ANNUAL UPDATE FOR 2012 Kannan C. Iyer Guest presenter: Anouradha Bakshi, project director 6 Jun 2012 Project WHY.

ANNUAL UPDATE FOR 2012

Kannan C. IyerGuest presenter: Anouradha Bakshi,

project director

6 Jun 2012

Project WHY

Mission

Project WHY was conceived to answer a series of queries:•Why do children from underprivileged backgrounds perform poorly?•What could be done to enhance their performance?•What skills should be taught to them to better their employment options?•How could this be achieved in a replicable community driven model?

•Project WHY set out to create a model whereby quality education support in underprivileged areas, could be spearheaded by parents even if they were illiterate. The idea was to empower the community to pool its resources and run a sound support programme for its children.

History

• Primary function: after school support center

• Est 1998, started as English speaking class in 2000 with 40 children, now serves 900 children

• Director : Anouradha Bakshi• attitude comes from the top and the top here is

service oriented.

• Serves south Delhi area urban slum residents

• Hires slum residents for teacher, transport, food, etc.• Keep the employment local

Organization Structure

• Primary : Anouradha Bakshi, Founder

• Other :• Rani : Project Coordinator, in-charge for Pwhy• Dharmender : Womens Center Director• Both are Pwhy Alum• Shamika, Project Coordinator (Anou’s daughter)• Other teaching staff with minimal hierarchy – all

from slums• Non-teaching staff and vocation teachers

• Board includes 9 members other than Anou, many of them prominent Delhi citizens

LocationNEW DELHI

Activities

GIRINAGAR - GOVINDPURI - OKHLA

Early Education:

1 creche at Govindpuri

Primary outreach:

Okhla, Govindpuri, Giri Nagr

Special children:

1day care at Govindpuri

Junior Secondary

Okhla Classes VI to X

Senior Secondary

Giri Nagar Classes IX to XII

Computer centres:

Giri Nagar, Okhla

Other activities

Cine Club and Library, Print shop

Profile of community served:

Migrant Labour from Bihar, UP, Nepal and other states

Parents are self employed, daily wage earners, street vendors, part time employees in factories, sweepers.

Average income: 3000 Rs

Average family members:6

MADANPUR KHADER - Women centre

Primary outreach

Classes I to V

Secondary Outreach

Classes VI to IX

Vocational activities

Stitching and Tailoring, Beauty classes

Computer Centre

Children:

Main centre: ~600

Women centre:~300

Staff:

Main centre: 29

Women centre: 15

Finances

• Limited to Education budget in remaining slides• Sri Ram Goburdhun Trust also provides other services• Expenses under these heads:

• Education (Project WHY) – classes, staff, computers, learning aids, transport for kids/staff

• Boarding school for 8 kids - SAC• Medical expenses for slum kids, adults• Nutrition programme• Clothing support (mostly from Europe, now cash sent for local

purchase)• Bldg maintenance for owned buildings and other infrastructure

items purchase like cooler• Other expenses

• Rest of the heads expense limited to support or support raised on ad-hoc basis as needed

• For ex, if someone needs heart surgery, funds raised specifically for this from network and personal pleas

Finances

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Early Edu - Govindpuri

early edu - prep Printing shop

Special Section

Primary - Govindpuri Pri - Okhla

Pri - Sanjay Col Library Sr Sec Jr Sec

Cyber Club - 2 loc now

Focus on Quality

W&C Center - Creche, Pri, Residence

Foster Care Totals

Children 35 0 18 112 204 20 120 75 0 100 290 1 855teachers 3 2 3 3 5 1 1 2 3 1 16 1 41salaries 13200 8000 21000 12000 24000 5200 9200 11000 20000 8000 78600 5000 215200rent 0 0 0 0 2750 2500 0 0 0 17000 0transport/Electricity 8000 0 8000 0 0 0 2000 7800 25000 0 feeslearning aids 3500 0 2500 2000 5000 900 2000 2600 1000 0 12000 0 otherOther (occ therapist, lab ) 1000 6500 0 700 3000 3000 7300 27000 0

food/ toiletries/ living exp

1/8 admin 13937.5 13937.5 13937.5 13937.5 13937.5 13937.5 13937.5 13937.5Total 38637.5 9000 51937.5 27937.5 42937.5 9550 30637.5 27537.5 26000 37037.5 159600 18937.5 479750

