SHED Society for Health Education Development Update for

SHED Society for Health & Education Development Update for ASHA June 2017 Amit Rajkhowa Nabanita Majumdar 1

SHED – Brief Background Sonapur Guwahati • Founded : 2007 • Location : Sonapur, Assam • Non-Profit Registered under Society Registration Act of 1960 with FCRA Clearance. • Founder : Lanu Aimol (Graduate Deg from Osmania Unv on Metal Retardation) Focus : • Underprivileged children and children with disabilities in the nearby area have no access to a decent education. • Children with disabilities do not integrated into mainstream society SHED : - Runs a integrated school with boarding facility for the underprivileged children and children with disabilities (Mental Retardation, Autism and Hearing Impaired) - Provides proper education and training to these children to increase self confidence, self worth and help become better and productive citizens. - Facility supports hostellers, full time day scholars and evening day scholars. Children with disabilities interact with evening day scholars that help in integration of these children. 2

SHED History • Founded in 2007 by Lanu Aimol (Lanu Aimol has Graduate degree in Metal Retardation from National Institute for Mentally Handicapped, Osmania University). • • 2008 – 2012 : • 2013 : • • • Started as day school for differently-abled and underprivileged children in Bhetapara, a suburb of Guwahati. School was at rented facility. By 2012 had 23 students. Acquired own land in Sonapur (~50 km from Guwahati), Fund partially contributed by AFNA (Assam Foundation of North America), Relocated school and started residential facilities for students. Build temporary school structure and limited hostel facility from one time donations from organizations and individuals in India and abroad. Started with new students – hostellers, day scholars (mostly disabled) and evening students 2014 -2015: • • • ASHA involvement from Nov 2014 Building Pukka classrooms to replace thatched classrooms – Completed June 2015 Building new kitchen cum dining hall – Completed June 2015 Conversion of old multi-purpose + kitchen/dining hall to new hostel facility – Completed June 2015 Increased Student count to 46 students from 23 students (46 = 13 hostellers + 33 day scholars) 2016 -2017: • • Increased Student count : 66 (23 hosteller, 42 day scholars) Vocational training setup at school : 10 sewing machine – 20 trainees currently enrolled- 5 from hosteller Twice monthly community awareness program on disability at SHED. Celebration for international disability day (Dec 3 rd) - drawing competition, dance etc. 3

SHED – ASHA Seattle Engagement • SHED working with Asha Seattle since 2014. • Funded one time in Dec 2014 : • • Construction of 5 pukka classrooms June 2015 Conversion of multi-purpose room to hostel Construction of kitchen cum dining hall ASHA Funding Teachers Salary (recurring) • § § For Dec ’ 14 - Mar ’ 15 – Rs 2, 24, 000 For April ’ 15 – Mar ‘ 16 – Rs 6, 72, 000 For April ‘ 16 – Mar ‘ 17 – Rs 7, 39, 000 • SHED was able to increase student count (both hostellers/day scholars/evening students) with updated facilities and teachers salaries. • Most recent Site Visit : • Feb 3 rd 2017 (by Amit Rajkhowa)

School and Hostel Facility • Current Facilities : • School Facilities – 5 pukka classrooms • Hostel Facilities : • • • 2 Boys dormitory (with 2 attached bathroom + toilet) • 1 Girls dormitory (with 2 attached bathroom + toilet) Kitchen + Dining Hall Multi-purpose room + vocational training/sewing room. Office room with attached bathroom Additional boy and girls toilets for day school 5

Update on SHED Students as of November 2014 Students as of March 2015 Students as of April 2016 Students as of Jan 2017 Students additions for 2017 (in process of admission) 23 Students Total 46 Students Total 64 Students Total 66 Students Total = 80 Students Total = Hostellers : 13 (all disabled) Hostellers : 22 (12 MR/Autism + 10 Hearing Impaired) Hostellers : 23 (12 MR/Autism + 10 Hearing Impaired) Hostellers : 31 (20 MR/Autism + 10 Hearing Impaired) Day Scholars Full Time : 19 (12 MR/Autism + 7 Hearing impaired) Day Scholars Full Time : 20 (12 MR/Autism + 7 Hearing impaired) Day Scholars Full Time : 26 (17 MR/Autism + 9 Hearing/Vision impaired) Day Scholar Evening 36 pm : 23 (all attend Govt School) Day Scholars : 10 (all nondisabled) Day Scholars : 33 (10 disabled and 23 nondisabled) 6

