Asha for Education
Central New Jersey(CNJ)
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Date: 27th , March 2008
Name
Address
Project Contact
Asha Contact
Kaveesher Krishnan
Sashi Venkatesan
SAATHII
H. No. 1-4-880/2/36/1
New Bakaram, Gandhi Nagar, Hyderabad
PIN: 500080, Andhra Pradesh, India
Phone(s)
91-40- 27654688
Fax
91-40- 27674757
E-mail
saathii@yahoo.com
201-960-2027
sashidar@yahoo.com
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Part I: Information about your group/organization
Please feel free to attach any additional sheets and/or information such as brochures, press reports etc.
1. Name of the group/organization requesting funds.
SAATHII (Solidarity And Action Against The HIV Infection In India)
2. When was the group established?
SAATHII was established in the year 2000. The present program that needs support from ASHA
– NJ , Andhra Pradesh Family Care Continuum Program (APFCC Program) was started in the
year 2005.
3. Briefly describe the motivation for starting this group (or school).
Solidarity and Action Against the HIV Infection in India (SAATHII) is a registered non-profit
organization in India working towards expanding access to quality HIV/AIDS prevention, care,
support and treatment services in India. Founded in 2000, SAATHII focuses on building the
capacity of organizations working on District, State and National level initiatives, through
training and technical assistance, information dissemination, research, networking and advocacy.
SAATHII actively works with communities affected by and vulnerable to HIV as well as with
diverse civil society and government partners to enable a concerted and more effective response
against the epidemic.
According to 2007 estimates from UNAIDS, number of people living with HIV/AIDS in India is
2.5 million and it is estimated that, number of children living with HIV/AIDS is 40000 in Andhra
Pradesh. Until recently, the Indian response to pediatric HIV issues was limited to few homebased care programs. These programs provided limited comprehensive community based services
in few districts. Recognizing the significant gaps in the state’s response to pediatric HIV,
SAATHII initiated the APFCC program to serve for the children affected by HIV.
4. Briefly describe the aims of your group (or school).
The goal of the APFCC program is to reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS on children and their
families in five districts of Andhra Pradesh through a comprehensive and sustainable approach
that ensures the proper growth and development of children in a safe environment, reduces HIV
related morbidity and mortality among parents and children, and improves the economic
productivity among families members and care givers supporting children affected by HIV.
The core components of the programs are:
a) Provision of Care, Support and Treatment Services to families with children affected by
HIV. These services include psychosocial, medical, nutritional, educational and recreational
support, as well as trainings and economic assistance for caregivers. Referrals and linkages are
provided for any services not directly available through APFCC.
b) Child Sponsorship Program to provide educational scholarships for HIV affected children,
and to strengthening the infrastructure and capacity of child care institutions which provide
quality and non-stigmatizing care children.
c) Advocacy to create an enabling social and policy environment for providing support to
children affected by HIV, and to reduce stigma and discrimination in the schools, at health care
facilities and in families and communities.
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d) Resource Mobilization from local (district administration, community and private sector)
and international sources to increase internal resources and to work towards making the program
sustainable.
e) Capacity Building of Service Providers through technical trainings, ongoing technical
assistance, on-site mentorship, and facilitation of information sharing and cross learning between
NGO partners. This component includes the OVC e-support center, which will act as on online
resource for APFCC partners and their allies.
Partners: Towards this SAATHII- APFCC works with nine small grass root organizations from four
high prevalence districts of Andhra Pradesh to reach families and their children with comprehensive care
and support services. Please refer to appendix A for the profile of NGO partners of SAATHII.
SAATHII- APFCC is not running any schools directly, but our partners Bhavani Educational Society,
Kavali ( Nellore District) and SRTE&ICWS , Eluru (West Godavari District) has schools. Other children
receiving services from 7 NGOs go to local public and private schools.
Request to ASHA NJ: SAATHII is able to garner funding for psycho-social and other components of
the project but is in critical need of funding for education and nutrition support. SAATHII is grateful for
the support provided in 2007 towards education support for 104 children and requesting continuation of
the same in 2008 and also consider supporting nutrition supplements for 492 HIV infection children
which is critical for delaying disease progression and death.
