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Malou Woldbye-Tholin is officially our youngest International Donor. Malou has been in India for 2 years now. She is the daughter of expat parents and has been in India for 2 years now. On 19th December 2008, when she is leaving and going back with her parents to Europe because, she decided to donate her piggy bank savings to Identity Foundation. We at Identity Foundation appreciate this gesture and are proud to have Malou as a donor! | | Modified By: SKNET113\sdatye | | |
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| From November 2007, Identity Foundation, the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA*) and NGO’s in Pune have collaborated to run the MLC programme to optimize its effect and reach. SSA and the NGO’s jointly address deprived children through over 250 non-formal-education (NFE) centers and reach around 5000 children. The Mobile Learning Center will now cater to the infotainment needs of these children in form of picnics, movies, educational films etc.
As the beginning of the cooperation, between the 26th and the 30th of November 90 children from 5 NGOs went for picnics to Tulapur and Baneshwar (both these places are close to Pune). The participating NGO’s were- Tathagat Pratisthan, Sankalp Foundation, PremSeva Pratisthan & Kannad Madhyam. The children enjoyed themselves since they rarely get an opportunity to go anywhere. The children were also shown films like ‘Ammu Ki Bakari’, ‘Gilli Gilli Atta’ and ‘Shri Krishna’ during the picnics.
This cooperation is planned with the SSA to be extended for the complete year of 2008 and reach out to all the 5000 children the NGO’s are currently associated with. The successful initiation of this programme in coordination with the Funders and Sponsors believing in the idea, the Government Agency acknowledging the concept and the NGO’s participating in the programme act as a huge moral booster for everybody at Identity Foundation and makes is stronger believers in the benefits of sharing our resources.
We take this opportunity to thank the sponsors for both the MLC units:
MLC 1: Zensar Technologies (Primary Sponsor), Young Indians, IndiaCo, TietoEnator, Identity Foundation Corpus and Individual Donors
MLC 2: Full Sponsorship from >TietoEnatorSee More Photos…
*Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) is Government of India's flagship programme for achievement of Universalization of Elementary Education (UEE) in a time bound manner, as mandated by 86th amendment to the Constitution of India making free and compulsory Education to the Children of 6-14 years age group, a Fundamental Right to Life. SSA is being implemented in partnership with State Governments to cover the entire country. | | Modified By: SKNET113\sdatye | | |
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| Today TietoEnator donated a brand new Mobile Learning Center bus to Identity Foundation. It comes equipped with a white-board, a laptop with DVD player and a surround sound system.
TietoEnator has been supporting the Identity Foundation initiative for over 3 years through their employee donation drive, where the employees of TietoEnator in Pune donate money from their salaries every month, which is doubled by TietoEnator and thus help in running the day-to-day activities of the education programme.
The new Mobile Learning Center is the second center that Identity Foundation has started. The MLC programme is unique in nature because it is the first-of-its-kind initiative where the center is dedicated to the community at large and is to be used for the benefit of deprived children. Any organisation or group who works with deprived children can book this resource and take advantage of the bus which comes fully equipped with an audio visual infotainment facility.
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| Sheetal who attends government school regularly appeared for school exams for the 1st time this year and stood 4th in her class.
Back in 2005, Sheetal, along with seven other children were admitted in a Corporation School. In those days, the Atikraman Group (anti-encroachment department, Corporation) frequented the area quite often. The parents at work required the kids to hide their belongings during these visits. Due to this unplanned nature of visits the children were unable to attend school on a regular basis and had to quit. In 2006, we tried yet again, mainly due to the response of the parents and the eagerness of the children to attend school. This time, Sheetal went to school every single day. Her parents, carpenters by profession always encouraged her.
Sheetal’s parents, impressed by her performance are ready to go to any measures for her education. They went personally to the Corporation, requesting permission to stay where they are, as it would otherwise hamper their child’s education. Amazed by the dedication of the family, the Corporation too has developed a soft corner for them and visits the area rarely.
