Buoyed by the success it achieved in its Polio Eradica�on project, Rotary India has strategized the Rotary India Literacy Mission (RILM) to ensure 'Total Literacy & Quality Educa�on' for India through its 'T-E-A-C-H' programme.

Carrying forward its annual footprints to bring into focus and applaud the unsung people as well as organiza�ons that have been working to spread the joys of literacy, RILM organized an online 'Literacy Hero Awards' contest in January 2017. The awards were presented at Chennai Trade Centre in Chennai on March 3, 2017.

Providing a glimpse about the awards, RILM chairperson Shekhar Mehta said, “We need heroes for any good work. 'Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extra-ordinary.' We need heroes For libera�on For innova�on For emula�on and we need them for our future genera�on. The children of the na�on won't go to school just by the efforts of Government and the RTE Act. Our teachers will not stop absenteeism nor will our schools will become centres of excellence unless YOU and ME also put our might behind the establishment. Each one of us will have to put Ahu� in this Yogya of Total Literacy.'

RILM crowns Literacy Heroes in ChennaiThe winners of the Jury Award were Achyut Das, Khemjiraj Karsenbai Prajapa�, Rajesh Sharma, Shima Modak and Aspire.

A c h y u t D a s i s a development ac�vist with a passion for m a k i n g t h e m o st underprivileged tribal c o m m u n i � e s i n

remote district of Rayagada literate. He has been primarily engaged in people - centric, culturally-sensi�ve and ecologically-balanced sustainable development of remote tribal communi�es in Odisha for ove r t h re e d e ca d e s . H e h a s b e e n instrumental in ensuring 15000 children belonging to 250 tribal villages learn to read and write and pursue further educa�on.

Khimjiraj Karsenbai Prajapa� is fondly known as 'The Bapu with Rug'. Le� his home and family since the last 17-18 ye a rs & b e g s i n M e h s a n a . A s a beggar he doesn't take anything for himself but begs for the educa�on of poor children. Till date he has supported more than 2500

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On March 19th, 2017, 370 learners appeared for the Na�onal Ins�tute of Open Schooling examina�on in District 3291. The learners have a�ended the Swabhimaan Centres started by RILM in collabora�on with various NGOs and RCCs under the Adult Literacy program i n d i ff e r e n t l o c a � o n s l i k e U d a y n a r a y a n p u r, S i t a r a m p u r, B i s h n u p u r, A mta , Ko l kata , a n d Krishnanagar. The learners were trained on basic literacy and numeracy and also a�ended workshops on various topics l i k e h e a l t h a n d s a n i t a � o n , e n v i r o n m e n t a l a w a r e n e s s , governmental schemes, etc. at the Swabhimaan Centres over 4 months. The learners were confident about wri�ng the papers and are eagerly awai�ng the results which is supposed to be declared in couple of months.

One step towards Literacy

Nobel�Laureate,�HRD�Minister,�Senior�Rotarians�and�World�Leaders��come�together�for�Literacy�summit

Volunteerism at its BEST

Best T-E-A-C-H Performances 2015-16

Joining�Hands�to�Chart�the�way�forward

Nobel�laureate,�HRD�Minister,�Senior�Rotarians�and�World�leaders��come�together�for�Literacy�summit

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Dear Friends,

The euphoria of the success of the Chennai Summit and Ignite lasted for more than a month. I too felt very happy at the outcome of both the events. I must compliment Chairman, J.B Kamdar for the outstanding arrangements making it one of the

finest summits that we have had. Compliments to PDG Raja Seenivasan who had promised and lived up to the promise of making this one of the best summit we have had. My compliments to the entire team who worked so tirelessly, everything seems to have fallen in place, the venue, the food at the food court, the House of Friendship, the entertainment, the content of the program, the Breakout sessions, the speakers and the MoUs that we signed.

