Ganesh Sanskriti School Foundation
Bringing Education to the Children of Paota
About Our Foundation
Our team truly feels that education is a necessity and should be prioritized for all children. The Ganesh Sanskriti School is a nonprofit institution located ninety-three kilometers from Jaipur, India. The school provides an education for village children from Kindergarten to tenth grade. During Covid, the school had to shut down due to a lack of materials for virtual education. Our first goal is to reopen the building this march. We are hopeful that students will attend as soon as it is opened, and we must make up for the schooling these children have missed during this pandemic. We need funding to pay our hardworking teachers and to acquire textbooks for children to get a full learning experience. In addition, we need money to buy older laptops as well as PCs to expose the children to learning websites such as Khan Academy and other resources to further their educational scope.
An issue we face is that many parents are not able to pay for their children's schooling. Often they do not see the value of educating their children, especially their daughters. However, education helps an individual meet basic job requirements and increases an individual's likelihood of securing a stable job.
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Purpose
What We Do
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We believe that education is a critical requisite for socio-economic change. By reviving the school we hope to restart the paused education for hundreds of rural children and help stop them from ending into the endemic poverty cycles. We want to create job opportunities for rural village teachers to continue in their village while they support the village children to get a formal education. We also work towards raising awareness in appropriate forums about various issues affecting the people of India. This awareness-raising is accomplished by organizing discussion series, invited talks and study groups. We also act as an enabler of various networks to connect grassroots workers and volunteers with non-governmental organizations.
Our core values that we push on to our students:
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Self-sustenance.
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The strive for academic excellence
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Spirit of Volunteerism
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Minimum overhead on donations
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Non-Hierarchical
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Non-Discriminatory
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Collective Decision Making
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Decentralized Accountability
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Mutual Respect
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Financial Responsibility
This is a Non-sectarian, secular, non-political, and
non-religious institution.
Goals
Our students come from nearby villages and are children of farmers and blacksmiths. Education for the children is not important for the parents; they feel like the children are only extra hands on the farm and will not amount to anything more. The Ganesh Sanskriti school has and will provide an audio visual learning experience facilitated by motivated teachers. We want to enhance education instead of mugging answers. Quality education is crucial so these children have a strong foundation before entering the job market. They can become anything they want. We want all of our graduates to receive their own wages and attain high paying jobs. This school provides education until 10th standard and then we graduate out students into ITI where they will learn vocational skills involved with fitted machines, stitching computer data entry, nursing, engineering, and whatever else the students choose to pursue. What we did in the past and what we will do in the future is children who receive marks above 90% will be sponsored by the school in terms of for paying for future education (college, ITI, medical school, etc..) This will encourage our students to work hard in their academics but also to explore more advanced forms of education after they graduate.
Goals:
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Reopen school by March 22, 2022. In order to reach this goal we need funding. WE raise money through this website, through donations from friends, via 'word of mouth' publicity, through fund-raising events, and our newly created go fund me page.
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By Fall of 2022 we would like to get back to five hundred students 50% female which were the numbers we had pre pandemic.
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By 2025 we plan to have already sent a good amount of our graduates to ITI and we would like to network with those schools to increase the likelihood of our future students going to them. This is modeled by looking at college preparatory schools, it is important for the schools themselves to network that way the college or ITI will be familiar with the course system and how the school operates. It may also familiarize the admission officer with the applicant.
More detailed information: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m84M18SMGACtsDN_NFCTN7m5qB_vbFqGw0WOD0_lEWI/edit
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About Us
Anuj Lall
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Anuj Lall noticed some children in the villages of Jaipur were not getting an education. Seeing this, he knew some action had to be taken to secure a good education for these children. Mr. Lall then bought a piece of land twenty miles from Jaipur and opened up what we know as The Ganesh Sanskriti School. He has successfully educated about 500 kids in math, science, history, and English. He continues to strive every day to ensure proper education and life for all these kids. Anuj is a business leader at Proctor and Gamble India. With 30+ years of experience at P&G in multiple country locations (Indonesia, Singapore, India, Japan, China, ANZ, Vietnam). He has worked on creating superior shareholder value in Supply chain innovation and manufacturing. He is currently working in practices in Supply chain management with AI, machine learning and analytics. He personally believes that there is good in everybody. He, therefore, dares himself to become an engine for the "good." To bring positive energy, enthusiasm, and smiles in whatever he does.
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Rishi Behari
Rishi Behari is currently a junior at Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland. He was inspired to become a leader in this organization because he wanted to help the less fortunate on an international level. His family has instilled humanitarian qualities in Rishi ever since he was a child. Rishi chose to help village children receive an education because he knows that education is critical in helping these kids attain a bright future.
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Niharika Chandra
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Niharika Chandra, currently a freshman in high school is 15 years old. She got the inspiration to do this when she went to India a year ago and saw all the poverty scattered around the area. After seeing this she knew she wanted to help the best she can and being able to provide for this school has given her a feeling of satisfaction.
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Neel Behari
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Neel Behari, a freshman in high school is currently 14 years old.