Annual ReportAl Fazal Educational and Charitable Trust

Godhra, GujaratApril 2014 to March 2015

Al Fazal Educational and Charitable Trust

Giteli Plot, Vejalpur Road, b/h SatpulOctroi Naka

Godhra, Gujarat – 389001

Tel: 02672-252424

E-mail: alfazal_godhra@yahoo.co.in1

Foreword

This report seeks to present a concise description of activities and processes at Al Fazal held during the financial year 14 - 15. Al Fazal continued its efforts to create access to quality education for poor and marginalized children, especially those belonging to the Muslim community in Godhra by sustaining one English and another Gujarati medium school. With improved management practices and training opportunities for teachers and the management staff, the bygone year has been one of immense learning and doing things differently to understand various dynamics to run educational institutes to socially uplift marginalized communities.

The sewing classes got an encouraging response from girls and women in the community as always and the consistent efforts by the sewing class coordinator have inspired the trustees to propose collaboration with the district administration for it to be recognized and given an affiliation.

Several moderated discussions among the trustees and the programme consultant have triggered a change process at Al Fazal that we hope shall help the organization gear itself up to meet expectations and challenges within and outside its programme area.

LatifaGiteli

President

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Content

Genesis ………………. 4

Activities and Achievements during reporting period……………5

Board of members and operational team……….12

Finances…………….14

Pictures………..16

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…The Al-Fazal Educational and Charitable Trust; the first Muslim women trust registered with the charity commissioner, Godhra, Panchamahals. Also being the first ‘Muslim’ women's organisation in Godhra, these women had to face the wrath of their own community initially, but they continued undeterred, and the community gradually turned supportive and the organization is today better known as ‘Al Fazal’ in Godhra. All members of the trust are active and participate in planning and implementing the trust’s activities regularly. Besides helping the affected families gain access to relief and legal assistance, they also contributed to peace-building processes in Godhra under arduous circumstances. Like all NGOs and CBOs that emerged in the post violence context, Al Fazal too has a dual role to play: a. of facilitating reintegration of Muslim children and families into communities and out of relief colonies and b. of ensuring children’s return to mainstream schools, which calls for capacity building of NGOs on these issues.

The main objective of Al Fazal is to elevate social, educational, and economic standards of Muslim children, youth, especially girls and women, who the trust believes are drivers of bringing about meaningful change in the Muslim community. Therefore Al Fazal has chosen to focus on their education and employment.

The trust runs two schools:

(1) An English medium Primary and Secondary School (2) A Gujarati medium primary school (3) A training centre for women, where they learn tailoring.

Al Fazal is located in Satpul, which is an all-Muslim locality in Godhra. The socio economic conditions of people in the area are no better than a hand to mouth existence. The children coming to the Al Fazal schools are mostly first generation learners. Most parents are small traders, daily wage earners, rickshaw drivers or have small business to keep them going. The area does not have any Municipal school in the radius of 2 Kilometers that makes access to good quality education a remote possibility for most of these families.

The demand for mainstream education apart from religious education; from within the Muslim community; post carnage is significant. Providing access to mainstream education is the foremost concern of most of the Community based Organisations that emerged in the post violence context in Gujarat and most of their interventions are centred on access to education. In Satpul, the culture of sending children regularly to the school is non-existent. It is a common feature to see most boys dropout of school to work at a garage or a tea stall or a shop by the age of 10 - 11 years to contribute to the meager family earnings and girls dropout to help with household chores, taking care of siblings or are married off.

The English medium school run by the Al Fazal trust is not only the first one in the Muslim locality, but it is also centrally located and hence easily accessible. The community identifies closely with the school since it has also been a community centre post the mayhem, especially for women and children.

The school began with preprimary classes in 2002 and is now extended up to the eighth standard in the English medium and up to the seventh standard in the

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…As per the annual action plan, Al Fazal has been abuzz with curricular and co-curricular activities in the reporting period. While the teachers dedicated most part of their time to preparing for and conducting the annual examinations and declaring results, the children prepared for their exams and awaited the long summer vacations to follow.

