libraries, textbooks, Life skill and
personality development workshops and residential programs.
Our plan to reach out to all our students thru monthly workshops has
successfully completed four years. We have a schedule with a curriculum
worked out to suit the needs of our students , covering Life , Behavioural and
Recruitment skills. Our sincere thanks to all the trainers who willingly
volunteered their time and weekends towards the success of this project.
Our core objective is still the same – “Empowering through Education”. FoC
sponsors higher education for meritorious students subsequent to their initial
school years. At present we do not accept applications for sponsorship below
Standard 10.
From 23 students in 2003 we now have 280 students across the greater
Maharashtra region.
We continue to grow and evolve with your support.
Vani Aparna
Nurture Merit program In the course of the past decade, FoC has reached out to more than 2574 students and assisted them with scholarships amounting to Rs 127 lakhs. Though we began with 23 students in 2003, within Pune city, we have now moved our focus to the rural areas where the probability of a needy student getting assistance is minimal. We have students sponsored in Pune city, Rajgurunagar, Manchar, Ghodegaon, Narayangaon, Ale, Junnar, Sangli, Miraj, Kavalapur, Soni, Someshwarnagar and Saswad. FoC sponsored 280 students for the year 2013 -14.
Student distribution regionwise ( 2013 -14 )
Region Students % Pune 49 18 Sangli ( Kavalapur, Soni, Miraj, Sangli city ) 92 33 Manchar 20 7 Narayangaon 15 5 Junnar 16 6 Ghodegaon 22 8 Rajgurunagar 8 3 Ranjani 2 1 Dhamani 7 3 Ambegaon 8 3 Ale 12 4 Someshwarnagar 21 8 Saswad 8 3
Total 280
Highlights of the Year
Workshop program –“ Umeed ”
We at FoC, believe in the holistic development of our students. With this in mind, we have divided our sponsored students into smaller groups depending on the course / year at college for attendance to workshops. We cover various Life skills and facets on personality development through these sessions. Rural students have no exposure to any such platform and through the past 4 years, our workshop schedule has been reaffirmed by the positive feedback and the higher level of confidence our students display.
Workshop schedule covered for 2013 -14
Residential Program ( Pre recruitment skills )- “ Unnati “
We conduct a rigorous residential program for our senior students, preparing them for the professional world. Students are called into Pune for 3 days at a time and exposed to various sessions covering Resume Preparation, Facing Interview Tips, FAQs in Interview, GDs, corporate and email etiquette and requisites that raises the platform for them in this competitive world.
A panel of members are invited from various IT and manufacturing companies who conduct mock interviews and give individual feedback to our students , thus giving them exposure and preparation for the real test !
“Unnati “program schedule (2013 -14)
Program -1: 24th to 26th May 2013
Program-2: 2nd-4th Aug 2013
Program-3: 13th-15th Dec 2013
Program-4: 22nd -23rd Feb 2014
Trainers who facilitated this program:
Harshad Joshi- Sr. Manager, SUNGARD Solutions
Manoj Sharma- Asst. Manager, Bajaj Auto Ltd.
Priyanka Mahapatro- Sr. Executive HR, Wipro Technologies
Nikhil Vidyasagar- Delivery Head, Wipro Technologies
Vibhuti Budki- Sr. Software Engineer, Wipro Technologies
SUMMARY OF PROPOSED PROJECT (2014 – 2015)
A brief break down of the budget for 2014-15
Particulars Total no. of Students
Total Amount Required
( in Lakhs )
Remarks
Support for Profession al course students
70 @ Rs 15000 per student ( approx )
10.5 L ( Engineering, BCS, BCA, CA, Pharmacy,Law )
Support of Non Profession al students
200 @ Rs 5000 per student ( approx )
10.0 L ( B.Sc , B .com, BA,Class 12, Dip loma in Engg )
Monthly works hop expenses ( 30 )
0.8 L
Expenses for 4 Residential programs camps
90 0.7 L
Administrative expense & s alaries
1.6 L
Total amount required to be collected for 2014-15
23.6 L
Looking forward (2014-2015)
Setup Alumni Association: The plans are already in place
Mentor Program: Set of active ex and senior students to take this forward
Workshop Outreach: Expand our workshop programs to reach out to non-FoC students especially in rural areas
Corpus Fund : Hold a program/event to build a corpus fund for FoC
Annexure I - Donors for 2013 – 14.
