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AshaRatna: Continued Education through E- Learning Project Supported by EDUCARE FOUNDATION, USA

Introduction Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust strongly believes that education of a child must not stop under any circumstances. Therefore, RNCT has assured resources to ensure education inspite of the COVID pandemic and the lockdown. Under AshaRatna Project, RNCT introduced the E-learning project for the underprivileged.

Project Objective

To make available better teaching facilities for underprivileged children

Target beneficiaries

100 underprivileged girl children from Mumbai. Refer Annexure1 (Attached) to get the names of the children

Project details

This school was selected by RNCT based on the work being undertaken by school in the field of girl child education. Meetings were held with the Trustee, and the School Principal to take this project forward.

RNCT based on the work being undertaken by school in the field of girl child education. Meetings were held with the Trustee, and the School Principal to take this project forward.

About SPRJK (Shri Pandit Ratnachandraji Jain Kanyashala Trust) School

The School provides free/subsidised education from Play-school to Post-graduate college to more than 7000 underprivileged girls. To motivate the parents to send their girls to school, the school provides free education, free books, free uniform, free shoes, free school bag, free computer training, free sports coaching and free bus service. The teachers make regular visits to the houses, if a girl child does not attend school. Individual attention is paid to each girl child.

The school is based in Ghatkopar, Mumbai. The girls are usually from the nearby slum areas. The children are usually migrant communities, daily wage earners. Most of the parents do not understand the importance of educating the girl child. Poverty, illiteracy and superstition especially related to girls is rampant. The parents do not understand the importance of education, especially the girls because they would one day be married off. Hence, the importance of free education for girl children in a nearby area is of prime importance in this area.

Distribution of tabs

Distribution of tabs was undertaken in a phased manner by the school authorities due to the COVID scare, and keeping in line with the government guidelines. Parents/ students were called in batches and were given the tablets for usage.

Below are a few images of the distribution

The school also provided with an acknowledgement letter of the support given:

Project Initiation

Transfer of Tabs from our office to the SPRJK School

The product provided

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A project by Rotary International, Rotary Club of Sunyani Central, Microfinance Empowerment Foundation and Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust Project Highlights:

1. 400 cartons of books, 14 tonnes of weight, 19000+ books, 20 ft container of books shipped to Ghana free of cost

2. Initiation of strong partnerships between Rotary International and Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust

3. An attempt to bring the world closer, through export of charity

4. Forging meaningful international partnerships

The idea of exporting charity in Africa started about 4 years back during the RILM South East Asia Convention held in Chennai, India on 5th March 2017. During the convention, apart from other agenda’s, a short presentation was made by Mr. Rajiv Mehta, Trustee Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust on the vision to ensure that every child has at least one book to read- under the Project "Mission Million Books".

Mission Million envisions to donate at least million books. Till date, RNCT has successfully been able to establish over 4000 libraries across India. RNCT has also developed its own customised software to keep a track of reading and borrowing habits of users, especially the underprivileged.

Meetings with PDG Nancy Barbee with the shared idea of “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam”- The world is one family developed into the Project of Exporting Books in Charity to Ghana, Africa.

The books will soon reach Port Thema in about a month’s time. The books are shipped to Rotary Club of Sunyani Central, P.O. Box 206, Sunyani, Bono District, Ghana

Beneficiaries

5 schools have been identified where the books are being provided benefitting about 400 children. The names of the schools are

(i) Soronoase Basic School. Kg1 - B6 (Ages- 4 To 12)

(ii) Nkrankrom Basic School. Kg1 - B6 (Ages- 4 To 12)

(iii) Abansere Basic School. Kg1 to B6 (Ages 4 To 12)

(iv) Tonosuano Basic School. Kg1 to B6 (Ages 4 To 12)

(v) Adadease Junction Junior High School B6 to B8 (Ages 13 To 15)

Partnerships

This project is an initiation of international partnership and collaboration. This project exhibits that if the intent is right, help can reach where it is needed the most.

