New school
In addition to our existing projects, our attention has gradually been taken up more and more by the topic of school-education for children from an economically poor background.
In Public Schools, the class rooms are overcrowded with sometimes up to 80 (or even 90!!) children sitting in one single class room! Unfinished lessons have to be completed at home which leads to waste of time and weariness. For these (and other) reasons, an ashram school would be ideal.
We have made it our goal to set up a school for underprivileged children, to give them education with our usual care & love & common sense. By infusing fresh life into the school life of the underprivileged sections of society, we want our school to become a role model for other school projects. The education should be present-day project-work oriented, teaching practical skills as well as knowledge and how to use it in one’s everyday life. The project would incorporate some of the guidelines practised in the Educare system developed in Sri Sathya Sai Babas schools in Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh.
The foundation stone for the school building was laid on the 23rd of November 2008. It was a symbolic act on an auspicious day. To start constructing the school-building (which is planned with 5000 sq. ft. plinth area), we are looking for more support and we sincerely hope that the circle of donors for this project will expand so that it may live and grow.
Estimated costs for setting up a school amounts to Rs. 60,00,000/- (ca. Euro 100,000/-); this includes the construction of a school building, furnishing the class rooms with appropriate teaching equipment (benches and chairs, blackboards, library, computer lab etc.), and running costs for the first school year.