Does your group have any religious or political affiliation? If yes, please describe the type of
affiliation and the reason for it.
SAATHII has no religious or political affiliations.
5. Other than education, is your group involved in any other community development
activities? If so, please explain.
In addition to APFCC Program, SAATHII is involved in variety of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care, Support
and Treatment Programs which are described below:
Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT):
The PMTCT program provides
comprehensive services to HIV+ mothers and their babies at 131 private, faith based and government
hospitals through eight NGO partners and one medical university in the high prevalence states of Andhra
Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.
Tamil Nadu Family Care Continuum (TNFCC): The TNFCC program is an initiative of Tamil Nadu
AIDS Control Society that uses an innovative multi-sectoral model of implementing family centered
continuum of care and treatment programs. It is currently being implemented at 3 government medical
colleges in partnership with 3 hospital-based and 12 field-based NGOs and PLHIV networks to serve
8,000 families from urban and rural areas of Tamil Nadu.
Karur Integrated Management of Adolescent and Adult Illness (IMAI) Project: The IMAI project,
in partnership with WHO and Tamil Nadu Government, is decentralizing HIV care to the primary health
center level in Karur district of Tamil Nadu. The initiative consists of training and mentoring of healthcare providers; establishing systems for case documentation, referrals and linkages; mobilizing resources
for infrastructure strengthening; and involving PLHIV as expert patient trainers and advocates.
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Christian Children’s Fund Interventions in Tamil Nadu (CCF): SAATHII provides technical
assistance to CCF’s implementing partners for the purpose of integrating ongoing child-focused health
and development interventions into HIV/AIDS services in eights districts of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.
Strengthen Abilities to Manage and Respond Effectively to HIV/AIDS in India (SAMARTH):
SAMARTH strengthens government and civil society response to HIV/AIDS in the four US Government
priority states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka. Since November 2006,
SAATHII’s SAMARTH team has trained more than 1,200 individuals in areas of documentation,
program management, and HIV/AIDS policy guidelines.
HIV/AIDS Support Center Project (SCP): The SCP project in Calcutta and Chennai provides capacity
building and educational resource support on issues of gender, sexuality, human rights, sexual health and
HIV/AIDS to voluntary and government agencies working with sexual minorities, PLHIV and other
vulnerable populations. An extension center of this project in Bhubaneswar, Orissa collaborates with
government and voluntary agencies on scaling up HIV/AIDS interventions for sexual minorities and
PLHIV. This project has reached 14,000 sexual minorities and PLHIV through 30 voluntary agencies in
Bihar, Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Manipur, Orissa, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.
Mainstreaming Resource Unit (MRU): MRU in Rajasthan ensures that HIV/AIDS is mainstreamed
across the health and development sectors. Mainstreaming is facilitated through training and technical
support, networking, advocacy, and information dissemination to government and civil society agencies.
Volunteer Placement Program (VPP): VPP enables Indian and international volunteers to participate
in the fight against HIV/AIDS through capacity building exchanges with civil society organizations in
India. SAATHII matches the specific skills set of volunteers with the needs of NGOs and has
successfully placed many volunteers at the frontlines of the HIV/AIDS response.
Electronic Forum: SAATHII’s Electronic Forum serves as a common channel for communication,
networking and advocacy around HIV/AIDS in India. The e-forum disseminates updates on HIV/AIDS
behavioral, basic sciences and clinical research that are relevant to resource-limited settings as well as
India-specific news, job opportunities, training and funding announcements. It reaches more than 3,000
members from various sectors, including NGOs, government agencies, PLHIV networks, academia,
health professionals and activists.
Online Resource Center: SAATHII, in partnership with Janastu in Bangalore, developed an Online
Resource Center to make information easily available to those interested and involved in HIV/AIDS.
The center offers four ICT-based capacity building services through the SAATHII website: e-trainings, eforums, e-support and an e-library.
