Tag: School (Building Function)
Impact: Procuring the Right to Food
Community Correspondent Arti Bai Valmiki’s report got the administration to improve the quality of Midday Meals for 237 students in the primary school of Batiagarh District of Madhya Pradesh. “We don’t get rotis to eat at home, so we come to school in hope of food,” a student of the...
School Shut for a Year; Parents Struggle to Pay Tutor
9th July 2015 | Atodar Village, Bahraich District, Uttar Pradesh | Ghanshyam For the past one year the Junior High School in Atodar village has remained shut after its only teacher was transferred to another school. The children of the village depend on a tutor who comes from a neighbouring...
Kashimiri Girls Face All Odds for an Education
30th June 2015 | Karewa Manloo Village, Shopian District, Jammu and Kashmir | Musheer Ul Haq Students at the Government Girls’ Upgraded School in Shopian face bizarre circumstances in trying to get an education. Some are cramped into a kitchen converted to a classroom, others wait their turn for classrooms...
Goats come to School, Children stay home
Dandibedo Pahad Village, Boriyo Block, Jharkhand | Jyoti Malto In this school building the laughter and shouts of children has been replaced by the bleating of goats. Jyoti Malto reports that a school building was constructed but has remained shut for the past 2-3 years. No teacher, no classes, just...
Few teachers and no toilets in middle school
“We want to be taught properly in our class and we want there to be discipline in our school,” says Meena, a student of the only middle school in all of Gaunaha Block, Bihar. VV-PACS Community Correspondent Tanju Devi reports on the woeful infrastructure of this school that serves the...
No water in school since 2008
Our Community Correspondent, Sanjay Kumar, reports from the pre-middle school of Hardi Dali Village in Mahrajganj district of Uttar Pradesh, which has 213 students but no hand-pump to supply water to students and staff. CALL TO ACTION: You can call the District Collector of Maharajganj district, on 05522222206, and demand...
A school with a difference
“Before coming to this camp, I used to graze goats,” says Durga Kumari, a student at Seva Mandir, an NGO that works as an alternative for kids who can’t go to a school. Community Correspondent Shambhulal reports on the ineffectual government schools in rural Rajasthan and how Seva Manadir’s model...
Ground Report: Flimsy conditions of a government school in Uttar Pradesh
The primary school in Puraina village, which houses 134 students, is a ramshackle block with no boundary wall. The toilet — built a long time ago — is no longer in a working condition either. Students wander about the campus to relieve themselves, VV-PACS Community Correspondent Brahmajith reports from Siddharth...