It was a matter of great happiness that not a single of the 32 speakers that we had backed out. Each day we had a jewel in the crown. In the inaugural session Mr. Prakash Javadekar, HRD Minister really set the tone for the meet. He appreciated the work of Rotary and the T-E-A-C-H program. The Rotary International President John F. Germ gave an outstanding speech and TRF Trustee Kalyan Banerjee was at his best inspiring Rotarians to work for this national cause that he had started.

The Literacy Hero Award's program was a runaway success and compliments to Anil Agarwal and his dedicated team who did some path breaking work to ensure that 7.5 million people voted online to make it one of the most visited online platforms and definitely so for Rotary, the public relation out of this was naturally huge.

All speakers for the T-E-A-C-H programs brought in so much knowledge that every delegate must have gone back

more enriched. On the last day the icing on the cake was offcourse Mr. Kailash Satyarthi to whom even on the last day more than 2,000 people were listening with rapt attention.

To me the greatest satisfaction was the fact that we could sign so many MoUs for our future action. The MoUs range from those with international organizations like UNESCO to those with Govt of Maharashtra and with other NGOs like Lord Loomba Foundation, Labour Net as well as with corporates having signed an MoU with the sports committee of CII. All of these will mean that we have lot of work to do and I am sure that all the Rotarians and Inner Wheel members will come forward and take up the challenges and the advantages of these partnerships.

I am sure the District Governors of last year was very happy to receive the Literacy Awards in front of 2000 packed audience. Those who really excelled even received them from the Noble Prize Winner. I am sure that next year Governors will do much better and ensure reporting on time and fill in details for the awards. Have you seen the progress of the Asha Kiran Child you sponsored? If not, then please visit www.rotaryteach.org and log in to 'My Asha Kiran Child' you will be happy to know about the success of your child.

Friends these last two months of this Rotary and Inner Wheel year let us put in our best effort to give the final push even as we start preparing for the next year.

Shekhar MehtaChairman,Rotary India Literacy Mission

Prakash JavadekarHon’ble HRD Minister of India

Now the thirst is for quality education. But the Government cannot do everything, society has to partner with us and I consider Rotary one of the best partners. We have to bring everybody in the education system because only that can give an individual real freedom; education is emancipation.

Educa�on is the key to all human rights, it cannot be ignored any more. Unfortunately 60 million children have never been to school,another 200 million children could not complete their primary and secondary educa�on. Globally, 263 million children are not in schools. It is our moral accountability to take up this challenge.

Kailash Satyarthi Nobel Peace Laureate

It is our job to give children tools to learn by suppor�ng schools. It is also our job to understand the obstacles that prevent them. Some�mes the barriers that prevent children from a�ending school appear simple but to many families they are insurmountable.

John F. GermRotary International President

Shekhar MehtaChair, RILM

Where else will you find nearly 2,500 volunteers assembled for three days for a war against iliteracy? These summits fill us with vigour, energy and New hope.

Dreams are not what we get when we go to sleep, dreams happen when we are awake.In Rotary, real dreams are the vision and imagina�ons we have when fully awake and we work to make them come true.

Kalyan BanerjeeTRF Trustee Chair

Literacy Mission should not be understood in just teaching alphabets, but as a stepping stone towards complete educa�on. Asha Kiran has been successfully implemented in many states. These will transfer child bondage to child bonding. We have to set up our own examples.Raja Saboo

Rotary International Past President

Donating�for�a�good�causeFollowing Shri Kailash Satyarthi's speech, RILM Chair Shekhar Mehta invited Rotarians to open their hearts to donate to the cause Shri Kailash Satyarthi was suppor�ng so passionately.In a few minutes a total of Rs. 46 lakh was collected and included dona�ons from PDGs Ravi and Rajyalakshmi Vadlamani (Rs.5 Lakh)Summit Chair JB Kamdar (Rs. 2 Lakh), PDG Ashish Ajmera (Rs. 2 lakh), DGE Maulin Patel (Rs. 2 Lakh) and Rs. 1 lakh each from DG Vinay Raikar, PDGs Ramesh Agarwal, Hanumanth Reddy and Savitha Unani of Inner Wheel.

