CLT Project Proposal for Asha AZ

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CLT Project Proposal for Asha AZ

• Nirmal Govind
• June 5, 2005
• Asha AZ Projects Meeting

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CLT Overview

• CLT Childrens Lovecastles Trust
• Founded by Bhagya Rangachar in 1997.
• Based out of Jakkur village in Karnataka.
• Objective Prevent school dropouts in rural
  sector.
• The Need
• More than 50 of the children drop out before
  they reach the 6th grade.
• Less than 8 finish 12 years of schooling.
• Only 3 make it to the end in rural areas.

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CLTs Approach

• Create an informal layer over formal layer of
  government schools.
• Approach
• Adopt a school.
• Build momentum for education in the community.
• Provide kids with additional learning resources
  (computers, mentors, etc.) add on to formal
  school education.
• Make learning fun!
• CLT model is scaleable, repeatable, renewable,
  and technology-powered.

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CLT Model in a Nutshell

• Address the major issues of the only available
  education system for the children in under-served
  communities.
• CLT in partnership with the Government schools
  with intervention as well as integration of CLT
  Learning model.
• Land from the Government Computers from the
  Corporates Learning Modules from CLT
• Technology is introduced for Technology-Aided
  Teaching / Learning.
• Empower teachers with skill-building tools.
• Strengthen schools with infrastructure support
  e.g. Library, Science lab, Digital library,
  computers and furniture etc.
• Give the ownership of the program to the school.

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Current Activities

• Intel Clubhouse ( 850 kids)
• Setup by donation (in kind) from Intel
  partnering with MIT Media Labs.
• One of only two Intel clubhouses in India.
• Variety of computers, educational softwares,
  multimedia softwares, etc.
• Teachers Resource Center ( 24 teachers)
• Computer lab, digital library, library, science
  lab, art/theater, technology-aided training
  program.
• Mid-day Meal Program ( 650 kids)
• Tsunami Project (Arakattuthurai village 2hrs from
  Nagapattina) funded by Intel Foundation.
• Other programs rain water harvesting, etc.

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Measurables

• Jakkur School, more than 75 years old, 850
  students drawn from 10 villages, 75 fail rate in
  the 10th grade examination. 
• CLT intervened in 2000
• 10th Grade Results
• 2004 44 passing
• 2005 64 passing with 13 students above 60, 6
  above 75, one with 92!
• Most of them continue on to college 5-6 kids
  sponsored by CLT scholarship program.
• About 55 girl student-dropouts from the
  surrounding villages contacted CLT recently to
  continue their education and finish 10th grade.

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Rural School Cluster Proposal Outline

• Adopt a cluster of 6 schools in a District
  (Hoskote Taluk).
• Rooms from the existing Government Schools.
• Computers from Corporates (Cisco).
• Non-digital and Digital Library.
• One Resource Person from CLT to train the
  Goverment School teachers (all 6 schools) once a
  week for Technology-Aided teaching.
• An After School program with Hands-On experience
  with the self-directed learning model for the
  kids.
• Give the ownership of the program to the teachers
  after 2 years.
• Give them CLT Network support and on-line support
  throughout the year and refreshers every year.
• Reach About 2500 children, 60-70  teachers.
• Obtained approval and support (classrooms,
  electricity) from Commissioner of Public
  Instruction.

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Proposal Budget
Item Breakup Cost
Resource Person Rs. 12,000 12 Rs. 144,000
Furniture Rs. 60,000 Rs. 60,000
Digital Library Rs. 180,000 Rs. 180,000
Books Rs. 120,000 Rs. 120,000
Total Rs. 504,000

• Suggestion
• 1st year Resource Person Furniture Rs.
  204,000 5000
• 2nd year Resource Person ½ Digital Library
  Rs. 234,000 5500

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Questions

• Percentage of funds from local community/corporate
  s
• Opportunity to tap further into local donors?

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References

• Letter from Public Instruction Commissioner
• Main project pages
• Childrens Lovecastle Trust http//www.cltindia.o
  rg
• Asha AZ CLT Project Page http//www.ashanet.org/p
  rojects/project-view.php?p486
• Newspaper articles
• Deccan Herald Jakkur Kids goto Boston
  http//cd.educationinindia.net/cd-cc2.htm
• Business Line http//www.blonnet.com/2003/06/06/s
  tories/2003060601431700.htm
• Intel Computer Clubhouse http//www.intel.com/com
  munity/india/cc2.htm
• AZ Intel http//www.ashanet.org/projects-new/docu
  ments/486/AZIndiaArticle_Jan2004.doc
• Newspaper article 1 http//www.ashanet.org/projec
  ts-new/documents/486/CLT_Article1.jpg
• Newspaper article 2 http//www.ashanet.org/projec
  ts-new/documents/486/CLT_Article2.jpg
• Powerpoint presentations
• Hands On Science http//www.ashanet.org/projects-
  new/documents/486/HandsonScience.ppt
• Media Labs Asia (IIT) http//www.mlasia.iitb.ac.i
  n/edu/
• Overview http//www.employees.org/mahaloki/CLT/C
  LT.ppt