Reference and Mobile Library Services: The reference library, located at the HIV/AIDS Support
Center in Calcutta, is an informational resource on HIV/AIDS, gender, sexuality, sexual health,
reproductive health, human rights, social services and other relevant areas. The reference library has
recently initiated a mobile service with the aim of reaching agencies and individuals with limited access
to information. Since 2004, many individuals from India and abroad have come to utilize the library
services. (Funded by Elton John Foundation)
Other than Educational Services, SAATHII – APFCC Program partner NGOs provide following
services.
1. All 9 Partners of the APFCC Program are providing following services to 1496 families
affected by HIV/AIDS
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Psychosocial services through formation of support groups and homevisits
Medical services through referrals, Patient Education Work shops, provision of Self
care kits and first aid services
Nutritional services through low cost nutrition demonstrations and provision of
supplements
Recreational Services through conducting recreational activities in support groups for
children
Income Generation Programs for care givers through the promotion of savings and
credits and provision of start up grant for IGPs in Care givers Support groups
Referrals services for all the above services and other Government welfare schemes
2. Bhavani Edudcational Society , Kavali and Ravi Teja Educational and Infected Children
Welfare Society, Eluru has child care institutional care facility for 100 children affected by
HIV/AIDS
3. All APFCC partners also involve in advocacy and resource mobilisation to create enabling
social and policy environments and to leverage resources in response to the needs of OVC1
6. Does your project have FCRA? If so, what is the FCRA number?
Yes. SAATHII has FCRA. FCRA Number is: 075901132
Part II: Details about your educational project/s
7. What standards are taught in your school? Does the school include instruction at the
kindergarten (KG) level also?
SAATHII-APFCC Program is not running any schools. The children from the APFCC targeted
families go to local private and public schools. These children are studying kindergarten to
Upper Primary schools.
APFCC Partners BES, Kavali and Ravi Teja Educational and Infected Children Welfare Society,
Eluru run schools for children affected by HIV/AIDS with 100 children in which up to 5 th
standard is taught.
9. List the school/s run by your group, and their addresses. If you are requesting funds for
only a few of several schools, please specify which one/s.
APFCC Program does not run any of its own schools, but supports NGOs in rural areas of
Prakasam, Nellore, West Godavari and East Godavari in Andhra Pradesh, India.APFCC Program
requesting funds to support the financial needs of children education in these schools.
10. Please list the location of each school/s:
Urban ______ Rural ___X___
Other: Both rural and Urban communities are covered
11. Please describe below the type of education provided, such as basic literacy, training in
skills or trades, secondary education, or religious. If the school provides more than one
type of education, please describe them all.
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OVC: Orphans and Vulnerable Children, is a globally accepted, non-stigmatizing term used to refer children
affected by HIV/AIDS
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Mainly the all the schools are following syllabus of State Education Department, Andhra
Pradesh. Formal education is provided to the children in local schools.
12. Describe the socio-economic background of the children and their parents. Please enter
in the appropriate information in the tables below.
a. Education level of the parents:
Illiterate
Primary
Secondary
Higher Secondary
College
Other Vocational
X
X
b. Primary occupation of the head of the family:
The majority are unskilled daily laborers involved in the following activities (however, many of
the children are orphaned, and their primary caretakers are no longer alive);
Agriculture labour
Auto rickshaw
Truck Driving
Migrant Labor
Factory Labor
Quarry Labor
Agriculture
Trade
Pottery
Carpentry
Govt. Job
Other skilled labor
X
c. Average monthly household income:
Rs. 1000 or less
Rs. 1001 - 3000
Rs. 3001 - 5000
Rs. 5001 - 7000
Rs. 7001 and more
X
d. Avg. no. of working women in the family:
Working
Non-working
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0
e. Number of children in the family:
1- 2
3- 5
X
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More then 5
f. Caste or other background of members of the community:
(Please include the castes, tribes, or other background below, and the approximate number of
families in
each).
Majority of the families are from the backward classes and scheduled castes (Castes those are
scheduled under the Constitution of India for upliftment of groups due to their social and cultural
deprivilaged status).
Also, please comment on any other characteristic within the community that is not covered in the
topics above.