Planned efforts were made to enroll new students for the academic year (2014-15) in Al Fazal, whereby teachers and trustees worked together. Like every year the admission policy was explained to all parents who were interested and their wards were enrolled depending upon their choice. Al Fazal has seen a marginal increase in enrolment which is an indication of growing awareness about and a change in attitude towards education.

Families from the lower middle class aspire for an English medium education and computer skills for their children.

Teacher’s meetings, parent’s meetings and home visits have been planned and executed on schedule. A School Management Committee and a Sexual Harassment Committee have been constituted with representatives from the community, trustees and the teachers at Al Fazal. Efforts will be made to strengthen the role of these committees and equip them with requisite knowledge and skills to be able to perform an active role at Al Fazal.

Working with a close-knit community that has been left out of the mainstream as one knows it, is a task in itself. Especially, when education is not a priority in the order of things, it is a challenge to facilitate re prioritisation, even if it is in the interest of the children. Children in Satpul are expected to straddle religious and mainstream education and given the sociopolitical and cultural context in Godhra parents are more inclined towards providing religious education to their children rather than mainstream. This mindset impinges upon the children’s performance. Although, teachers make home visits to counsel parents and parents are invited to the monthly parent’s meeting, this is a cultural change that will take several years of intensive engagement before one is able to see real change.

While Al Fazal strives to promote diversity, one realizes that promoting diversity comes with a cost and the premium is quite high. The teachers at Al Fazal are mostly Hindu and children are all Muslim, which should make for a good case. However, it has been a challenge reconciling varying cultural needs and practices. The State Education Board in Gujarat goes by the Hindu calendar that has vacations for summer, Diwali festival, Navaratri (Dussera) festival and Uttarayan (Kite Festival) there is not more than 1 national holiday for Muslim festivals. The state board refuses to alter summer vacations or allow a month long vacation during Ramzan. These long vacations eat into quality education time.

Al Fazal is striving to enroll and retain girl children from the community and help them build a good career. However, school education for girls is not a priority area in the community. Hence girls in the community are either not enrolled at all or pulled out of school arbitrarily to take care of siblings or contribute to household chores, etc. Al Fazal will make efforts to enroll and retain girl children.

During the year the focuses was on improving quality of teachers and bring more participatory actions from the parents for growth of child. There are several teachers and parents meetings were held in this period apart from 8 major co-curricular activities.

According to the plan following are major activities occurred during this period.

1. Visit of Public place :- This year we decided to give practical knowledge for the students, therefore we tried to visit some public place.This visit was not only for the fun but the students get knowledge about it and become familiar with them. So this year we choose two places for our public place visit (1) Railway station (2) B-division (police station ) , Godhra , this visit is the one of the most development for the students as well as teachers.In rRailway station visit we get the information about the activity of the railway and also works by railway and its function.Students a have fear from the police therefore we visited police station. Police Inspector gave heartily support and explained about the work and weapons ,custody and suggestion about the making future and alert from the crime.

2. Speaking Class :- English language is the most important language in our life, and in English it is must for speaking English for students, We tried to teach them with different types of methods for example story telling , communicative ,Group discussion , Daily routine , compulsory speak in class, also in assembly and recess time. Also guide them for reading English newspaper and magazine,. Teachers gave different projects for development of English in their daily life.

3. Basic class :- This year we organized the basic class for the weak students, some students have come from other schools , which background and basic was very poor especially in lower standard. So we arranged basic class for these students for the improvement in their basic level. we divided groups and taught them from the primary level. This is one of the benefit for the weak students and their improvement.

4. G.k. & Adoption class :- G.k. is necessary for the each standard of the students , they learn g.k. from the book , but we have to give them extra knowledge , so we organized the quiz competition and the adoption classes for the students , we took care for each and particular students, This was the one of the best way to teach for G.K. .