From RILM PDG V.J Patel repeated his dona�on of Rs.51 Lakh, just as he had done last year.

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On the occasion of International Literacy Day, 1997, Kofi Annan, the then Secretary-General of the Uni ted Nat ions, had qu i te succinctly articulated the need for global literacy thus:

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. [...] It is a bulwark against

poverty and a building block of development, [...] a platform for democratization, and a vehicle for the promotion of cultural and national identity. Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition. For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.

It has been two decades since, and, rather unfortunately, more than 750 million adults remain illiterate over the world (UIS Factsheet, September 2016), in spite of all the concerted effort put forth by different statal and parastatal agencies. Evidently, a lot more needs to be done, and RILM has rightly taken up the mission to provide necessary support in this domain.

1. DIKSHA

In this approach student-volunteers from schools/colleges are engaged in providing functional literacy classes to non-literate adults (15+ age) over a period of 45-60 days.

2. SWABHIMAAN – Dignity Through Education

Swabhimaan envisions setting up of Adult Literacy Centres (ALC) in both rural and urban areas in a centralized location to impart functional literacy to non-literate adults (15+ years). Maximum 30 learners can be enrolled per batch and multiple batches can run in one ALC. The main resource for this intervention is the teacher, who has the sole responsibility of coordinating the project, tracking and reporting the progress of the learners. It can directly be implemented by Clubs or by NGOs identified by Clubs and/or RILMO.

The learners of both the interventions are advised to appear for the NIOS examination at the end of the project, which takes place in March and August every year. On clearing the examination the learners are certified as functionally literate.

The journey towards global eradication of illiteracy is still long and arduous, but to make it appear a little less daunting, let us at least visualise a near future where the need for International Literacy Days would be obviated.

With hope and regards,

Rajani MukerjiPast District Governor (2013-14), D-3291Joint Secretary, RILM

I n i t i a t i v e s t a k e n b y C l u b s

Rotary Club of Lucknow Trans Gomati, RID 3120 felicitated 20 teachers with the Nation Builder Awards. Total number of 137 teachers were evaluated from 20 different Government schools.

Rotary Club of Visnagar, RID 3051 arranged Teacher Training Seminar for Primar y Teachers of 250 Government schools. Seminar was opened by District Education Officer Mr. G. D. Patel. It was Addressed by DLCC Jagdish Patel and conducted for 4 hours by Mr. Dinesh Prajapati, a well known trainer. �e seminar was jointly managed by Rotary Club of Mehsana. �e seminar took place at Auditorium, Merchant Engineering College, Basna, Dist. Mehsana.

Rotary Club of Mysore West, RID 3181, organized a Workshop on Computer Awareness on 18.2.2017 for about 50 teachers picked from Lower primary and higher primary schools. Teachers were provided with learning kits and so�wares. �e workshop was organized at Rotary West Club auditorium, Mysore, Karnataka.

Teacher Support

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Volunteerism at its BEST

Eighteen Rotarians and two family members represen�ng 13 districts from eight states, from New Hampshire to Florida have made the journey to take part in the Polio Na�onal Immuniza�on Day and many other Rotary service projects.

A�er hearing the interes�ng work done by Rotary India Literacy Mission on Literacy the Mixed bag of volunteers decided to volunteer in one of the RILM'S TEACH component that is Happy School. They volunteered to set up a Library by ac�vely par�cipa�ng in Book

Sor�ng on January 23rd, the birth anniversary of Subhas Chandra Bose that was being celebrated at Vivekananda V i d ya p i t h fo r B o ys a s c h o o l i n Kankurgachi, Kolkata.

The enthusias�c team walked to the school seeping in the ambience of the locality as a procession withheld the transport to the main road.