The majority of children come from an impoverished socioeconomic background, with their
parents involved in such low-income occupations as agricultural labor, truck driving, migrant
labor, and factory and quarry work. Daily wages are very low and can be as low as 60 INR/day
(~$1.33/day). In many families, the mothers also work to meet the family needs.
Children Affected by HIV/AIDS: This category includes children who are HIV positive; orphaned
by HIV/AIDS, vulnerable due to HIV/AIDS including street children, child labours etc. These
children have a higher probability of living with family members, often grandparents, because of
their negative status. However, the families that take them in often face significant economic
difficulties associated with adopting these orphaned children. Broadly based on vulnerability,
these group can be categorized as,
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Children Infected by HIV/AIDS: These children transmit HIV virus from their parents and
frequently suffer from opportunistic infections like pneumonia, oral candidiasis, fevers,
diarrhea, and skin infections. Children with low immunity levels (base don their CD4 count
and percentage), are on Anti Retro Viral therapy. They also receive limited nutritional
support, which lays vital role in suppressing disease progression and combat opportunistic
infections. These children are already poor, are therefore faced with the additional burden of
attempting to pay for expensive medical treatment and nutritional supplements.
 Children Orphaned by HIV/AIDS: Many children infected by HIV/AIDS have also lost one
or both of their parents to HIV/AIDS and are therefore orphans or half-orphans. These
orphans either live with grandparents, in a residential home or institutional orphanage, or on
the streets. They receive little psychosocial support and face stigma and discrimination from
their own communities and families. After a parent dies, other family members may adopt
HIV negative children but abandon their HIV positive siblings to institutional care. However,
there is an insufficient number of institutions to deal with the large numbers of orphaned
children, the care provided at the institutions that do exist is often inadequate.
 Child Headed Families: Children who are not taken in by family members or by institutional
care are left to fend for themselves. In these situations, elder children often take the
responsibility of caring for their younger siblings, and to do so they must drop out of school
and work to earn a wage These children, who may not be already infected, are extremely
vulnerable to infection because of their low level of education, malnutrition, insufficient
access to healthcare and a lack of protection against exploitation, abuse, stigma and
discrimination.
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Educational/Employment Background of Children: A large number of affected children drop out
of school to take up family responsibilities, care for their infected parents and support their
families and siblings economically. These children based on family requirements do daily wage
based work both in agriculture or non – agriculture sectors like hotels, repairing shops etc.,
13. Student’s obligation to work
Experiences from 2007, we have not come across incidence of children working out of the
schools.
14. What is the literacy rate in the local community?
Literacy Rate - 61%
Male Literacy Rate - 71%
Female Literacy Rate - 51%
Rural Literacy Rate - 55% - Local Community
Rural Male Literacy Rate - 66% - Local Community
Rural Female Literacy Rate - 44% - Local Community
(The above statistics were drawn from UNDP Report 2001 in Andhra Pradesh)
15. Please describe below the curriculum for each standard in your school. Please provide
such details as the subjects taught, hours of instruction per week, hours of homework
(outside of school) per week, methods of testing, and methods of promotion.
Education provided includes basic primary and secondary education. The curriculum for each
standards (class) are based on the state syllabi. Schools working hours are 9 am – 3.30 pm and 6
days a week. Children will take monthly, quarterly, half yearly and annual exams based on their
class.
16. Services provided by the school:
In addition to education, which other services does your group provide to the children in
your schools, such as food for the students, health care, clothing, vaccination (against which
diseases), and so on?
SAATHII provides comprehensive care and support services with an emphasis on the following
key components:
Nutrition - The majority of OVC come from a low socioeconomic background where daily wages
are as low as $1.33/day. As children lose their parents to HIV/AIDS, they are often cared for by
grandparents or child-headed families where financial support to provide nutrition is meager.
Good nutrition is a necessity for the general livelihood of all OVC and especially so for infected
children.
Psychosocial – OVC often suffer from intense psychological trauma due to illness and death of
family members, distress over their own poor health, poor adjustment to new living
environments, family and household responsibilities, and stigma and discrimination from their
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schools and communities. They require well-trained service providers to give child-centered
counseling and help them to deal with the myriad issues they face on a daily basis.
Medical – APFCC Program staff will conduct patient education workshops for the families,
Provide Self care kits to infected children. Provide referral services to the opportunistic
infections such as pneumonia, oral candidiasis, fevers, diarrhea, and skin infections. These
children cannot afford the heavy burden of paying for medical treatment.
Community Outreach – Most families with children living with HIV/AIDS hesitate to disclose
their children’s status and therefore refrain from seeking necessary services. This is mainly due
to the fear of stigma and discrimination by communities and service providers. As such, outreach
workers do spend more time in the communities to identify and counsel OVC and their family
members link them to essential services and reduce community level stigma and discrimination.
Recreational Services: We formed support groups with the affected and infected children in
which children are given opportunity to participate various recreational activities like story
telling, playing different games, singing, acting, drama, mime and mimicking etc., We also
provided recreational kits for children.
Grandparents Support – Grandparents are often the main caregivers for OVC, yet they are past
their prime working age, and often lack knowledge on HIV/AIDS as well as the skills necessary
for proper care and support of OVC. In addition, they are distressed by the illness in their family.
These grandparents need education as well as psychosocial and economic support, all of which
indirectly benefit the OVC for whom they care. Collectively, SAATHII – APFCC Program works
to reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS by forming support groups for caregivers including grand
parents. Activities of support groups include psychosocial interventions, sharing the best
methods to care for children, promoting savings and credit, initiating IGPs in collaboration with
matching grant from banks.
Advocacy with District Representatives – There is a need to focus at the panchayat and
municipality levels in districts where a large number of state-level resources are directed.
Advocacy with district representatives is therefore critical to increase the ownership that local
governments feel towards the health status of the communities that they represent. These
activities will help in creating an enabling environment for OVC.
In which sorts of physical activity are students required to participate, and how much time
in a day is devoted to this?
Children do exercises as part of their regular sport activities in school. Towards this children
have 40 minutes allocated in school’s time table.
In which sorts of artistic or cultural activities are students required to participate, and how
much time in a day is devoted to this?
In addition to the cultural activities at their respective schools, as part of APFCC Program
children participate in cultural programs on Independence Day, Republic Day, World AIDS Day
and World Orphans Day children participate in cultural programs. Children participate in
recreational activities like story telling, mimicking, miming, drawing etc., SAATHII – APFCC is
currently developing methods to facilitate support groups and activities of children support
groups, which also talk about various cultural and recreational activities that they can take up.
17. Structural facilities
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a) Does your school have its own building(s):
Yes (among 9 NGOs, BES has own school)
All remaining 8 NGOs do not run any schools for affected children.
b) How many classrooms are there in the school?
Two (in BES)
c) What types of classrooms are they (such as Pukka)? Semi - Pukka
d) Please provide us information on the following facilities: (details given only for BES)
How many are there in No – our school
the school?
doesn’t provide
X
X
X
X
X
Toilets:
Playground:
Library:
Toys:
Blackboard:
Teaching aids (e.g.
X
books, slates)
Electricity:
Laboratory:
Drinking water:
X
Chairs and Tables:
4 chairs, 1 Table
Computers:
X
X
X
18. How many children are currently enrolled in your school(s)?
APFCC Program of SAATHII don’t run schools. However, two of the 9 program implementing
partners have schools for children affected by HIV/AIDS. Children who receive services from
other 7 partners go to local public and private schools. Currently there are more than 900
children enrolled in local schools. With support from ASHA – NY we provided support for these
two schools run by partners. For children from other NGOs financial support for education
related costs.
19. How many children attend school every day, on average?
Male: 500
Female: 400
Age Range: 5 - 13
20. How many total children live in your community?
By 2008 February SAATHII-APFCC program, 1496 families with approximately 1500 children
in selected mandals of 6 destricts. We don’t have details on other children.
21. Please comment on any differences that may exist between the number of children in
your community and the number that attend school every day. If there are children who
live in your community but are not enrolled in your school, please explain why (such as
availability of other schools, obligation to work, other factors, so on).
