Reaching The Unreached MUDHIYOR BALAR KUDUMBA GRAMA PANNAI FAMILY VILLAGE FARM KASAM, KATPADI, VELLORE 8 Cottages Three Generations under one roof! FAMILY VILLAGE FARM DETAILS • Nursery : 30 House Mothers : 12 • Cottage : 108 Grandparents : 9 • Boys’ Hostel : 39 • Resident Tutors : 7 Wardens 1 Resident Cooks : 4 Total Children: 177 • Resident Nurse : • • • Residents at FVF : 213 : 3 BOYS HOSTEL - with Mr. Victor, Warden NURSERY (0-5 years) Our Children at Special Needs School Devi Prabhu Mariya Nandhini Tamilmani Sponsorship Coordinator with our children at Pathway, Chennai King’s Senior School Expanded to Grade 10 in 1996 and now to Grade 12 King’s Elementary School founded in 1978 From 32 surrounding villages Family Backgrounds: Farmers Daily wage laborers Landless laborers Cobblers Vendors of salt, vegetables KASAM Problems we face: Monsoon failure & lack of water for farming Illiteracy Depressed class in India Poverty : one meal per day & Poor clothing Children’s homes in their villages Hemalatha Manoj, Vignesh & Samuel Literacy levels in some of our villages 1990, 2009 and 2011 Morning rush to School! Nearly 400 students use the School Buses Morning Assembly & Prayer Elementary School Classrooms Senior School Classrooms Experimenting in the Chem & Bio Labs 15 School Libraries Books, Games & Puzzles Elementary School Computer Lab SMART BOARD Senior School Computer lab Joining the IT revolution! Scholarships for Meritorious and Low Income Students Supported by local Indian sponsors, well wishers and friends from the UK Students Benefitting from Global Ministries Scholarships Currently, 72 of our children are supported by Global Ministries A Healthy Lunch: Rice, Curry, Veggies & Yogurt Free lunch programme for poor students Cost of lunch Rs17 x 22 days per month = Rs 375 or $8 You can sponsor a YEAR of lunches for a child with $96 The cost of a couple of coffees could feed a child at King’s for a whole month! Visitors Sarah & Maggie Yvonne from Ireland Training for teachers under Destiny Education programme Please Get Involved! Grade Kindergarten - 3rd Grade 4th & 5th Grade 6th - 8th Grade 9th Grade 10th Grade 11th & 12th Grade Total in $ 170 200 245 260 275 400 Transport charges will be an extra $7 per child per month Child Sponsorship Details Sponsorship for one child USD 30 per month… Food Education Clothing Medical Administrative Charges Total Amount in $ 17 15 02 04 02 40 % 33 % 07 % 13 % 07 % 40 100 % Higher Education Higher Education Fund for unsponsored children at FVF Professional courses like Engineering Nursing Program Paramedical education Physical education Cost for one student: $800 per year Special Prayer Requests New Mini Bus: $31,100 To enclose the Senior Lunch Shed: $13,350 Additional Class Rooms for 11th & 12th grade & Multi Purpose Hall at Senior School: $180,000 Roof to protect the cottages: $67,000 200 Chairs for BKM Hall: $2700 TV for the kids: $1350 Paint the Cottages & Residential Quarters: $12,000 12 Dining Tables for the Janice Work Memorial Dining Hall: $540 Contact Us - we would love to hear from you! kms.principal@gmail.com Postal Address: The Principal, King’s Matriculation Hr. Sec. school, MBKG Pannai, Kasam, (via) Katpadi, Vellore- 632007, Tamilnadu, INDIA Telephone: +91 416 227 4204 • Please visit our website www.mbkgpkasam.org THANK YOU