The team interacted happily with the students. The students had small gi�s for each volunteer who were present there. The group was given a short brief on the school and the library crea�on process under GROWBY. Since the school was from Class V only but had not seen story books at an early age, being first genera�on students, books for class I to IV were also given to them to explore and catch up to learning levels of necessary.

The group of volunteers then segregated

E-learning

T- - - -E A C Hbooks as per age groups, marked them with s�ckers for iden�fica�on and put them into jacket for the common reading area where children could access them as per their will.

Almost 400 books were distributed that day. The volunteer group had also carried various sta�onaries like color pencils and drawing kits. A dona�on of 300 dollar was made to add new books to this library. This project is to be implemented by RILM with Coordina�on of Rotary Club of Harmony.

RC Omerga felicitate teachers with the Nation Builder Award

Areas Zone 4 Zone 5 Zone 6A Inner Wheel

Teacher SupportNumber of teachers trained

31319,500

3202710

3250670

325562

E-learningNumber of centres opened

30515,430

31903,450

32403,033

31363

Adult LiteracyNo of adults trainined

301212,000

315010,250

32916,800

314922

Child DevelopmentNo of children broughtback to school

30301,676

32012,748

3262932

3061110

Happy SchoolNo of happy schools

304077

3230158

325025

30563

Best overall performance in Literacy Mission

3051 and 3060 3190 and 3201 3250 305

Best DLCC H K Kriplani (3051)and PDG Mayur Vyas (3060)

V R Ramesh (3190) Dr. B C Das Purkayastha (3240)

Sunanda Hulyalkar

(313)

Best T-E-A-C-H Performances 2015-16

On world, Autism Awareness Day, Teacher Support Resource Person, Ms. Radhika Gupte took up a training with 117 teachers on the causes of autism. �e programme was also a�ended by Social Welfare Officer and Sarvashiksha Abhiyan Co-ordinator in RID 3142.

Rotary Club of Omerga in RID 3132 evaluated 25 teachers from 18 Government schools and felicitated 8 teachers with the Nation Builder Awards. �e teachers were felicitated at the Dr K D Shendge Research Hospital Auditorium

RID 3190 organized a teacher Training on Specially disabled children. �e training went on for 5 days.

Rotary Club of Hanamkonda, RID 3150 had set up an E - lear ning centre at a Gover nment School in Hanamkonda.146 students bene�ted from this project.

Rotary Club of Green Land Silchar, RID 3240 has provided E-learning facility at two Government schools of Silchar. �e project bene��ed 1100 students.

Rotary Club of Gulbarga North , RID 3160 has installed 2 E-learning units in a Government aided school of Gulbarga Karnataka, with assistance from Menda foundation & Nutan Vidyalaya Past Students Association

Rotary Club of Darbhanga, RID 3250 has provided 5 E-learning facilities in 5 Govt. schools of Darbhanga, Bihar. More than 4,000 students have bene��ed from this project.

E-learning centre inaugurated by RC Hanamkonda

Ms. Radhika Gupte training 117 teachers on World Autism Day

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Rotary Club of Green Land Silchar, RID 3240 closed its �rst Adult Literacy Centre at 42 No Derby LP School, on 19th March 2017. �e Centre was inaugurated on 1st November 2016 with 40 adult illiterates. A�er 3 months training , 36 students successful ly cleared the examination on 2nd February 2017. On 19th March 2017 the 36 Adult Literates were handed over the Certi�cates.

Rotary Club of Ukhra, RID 3240 has set up an adult literacy centre in Balipara near Tezpur town on 15th march 2017. �e centre will be looked a�er by Gyanjyoti Adult Women/Education center Balipara. More then 23 adults have already been enrolled and the classes have already started.

Rotary Club of Kashipur Corbe�, RID 3110 has set up an Adult Literacy Centre where more than 50 adults have enrolled. �e centre was started few months back.

