Revathi Padmakumar
Work an hour 2005
Fundraising for Asha for Education
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This is a website to raise funds through Work an hour 2005 for Puvidham.
Puvidham is a small and beautiful village school in Dharmapuri district in Tamil Nadu. The school was started by Meenakshi and Umesh who moved to Dharmapuri to pursue their passion for organic farming. In April 1992, they bought a piece of land in Dharmapuri District, Tamilnadu.
They started the Puvidham school in 2000 with the belief that long lasting change could be brought about only by introducing the children to these methods and through their experience they would slowly convince their parents to see things more holistically. The school stared as a learning center with 7children. Innovative teaching methods are used to make the learning experience joyful. Most of them are children of marginal farmers and dalits.
Goal of WAH 2005 Proposal Due to lack of rain and consequent lack of work in the village, people are forced to look for work at the quarries and construction sites in the cities. Children have to go along with their parents thus discontinuing their education. In order to help these children not lose out on education, Puvidham has been housing around 8 children on its premises. Here they get their healthy meals, attend school, and are taken care of well. The coming year Puvidham expects to have more new admissions and more resident students. This had brought about the need for a hostel for the children. There was also a parallel plan to build an activity centre for the older kids. Puvidham now has 6 girl children who are ready to graduate from the school (equivalent to 8th grade). They have planned for vocational education for these children so that they can use their education to support themselves. The activity centre will provide sewing, weaving & farming activity to start with, to engage these kids. The plans to also install food processing machinery like paddy dehusking machine, solar dryer for the children to process the food that is grown in the land. They can also offer this facility on a commercial basis to local villages if they were to adopt organic faming methods. Work An Hour 2005 will help support the construction, furniture and fixtures for the hostel building and an activity centre.
This is a website to raise funds through Work an hour 2005 for Puvidham.
Puvidham is a small and beautiful village school in Dharmapuri district in Tamil Nadu. The school was started by Meenakshi and Umesh who moved to Dharmapuri to pursue their passion for organic farming. In April 1992, they bought a piece of land in Dharmapuri District, Tamilnadu.
They started the Puvidham school in 2000 with the belief that long lasting change could be brought about only by introducing the children to these methods and through their experience they would slowly convince their parents to see things more holistically. The school stared as a learning center with 7children. Innovative teaching methods are used to make the learning experience joyful. Most of them are children of marginal farmers and dalits.
Goal of WAH 2005 Proposal Due to lack of rain and consequent lack of work in the village, people are forced to look for work at the quarries and construction sites in the cities. Children have to go along with their parents thus discontinuing their education. In order to help these children not lose out on education, Puvidham has been housing around 8 children on its premises. Here they get their healthy meals, attend school, and are taken care of well. The coming year Puvidham expects to have more new admissions and more resident students. This had brought about the need for a hostel for the children. There was also a parallel plan to build an activity centre for the older kids. Puvidham now has 6 girl children who are ready to graduate from the school (equivalent to 8th grade). They have planned for vocational education for these children so that they can use their education to support themselves. The activity centre will provide sewing, weaving & farming activity to start with, to engage these kids. The plans to also install food processing machinery like paddy dehusking machine, solar dryer for the children to process the food that is grown in the land. They can also offer this facility on a commercial basis to local villages if they were to adopt organic faming methods. Work An Hour 2005 will help support the construction, furniture and fixtures for the hostel building and an activity centre.