Prasanna Jyothi

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Prasanna Jyothi

• An organization that takes care of orphan or
  disadvantaged girls in Bangalore.
• All living expenses of the girls are taken care
  of.
• Apart from education the girls learn a variety of
  vocational skills as arts including paintings,
  wall decorations, garlands of artificial flowers,
  etc.
• The girls are not only self-reliant, they are
  taught Karate for self-defense.
• The age group is 3-18

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Brief History

• Prasanna Jyothi Trust had submitted a proposal
  for a project to support destitue/orphaned girls
  in Bangalore in Spring, 1994 at Asha Berkeley
• Support from Berkeley between 1994-96 two
  pictures created by PJ kids was on calendar.
• Break in funding between 96-2000
• Shanmuga visited PJ and new proposal was
  submitted.
• Seattle supported between 2001-03
• Asha Austin was born as a satellite in 2002 and
  this project was taken over from seattle and
  funded for the first time in 2003.

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Financials from 03-04
INCOME
Foreign
Domestic
ASHA 166000 Motor Industries. Co.,
Ltd., 25000 Sri Venkateswara Temple 41000 The
Association of Indians in America 23000 Mr.
Wolfgang Rant 21000 Others 22000 Sub Total
(1) 298000

• Annadhana
• 50000
• Child Sponsorship
• 108000
• Jnandhana
• 42000
• Other Receipts
• 16000
• Interest
• 85000
• Sub Total (2)
• 301000
• Total (1) (2)
• 599000
• Gap met by Prasanna Trust
• 25000
• Grand Total
• 624000

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Financials from 03-04
EXPENDITURE
Education 144000 Food 129000 Salary 88000 Repairs
and Maintenance 51000 Transport 107000 Electricity
41000 Health Care 42000 Postage /
Telephone 8000 Stationary 12000 Property
Tax 2000 Grand Total 624000
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Financials for 04-05
INCOME
Foreign
Domestic
Mrs. Helga Schaper 167000 ASHA 158000 Motor
Industries. Co., Ltd., 25000 Sri Venkateswara
Temple 10000 Others 30000 Sub Total (1) 390000

• Annadhana
  50000
• Child Sponsorship
• 100000
• Jnandhana
• 40000
• Other Receipts
• 20000
• Interest
• 65000
• Sub Total (2)
• 275000
• Total (1) (2)
• 665000
• Gap met by Prasanna Trust
• 50000
• Grand Total
• 715000

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Financials for 04-05
EXPENDITURE
Education 170000 Food 150000 Salary 98000 Repairs
and Maintenance 50000 Transport 120000 Electricity
50000 Health Care 50000 Postage /
Telephone 10000 Stationary 15000 Property
Tax 2000 Grand Total 715000
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Social Context

• Urban Setting
• Parents from low income groups daily labourers,
  vendors .
• Parents are divorcees or widowed. There are
  orphans too.
• Kids leaving PJ
• Will to succeed and be independent.

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Achievements

• The alumni are testimony to PJ's role.
• This year Sharada graduated with 71 in her final
  year computer science diploma. She left PJ to be
  on her own. She wanted to take care of her 70
  year old grandmother who was living on her own.
• Vidhya rani finished her training as a nursery
  school teacher. She got a job and also joined the
  Davar's college specialising in Secretarial
  practice.
• Every Kid in Prasanna jyothi was promoted to the
  next grade/class. Many of them won awards/prizes
  in competitions and sports in school.
• All kids put up a splendid dance-drama
  performance.

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Challenges

• Two girls dropped out of school.
• Constant 'pull outs' from PJ.
• Assistance in tuition and after-school coaching.

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Updates

• Check project page for specific info on
  marks/grade etc.
• A few kids are brilliant in studies and we need
  to determine scholarship opportunities for them.
• The kids had been on a trip to Coorg.
• They had performed a dance drama for a function
  at PJ.

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Site Visit

• Rajiv Muralidhar from Asha bangalore visited the
  project for us. (June 25-26)
• Positive feedback
• Healthy and hygenic
• Very friendly kids
• Proficient in more than 2 languages
• Rajiv and his sister plan on visiting PJ
  regularly to help with tuition. He also offered
  to 'SAC' )
• For more details on report, check out project
  page.

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Funding scene

• Funds till Sep 05 sent.
• 4 kids left. 5 kids joined. One donor dropped out
  b'cos the child she sponsored graduated.
• If the existing donors agree to continue, we will
  have to find 2 more donors (We have one committed
  donor already)
• The current strength is 18 children.
• Prepare ourselves to send 2160 by Aug/Sep for
  Oct'05-April'06.
• 1080 already submitted by a few donors for next
  phase.