Rotary Club of Green Land Silchar, RID 3240 has inaugurated its third Adult Literacy Centre at Chencoorie Village under Chencoorie Tea estate on 31st January 2017. 40 Adult have enrolled in this centre. �e centre will be run by RCC sanatan Unnayan Sangstha. �is centre is located in a very remote area of cachar district.

Rotary Club of Asansol, RID 3240 has adopted Binapani F. P. School and transformed it into Happy School by providing hand Washing stations, Uniforms, School bags, Sports materials, Clean and separate toilet for boys and girls, books for library, safe drinking water for the students, painted the school building and also provided furniture for the staff room. It was a joint project of Rotary Club of Asansol and Inner Wheel Club of Asansol.

Rotary Club of Green Land Silchar adopted Ambikapur LP School, Gandhi ME School and Bhakrarpar L P school and transformed them into Happy School. �e club provided hand Washing stations, Uniforms, School bags, Sports materials, Clean and separate toilet for boys and girls, books for library, safe drinking water for the students, painted the school building and also provided furniture for the staff room. More than 500 children have bene��ed from this project.

Rotary Club of Katwa, RID 3240 took up a government school of Katwa and provided safe drinking water, separate toilet blocks for both girls and boys, uniforms, shoes, bags, books for library and also painted their classrooms.

Rotary Club of Baroda Metro, RID 3060 has adopted Pt. Din Dayal Upadhayay Prathamic Shala, a municipal

Child Development

R.C. Sambalpur West, RID 3261 started its third Adult Literacy Center in association with Parmeswari Bai memorial Trust .�is project started on 10th January 2017 in the presence of (last) PDG Dr. A.K.Singh R.I. Dist 3260 at Village Sarlakani, district Sambalpur. In this centre 30 women from Adivasi & daily wage labours have been enrolled.

Being daily wage laborers it was decided by bene�ciaries that the classes should be taken in the evening so that they can do their work in the day time & join the classes in the evening. PDG Dr. A. K. Singh explained in detail the importance of this Adult Literacy Center in their daily life.

Besides Dr A. K. Singh Social Activist Sudir Pujari also explained the importance of basic education for them. Literacy materials were distributed and regular classes have been started and shall continue for three month.

Rotary Club Raigarh Steel City, RID 3261 opened three adult literacy centres. �e centres were inaugurated by Shri. R.R. SINGH, Head of the Department, Rajive Gandhi Shikha Mission Raigarh. 126 Women are a�ending the classes.

Rotar y club of R aigarh Steel City, RID 3261 sponsored for 30 children to be sent back to school under the Asha Kiran project.

Rotary Club of Mysore West, RID 3181 has sponsored for morew 30 children under the Asha kIran Project.

Rotary India Literacy Mission has signed an MoU with NGO Marfat. �e org will work with 650 children in Dhuliyan and Shamshergunj of Murshidabad district and will send them back to school. �ese children belong to Bidi rolling community.

Happy School by RC Greenland Silchar

(Hindi, Gujarati, English medium) School, from past 4-5 years. Over the past few years, Baroda Metro has carried various projects and activities to transform teaching and learning experience more pleasant and enjoyable. RBM has ful�lled the required criteria for making this municipal school, a: ”ROTARY BARODA METRO HAPPY SCHOOL” : �ey have provided the following hand Washing stations, Uniforms, School bags, Sports materials, Clean and separate toilet for boys and girls, books for library, safe drinking water for the students, painted the school building and also provided furniture for the staff room. Other than these elements they also provided clothes for the children, dental and eye check up camps and yoga classes for the students.

Rotary Club of Pune NIBM have started a project "ACTIVE LIB�RY " for 1700 students from grade 1st to 7th in 5 schools near Pune City. �e project is for under privileged students. �e project aims at improving the reading writing skills of these students through various innovative methods. One of the innovative method is dramatization of story books by artists who are being trained specially for these shows by our implementing NGO "QUEST".

�e project would continue for 3 years starting in 2016-17, 2017-18 and ending in year 2018-19. We have implementing and knowledge partner "QUEST " associated with us in this project. �e project involves intervention by trained Library Educators in specially designed Maruti Van , once a week in each school.