1 ANU AGA 25 KRISHAGNI SOLUTIONS PVT LTD
2 ANUPAMA GANU 26 LOHOT ASHWINI BHANUDAS
3 ARUN NAGPAL 27 LOKHANDE GANPAT
4 ARVIND HULGERI 28 MADHUSHREE CHATTERJEE
5 ATUL DRAVID 29 NAAZNEEN KOTHAVALA
6 BINA SUNDAR 30 NEOVA SOLUTIONS PVT LTD
7 CHANDRABHAGA SAYAJIRAO KAKADE 31 PRITAM PAYMODE
8 COELHO. R 32 R L FERNANDES
9 EMCURE PHARMACEUTICALS LTD 33 R SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL LTD
10 EXTENTIA INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PVT LTD 34 SANJAY BADHE
11 FORBES MARSHALL FOUNDATION 35 SANJAY BALASAHEB WARULE
12 FUJI FILM SERICOL INDIA PVT LTD 36 SANJAY C KIRLOSKAR
13 GEETA RUPCHAND CHUGH 37 SHANTH MANNIGE
14 GURUNATHE PATWARDHAN 38 SHANTHAMMA
15 HARISH PATANKAR 39 SHIKHA GOEL
16 HARSHAL BANKHELE 40 SPARSH -A HEALING TOUCH
17 HEMA ARUN JOSHI 41 SPECTRUM AHEAD
18 HEMANT N RAMNANI 42 SUNIL V GOGATE
19 HIRAL KIRTI GALA 43 SURAJ GADEKAR
20 HRISHIKESH GAIKWAD 44 SUSAN D'SOUZA
21 IBM INDIA PVT LTD 45 UMA GIRISH KARANDIKAR
22 INDIRA KIDS SCHOOL , AUNDH 46 UMEED KOTHAVALA
23 INNER WHEEL CLUB OF PUNE CENTRAL 47 VIMAL BAPAT
24 KIRAN SATKAR 48 VISHWANATH MANTHA
Annexure II: Identification Process, Selection and Monitoring Criteria
Identification Process
In every case, fee disbursement only after rigorous process of identification and verification by physically visiting dwelling units of shortlisted students.
Applications received from school contacts, volunteers and well-wishers. Volunteers interviewed all shortlisted candidates and visited every short listed applicant’s
household. Selected new student beneficiaries inducted for the year. Detailed documentation of each deserving case with photo shoots of house / applicant prepared
Selection Criteria
We have followed two different modules for selection of students in the city & villages. The criteria which has driven us to follow this particular pattern is as follows
Cost of living is much higher in the city. More awareness in the city compared to the village. Availability of resources mainly volunteers.
Criteria Urban Rural
Identification & Home visits
Done through our volunteers Teachers from the local schools identify and do the home visits.
Income <60,000 P.A <50,000 P.A
Cut off % X *
Cut off % XI
Cut off % XII
>85%
> 70%
> 80% for professional courses and 70 % for degree courses
>80%
>70%
>80% for professional courses and 70 % for degree courses
Cutoff %Degree First Class First Class
Fee Distribution A fixed amount depending on course taken is paid, depending on marks scored, participation and general proficiency
A fixed amount depending on course taken is paid ,depending on marks scored, meetings attended and general proficiency
Meeting /workshop Schedule
Once a month Once a month through local Coordinators and volunteers
Monitoring criteria (renewal of sponsorship on an evolved credit system)
Students are expected to keep up their mark score to the required percentage and renew their sponsorship each year.
Attendance to workshops / residential programs are mandatory
Extra curricular activities and extra academic projects are encouraged and given extra weightage
Self supporting students are given preference
Students are encouraged to volunteer for FoC in their regions, or volunteer in any organization of their choice.
Annexure III: Trustees, Working Members and Volunteers
Friends of Children, Pune was init iated and reg istered under Maharashtra Societ ies Registrat ion Act (1960), India in 2003 and as a Regd. Trust in 2004.. .
Mrs. Shantha Suryanarayan –President, Trustee
Mrs. Nal ini Ramchandra –Trustee
Mrs. Vani Subramanyam –Trustee, Working member
Ms. Aparna Pardeshi–Trustee, Working Member
Mr. Venkatesan.N - Trustee
Mr. S. Subramaniam – Trustee
Regional Volunteers Our Student Volunteers
Sr. No. Name & Region
1 Mr. Kanade (Narayangaon)
2 Mr. Upar (Manchar)
3 Mrs. Katekar (Junnar)
4 Mr. Kale (Narayangaon)
5 Mr. Vidhate ( Dhamini )
6 Mrs. Chavan ( Rajgurunagar )
7 Mr. Santosh Nalawade (Sangli)
8 Mr. Prashant Chavan (Sangli)
9 Mrs. Sujata Deshpande (Sangli)
10 Mr. Balgude (Nira, Baramati)
11 Mr. Hrushikesh Gaikwad (Saswad)12 Mr. Sagar Jadhav (Ale)
13 Mr. Nilesh Jagtap ( Pune )
14 Mr. Manoj Sharma ( Working member, Pune )
15 Mrs. Archana Joshi ( Working member, Pune )
16 Mr. Harshad Joshi ( Working member , Pune )
17 Mr. Patkar ( Ghodegaon )
Aparna Pardeshi Trustee, Working Member [email protected]
98900 93187
Vani Subramanyam Trustee, Working Member [email protected] 020 26687731
Friends of children has tax exemption under 80 G of the IT Act 1961. Our FCRA clearance : Regn. no. 083930612
Donations can be made online to our Canara Bank a/c, Koregaon Park, Pune. Friends of children, a/c no. 0263101018900