5. Cleanliness Movement :- This year our honorable Prime Minister Mr.Narendra Modi started the movement of the cleanliness, So, in every school , offices and other institutions , started the movement of the cleanliness movement .We not only cleaned our school but also the local area of the residential, and it was the one of the best way to clean our city and clean our school. We followed the instruction by the government and joined in this unique way.

6. Semester wise evaluation :- Government introduce new semester syllabus , so first of all we followed the rules of the government and study their profile and introduced the new syllabus in our academic year. And followed in both medium

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7. Survey of local area :- This time our school made survey for the local area of our school. The main purpose of this survey is to be get information about the local area, and also benefit for the admission for the next year. Both medium teachers staff divided into different groups and made the survey for increases students for our school.

8. School management committee (SMC): The school management committee consists of 7 females and 8 males and all are parents of the children studying in both the schools at organization. The SMC usually bridge gaps between school and community, parents and children’s growth and infrastructural issues of the school. The SMC at organization also helpful in doing counseling of girl’s parents who don’t encourage their daughter to study beyond 7 grades. Due to this intervention ratio of girls students are retained in the higher standard. SMC also help in enrollment of new kids at school. In the coming activity plan organization has decided to upgrade the skills of SMC members. The SMC meet once in a month at school and this meeting is also attended by principals of both schools, teachers and parent wants to put their opinion forward. The SMC has also helped in enrolling adolescent girls to other skill building programs i.e. stitching and computer courses run by the organization post school hours.

9. Student’s Profile: At Alfazal’s both the schools each child has their own file as their own profile. Creating and maintaining student profiles have helped organization to increase the level of self confidence among children. The student profile contains poems, paintings, pictures and special notes on the visits the child has made during several visits. All students’ profiles are kept in school premises and being exhibited during parents meeting.

10. Teacher’s training and regular motivational meetings with them: Special training sessions were organized during reporting period to boost skills of teachers and introduce new techniques though exposure visits of different schools run special modules for their children, spoken English classes and computer courses for teachers. Teachers are also involved in subject wise trainings though and sports. Due to this teacher are motivated to organize 8 different co-curricular activities during the reporting period. The organization has focused on this intervention by organizing individual sessions and sending teachers to participate trainings organized by education board from govt.

11. Parents meeting: Organizing parents meeting at school has only resulted in giving information about irregularity of children, absents, not finishing homework, special preparation for co-curricular activities etc. In most of the meetings the hot topic is about betterment of school infrastructure, it is difficult to convince parents that school runs on very limited resources.

12. Skill building program for adolescent girls: During the reporting period special skill building program for girls beyond 8th standard were organized post school timings. These skill building programs have held in school premises. The SMC have made enrollment of many other old girls (who are not studying in schools) from the community to avail benefit of such program

The school has also introduced audio visual teaching aids supported by few other donors. The digitization’s of special educational sessions have attracted kids and increase their attention in to subjects. Due to limited space such sessions only occur once in week. The positive thing is many schools in nearby locality have also requested to organize such sessions in Alfazal’s premises for their students

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which has increase the interface among kids with different schools and resulted a good publicity of the school also.

Alfazal’s these interventions have attracted the dist. Education officer (DEO) and he has offered to enroll teachers from Alfazal schools and made visits also at school.

The trustees are discussing ways of running both the schools and exploring funding options in coming years. The trustees have met regularly in the reporting period and there has been an increase in their involvement in planning and executing activities at the school.

Al Fazal has been vibrant and eventful in the reporting period and we wish to continue with the same performance in coming year with increased levels of participation of students, parents, teachers, community with new admissions.

Progress Report – March- 2014 to March-2015

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Dated on Item Remarks

1 15 th june-14

Teachers Meeting Discussion about the time-table , syllabus .Also discusses about the weak students and arrange Basic Class.

