Project Sangamam Jambumadai village

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Project Sangamam- Jambumadai village

• A Collaborative rural empowerment program to
  bring global solutions to local problems

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Project Objectives

• What do we want to achieve
• To bring together various strategic and grass
  root organizations together to provide urban
  resources in rural areas.
• To create a sustainable model of rural
  development through a process of initiation from
  NGO funding and implementation and transferring
  it to a systematic process of local funding.
• To work with local government and gradually
  transfer NGO funding of projects to local
  businesses, organizations and local tax payers
  money and make the project self sustainable or
  with minimal non governmental funding.
• To study the best practices of the various
  organizations involved and create a model that
  can be replicated in other villages.

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Action Plan areas

• Factors
• Drought hit village with around 300-350 families.
  Main source of income is agriculture, but with
  repeated droughts and lack of water the village
  is facing severe problem.
• Action areas
• Education
• Health and Sanitation
• Women and Micro credit
• Agriculture and Water harvesting
• E-learning and management
• Advocacy and RTI

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People and Partners

• Asha for education- Rajaraman Krishnan (chennai)
  and Vijay Sappani (Canada)
• IIT Madras- Prof.Kamakoti
• Association for India development (AID)-
  Dr.Balaji Sampath
• Tamilnadu Science forum (TNSF)- Prof. Ramanujam
• MS Swaminathan Foundation ISRO- Senthil Kumar
• Rotary club Toronto-Jeff Dobson
• Rotary club Rockfort Trichy
• National College, Trichy- Anantha Narayanan
• REC Trichy- Prof.Chidambaram.
• Anna University centre for women empowerment
• Trichy District Collector-Nandha Kishore

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Project goals

• The project would impact about 60 children at
  this
• primary school.The boy girl ratio is
  approximately 11.
• 1. An acceptable educational environment that is
  conducive to and promotes learning.
• 2. A motivated and trained group of teachers that
  cater to these children.
• 3. Children who perform at or above the level
  expected for their age.
• 4. Use of technology,computers, library and other
  resources to further enhance the learning
  experience.

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Project Details

• Completed so far
• A computer lab with four computers have been set
  up for e-learning. Learning material provided by
  many organizations.
• A library set up with the help of AID/TNSF
• In touch with District collector to facilitate
  public transportation.
• Field visit by MS Swamination foundation for
  e-learning network.
• Teacher identified and hired for Asha Sangamam
  project.
• Networked with local business groups to fund part
  of the program and continue to engage them for
  sustainable development and project transfer.

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Funding requirement

• Total Funding required for Asha Component-
• -Rs.3,63,06.00
• Total Funding received so far-
• -Rs.90,000.00
• Funding required for-
• -hiring a full time teracher
• -Computer lab
• Education resource material
• Uniform, sports items
• Furniture
• Basic school functioning.
• Complete project details can be found at
• http//www.ashanet.org/projects/project-view.php?p
  684

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Contact details

• Project details
• Vijay Sappani
• Asha for education, Canada
• Vijaysappani_at_gmail.com
• Cell 416-716-1522
• Asha Sangamam details
• Rajaraman Krishnan
• Asha for education, Chennai
• rajaram_at_solnettechnologies.com
• Monitoring and implementing details
• Prof.Anantha Narayanan
• National College, Trichy (Asha volunteer)
• kadambari97_at_gmail.com