Vallalar Educational Trust
- Location : Near Pondichery, India
- Community Served: Children
- Focus: Education (School Furniture)
Organization background
Vallalar Education Trust (VET) is a charitable organization in India,
with a focus on child development, youth development, women empowerment, and
care and support for aged people.
They run a Nursery and Primary School in Kanjanur village.
Project background
VET has been running the Vallalar Nursery and Primary school for the last
few years. The school has classes from pre-KG to Class V. There are 100 students
aged 3-12 years at present. There are 7 full-time staff.
The school infrastructure is not very good. There are has 5 classrooms,
built of tin-sheet (non-permanent structure), but no proper
toilet facilities. GKF had paid in earlier years to help
them acquire computers and furniture for the class rooms, and
also play materials and clean water facilities, and to
acquire a used school bus.
They have started upgrading to a pucca building and
are in the process of finishing construction of 3 classrooms.
Their plans for the future include adding more classrooms.
GKF contributions to VET
- 2013: funds for classroom furniture for the 5 classrooms
- 2014: funds for buying 5 computers, and play materials, and
infrastructure for providing clean water (borewell, water tank with purifiers etc)
- 2015: funding to help VET acquire a used school bus to transport
the children
- 2016: funding to finish constructing 3 classrooms
- 2017: funding for constructing an additional 3 classrooms
- 2018: funding to complete construction of 3 classrooms started last year