2 21 st June-14

Parents Meeting Discuss about new academic year, also planning for this year, I-card for the new students and inform about scholarship scheme

3 28 th june-14

Basic Class Special Class for the weak students , give education at basic level , and prepare them for further studies,students were divided according to the teachers group

4 12 th July-14

Teachers Meeting Discussion about the Pre-Metrics Scholarship, Also students progress according to the basic class.

5 9 th Aug-14 Teachers Meeting Submission date for the Pre-Metrics Forms and C.D. collected the required documents, Also discussed about the Celebration of Independence day.

6 15 th Aug-14

Independence Day Flag hoisting , Speech and Song competition , distribute biscuit packets to all the students and teachers staff.

7 21 st Aug-14

Class Decoration competition And Drawing/Essaycompetition

Class decoration with dividing group , In waste to best way , also very attractive decoration by the students .And drawing and Essay competition by the students and improve their skills.

8 23 rd Aug-14

Visiting exhibition at Navrachna school

Exhibition for the students of std- 4 to 8 at Navrachna school. Exhibition of books , models , Charts to the different topics , our students enriched the knowledge.

9 27 th Aug-14

Taluka level Science fair

Science fair was organized at Macceb Memorial High School , Different schools participated , different section of models and experiments.

10 6 th sept-14

Teachers Day celebration

Students participated enthusiastic , and judge by the teachers ,their memorable experience as a pe formation as a teacher.

11 13 th sep-14

Teachers Meeting Discussion about the first sem examination , Also celebration of Gandhi Jayanti, and different activity based on that day .Preparation about the Unit Exam

12 14 th Sep Unit Test (sem-1) Unit test exam organized in last two periods, syllabus according 7

to 24 th Sep -14

to the July to August .Contain 20 Marks

13 1 stOct-14 Celebration of Gandhi Jayanti

Fancy dress compettion for k.g.section according to national symbol , drawing for primary section , quiz competition for the upper primary section on the base Gandhiji.

14 1 st Oct-14 Cleanliness competition

Cleanliness competition arranged for the local area of the school and in the school by the teachers and students

15 1 sty Oct-14

Teachers Meeting Preparation for the exam , and also arrange the oral and formative exam for their evaluations.

16 8 the Oct-14 to 18 the Oct-14

Sem-1 Examination

Evaluation of the Sem-1 , Conduct Sem-1 Examination according to the G.S.E.B rules and Avnet publication

20 the Oct to 10 the Nov

Denali Vacation Holiday Homework for the students, and project work on the base of Particular Subjects, Teachers prepare for the next seem

Sem-2 Nov to May17 11 the Nov-

14Teachers Meeting Sem-1 Result will declare, and planning for the sem-2 , new and

changing syllabus in sem-2 prepared by teachers.18 20 the Nov-

14Sports Competition

Different game organized by the sports committee, students participated and won by their skills by both medium students

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6 the Dec-14

Teachers Meeting Arranging the education tour for the students of both medium ,Tirupati Natural Park , Visnagar , Mehsana.(std-3 to 8 ),Students get knowledge by fun.

20 22 nd Dec-14

Parents Meeting Information for the tour’s schedule and terms and condition of the tour , and also took permission letter and suggestion from the parents.

21 24 th dec-14

Education Tour Visiting to the Tirupati Natural Garden , Visnagar.Waterpark with fun fare , knowledge of natural surrounding the area.

22 2 nd Jan-14 Teachers Meeting Discussion about the dairy visit for the students of both medium with Nehru garden. (K.g to std-2 ) and public place (Railway station and Police Station )visit for the upper students .

23 3 rd Jan-14 Dairy Visiting Panchamrut dairy of Godhra ,Nehru garden visit by students of K.G. to Std-2,both medium with six teachers.

24 8 th Jan-14 Railway Station & Police Station Visit

Railway station visit,students get information about the work and the function of the railway station, also visit B-Division Police station , How can help the police to us ? Understand with different works

25 26 th Jan-15

Republic Day Flag hoisting , Speech competition , martyr songs and distribution of biscuit packets to students and teachers.