MOUs have been signed with

1. Carl Treleaven- PDG (Florida) DIST 6990

2. Peter Verbeeck-DG 20-21 DIST 6990

3. Rotary Club of Sunyani Central – Mr. Frank Kofi Owusu-Debrah

4. Microfinance Empowerment Foundation- Mr. Carl W. Treleaven (Director)

5. Microfinance Empowerment Foundation- Peter Verbeeck-DG 20-21 DIST 6990

6. PDG Nancy Barbee (Rotary International Dist. 7730, North Carolina)

7. Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust- Mr. Rajiv Mehta (Trustee)

Road Ahead

It is envisaged that in the near future, this project can spread to other countries within and outside Africa as well. Requests have been received from Kenya and Mauritius currently.

Glimpses of the books shipped

Date: 9th June 2021

Name of Beneficiary: Darpan Bahuudeshya Pratishthan

Number of Books donated: 2541 Educational Books

Purpose of Donation: To support Darpan Bahuudeshya Pratishthan for building a community library with the educational books donated by Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust.

Project Introduction:

Mission Million Books is a pan India social initiative aimed at providing the underserved with access to quality educational material for their growth and advancements to enable access to quality education for all. Mission Million books were officially launched on 18th August 2016. The program aims at educating young India by cultivating reading habits among children and provide access to quality books. In this project, we collect academic, non-academic books from pan India and donate the same to the educational institutions.

Darpan Bahuudeshya Pratishthan was established in 2009 in Jamner, Dist. Jalgaon with the vision to serve humankind to the best of its capacity. The organization is working on a community library project. Under this project, Ratna Nidhi charitable trust is helping out by donating educational books.

Donation Details:

Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust has donated variety of books that includes fiction, nonfiction, academic section etc.

(Annexure 1 include a list of Books)

On 5th June 2021, Ratna Nidhi charitable trusted has couriered 2541 educational books to Darpan Bahuudeshya Pratishthan, Babaji Patil Market, Pachora Road, Jamner, Taluka- Jamner, District Jalgaon, Pincode- 424206. The same received the organization on 7th June 2021. Donated books photographs attached in Annexure 2

ANNEXURE 1

ANNEXURE: 2

Project Vision: To serve the people for a healthy life.

Project Mission: To provide free-of-cost medicines to the underprivileged sections of society.

Project Introduction: The project aim is to collect & distribute medicines and medical devices which has the potential to improve the access to healthcare in some of the poorest parts of Mumbai city, Mumbai suburbs, and nearer areas. Under this project, we are collecting medicines and medical equipment’s from individual donors as a donation. We collect it and segregate it in our office by maintaining a proper MIS system of each medicine under the guidelines & recommendations of our volunteer doctors.

Further, we find the potential beneficiary institutions which are fulfilling our vision and mission to reach out with the needy patient.

Project Beneficiary: Under the project, Ratna Nidhi charitable trust has donated Generic, Ayurvedic, and Homeopathic medicines to Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute & Research Centre.

Kaivalyadhama is one of the oldest and most traditional schools of yoga in the world and also one of the foremost yoga research institutes in the world. It is open to both indoor and outdoor patients. For individuals who suffer from special diseases, illnesses with the most appropriate treatment prescribed through medical officers & Ayurveda physicians. There are also facilities to handle & care for the disabled & elderly.

Project Donation Details:

· On 29th May 2021, Ratna Nidhi charitable trust has donated 3 cartoons of medicines boxes for use in Kaivalyadhama charitable hospital. The medicine consists of multivitamins, antibiotics, homeopathic and ayurvedic. All this donation has been sent through currier service. (List of Medicine and photos in Annexure 1 & 2)

· On 3rd June 2021, We got the acknowledgment letter from Kaivalyadhama as received 3 boxes of Medicines and 12 boxes of clothes for the poor and needy. (Annexure.3)

Here we are thanking Kaivalyadham for collaborating with us in the noble cause of serving underprivileged people. Looking forward to the same support & collaboration with Ratna Nidhi in near future.

We believe that "Helping one person might not change the world but it could change the world for one person.

Annexure 1: LIST OF MEDICINES

ANNEURE 2 – Photos of Medicines

Annexure 3: Acknowledgement letter: