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centres in the Koraikuppam village of Pulicat area along
with health awareness camps for mothers and medical
camps for children. Apart from providing children with
nutritious food prepared at the centre, they are also
imparted education through learn-while-play methods.
They are taught the basic skills of maintaining personal
health and hygiene. Medical camps are held to aid children
with better health. Mothers are also trained in the
healthy practices to raise children.
Mothers are also trained in the healthy practices to
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Vengal
Arpan,
an offering, was one of KSRSD's first projects
for Vengal school. A unique Bharatanatyam dance
production, Arpan was realized by the students
of Nritya Sankalpa under the leadership of Kanya
Manoj, a fifteen year old who having spent part
of her summer working in the village made it her
personal mission to offer the Vengal children
what every child deserves, a proper education.
Vengal can boast of having a population of barely
three thousand (a little over the number of students
attending an average public school in the United
States), among which a fair 90 percent are below
the poverty line and a maximum of 3 percent have
attended high school. Solely based on an agricultural
economy, the average married couple in Vengal
makes their living working in the vast fields
of jasmine plants and selling the fragrant flowers
in stocks to the flower vendors of Chennai. Their
children will help them as soon as they turn five,
and by eleven, they would work fulltime alongside
their parents, as education in Vengal is not a
priority. This lack of education takes its toll
on the standard living of the villagers; basic
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commodities and even
necessities like clean running water or toilets are not
available to them. Hence, Arpan was truly born from the
empty stomachs of the Vengal schoolchildren and conceptualized
by their eager eyes. The final show presented on April
8, 2006 was an immense success, drawing in a crowd of
six hundred and raising over $5000. The money was donated
to the school to drill a new bore well for sanitized water
and for new restrooms for faculty and students. The project
began on July of 2006 .
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Educational
We have individual sponsors
spread across the country supporting children education.
Most of the supporters support the children's education
all the way to high school and some even go beyond that
supporting them through the higher education. Read
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