USD / mo $8,782USD / yr $105,382

Exch Rate INR 54.63 EUR 1.43 CAD 0.96Other financesUSD Admin

$34,320 24000 Euros - Enfannes Indiennes EUR 2000/mo, EUR500 for Utpal Salary (6 staff) 27500 min wage impact$32,604 36000 Euro/yr, Pwhy Germany (1900 EUR Pwhy and 1100 SAC) all 30 staff expenses 20000 total staff 41

$0 misc donations - paypal stopped by FCRA regulations now transport 18000 current salary 215200$6,000 Other Orgs, random misc donations thru other orgs communication 6000 new min salary 289050

$0 Asha Canada, INR 84000 for SAC electricity 25000 DELTA/mo 73850$72,924 misc 15000 annual 886200

total 111500 USD yearly 16221.86Ask from ASHA Seattle for Oct11-Sep12

$32,458 USD 1773161.88 INRAsha approved funding (Nov 07, then USD 28077, INR 1116075):

$22,522 USD 1230361.08 INRShortfall: 9.428536 %

$9,936 USD $542,800.80 INR

Finances

• Other organizations support• Enfannes Indiennes, EUR 2000/mo

• Dried up in 2010 summer but started again later in 2010 after 5 months break

• Now add EUR 500 for Utpal for boarding expense

• Project WHY Germany, EUR 1900/mo• Also support EUR 110 for boarding school

• Omprakash Foundation• Misc, random donations collected and forwarded

• Shortfall ~10-25% every year – significant time spent on fundraising to cover shortfall; risk network exhaustion and donor fatigue – this is not sustainable.

Asha, Seattle Involvement

Asha, Seattle Involvement

• Asha Seattle supports ~20% of Project WHY’s annual budget

• Asha support used for educational expenses including staff salaries, educational aids, transportation, etc

• % of total expenses covered by Asha comes down every year, not even keeping up with inflation

• With Asha Seattle since 2006 • Dallas and Vancouver did some grants in 2005,

Vancouver supported since 2007 as well

• Key contacts :• Anouradha Bakshi, Founder• Rani, Project coordinator & Dharmendra, Womens

Center Director send monthly reports

Asha, Seattle Involvement Contd.

• One-time partial funding for Planet WHY (Rs 20 Lakhs) • social enterprise planning a commercial activity,

motel, to support Project WHY activities; this will also house residential foster care unit.

• Project still looking for funding and sponsor• Land appreciated from Rs. 80 lakhs purchase price

to Rs 1.7 crores est value now

• Project WHY SAC for 8 children to attend residential school, in cooperation with Asha Canada.

• Barely covers costs – shortfall covered by personal pleas and fundraising

• Asha Seattle contribution is sporadic and sparse

Asha, Seattle Budget

Item Amount Current Fiscal Year (2012-2013) (Rs)

Amount Previous Fiscal Year (2011-2012) (Rs)

Seattle – Project Why 1230361.08 1183040

Planet Why 0 0

Project WHY SAC ??? ???

Updates for 2011-2012

General Partner Updates

• English classes stopped for some months as teachers left for personal reasons

• difficult to find new teachers as such teachers have to come from a higher social strata.

• International volunteers filled the gap. • Looking for 2 English speaking teachers.

