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One Billion Literates 2015-16
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly
give.”
― Kahlil Gibran
May 2016
[ANNUAL REPORT 2015-16] One Billion Literates Foundation, 72 Cunningham Apartments, 5 Edward Road, Bangalore - 52
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During the year, OBLF received approval to receive funds from foreign sources, under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, 2010, from the Home Ministry, the Government of India. Having completed 5 years, we have put in place systems and structures which will enable us to expand our program to more rural government primary schools. We have currently adopted 15 rural government primary schools in the Anekal Taluk of Bangalore District and support 4 urban government primary schools in the Bangalore East Taluk, impacting over 600 underprivileged children. For the next academic year, we plan to adopt more rural schools so as to impact about 1000 rural children and about 100 urban under-privileged children. We have trained and employed 19 rural women as our Coordinators, to impart basic English language and Computer skills to the children of these schools. About 12 more are being trained to be employed in the coming academic year.
We are very thankful to
Suprajit Foundation & the H
T Parekh Foundation for
extending their support to
our Rural School Adoption
Program.
We appreciate the
continuing support of the
Maneckji & Shirinbai
Neterwala Foundation.
We thank TaeguTec India
for their support &
encouragement.
Our gratitude to New Silk
Route and Accel Partners
for their support.
We thank Samvit
Technologies for their
continued support.
We are grateful to Ms.
Vinitha Belliappa of The
Cherry Tree, for sketching
for our new curriculum and
donating learning, as well
as concert material.
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OBLF Impact
As in the past, we conducted a baseline assessment at the beginning
of the academic year, to gauge the existing English language skills of
the children and started teaching them at the levels that were
comfortable for them. At the end of the year, assessments were
conducted again, and a comparison of both these assessments
indicates that 99% of our rural and 85% of our urban school children
showed an improvement in their English knowledge levels.
These assessments also indicated the quantum of progress made.
Over 50% of our 500 rural children scored over 60% marks during
the year-end assessments, as compared to just 10 children at the
beginning of the year.
We also assessed a small control group of children who do not attend
the OBLF program, but attend the same schools / grades. The English
language skills of these children are very low. While over 50% of OBLF
children scored over 60% marks, 100% of the non-OBLF children
secured less than 50%, half of them less than 30%.
We impact each individual life that we touch, in a different way -
Priyanka of Lakshmisagara, one of our first students, scored 81% in her SSLC exams, with 85% in English!
Our regular training sessions have given a lot of self-confidence to our rural Coordinators. Veena, one of our most enterprising ladies, recently won the Corporation elections from her ward. Two of our Coordinators, Vidya and Padma, while continuing to pursue their studies, are now also active members of their Panchayats.
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Current Year’s Activities
1. Use of Tablets
The Tablets that were inducted in our program last year, are now also being used by our rural Coordinators for Assessment purposes. The children of course continue to use them for reaffirming what they have learnt.
2. Adoption of 6 new schools
During the year, OBLF adopted 6 new Government Primary Schools at Samanahalli, Solepura, Narayanagatta, Banahalli, Thirumanagondanahalli and Thinmaiahdoddi villages in Anekal Taluk.
Unfortunately, due to logistical difficulties, we had to suspend our program in Balagaranahalli school during the year. However, having sorted out the logistics, we plan to recommence our program in this school in the coming academic year.
3. Visit by Muse Creations – June 2015
A few Japanese ladies from the Muse
Creations group visited our Chandapura
school and interacted with our children,
who enjoyed the games, the music and
the origami art they were introduced
to.
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4. Prize Distribution Function – August 2015
On 8th August, 2015, OBLF had its annual function to distribute prizes to the merit children of all our schools, at Lakshmisagara school. To provide an incentive to the children as well as the parents, we opened Fixed Deposit Accounts with Canara Bank in the name of the 1st and 2nd ranked children. For the Seniors, we gave Rs.2,500/-, Rs.1,500/- and Rs.500/- to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd ranked children. For the Juniors, we gave Rs.1,000/- and Rs.500/- to the 1st, and 2nd ranked children. All the children also received interesting English story books. On the occasion, our children as well as our rural Coordinators put up a grand show of English songs, rhymes and skit. The function was well attended. We are grateful to the Head Mistress and SDMC members of Lakshmisagara school for permitting OBLF to use their premises for this function as well as our weekly training and other sessions.