Some children from HIV affected families do not attend school mainly due to stigma and
discrimination in schools and community, frequent illness, low performance levels compared to
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other children which make them demotivated, need to work to bring economic support to their
families and siblings, and inability to pay educational expenses.
22. How many of your students wear uniforms? Please provide details.
In the year 2007, 107 children were provided school uniforms.
23. a) How many children repeat a class, on average per class? Very rarely 1-2 children
b) How many children in each class? Approximately 20-30 children in most of the schools
24. How many staff are employed at your schools?
At present SAATHII – APFCC is not supporting any staff for partner NGO’s schools.
25. a) Average distance the children travel to attend your school __approximately 10 to 15
minutes by walk .
b) How does the typical student travel to school? Does the student walk, ride a bicycle,
or take another means of transportation?
If the child is in a Child Care Home, then the classroom is in within the campus. Children who go
to local schools go by walk.
26. Are there any other schools in the area? If so, please list the schools and the range of
classes each of them offers.
Yes, each village has one Anganwadi school for children ages 0-6 years. Children 3-6 years of
age are provided supplementary food, Immunisation, referrals, health check-ups and pre-school
education. In some villages primary, upper primary and high schools are available.
27. How is your program different from that provided at these schools?
We try to ensure that children affected by HIV/AIDS are able to attend their own local schools.
Therefore these children receive the same basic formal education services as other children.
Children who are infected with HIV/AIDS, however are not admitted to local schools. Therefore,
we provide two types of enabling environment services:
1) Sensitize district administration and the education department
2) Provide sensitization programs at local schools to help children to combat stigma and
discrimination.
In addition, we support NGOs and homes that run their own schools for infected children.
28. Why are the children in your school/s not attending government/other schools?
All the school age children in our targeted communities are attending the local government or
private schools. But in some cases affected children do not attend mainly due to stigma and
discrimination.
29. a) How many children have completed education in your school in the past five years?
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In the year 2007, 104 children have completed education. We have supported 104 children
with school bags, books, foot wear, tuition or school fees and uniform.
b) What is the drop-out ratio (number of students enrolled at the beginning to those
who go on to complete education at your school)? What are the causes of drop-out?
(moving to another school, dropping out from studies to do work etc)
Please see above (a)
c) What percent progressed with their education (such as moving to secondary or
university education)?
Please see above (a)
d) What percent sought employment immediately following completion of education at
your school?
Please see above (a)
e) What did other students do after completing their education?
Please see above (a)
30. Do you help your students with their future education efforts after they have passed
out of your school?
Yes. Our staffs of the partner organisation do help the children to continue their education based
on their family’s financial situation. Staff do follow-up through home visits and provide relevant
information on various courses, hostel and future educational institutions.
31. a) How do you try to involve the parents of the children in the school, such as choosing
curriculum, assisting with administration, or other activity?
Generally, parents of the children are either infected, have already died, or are working to
support the family. For those parents who are alive, SAATHII – APFCC Program through
support groups sensitise the parents in taking stake in the school activities for better prformance.
The care givers and parents of the children in child care homes will meet once in a month and get
updated on rogress of the child.
b) What are positive and negative influences of parents’ participation in the school?
Parents learn the necessity of education for their children and a general community sensitization
occurs about HIV/AIDS related stigma and discrimination. Parents can begin to speak out
collectively and impact decisions of administrative and political officials to end discrimination of
those infected and affected.
32. Does the school use any innovative techniques in its instruction or administration? If so,
please provide details.
Yes. We promote the partner NGO run schools to use child –friendly teaching learning methods
and materials. Interactive communication strategies like story telling, songs, puzzles, rhymes,
puppetry are often used.
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33. What are your expansion plans for the future (e.g. adding more classes or schools)?
There are a large number of infected and affected children in our five target districts that are
already identified by SAATHII – APFCC Program but are not being reached with basic
education support because of financial problems. APFCC Program plans to provide the affected
children with funds to pay for schools fees, uniforms, books, and materials. APFCC also plans to
provide infected children supported by NGO and residential homes with their own schools with
extra teachers, books, materials, and materials for interactive learning games and activities.
