ANNUAL UPDATE FOR 2014-15

Amol Agarwal Kannan C. Iyer

21 Jan 2015

Project WHY

Mission

Project WHY was conceived to answer a series of queries: •Why do children from underprivileged backgrounds perform poorly? •What could be done to enhance their performance? •What skills should be taught to them to better their employment options? •How could this be achieved in a replicable community driven model?

•Project WHY set out to create a model whereby quality education support in underprivileged areas, could be spearheaded by parents even if they were illiterate. The idea was to empower the community to pool its resources and run a sound support programme for its children.

History

• Primary function: after school support center

• Est 1998, started as English speaking class in 2000 with 40 children, now serves 1000+ children

• Director : Anouradha Bakshi • attitude comes from the top and the top here is

service oriented.

• Serves south Delhi area urban slum residents

• Hires slum residents for teacher, transport, food, etc. • Keep the employment local

Organization Structure

• Name : Sri Ram Goburdhun Charitable Trust

• Primary contact : Anouradha Bakshi, Founder

• Other : • Rani : Project Coordinator, in-charge for Pwhy • Dharmender : Womens Center Director • Both are Pwhy Alum • Shamika, addl Project Coordinator (Anou’s daughter) • Other teaching staff with minimal hierarchy – all from slums • Non-teaching staff and vocation teachers

• Board includes 9 members other than Anou, many of

them prominent Delhi citizens

Location NEW DELHI

Activities

GIRINAGAR - GOVINDPURI - OKHLA

Early Education:

1 creche at Govindpuri

Primary outreach:

Okhla, Govindpuri, Giri Nagr

Special children:

1day care at Govindpuri

Junior Secondary

Okhla Classes VI to XII

Senior Secondary

Giri Nagar Classes IX to XII

Computer centres:

Giri Nagar, Okhla

Other activities

Cine Club and Library, Print shop

Profile of community served:

Migrant Labour from Bihar, UP, Nepal and other states

Parents are self employed, daily wage earners, street vendors, part time employees in factories, sweepers.

Average income: 3000 Rs

Average family members:6

MADANPUR KHADER - Women centre

Primary outreach

Classes I to V

Secondary Outreach

Classes VI to XI

Vocational activities

Stitching and Tailoring, Beauty classes

Computer Centre

Children: 1000+

Main centre: ~650

Women centre:~370

Women : 120

Staff:

Main centre: 29

Women centre: 15

Finances

• Shows only Education budget in remaining slides • Sri Ram Goburdhun Trust also provides other services

• Expenses under these heads: • Education (Project WHY) – classes, staff, computers, learning

aids, transport for kids/staff • Boarding school for 8 kids – Asha Seattle supports thru SAC • Medical expenses for slum kids, adults • Nutrition programme • Clothing support (mostly from Europe, now cash sent for local

purchase) • Bldg maintenance for owned buildings and other infrastructure

items purchase like cooler • Other expenses

• Rest of the heads expense limited to support or support raised on ad-hoc basis as needed

• For ex, if someone needs heart surgery, funds raised specifically for this from network and personal pleas

Finances : 2013-14

Column1 Early Edu - Govindpuri Printing shop Special Section

Primary - Govindpuri

Pri & Sec - Okhla

Giri Ngr - Primary,

Library & Cine Club

Giri Ngr - Sr Sec

Giri Ngr - Cyber Club -

2 loc now Focus on

Quality

W&C Center - Creche, Pri,

Residence Foster Care Totals Children 45, up 10 0 18 112 285 70 120 85 0 369 1 1105 teachers 3 2 3 3 5 2 1 2 1 16 1 39 salaries 16904 9500 27600 24000 55110 12830 10500 20010 4500 93070 12000 278324 rent 0 0 0 0 0 3000 3000 0 0 25000 0

transport/Electricity 9500 0 9500 5000 9300 0 2700 0 28500 0 fees

learning aids 4500 0 3200 0 8700 1500 3250 1200 0 16800 0 other

Other (occ therapist, lab ) 1500 7200 0 8300 1200 4500 3200 0 46600 0

food/ toiletries/ living exp

1/8 admin 17109.38 17109.375 17109.38 17109.38 17109.38 17109.38 17109.38 Total 48013.38 11000 64609.375 46109.38 98519.38 18530 38359.38 27110 21609.38 209970 29109.38 612939.6

USD / mo $10,,216 USD / yr $122,588

Exch Rate INR 58.85 EUR 1.37 CAD 0.91 Other finances USD Admin

$45907 Enfannes Indiennes EUR 2500/mo general, EUR500 for Utpal Salary (6 staff) 35075

min wage (Rs 7050/mo) impact

$32,135 36000 Euro/yr before Pwhy Germany (1400 EUR Pwhy and 700 SAC) all 30 staff expenses 24300 total staff 45