Net Results
In April 2007, 36 children studying at the different centres of Identity Foundation appeared for the primary school examination conducted externally by the Pune Municipal Corporation’s Education Department. This was the first time that any of the children studying with us appeared for the examination. All 36 children cleard their exams successfully and are promoted th the next class!
Children like Sheetal Chandubai Thori, originally from Gujrath, endorse our beliefs and inspire us to keep doing our work! | | Modified By: SKNET113\sdatye | | |
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| The much awaited Mobile Learning Center (MLC) was launched on 26.04.2007 at the hands of Pramod Bhalla, COO, Zensar Technologies. Zensar Technologies is the Main Sponsor of the MLC
Michael Waldbrenner, Development Manager of TietoEnator India was also present during the launch, accompanied by Dr. Marc Cremer who represents the interests of individual donors in Germany.
A launch was a small affair conducted on the Zensar Technologies premises in Kharadi, Pune. The launch was attended by other teaching staff of Identity Foundation, some employees of Zensar technologies and TietoEnatator India.
It was unfortunate that representative of Young Indians (YI) and IndiaCo, who are also corporate sponsors of the MLC facility couldn’t attend, but did sent us their best wishes for the occasion. We the members of Identity Foundation would like to extend our heart felt thanks to all our sponsors on behalf of our children. We will also thanks our "virtual neighbors" on Nabuur.com for their persistence and support :)
We hope to see your continuing support!More information about the launch:
1. Download Press Brief2. See photos of the Launch | | Modified By: SKNET113\sdatye | | |
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| We the members of Identity Foundation are proud (and humbled at the same time) to announce Indra Patwardhan as our youngest donor so far! Indra plays professional tennis. He won the District level tournaments and decided to donate the prize money to Identity Foundation. We also appreciate his parents, Vinayak & Meena, for instilling such high values in their young ward. Every time such beautiful things happen, the moral levels of everybody at Identity Foundation soars and our commitment levels just keep getting stronger! | | Modified By: SKNET113\sdatye | | |
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| Over 800 children of construction labourers splashed colours on a 325-foot cloth at the Empress Botanical Garden on Tuesday as a part of the Children's Day celebration (14th November). Children from many NGO's participated in this programme. A magic show and puppet show was followed by a scrumptious lunch. Our children had a rocking time playing in the children's area too!! The event was organised by Promoters' and Builders' Association of Poona.
Please visit the Photos link to check out more photographs.
Please visit the new sections Financial Reports and Annual Reports. We have added these new sections to this website as a part of our drive to establish systems/processes and make our working even more transparent.
In these sections you will find the Audited Financial Statements of Identity Foundation from inception and the Annual Report for the year 2005-2006. | | Modified By: SKNET113\sdatye | | |
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| We seem to have the minimum funds necessary to buy the bus. After contemplating and comparing the advantages and disadvantages of buying a second had and a new bus, we have concluded that it will make more sense to buy the new vehicle. The short listed vehicle is the Force Motors- 16 seater Citiline vehicle. The quoted price (before discounting) is aprox 575,000 INR. This is 125,000 INR above the planned price for the second hand vehicle. The next steps will be as follows…
1. We will negotiate the price with the company (Force Motors)
2. After the final price is agreed upon, we will buy the vehicle
3. After the vehicle is in our hands, we go to the RTO (Road Transport Authority) with the design we have in mind for making the internal changes and negotiate the Tax
4. Once we have the RTO approval, we do the necessary changes and the get the changes approved by RTO once again
5. After this the vehicle is ready to roll
The photo you see on the top is the actual photo of the shortlisted vehicle. | | Modified By: SKNET113\sdatye | | |
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| Feedback Presentation to TeitoEnator India 25th Aug was the Annual General Meeting day for TietoEnator India- a corporate sponsors of Identity Foundation. They had invited Namrata to make a presentation on the work that Identity Foundation does with deprived children. It was a great opportunity for Identity Foundation to be able to give a feedback of our activities and the end result of their donations to our individual sponsors in TietoEnator India and convey our appreciation for the support. Out thanks to Dr. Marc Cremer (TietoEnator India) for arranging this presentation! | | Modified By: SKNET113\sdatye | | |
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