26 30 th Jan- Martyr Day In the memory of Gandhiji’s death celebrate Martyr day, Essay

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14 and drawing competition also arranged by the students.

27 5 th Feb-15 Teachers Meeting Discussion about the Unit Test and also preparation for the sem-2 Examination, and completed the Assignment.

28 21 st Feb-15

Cooking competition

To develop their skills , arranged this competition, students took part with enthusiastic and prepared panipuri , Sandwich and lemon juice. participant were upper primary students.

29 25 th Feb-15

Matru Bhasa day(Mother tongue day )

To Sustain our mother tongue and the importants of mother tongue organized the Matru Bhasa day ,

30 4 th March-15

Teachers Meeting Unit test held and also oral examination and formative for the students evaluation with book checking

31 9 th March to 14 th March-15

Unit Test (Sem-2) Unit test (Sem-2) were taken in last two periods, syllabus according to November to Februa ry,Marks contain 20 marks

32 6 th April-15

Teachers Meeting Arrangement of the students for exam in block wise , Observation of the teachers for the sem-2 examination.

33 6 th April to 15 th April

Sem-2 Examination

Evaluation of the sem-2, organized the sem-2 examination with block wise , observed by teachers

34 27 th April to 30 th April

Home Visit & Survery of Local Area

Survey of the local area and also visit for the admission of the next year.

34 1 st May-15 Parents Meeting Declaration of the Annual result , and also inform about the next year admission process and holiday homework for the students

35 1 st May-15 Result of sem-2` Declaration of sem-2 result and best whishes for next year36 4 th May to

6 thJune-15Summer Vacation Process for the new admission for next academic year,Planning

for the next year.

This year total 51 children have increased compare to last year’s 291 total children. A grade wise strength of students (English / Gujarati Medium.) is as follow:

Sr. No. Standard Medium Students in 2014-2015

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Girls Boys Total Students1 JR.KG English 09 12 21

2 SR.K.G. English 16 22 38

3 First English 12 17 29

4 Second English 05 17 22

5 Third English 04 07 11

6 fourth English 04 12 16

7 Fifth English 03 08 11

8 Six English 03 07 10

9 Seventh English 07 03 10

10 Eight English 05 03 08

11 JR.KG Gujarati 26 19 45

12 SR.K.G. Gujarati 04 10 14

13 First Gujarati 15 09 2414 Second Gujarati 10 08 1815 Third Gujarati 04 13 1716 fourth Gujarati 08 11 1917 Fifth Gujarati 03 11 1418 Sixth Gujarati 06 03 0919 Seventh Gujarati 07 03 10

Total 151 195 346

Numbers of students received fellowship for free education are as follows:

I. English Medium 2.Gujarati medium

Class

No. of students

1st 22nd 13rd 34th 1

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Class No. of students 1st 42nd 23rd 14th 55th 46th 27th 48th 1

TOTAL

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5th 16th 37th 2TOTAL 13

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Board of trustees:

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Name of Trustee Designation. Address Contact Nos

1 Ms Giteli Latifa Mo.Yusuf President Mihtekhana Mohalla,Godhra.-389 001

94262-21786

2 Ku.Sayied Aaliya AliMiya Vice-President

Sawliwad,Godhra – 389 001

97265-43839

3 Ms Umarji Sharifa A.Razzaq Secretary N/R Makkhi Masjid.,Godhra – 389 001

02672-246290

4 Ku.Patel Sajeda Ibrahim Vice- secretary

B/H Navrachna School,Godhra – 389 001

02672-243960

5 Ms Jadi Bilkis Suleman Treasurer Mohammadi Society,Godhra – 389 001

91730-10007

6 Ms Aalam Sultana Kasim Member N/R Rehmania Masjid,Godhra – 389 001

99246-43110

7 Ms Chhota Rizwana Faruq Member Belim Faliya,Godhra -389 001

95745-23003

List of teachers 2014 – 2015

UNITED ECONOMIC FORUM PUBLIC SCHOOL (ENGLISH MEDIUM)