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5. Muse Charity Bazaar – September 2015
As in the past, OBLF participated at the Muse Charity Bazaar, organized by Mrs. Miho Malhan of Muse Creations. We thank Mrs. Malhan and the other Japanese ladies for inviting us, and for their unstinted support to our cause.
6. Renewal of MOU with BEO Anekal – October 2015
In October 2015 One Billion Literates renewed its 5 year MOU with the Block Education Officer of Anekal Taluk, for a further period of 5 years. OBLF is grateful to the BEO for his support to OBLF and dedication to the cause of education.
7. Joy of Giving Week – October 2015
During the Joy of Giving Week from 2nd to 8th
October, 2015, the employees of the Red Bus
Line Co. once again very enthusiastically
fulfilled all the wishes of our 400+ kids that
were put up on the Wish Tree.
Employees of Intuit India also fulfilled the
wishes of some of our poorest kids in 3 of
our remotest schools, by buying them exotic
gifts.
Also fulfilling many of OBLF’s wishes were the
generous employees of TaeguTec India,
Happiest Minds, Biocon, IHS Global and
Ibibo. We thank the employees of all these
companies for their generosity, and their
Managements for organizing these events.
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8. NGO Mela at Yodlee Infotech – October 2015
This year as well, OBLF participated in an NGO Mela organised by Yodlee Infotech, as part of the Joy of Giving Week.
We are grateful to the team at
Yodlee Infotech, for inviting us.
9. Drawing Competition by Leeboy India – December 2015
Leeboy India held a Drawing
competition at two of our schools at
Lakshmisagara and Muthanallur.
They turned the 12 prize-winning
entries into a calendar for 2016! We
are truly grateful to them for this novel
idea.
The kids enjoyed themselves
thoroughly.
10. Collection Drive at Shishya Nursery – December 2015
Once again, OBLF had a
Christmas collection drive at
Shishya Nursery, where the
parents of the students
donated generously.
We thank the parents and the
Principal of Shishya Nursery –
Mrs. Lakshmi Vijeyndra for her
support and the school’s own
generous donation
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11. Reappointment of the Trustees – January 2016
Five of our Board members, whose term expired in January 2016, were
reappointed. However, on 21st April, 2016, Nikesh Jain resigned from the
Board, due to relocation to Pune. The Board, and OBLF are extremely
grateful to Nikesh for his contribution to OBLF as a Trustee as well as
volunteer and donor. Nikesh will continue to be associated with OBLF.
Sangeeta Mahendran, who is Director – Global Capabilities & Shared
Operations, Hewlett Packard, was appointed Trustee, in place of Nikesh Jain.
Our Board of Trustees has six members, consisting of
S.No Name Gender
Age Position in Board
Occupation Total amount paid by OBLF
1 Anamika Majumder
F 42 Managing Trustee
Software Engineer
--
2 Aashu Calapa M 48 Trustee Director, Live Love Laugh Foundation
--
3 Arvind Malhan M 43 Trustee Partner, New Silk Route
--
4 Manosh Sengupta M 57 Trustee Founder brand-@itude
--
5 Sangeeta Mahendran
F 49 Trustee Director – Global Capabilities & Shared Operations, Hewlett Packard
--
6 Rajan Narayanan M 57 Trustee Promoter Director – Second Avenue & People English.
--
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12. Year-end Assessments – February 2016
In February 2016, we had the year-
end Assessments – written and oral
- for all our over 600 children, in
the rural as well as urban schools
to gauge the impact of our
intervention.
The results indicate that 99% of our
rural children improved their
knowledge of the English language.
Assessment of a control group of
Senior children who do not attend
the OBLF program definitely prove
the effectiveness of our program.
13. OBLF Picnic – February 2016
To unwind after the rigors of the
whole year and the year-end
assessments, Team OBLF went on a
picnic to Balmuri falls. Our
Coordinators had a super time
singing, dancing and swimming.
14. FCRA Approval – March 2016
On 13th March, 2016, OBLF received its Registration under the Foreign
Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010, thus permitting us to receive donations
from foreign sources.
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15. Special training – April 2016
This April, we had a special 3 day
training for our Coordinators, by
Mrs. Usha Kumar, ex-Dean of Mt.
Carmel college. She brought new
vigour and enthusiasm to our
Coordinators.
16. Summer Program – 18th April to 20th May 2016
To keep the children engaged even during
the holidays, we started our Summer
Program on 18th April, 2016 at 2 centres,
where children from all our rural schools
gather daily for 3 hours of fun-filled
learning – through games, songs, rhymes,
activities, story-telling etc.