Staff – as of April 2017 • Staff funded by ASHA (10) • • • 2 Special Ed for MR (Mental Retardation) 2 Special Ed & Speech Therapist for Hearing Impaired 2 Community teachers 3 Care givers 2 Care givers & cooks • Staff funded from other sources • 2 Teachers for non-disabled students / evening students • 3 Staff members : Admin/Project officer, Security guard x 2 • Full time volunteer : Hiranya Saikia who lives near the campus, as secretary and parent of Autistic child • Volunteer: Ng. Wanoichoi, B. Sc Nursing. 7

Site Visit Report – 1/2 • • Visited SHED on Sunday Feb 5 th, 2017. Visit coincided with bi-monthly community awareness program where parents of students, people from nearby villages visit SHED. • • Goal of this program is to educate the nearby villagers about mental disabilities, reduce the fear and increase tolerance. Talked to room full of people. Met with couple of parents – their feedback was that their child liked the school, the interactions with the similar students without feeling out of place. They prefer to come to school vs staying at home, hence was visiting even on Sunday. Met with each staff separately – common theme was they liked the students, some requested us to support the salary request, 2 of the care givers are single mothers with child, few requested to fix the fencing and gate. Toured the facility – classrooms, dining area + kitchen, multi-purpose room + training/sewing area, boys hostel rooms, girls hostel room and surveyed the compound.

Site Visit Report – 2/2 Met with few students : • Arati Ekka – Arati is 14 yrs old with Cerebral Palsy. Has been with SHED for sometime. She is intelligent and can do limited reading writing. She is independent in “self-help skills” • Anuj Kumar Bora - joined Parijat Academy (school for low income families), he could not cope up there, came to SHED and now independent in “self-help skills” • Sunny Goswami - Sunny 17 yrs with sever autistic. Sunny was rejected from other schools in Guwahati in 2011. He is now self sufficient and independent in “self-help skills”. Success story: • Olympia Talukdar - Olympia is 11 year, mildly intellectual disable, she came to SHED in 2014, could not write at all, was in hostel. After close attention from Special Ed teacher Madhumita Saikia, she progressed to go to regular school.

Asha projects – Teachers Monthly Salaries Proposal 2017 -2018 Sr. No Name 1 Mrs. Madhumita Baruah, 2 Sonia Cho 3 Thangkim Serto Designation Special Education (MR) Special Education / Speech Therapis) 2016 -2017 Monthly Salary (Rupees) 7, 150 Proposal 2017 -2018 Monthly Salary (Rupees) 10000. 00 7, 150 4 Mr. N. Santiniketan Singh, Special Education Special Ed + Speech Therapist (HI) BEd 5 Ms. Dipannita Medhi, Community Worker 4, 950 6 Ms. Rita Deka Community Worker 4, 950 7 Kishan Maan Care Giver 5, 500 7000. 00 8 Robert Care Giver 4, 400 7000. 00 Care Giver / Cook 4, 400 7000. 00 9 Jafrine Marak, Mrs. Pratima Bora 10 (widowed + 1 child) Ms. Rinku Laskar 11 (single mother + 1 child) 7, 150 10000. 00 5940. 00 TOTAL MONTHLY (Rupees) 61, 600 79880. 00 TOTAL FOR 1 YEAR (Rupees) 7, 39, 200 9, 58, 560. 00 Total for 1 year ($) @ Rs 65=$1 $14, 747 * Does not include salaries for 2 teachers for non-disabled evening day scholars and admin staff Comments on Salary Increase We request to increase the staff salary with following points : 1. Diploma holder Special Educators teachers working in NGOs in Guwahati are getting 10000 -15000 PM. 2. If working under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan(RTE), salaries started from 23, 000 -40000 PM. 3. Care givers work with the children 24 hrs a day, it is challenging especially few are single mothers with child. SHED salary are less so experienced staff leave SHED for good salary. 10