S No Name Qualification Contect No Dignation

1 Parmar Nikhil Vinodkumar B.A , Bed (Eng) 8140824476 Principal

2 Mal Sonalben Dhanabhai B.A , Bed (Eng) 9586454161 Teacher

3 Dahi M.Sadiq A.Razzaq B.A , Bed 9574223553 Teacher

4 Kalandar Yunus s M.Sc.Bed 9016344493 Teacher

5 Dolti Shahejad M B.Sc.Bed 8460645359 Teacher

6 Makwana Chandrika Muljibhai M Com, Bed 9726877535 Teacher

7 Mamji Taufiq Hasim B.A , Bed (Eng) 9067610368 Teacher

8 Rana Divyesh Bharatbhai PTC (English) & B.A. (Eng ) 9724134122 Teacher

9 Shaikh Nazir Nisarbhai B.A , Bed (Eng) 8980473246 Teacher

10 Hayat Farida Abdulrab HSC 9925255007 KG. Teacher

  AL FAZAL PRIMARY PUBLIC SCHOOL (GUJARATI MEDIUM)

1 Parmar Induben ChandrakantBA, Bed (Guj) 9723048018 Principal

2 Dhantiya Asif ikbal sikandarBA. Bed (Guj) 9722117683 Teacher

3 Tapla Sajid HusainPTC (Gujarati) 9723314592 Teacher

4 Parmar Chetna LaljibhaiMA Bed(Gujarati) 9638189195 Teacher

5 Pathan Rumanabanu ZulfikarkhanPTC(Gujarati) 9712683726 Teacher

6 Ansari Hinaparvin B.A.Bed (Guj) 9714250536 Teacher8 Durvesh Fatma Siddiq

B.A . 9974298455 KG. Teacher9 Hassu Harun R.

8th Pass 9924449361 PEON

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List of teachers 2014 – 2015

UNITED ECONOMIC FORUM PUBLIC SCHOOL (ENGLISH MEDIUM)

S No Name Qualification Contect No Dignation

1 Parmar Nikhil Vinodkumar B.A , Bed (Eng) 8140824476 Principal

2 Mal Sonalben Dhanabhai B.A , Bed (Eng) 9586454161 Teacher

3 Dahi M.Sadiq A.Razzaq B.A , Bed 9574223553 Teacher

4 Kalandar Yunus s M.Sc.Bed 9016344493 Teacher

5 Dolti Shahejad M B.Sc.Bed 8460645359 Teacher

6 Makwana Chandrika Muljibhai M Com, Bed 9726877535 Teacher

7 Mamji Taufiq Hasim B.A , Bed (Eng) 9067610368 Teacher

8 Rana Divyesh Bharatbhai PTC (English) & B.A. (Eng ) 9724134122 Teacher

9 Shaikh Nazir Nisarbhai B.A , Bed (Eng) 8980473246 Teacher

10 Hayat Farida Abdulrab HSC 9925255007 KG. Teacher

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Independece Day on 15 th August-2014

Classroom Decoration on Dated 21th August -2014

Classroom Decoration on Dated 21th August -2014

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Visiting Exhibition at Navrachna Schoolon Dated 23 rd Aug 2014.

Visiting Science Fair at Macceb Memorial High School on Dated 27th Aug 2014.

Visiting Science Fair at Macceb Memorial High School on Dated 27th Aug 2014.

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Teacher Day Celebrate on dated 6th September 2014

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Sports Day celebration on dated 2 the November 2014

Education Tour on dated 24 the December , 2014

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Education Tour on dated 24 the December , 2014

Dairy visit on dated 3 rd January , 2015

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Railway station visit on 8 the January , 2015

Police Station visit on dated 8 the Jan, 2015

Republic Day on 26 the January , 2015

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Cooking competition on dated 21 February 2015.

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