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| Malou: Our Youngest International Donnor |
| Wednesday, December 19, 2007 |
Written By: Sameer Datye
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!
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| Mobile Learning Center: Beginning of the ‘Sharing Era’ |
| Thursday, December 06, 2007 |
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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 >TietoEnator
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*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.
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| Launch of the 2nd Mobile Learning Center (MLC-2) |
| Monday, September 10, 2007 |
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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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| Results: Flying Colours |
| Thursday, July 26, 2007 |
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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!
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| Launch: Mobile Learning Center (MLC) |
| Thursday , April 26, 2007 |
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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 Brief
2. See photos of the Launch
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| Indra: Our Youngest Donor! |
| Tuesday , January 16, 2007 |
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| Rahul Patwardhan and Bina Joshi join the Trust Board of Identity Foundation today. Rahul brings to the table acute financial knowledge and expertise. He is also the CEO of IndiaCo. Bina's experience of working with underprivileged children for over 8 years add to the domain-knowledge-bank of Identity Foundation. |
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