Rotary Club of Mysore West, RID 3181 has established classroom library in 4 Government schools in Hunsur taluq of Mysore district in Karnataka.

Library Creation

An Adult Literacy Centre by RC Green Land Silchar

Adult Literacy Happy School

Distribution of Literacy Kits at a Happy School in Dist 3240

An Adult Literacy Centre by RC Green Land Silchar

RILM signs an MOU with NGO Marfat

Happy School by RC Baroda Metro

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1. Rotary India Literacy Mission came into an agreement with Government of Maharashtra to install 37,010 e-learning facili�es in 18,510 government schools in the State of Maharashtra. E- learning faci l ity contains android based/compa�ble TV. This agreement shall be effec�ve for the period of three years.

2. ICEDEC joined hands with Rotary India Literacy Mission to p r o v i d e c o r e s k i l l t r a i n i n g t o t e a c h e r s o f Government/Government aided schools in State of Maharashtra.

3. Rotary India Literacy Mission joined hands with EkStep to leverage EkStep Learning pla�orm/portal which can be used by Rotary India Literacy Mission and its partners to access the repository of Knowledge built by Ekstep.

4. Rotary India Literacy Mission has decided to collaborate with The Shrima� Pushpa Wa� Loomba Memorial Founda�on to make literate and provide skill development training to 30,000 widows/unmarried daughters of widows/single parent mother in 30 Indian States.1000 beneficiaries per state. It would be implemented primarily through global grant. This agreement shall be effec�ve for 5 years.

5. Rotary India literacy Mission inked a deal with Labournet to provide skill development to 8,000 widows/unmarried daughters of widows/single parent mother in 8 states and ensure their livelihood. This agreement shall be effec�ve for 2 years.

6. The Shrima� Pushpa Wa� Loomba Memorial Founda�on came into an agreement with Rotary India Literacy Mission to send back 2,000 children back to school. This agreement shall be effec�ve for 1 year.

7. Food Security Founda�on India has decided to collaborate

with Rotary India Literacy Mission to provide 1 million meals to children primarily through Asha Kiran centres and schools. This agreement shall be effec�ve for 1 year.

8. Ratnanidhi Charitable Trust inked a deal with Rotary India Literacy Mission to establish 10,000 libraries all over India by way of collec�ng used books and their distribu�on to government/government aided schools.

9. The confedera�on of Indian Industries joined hands with Rotary India Literacy Mission to install standardized sports facili�es in 50,000 schools as per the models suggested by CSC and ensures that such facili�es are run by trained teachers or service providers CII.

10. Rotary India Literacy Mission came into an agreement with the Triumph Founda�on to establish virtual e-learning centres in 410 schools in India. This agreement shall be effec�ve for 1 year.

11. UNESCO and Rotary India Literacy Mission came into an agreement to iden�fy and execute joint ac�vi�es in the field of educa�on covering areas such as literacy, adult educa�on, primary and secondary educa�on, girls' educa�on, technical and voca�onal educa�on, ICT in educa�on, lifelong learning. Also, to endeavor to generate extra-budgetary funds in order to meet the cost of the joint ac�vi�es, to inform each other of their ini�a�ves and plans relevant to educa�on and par�cipate in each other's events of common interests, to exchange reports, technical publica�ons and other documenta�ons relevant to educa�on, to plan and organize joint advocacy programs or any other professional events (seminars, workshops) on educa�on to support educa�on policy and prac�ce and to promote joint work on each other's websites and official social networks upon prior consent of either party.

RILM inks 10 partnerships to reach 'Total Literacy' GoalsJoining�Hands�to�Chart�the�way�forward

Deputy Secretary of the School Education Department – Maharshtra Suvarna Kharat with PRID Ashok Mahajan.