$0 misc donations - paypal stopped by FCRA regulations now transport 21500 current salary 250719.2

$6,000 Other Orgs, random misc donations thru other orgs communication 7500 new min salary 317250

$0 Asha Canada, INR 84000 for SAC electricity 27300 DELTA/mo 66530.8

$84,042 shortfall of 38,546 misc 21200 annual 798369.6

total 136875 USD yearly 13566.18 Ask from ASHA Seattle for Oct11-Sep12

$44,058 USD 2592801.9 INR Asha approved funding (Jul’13, INR 1230361): Asha approved funding (Jan’15):

$26124 USD 15,37,951 INR Approved May’14 $32,041 USD 19,22,439 INR

Shortfall: XX % w/ minwage short: YY % USD INR

Finances

• Other organizations support • Enfannes Indiennes, EUR 2500/mo

• Now add EUR 500 for Utpal for boarding expense • Was on and off during downturn, stabilized now

• Project WHY Germany, EUR 2100/mo down from EUR

3700/mo starting Aug’14 due to German tourism drop • EUR 700 for boarding school, EUR1400 general funds

• Omprakash Foundation

• Misc, random donations collected and forwarded

• Shortfall ~10-25% every year – significant time spent on fundraising to cover shortfall; risk network exhaustion and donor fatigue – this is not sustainable.

Asha, Seattle Involvement

Asha, Seattle Involvement

• Asha Seattle supports ~25% of Project WHY’s annual budget

• Asha support used for educational expenses including staff salaries, educational aids, transportation, etc

• % of total expenses covered by Asha has increased from 15% to 25% in last one year.

• With Asha Seattle since 2006

• Dallas and Vancouver did some grants in 2005, Vancouver supported since 2007 as well

• Key contacts : • Anouradha Bakshi, Founder • Rani, Project coordinator & Dharmendra, Womens

Center Director send monthly reports

Asha, Seattle Involvement Contd.

• One-time partial funding for Planet WHY (Rs 20 Lakhs) • social enterprise planning a commercial activity,

motel, to support Project WHY activities; this will also house residential foster care unit.

• Land appreciated from Rs. 80 lakhs purchase price to Rs 2.5 crores est value now.

• Project WHY SAC for 8 children to attend residential

school, in cooperation with Asha Canada. • Barely covers costs – shortfall covered by personal

pleas and fundraising • Asha Seattle contribution is sporadic and sparse

Asha, Seattle Budget

Item Amount Current Fiscal Year

(2014-2015) (Rs)

Amount Previous Fiscal Year

(2013-2014) (Rs)

Seattle – Project Why 19,22,439 15,37,951 (25% over 2013-14 budget)

Planet Why 0 0

Project WHY SAC ??? ???

Updates for 2014-2015

General Partner Updates

• English classes run by International volunteers. • Organised workshops on adolescent issues for children of

Okhla and Govindpuri • Gender issues is another area of focus

• 50 boys per class vs 110 girls per class is the reality • Boys from same family sent to private schools while

girls go to Govt schools • Girls get to be free at Pwhy while they are curtailed at

home even by younger boys – so, girls like it here • Now have some common classes with boys and girls,

going over gender equality and awareness classes

General Partner Updates

• Workshop of sexual awareness (for girls) • 2D animation workshop for children (Dipankar) • 3D animation classes for teachers so computer center

can teach this to kids • Continuing Workshop on mental health in collaboration

with RML Hospital (for community members) • Continued Dance Workshop for students of Okhla and

Khader • Continued Photography workshop for second year with

good success

General Partner Updates - Successes

• Project why children top their respective classes. • Some selected for the Medhavi exam that secures

scholarships for secondary school. • Have 3 scholarship holders.

• Boarding school kids doing good • Anita a project why student since class I passed her XII and is

now teaching secondary classes at pwhy while studying for her BA

• Vocational courses at Women’s centre big hit • some started their own beauty parlours, many work in

parlours and some work on call; • Many of our stitching students have got jobs in boutiques,

export houses, etc.; many have started their own tailoring units in their homes.

Okhla center - Successes

• 25 children who were not in school were admitted in age

appropriate classes.

• 8 students passed their Boards are now in college

• 1 student has opened his own dance academy in the slum and is

doing his 12 Board examination by correspondence.

• A drawing competition was organised.

• Two new teachers were appointed.