This year saw an unprecedented number
of children attending this program. The
children thoroughly enjoy the way we
conduct the program and they love the
experience of “school bus travel”, thanks
to the TTs provided, to convey them from
their villages to this central place.
The children and OBLF are indeed
grateful to Suprajit Engineering Limited
and TaeguTec India P. Ltd. for assisting
the children with transportation, to
reach the Summer Program daily, and on
time.
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17. OBLF Car – April 2016
OBLF found great benefactors in Sreevidya
and her family, who, upon relocating to the
USA, found it fit to donate their car for a
good cause. Considering the remoteness of
our area of operation and the distances we
need to cover, their donation will go a long
way in helping us in our training and other
activities. We are truly grateful to them.
18. TCS 10K Run – May 2016
As in the past years, we took part in the TCS
10K Run. This year, we had an
unprecedented 63 runners participating on
our behalf, of which 56 were from
TaeguTec India. We are extremely grateful
to their CFO, Mr. Rakesh Arakere, for
driving this initiative.
OBLF also had an unprecedented number
of Care Champions, who have raised well
over Rs.5.50 lakhs. We thank all our Care
Champions for their dedication to our
cause.
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Our Gratitude
We express our sincere thanks to all our donors, supporters, mentors,
volunteers and well-wishers. Your continued support will enable us to provide
our children the quality of education they deserve – and need – to live a life of
dignity, and to participate in the progress of our nation.
Anamika Majumder Ruby Kamdin Founder & Managing Trustee Director
People
Director: Ruby Kamdin Program Supervisor (Rural): Mahesh Shetty Technology: Mahadevan Program Supervisor (Urban): Jayashree Coordinators: Swapna, Manju, Veena, Vanishree, Padmavathi, Ashwini, Shobha, Varalakshmi, Kavitha D, Baby, Vidya, Vani, Puthamma, Prema, Kavitha M, Kalpana, Pavithra, Geetha
Volunteers & supporters: Ruby, Mahadevan, Jayashree, Nikesh, Pratima, Pradip, Rohinton, Brojen, Usha Kumar, Archna, Simi, Shantanu, Tarun, Kavitha Prasad, Latha, Sudha, Himja, Shubha, Mahesh, Aruna, Divya, Sangeetha, Shreya.
Legal
Registered Charitable Trust u/s 12AA
FCRA Approved
IT 80-G approved.
Chartered Accountants:
Philips Cherian & Associates,
2497, 17th Main, HAL 2nd Stage, Indiranagar, Bangalore 560008.
Foundation Office:
72, Cunningham Apartments,
5, Edward Road,
Bangalore 560052
Tel: 9632600650
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Financials
BALANCE SHEET AS AT MARCH 31 2016
LIABILITIES AMOUNT(INR) ASSETS AMOUNT(INR)
General Fund+ Excess of Income Over Expenditure
1,696,712.38 Computers, Furniture and Library Books
49,325.08
Corpus Fund 650,000.00 Loan to Staff & other advances
95,356.66
Advance 4,198.30 Products FFFunds
124,768.65 Cash/Bank
Balance 2,081,460.29
TOTAL 2,350,910.68 2,350,910.68 INCOME & EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR YEAR ENDING MARCH 31 2016
We bank with: Canara Bank, Cunningham Road Branch, Bangalore Account name: One Billion Literates Foundation
Account no.: 0431101203551
FCRA Account no.: 0431101206628
IFSC Code: CNRB0000431
State Bank of India, Health City Branch, Hosur Road, Bangalore
Account name: One Billion Literates Foundation
Account number: 31445249698 IFSC Code: SBIN0010450
For more information: www.onebillionliterates.org www.facebook.com/onebillionliterates
http://www.youtube.com/user/oblfvideo
EXPENDITURE
AMOUNT (INR)
INCOME
AMOUNT (INR)
Opening value and Purchase of Products
131,662.74
Donations 1,134,120.00
Project Expenses 1,355,618.00 Sale of Products 5800.00
Admin Expenses 18,623.14 Others 183,168.66
Events 147,560.00 Events 412,885.00
Depreciation 6,770.61 Closing value of Products
124,768.65
Excess of Income over Expenditure
200,507.82
TOTAL 1,860,742.31 TOTAL 1,860,742.31