CEO of EkStep Foundation Shankar Maruwada with RILM Chair Shekhar Mehta

Atul Palta, Director, The Loomba Foundation, withRILM Vice Chair Kamal Sanghvi.

CEO of Ek Step Foundation Shankar Maruwada and RILM Chair Shekhar Mehta, signing an MoU in presence of PDG Rajendra Rai, PRID M K Panduranga Shetty and E-learning Chair Ravi Prakash Langer.

RID Manoj Desai and Ratnanidhi Charitable Trust Trustee Rajiv Mehta exchanging an MoU in presence of PRID Ashok Mahajan.

PRID Sushil Gupta and RID Manoj Desaiexchanging an MoU with Triumph Foundation

Vandana Singh, CEO of Food Security Foundation of India Food Banking Network, with

PRIP Rajendra K Saboo and Present RI president John Germ.

CEO, Labour Net Gayatri Vasudevan with PRIP Raja Saboo.

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Prime�Minister�Narendra�Modi’sSupport�for�T-E-A-C-H�Program

ACTIVITIES BY

INNER WHEEL CLUBS IN INDIA

Inner Wheel Club of Balia, IWD 312 surveyed 5 schools of Balia UPS Jirabasti, UPS Dharahra, UPS Gurwan, PS Devkali, and PS Bahadurpur. A�er evaluating the schools teachers they felicitated 5 school teachers with the Nation Builder Award.

Inner Wheel Club of Smart City Chandrapur, IWD 303 evaluated 12 schools and felicitated 15 outstanding teachers with the Nation Builders Award.

IWC MYSORE CENT�L, IWD 318 has donated 9 E-learning kits to 9 government schools of Mysore.

Inner Wheel Club of Panvel, IWD 313 has set 9 E-learning facilities in 9 government school of Panv.

Inner Wheel Club of Shimoga East, IWD 318 provided an E-learning kit to a Government high school of Kommanalu. Along with the E-learning kit the club also provided white board, so�ware and solar back up to the school.

Inner Wheel Club of Mysore Central, IWD 318 in collaboration with Vidhwath solutions has set up a total of 13 E-Learning android based centres over a period of January 2017 to March 14th 2017. Total number of students bene��ed from this mission is 3292.

Inner Wheel Club of Sangamer, IWD 313 inaugurated an Adult Literacy Centre. 35 adults have already registered and started with their classes.

Inner Wheel Club of Bhubaneswar Metro, IWD 326 has opened an Adult Literacy centre at the Kelashi Busty for the women and girls living in the slum area.11 adults have already joined the centre.

Inner Wheel Club of Berhampur, IWD 326 adopted a Subudhi Devi School and transformed it into a Happy School. �e Club provided Hand Washing Stations, �ooring, Painted classrooms, constructed Library and provided books for libraries, doors and windows for classrooms, school bags, footwear for children, Sports equipments, water puri�er, separate toilet for boys and girls and also benches and desks for the students. �e project bene��ed more than 175 children.

Inner Wheel Club of Raigarh, IWD 326 has adopted a government school of Raigarh and provided furniture and painted the classrooms, separate toilet for both boys and girls, hand washing station, safe and adequate drinking water for the students, Books and furniture for the Library, sports equipments, Well maintained space for teaching staff,Shoes, socks, uniforms, school bags and stationary items.

Teacher Support

E-learning

Adult Literacy

Happy SchoolIWC Balia felicitates Teachers with Nation Builder Awards

Happy School by IWC Raigarh Steel City

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girls in 13-14 different schools with Books, Notebooks, School Bag, and Uniforms & Sweaters.

Shima Modak has been involved in working towards the development, protec�on and welfare of the distressed and deprived sec�on of the society, especially on educa�onal prospec�ve. Since 2010, she started educa�onal centres at a slum area

called Anjali within a small space next to scrap dealers shop due to scarcity of place. She addresses the educa�onal and developmental needs of the deprived and distressed children.