• The roof of the centre was repaired as it was leaking and was in a

poor state.

• Workshop on adolescent issues

Govindpuri center successes Primary

• We had 20 new admissions from class 1 to 8.

• 10 students were admitted in school

• 3 of our students participated in district level sports and won

medals

• Workshop on adolescent issues

Early Education

• 20 children graduated and have joined regular school.

• We have an affiliation with Anubhav Learning centre which is a

early education and day care centre and organise regular activities

with them. This is a good interaction opportunity between children

from privileged homes and under privileged children.

Special section

• A new admission of a young girl with schizophrenia

• Got three of our children disability certificates

• Appointed a special educator who also organises regular

workshops for the staff

Madanpur-Khader Women center

• Weekly hand wash programme to reinforce the importance of hand

washing for good health.

• Medical workshop on the abuse of antibiotics for the parents

• Viewing of Teacher day’s Speech by PM by all students

• Launching of Clean India Programme on October 2 by cleaning the

school and the lane that leads to it. On going

• Workshop on the unnecessary ritualism and the need to adapt

religion to modern life

Madanpur-Khader Child center Achievements

• Aman, a class X student completed a 3 month drawing course. He now

teaches art to the interested children every Saturday

• Geeta secured 84% in class X.

• Reena a young girl who had never gone to school was taught by us and has

now registered for class X through the Open School

• Asha Class X came first in mental math district competition

•Chandni passed science scholarship examination & got Rs15000 scholarship.

•Megha class VI came first in an essay competition organised by the

education department. Her photo appeared in the newspaper.

• Swhetha and Meera, completed our beauty course and have now opened

their own beauty parlour in the slum

The primary children ranks in school 2014 are-

6 children got 1st rank, 8 secured 2nd rank and 6 got 3rd ranks.

The secondary children ranks in school 2014 are-

2 children got 1st rank, 3 children got 2nd rank. 3 children got 3rd rank

General Partner Updates - Concerns

• Funding remains unstable • Asha Seattle, Enfances Indiennes, Project why Germany are the only

stable sources now • This secures about 75-85% of the needs for education programmes. • The balance comes from one time support, answers to SOS calls etc.

• Project Director aging and still primary fundraiser • Spending lot more time on raising funds • Sustainability plan not taken off – Planet WHY shelved • Succession planning in thinking stages • Needed to take time off in 2013 due to spouse’s health issues

• Force major risks as usual - project may get smaller with govt action, slums razed

• Womens center - on rent, nearby bldgs getting demolished for apts or guest houses, can be asked to vacate

• Mitigation / Action plan : move to Planet Why land and serve children in that area.

Site Visit Report

• Last site visit in Aug 2013, by Kannan. • Monthly reports from project

• Annual audited statement, annual report and annual

Budget uploaded to Asha project site yearly.

Audit Report

• Audited financial report for year ending Mar 2015 is expected around Jun 2015

• 2013-2014 Audit report uploaded to project site

Process Checks

Item Status

Approved Budget INR 19,22,439, Jan 2015

Approval Type Recurring project – annual budget approval.

Amount(s) disbursed last fiscal year INR 1537951.35 (May 2014)

Amount Utilized by the project last

fiscal year

INR 1537951.35

Last Site Visit Aug 2013

Current Primary Steward Amol Agarwal

Current Secondary Stewards Megha, Kannan C. Iyer

Status of the web page Up to Date

Status of the yahoo databases Up to Date

Primary Okhla, Khader and Govindpuri

Secondary Khader, Okhla

Computer Centres Giri Nagar, Okhla, Khader

Women programmes

Project Photographs

Saifin, the scholarship holder

Special section

Resources/Contact

• Website : http://projectwhy.org

• Blog : http://projectwhy.blogspot.in

• Book by Anou on Utpal : http://www.dearpopples.com

• Call Anou anytime at :

+91-9999079705

skype: projectwhy

To schedule visit to Project Why

for any Asha volunteer/donor/guest.

Questions?

FAQs

• Some FAQs at Asha, Seattle meetings. o How many rs are we spending per kid per year?

o Does the amount being spent on infrastructure items (building schools, repairing roofs, etc. ) look reasonable?

o Where exactly is the partner located? (especially for remote projects. Be ready to locate the project area on a map)

o What is the graduation rate of the school?

o What is the student to teacher ratio in class rooms?

o What is the girl to boy ratio in the school?

o What are the line items in the budget?

o Why is the partner asking for more funding for line item N? (You will be asked this if there are changes in the budget line items)

o Community opinion of the project. o What went well, what didn’t go as expected, what can be done

differently.