• Organised 6 workshops on self esteem for class VI to VII children of Okhla and Khader

• Workshop on mental health in collaboration with RML Hospital (for community members)

• Photography workshop for 8 students of Khader (http://projectwhy.blogspot.in/2011/08/lensmen-of-project-why.html)

• Dance Workshop for students of Okhla and Khader• Workshop for parents on Right to Education

General Partner Updates

• Workshop on Jan Lokpal Bill• Workshop of sexual awareness (for girls)• 15th August celebration

(http://projectwhy.blogspot.in/2011/08/magic-of-celebration.html)

• Special section shifted to another building across the main building. They now have more space and have begun new activities.

• Gave up rented premises and closed one of the early education centres. Moved primary to main building .

• Appointed a new secondary teacher for Okhla as the number of children is now 75

• Appointed 2 special educators

General Partner Updates - Successes

• Project why children top their respective classes.• Some selected for the Medhavi exam that secures

scholarships for secondary school.• Saifin passed the exam and is now a scholarship holder.

• 3 more children were admitted in boarding school one being Meher the burns survivor

• Anita a project why student since class I passed her XII and is now teaching secondary classes at pwhy while studying for her BA

• The 2 stitching teachers are our old students• 3 women have started their own beauty parlours, one in Khader

and 2 in their villages, many work in parlours and some work on call.

• Many of our stitching students have got jobs in boutiques, export houses etc.

• 10 have startd their own tailoring units in their homes.

General Partner Updates - Concerns

• Funding remains unstable • Asha Seattle, Enfances Indiennes, Project why Germany are

the only stable sources now • This secures about 75-85% of the needs for education

programmes. • The balance comes from one time support, answers to SOS

calls etc.• Project Director aging and still primary fundraiser

• Spending lot more time on raising funds• Sustainability plan not taken off• Succession planning in thinking stages

• Force majure risks as usual - project may get smaller with govt action, slums razed

• Womens center - on rent, nearby bldgs getting demolished for apts or guest houses, can be asked to vacate

• Mitigation / Action plan : move to Planet Why land and serve children in that area.

Site Visit Report

• Last site visit in Dec 2010, by Kannan.

• Will get next one done by Aug 2012.

• Monthly reports from project uploaded quarterly to Asha project website.

• Annual audited statement, annual report and annual Budget uploaded to Asha project site yearly.

Audit Report

• Audited financial report expected Jun 2012• 2011 Audit report uploaded to project site

Process Checks

Item Status

Approved Budget INR 1230361.08, May 2012

Approval Type Recurring in 2011; new process for 2012 – annual.

Amount(s) disbursed last fiscal year INR 1149557 (May and Nov 2011)

Amount Utilized by the project last fiscal year

INR 1149557

Last Site Visit Dec 2010

Current Primary Steward Kannan C. Iyer

Current Secondary Stewards Megha, Meera Venkatesh

Status of the web page Not updated since May 2011

Status of the yahoo databases Up to Date

Primary Okhla, Khader and Govindpuri

Secondary Khader, Okhla

Computer Centres Giri Nagar, Okhla, Khader

Women programmes

Project Photographs

Saifin, the scholarship holder

Special section

Resources/Contact

• Website : http://projectwhy.org

• Blog : http://projectwhy.blogspot.in

• Book by Anou on Utpal : http://www.dearpopples.com

• Call Anou anytime at :

+91-9999079705skype: projectwhyTo schedule visit to Project Why

for any Asha volunteer/donor/guest.

Questions?

FAQs

• Some FAQs at Asha, Seattle meetings.o How many rs are we spending per kid per year?o Does the amount being spent on infrastructure items (building

schools, repairing roofs, etc. ) look reasonable?o Where exactly is the partner located? (especially for remote

projects. Be ready to locate the project area on a map)o What is the graduation rate of the school?o What is the student to teacher ratio in class rooms?o What is the girl to boy ratio in the school?o What are the line items in the budget?o Why is the partner asking for more funding for line item N?

(You will be asked this if there are changes in the budget line items)

o Community opinion of the project. o What went well, what didn’t go as expected, what can be done

differently.