No. 1, Sivavishnu Koil Street, Rajajipuram, Tiruvallur – 602 001, Tamil Nadu, India. Speak : 044 – 27665459 / 27665757

DESIGN FOR CHANGE Project Theme : Gnana Banddar (Store house of Knowledge)

Shree Niketan MHSS was conceived in 2006.

School has 2600 children coming from semi-urban, rural areas.

Most of them are first generation learners..

• We realized that most of the facilities that these schools did not have

were infrastructural issues that needed a huge monetary supply for

construction and maintenance. For example building structure, poorly

constructed toilets, student benches and chairs etc.,

• But we also found that they did not have a library like ours. We felt that

setting up a library in schools will have less maintenance issue and can be

kept in good condition for a long period of time. It also has a significant

impact on a larger group of children. • We found that our friends from other schools in our district did not enjoy facilities that we had at our school.

• So we decided to arrange for a school visit to all our friends’ schools to compare their facilities with ours.

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Campus

Computer Lab

Class RoomsFEEL

We realized that their schools were devoid of most of the facilities that were found in our school.

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Shree niketan library

Government school Library

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•We planned to set up libraries by asking our friends in our school to donate books. • Our target was to collect 3000 books that will benefit 2000 children based on our idea of student : book ratio of 1:2.

We also planned to collect the list of schools that were in dire need of libraries with the help of the education department.

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IMAGINE

First step

We did so by creating awareness about our project to other students in our school. We conducted special assemblies, motivational speech, skit, awarded incentives for children and classes donating the highest number of books (Field trips and appreciation certificates). We also asked our teachers to conduct slogan writing competitions for our project title.

DOAsking children in our school to donate books towards this cause.

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Second Step Creating awareness in our neighborhood for donation by asking our teachers to give all of us students holiday assignments which comprised of questions regarding our project and also about book donation. In addition, the assignment also required us to get our neighbors to donate books towards our cause.

Asking our neighbors to contribute

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Third StepWe created awareness in schools that were well established in

Tiruvallur, about our project and asked their students to donate books for our cause. We did so by performing skits during their morning assembly.

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Fourth Step We met with social leaders and people in influential positions in and

around Tiruvallur asking them to donate books.

Pastors Principal CCC MHSS

Principal Barathidasan MHSS

Chief Educational Officer - Thiruvallur

Government Doctor

Tahsildar

ASP - Thiruvallur

Municipal Commisioner

Trustee, Veera RaghavaTemple

Fifth Step With the help of our education department, we identified 5 schools that had a combined strength of 4012 children that did not have libraries. We visited their schools, explained our project and got permission to establish libraries in their schools.

Sixth StepSegregation of Books for different schools based on the student : book ratio, subject wise segregation and preparing catalogues to set up the libraries.

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XI – B 1625XI – D 901

XI – A 850

VI – D 521

IX – A 460

IX – B 460

Top 5 classes

contributed books

Seventh StepOur school had established a social service club which receives donation from our school students. Our social service club volunteered to buy racks for our books.

Eighth StepWith the help of our school’s management, We organized a valedictory function to give away the libraries to all the schools we shortlisted. Chief guest of the function was Shri B.V. Ramana , Minister for Commercial Taxes and Registration.

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Moments to be remembered

Schools Benefitted by this projectS. No School Name Strength No. of Books

Donated

1 Municipal MiddleSchool, Poonga Nagar,

Tiruvallur.

482 1100

2 Adi-Dravidar Welfare Primary School,

Sevvapet.1250 1125

3 Government Girls HSS, Kamarajar Nagar, Avadi.

1400 2250

4 Sevalaya Mahakavi Bharathiar HSS,

Pakkam. 2400 3200

5 Government HSS,Thandurai 1540 3000

Note

1. Municipal Middle School

2. Adi-Dravidar Welfare Primary School

3. Govt. Girls HSS

4. Sevalaya Mahakavi Bharathiyar HSS

5. Govt. HSS

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