Distribution of Stationery Material among 9125 less fortunate students
from 35 schools, entered into Limca Book of Records
Umang Foundation, a Mumbai based
NGO has always believed education to be of paramount importance for the
progress of the country. Every year Team Umang identifies schools with
financially weak students and facilitates the supply of the stationery material
needed for an academic year by them. This flagship project “Promote
Education – ek kadam ujwal bhavishya ki aur” was launched in July 2008.
With its belief and absolute commitment, Team Umang has been successful in
reducing the volume of the dropouts of the students from these schools.
We are very happy that Team
Umang’s hard work has been translated into results. Team Umang has not only
progressively doubled the number of beneficiary students’ year on year since
2008, but also has witnessed reduced dropouts from school. This gives a sense
of achievement and Team Umang only prays for this continued progress.
The primary focus of this project
was to facilitate the requisite study materials to the students with weaker
financial backgrounds. Team Umang had conducted a research prior to the project
going live for year 2012 and had discovered that in the event they are able to
provide the stationery required by these students it would significantly reduce
the dropouts which the school(s) witnessed every year.
Hence, Team Umang decided to take
up this task and this project has shaped up and moved to the next level from
its infancy. Year on year, Team Umang’s endeavor was not only to identify more
such deserving students but also work towards enhancing the participation of
more such schools as beneficiaries so that through Promote Education – “ek
kadam ujwal bhavishya ki aur”, it can dare to start the movement
towards better literacy rate in India and the consequent progress of the
country.
Since past four years, Team Umang
has been dedicatedly working to the success of its flagship project. The
following are the high level statistics of the progress of Team Umang since
inception:
Year
|
No. of Beneficiary Students
|
Year 2008
|
550+
|
Year 2009
|
1,200+
|
Year 2010
|
2,050+
|
Year 2011
|
5,500+
|
Year 2012
|
11700+
|
This is the fifth consecutive
academic year when Team Umang has again worked tirelessly for Promote
Education. This year marked a milestone for Team Umang as it achieves its
long-cherished dream of distributing the stationery kits to more than 9,000+
students from 31 different schools in a single day. This day created a
historic moment as officials from the coveted Limca Book of Records
witness this event live to record it as the largest ever distribution in this
category in the history of country. With this Umang Foundation has entered in
the Limca Book of Records – 2013 edition.
With this achievement under the
belt, Team Umang’s focus would now shift to identify another remote area like
Ulhasnagar, where team can identify more such students and schools that are
having similar needs. This event is a significant stepping stone to Team’s
ultimate goal of eradicating the drop-outs to near zero levels for all the
primary and higher secondary students of these schools because of weak
financial condition of families having background as daily wager, helper or
home maid. Team Umang will continue to strive to achieve such milestones and
multiply them year on year.
More Pictures are available on:
- https://picasaweb.google.com/100954234623103052097/PromoteEducation2012June232012
- https://picasaweb.google.com/100954234623103052097/PromoteEducationJune232012Selected
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