Student Sponsorship Programme
 

Given their subsistence existence, most families belonging to the depressed sections cannot afford to get their children educated in quality schools. If one were to juxtapose this with the fact that the quality of Government schools in remote pockets is abysmal, one would make out the reason for the alarming drop-out rates. To stem this problem as far as possible within its jurisdiction, on a small scale SDD has been sponsoring a handful of students, taking care of their expenses for pursuing their education in quality schools.


   
  Report on Children Sponsorship Program – 2010
   
  Based on our survey and direct contact and requisition from parents of the poor children, a number of 50 applications have been received and 35 children were selected under the sponsorship programme. The location of the target children beneficiary is in and around of SDD office and 2 primary and 2 high schools.

All the children are from very poor family and they are not able to bear the cost for their school educational expenses. Most of the parents were engaged in the construction works and some of them are engaged in daily wages in the fields as well as in the market place.

All applications has been scrutinized care fully with some criteria like uncared, landless, socially and economically backwardness. Recommendation and opinion about each children also been received from the local people and concerned school head masters for educational assistance.

The age group of the children is from 5 to 15 and the standard of the education is 1st – 10th. On 16th June 2010 Evening, Note books, School Bag, Uniforms, Writing materials like pen, pencil, geometric boxes, etc., distributed to the children at the SDD office in the presence of Mr. Ethiroli Manian, M. L. A., Parents and teachers from respective schools were invited to inform the sponsorship program purposes and the reasons.
   
 
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  Mr. Ethiroli Manian, M L A., Distributed Bags & Note Books to the children. Mr. M. Manavalan, President SDD and Mr. Ramu a wellwisher also seen in the picture.
   
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  Children benefited under “Sponsorship Programme”