Give 400 needy children & youths a future in India

When we started our "Keshwa Gurukul School" after the pandemic, we were unclear how our school offering would be accepted by parents.

Our approach is based on free lessons for many children but with a significantly higher quality than public schools. Private schools with a similar quality standard are not affordable for the majority of the residents in the Sonbhadra region.

We started with five children at the end of 2021, and now we have 150 children who are taught regularly, and our partner organization Creation India Society has a license up to grade 8. We will be discussing in the near future whether we will apply for a license up to grade 10 in the medium term. But all of this also has consequences, as our Keshwa Welfare Center is now well filled, as there is also a vocational training center for women in addition to the school.

The first measure is to prepare a piece of land (6,805 sqft.) that we bought four years ago for use. Due to the rainy season, the ground level of the property needs to be raised slightly in order to have dry ground within the area. A massive soil work had to be carried out.

 As usual, a wall will be built around the property. The access to the property also needs to be constructed because we want to park our school buses there at night.

During the day, the property will be used as a play and sports area for the students, as well as for morning prayer and singing. We also want to do a small agricultural cultivation, which will be looked after by the children.

In any case, we need such a playground and sports area to get a license up to 10th grade and it will serve the children and teachers very well until then.

Most recently we also installed an extended fire extinguishing system in our Keshwa Child Welfare Center.

The total construction cost for the playground and extinguishing system is approximately USD 30,000. The work will be completed in September 2024.

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