SAATHII’s expansion plans include reaching more orphans, approximately 1000 children in
need with sponsorship support for education. This program is currently expanding to other four
states in India including Manipur, Nagaland, Orissa and West Bengal.
34. What would you do to improve the school in the next 5 years?
At local schools, advocacy has led to OVC school admissions, HIV movements by student peers
to build safe environment for OVC, and awareness and ownership by parents and teachers of the
issue. As well, district officials have shown support through the provision of materials and other
increased resources for OVC in their communities. One education department official instructed
that no child be stigmatized or discriminated against because of his/her health vulnerability status;
on the eve of World Orphans Day a prominent elected representative took an oath of commitment
to provide resources for the care of OVC and their families in his administrative jurisdiction. We
would like to do more sensitization workshop in private schools.
35. If possible, please provide us with the contact information of two individuals from your
community who can describe the impact of your program.
1. Name
Address
Mr. Ayika Raju, Director
Sri Ravi Teja Educational Infected Children Welfare Society
D.No: 5-40, Cheruvugattu,Tangellamudi, Eluru
West Godavari district, PIN: 534005
Mobile: 9440764271
2. Name
Address
Mr M Rama Mohan Rao
Coastal Network of HIV Positive People,
D.No: 2-40-110/1,Allcott Gardens,Opp: Luthern High school
Rajahmundry, East Godavari District,
+91 0883-6572921, Mobile: 9348432617
Phone
36. If approved for funding, Asha for Education will require reports from your group every
six months to continue its funding. Asha for Education will provide guidelines to complete
this report. Please provide the name, address & contact numbers for the person who will be
responsible for sending us these reports.
Name
Mr Kaveesher Krishnan, Program Manager
Mr K.Chandra Reddy, Capacity Building Coordinator
Address SAATHII Hyderabad
H. No. 1-4-880/2/36/1
New Bakaram, Gandhi Nagar
Street No :10, Hyderabad
Phone
+91-40 27654688, 27674757
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Email
saathii@yahoo.com
37.Are there any questions your organization or your students would like to ask Asha for
Education?
No.
38. Do you have any suggestions on how Asha can be a positive influence in changing the
education scenario in India?
An estimated 2.5-3.1 million Indians are infected with HIV/AIDS, making India home to the thirdlargest population of people living with HIV in the world, after South Africa and Nigeria. The state
of Andhra Pradesh has one of the highest rates of HIV/AIDS in the country. The number of
children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS is expected to escalate rapidly as the current
generation of parents living with HIV/AIDS pass the virus to their children and become sick
themselves.
These children, like other children, yearn for love and affection, acceptance by society and outlets
for recreation and development. But stigma and discrimination brought on by poverty, HIV/AIDS
and orphaning often force these children to grow up quickly in the absence of social and emotional
support.
The needs of these children are even greater than those of other children. They are already poor
and their economic status is compounded by the additional burdens of inadequate access to
essential resources (i.e. health, nutrition, and education) and insufficient care and support (i.e.
psychosocial, economic) from families and communities. These children are moreover vulnerable
to abuse, exploitation, stigma, and discrimination and are at risk to become involved in crime,
prostitution, and gang-related violence and drugs.
The government support is not sufficient to meet the needs of these children. Instead, NGOs and
residential homes are often the only place for these children that take proper care and support for
their survival and development; but they themselves need increased resources to be able to aid the
growing numbers of infected and affected children.
ASHA can support these heavily burdened children by increasing awareness of the issues
concerning infected and affected children and by providing financial support to meet their basic
needs including education.
Part III: Financial Details
Please feel free to attach any information such as annual reports, budgets etc.
39. a) What sources fund your group’s activities at present? Please list the amount you receive
currently, and plan to receive (in Rupees) annually?