A S P I R E , a r e g i s t e r e d n o n - p r o fi t organiza�on, founded on 8th January 1997 is working towards making educa�on inclusive and socially relevant to meet the 21st century challenges. It is a movement of like-minded people who strive to ensure high quality school educa�on for all children within the Right to Educa�on framework, by strengthening the mainstream / government school educa�on system through improved school governance, introducing new pedagogic prac�ces and empowering teachers and local communi�es.

Huge response was received a�er the submission of nomina�ons was thrown open on September 8, 2016 for both the categories. Nomina�ons for the Jury Award closed on January 22, 2017, following which a panel of six eminent juries led by Hon'ble Jus�ce Munish Bhandari selected five winners.

Online nomina�ons for the People's Choice Award were accepted �ll February 25, 2017. We received 5.2 million votes this year as compared to 7.5 lac votes from last year. This year we also received a total number of 155 applica�ons as compared to 81 last year. Mr. Sharath Kumar Puppale is the winner for the Popular Choice Awards.

Mr. Sharath Kumar Puppale feels strongly about his social responsibility. He along with his wife started their services journey in an organiza�on and served for 15 years before he started Manchikalalu an orphanage which also serves as a pla�orm for out of school children to be brought back under the ambit of literacy. He has given home and educa�on to about 2000 children over the years. He has also helped them set up homes. Through his ini�a�ve over 15000 children have benefited.

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8 Happy Schools at one Go!

Lakshmi (Name Changed), a student of class III in a government school of Vijaywada, is super happy to get a bench to sit on and she breaks into a smile. The credit of her smile goes to Inner Club of Vijaywada Mid Town, Vijaywada East and Eluru, who took a great ini�a�ve to convert 8 government schools into Happy school. Babu Jagajeevan Ram Nagara Palaka Pratyeka Patasala, Vijayawada is one of the 8 schools which got a happy transforma�on.

Babu Jagajeevan Ram Nagara Palaka Pratyeka Patasala was not always as good as it is right now . A while ago, toilet facili�es for students were sorely lacking. Girls especially did not regularly a�end class due to poor hygiene condi�ons. The school had no safe drinking water or adequate grounds for the children to exercise. Worse s�ll, open defeca�on was also prac�ced around the school. These untenable condi�ons led to a grave increase in the

school's dropout rate over �me. Both school and students had all but given up hope, that is, un�l a visit by Inner Club of Vijaywada Mid Town, Vijaywada East and Eluru.

8 schools were transformed into Happy schools by these three Clubs.

1. Babu Jagajeevan Ram Nagara Palaka Pratyeka Patasala, Vijayawada

2. VMC Elementary School, Darsipet, Patamata, Vijayawada

3. MPL Corpora�on Urdu Boys Elementary School, Vijayawada

4. Asokavardhini Special Municipal Corpora�on Elementary School, Asok Nagar- Eluru

5. Parasurama Special Municipal Corpora�on Elementary School, Near Chepalathoomu Centre, Kothapeta, Eluru

6. Mandal Praja Parishad Elementary School, Buraigudem, Ko�huru,Eluru

7. Malempa� Bhaskararao Municipal Corpora�on Primary School, Vijayawada

8. Sureddy Ramabrahmam Mandal Parishad Elementary School, Manikonda

Under the Happy School project the Inner Wheel clubs provided Benches and Desks, Hand Washing Sta�ons, Safe Drinking Water, renovated toilet for boys and girls, Uniforms and Shoes have been distributed. The club also distributed Sports Equipments ,Paint for School building to make it more a�rac�ve for students and also furniture for staff space.

Since the Happy school project, a number of posi�ve changes have been seen at Babu Jagajeevan Ram Nagara Palaka Pratyeka Patasala, Vijayawada. Among other things, the number of children enrollment increased, reten�on went up from 51% to 80%. Now, animated and packed SMC mee�ngs take place at the school on a regular basis, the teachers are confident and most importantly, the children enjoy coming to school to study and play with their friends.

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