EDUCATR
- Location : Near Madurai, India
- Community Served: Children
- Focus: Education
Organization background
Education, Communication and Development Trust (EDUCATR), a charitable organization in India,
is focused on helping the disadvantaged by running
a government-recognized nursery and primary school; organizing self-help-groups
(SHG's) to empower women;
running rural entrepreneurship development programs, and providing vocational training for youth.
It is also involved in health related activities, such as HIV/Aids Awareness;
clean water initiatives; immunization campaigns and environmental activities
such as tree-plantation.
Project background
For the past 15 years, EDUCATR has been running the Chakkaravarthy Vidyalaya Nursery and Primary school.
The school has classes from pre-KG to Class V with approximately
300 students.
No fees are charged
by the school, and children are provided text-books, writing notebooks and uniforms
free of charge.
There are approximately 30 staff, of which 10 are teachers.
The school has a playground & library with internet facilities, and
classrooms are equipped with blackboards, and appropriate furniture.
There are school buses to ferry children from and to the school.
GKF contributions to EDUCATR
- 2013: Funding to purchase a second bus
- 2014,2015: Funding to build a school building
- 2016: Funding to build a playground and play materials
- 2017: Funding to purchase school furniture and a water purification system
- 2018: Funding to purchase books, computer and furniture for the library
- 2019: Funding to accomodate more children, hire more teachers and provide school uniforms
- 2020: Funding to establish a digital classroom; COVID related assistance for school & parents of students, and pay
- 2021: Funding to establish a bridge (after-school hours, non-formal) educational system to support children; COVID related assistance for school and around 200 children (fees, food, masks, sanitizers)
- 2022-2024: Funding for bridge school, and support for children at primary school