SHED – Other sources of funding • Other sources of Funding for 2017 -2018 (Total : Rs 7, 15, 000) • Foreign (Rs 2, 65, 000) 1. Wahid Saleh-The Netherlands – Rs 75, 000 2. Assam Foundation of North America – Rs 1, 90, 000 • Local (Rs 4, 50, 000) 1. Parents support/contribution – Rs 3, 000 2. Membership contribution – SHED Board Executive member donation – Rs 1, 000 3. Time to time individuals/well wishers donation – Rs 50, 000 ASHA funding for salaries + ~Rs 7. 15 lac will enable day to day operations at SHED for 2017 -2018 • Other one time Govt programs (not needed for day to day operations of SHED) • • 2016 -17 - National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Multiple Disability, Chennai (Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Govt of India) - Awareness and training program for states of Manipur and Meghalaya – ~Rs 38 lac – 15 programs held in both states. 2015 -16 - Indian Institute for Entrepreneurship, Guwahati (ESDP - Entrepreneurs Skill Dev program) – ~Rs 6 lac - for special ed program.

SHED – Audited Reports for 2015 -16* PAYMENTS RECEIPTS Foreign Local Contribution Amount (Rs) Salary & Wages Travelling Expenses To Opening Balance Cash in Hand 14, 492. 00 Cassh at Bank 2, 237. 00 21, 345. 00 35, 837. 00 7, 415. 23 9, 652. 23 45, 489. 23 Schoo l Fees 2, 67, 500. 00 267, 500. 00 Donations & Contribution 11, 17, 511. 24 7, 11, 915. 00 Interest Received 12, 048. 00 420. 21 12, 468. 21 Recovery of Advance TOTAL 29, 800. 00 11, 46, 288. 24 29, 800. 00 10, 38, 395. 64 6, 72, 000. 00 250. 00 9500. 00 Medical Expenses 4, 494. 00 4494. 00 Printing & Stationery 10, 1900. 0 10190. 00 2, 45, 748. 00 60, 810. 00 60810. 00 1, 175, 202. 00 ESDP Programme Training Aids & Audio visual 5, 10, 740. 00 Training Fee 1, 16, 825. 00 21, 84, 683. 80 Disability Awareness Programme 37, 800. 00 Drug De-Addiction Programme 25, 500. 00 627, 565. 00 Administrative Expenses Salary & wages (temporary staff) 88, 000. 00 Electricity &. Water 10, 956. 00 Newspaper & Periodicals 2, 376. 00 Repairs & Maintenance 2, 500. 00 Travelling Expenses 2, 000. 00 Computer Maintenance 1, 050. 00 Audit Fee Donations & Contributions 1. 72, 210. 00 18, 29, 426. 24 on Saving's Account 76, 040. 00 9, 500. 00 Sewing Machines 96, 170. 00 6, 72, 000. 00 Student uniform Building Construction Amount (Rs) By Education & Maintenance Of Disabled Child ren Board ing Expenses Foreign Local Contribution Foreign ASHA for Education (teachers salary) 6, 72, 000 Sankalpa/Ohio State (sewing machines) 64, 000 15, 600. 00 Bank Charges 321. 00 Miscellaneous E penses 12, 223. 00 Vehicle Running &. Maintenance 2, 052. 00 Recovery of Advance AFNA (Assam Foundation of North America) 3, 07, 211 Wahed Saleh (UK Individual Contributor) 74, 300 11, 17, 511 * Full Audit report for 2016 -17 will be ready by end June 2017 137, 110. 00 1, 000. 00 Closing Balance Cash in Hand 56, 014. 00 8, 124. 00 64, 138. 00 Cash in Bank 15, 264. 24 2, 104. 00 17, 368. 24 11, 46, 288. 40 10, 38, 3956. 00 81, 506. 24 21, 84, 683. 80

One time funding request for brick boundary wall and gate • Current makeshift fence and gate is thatched and insecure • It is a security issue for the disabled kids in the school • Kids require constant monitoring due to the lack of a secure boundary in a rural area bordered by a highway, a pond and hills. • Site visits have confirmed the need for the wall. • Total Funding request = Rs 3, 21, 100 (wall) + Rs 84, 000 (gate) = Rs 4, 05, 100

Construction of brick boundary wall • Size: L – shaped brick boundary wall on 3 sides around 45 m in length and 112 mm thick • Estimate Done by APWD: Rs 3, 21, 100 - $5, 017

Construction of Iron Gate • Estimate Done by APWD: Rs 84, 000. 00 = $1303

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