Funding of Andhra Pradesh Family Care Continuum Program is shared from J&J foundation,
AJWS and ASHA for Education. Percentage support towards various components by these
agencies is detailed in the table below. ASHA for Education provided funding towards education
of the children and infrastructure strengthening of Child Care Institutions. Costs towards service
provision except for education were provided by J&J foundation , whereas AJWS funding
supported advocacy , resource mobilization and fifty percent of the capacity building component
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Funding Support for the APFCC Program
APFCC Project Components
Johnson and AJWS
Johnson
Care,
√
Capacity Building of Service Providers
Strengthening of Child care homes and
institutions
Advocacy
Resource Mobilization including Child
Sponsorship Program
Amounts in US $
√
Provision of Comprehensive
Support and Treatment Services
ASHA for
Education_NY
and NJ
√
Only for
education
√
√
√
√
120,000
30,000
5,000
b) How do you use the funds?
All the funds are directly used for the program. These funds are used for partner services, SAATHII
technical assistance and capacity building for the partners and operational costs.
c) From which sources do you expect to receive funds in the next 3 years and how much (such as
government, international organizations, local organizations, and so on)?
In the next three years, SAATHII – APFCC program is moving towards public financial support for 20%
and international funding agencies support for 80% to run and scale up the program.
40. Please provide us with details of your projected budget for the next 3 years –
Year
Recurring costs
Fixed costs
2008-11
Basic Education support
(US $36 x 135 Children x 3 years)
US $ 14580
2008-11
Basic Nutrition Support
To 492 children
US $ 52164
41. Salary expenditure details: In two child care home run schools we mentioned the number of staff ,
but we don’t need support for this as partner NGOs are bearing salaries.
Number
Salary Range
Teachers
4
1500
Paid Staff
8
1000-2000
Volunteer Staff
0
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42. Please provide details of the fixed costs of your school/s for the next three years.
No fixed costs required for this year.
43. How many of your students pay school fees? Please provide details.
Among the sponsorship supported 104 children , 54 children pay schools fees to the private schools
that they go. But the children in child care homes run schools don’t pay any fees.
44. What amount are you requesting from Asha, and for what specific purpose?
Sl.
Item
Unit details
Unit Cost
Annual (in US $)
1.
Assistance for Education for
135 Children infected and
affected with HIV/AIDS
Tuition fees, Uniform, School
bag, Text books, Note books,
foot wears (one time assistance
for a year)
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4860
5.25 $
4860
7182
2.25 $
10206
Subtotal for Education Support
2.
Nutrition packets to 114 HIV 1.5 $ x 3.5 kgs of nutrition
infected AIDS Children
packets /month
3.
Nutrition packets to 378 HIV 1.5 $ x 1.5 kgs of nutrition
infected (non-AIDS)
packets/month
Children
Subtotal for Nutrition Support
SAATHII’s contribution for Nutrition from other funding
Request from ASHA NJ for Nutrition Support (17388-6411 US $)
17388
6411
10977
Summary of Budget (in US $)
Sl
1
2
Item
Education Support for 135 children
Nutrition Support for 492 children
Total request from ASHA-NJ
Amount
4860
10977
15837
Part IV: Teacher Survey
NA
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One time/ Annual
4860
10977
15837
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APPENDIX A
PROFILE OF THE APFCC PROGRAM IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS
CHANGES (Community Health Awareness and Natural Green), East Godavari
CHANGES was registered in 1998 by a group of social workers interested in promoting quality
of life in marginalized communities through sustainable development. The organization with
financial and technical assistance from APSACS/TRU-HLFPPT/DfID implements the
Partnership in Sexual Health Program to improve the life conditions of children of 3000 female
sex workers across five mandals. The formation of the organization was inspired by the Durbar
Mahila Samakhya Committee, a self reliant movement of sex workers from Sonagachi, in the
popular red light area in Kolkatta, West Bengal. As part of the program, the organization
intervened into organized and unorganized brothels of Peddapuram, Amalapuram and Kakinada
sub-towns through program components like STD care, behaviour change communication
(BCC), condom programming and creation of an enabling environment. The organization has
facilitated to form a Community Based Organization of sex workers named, Velugu Rekha,
promoted micro-credit and income generation activities, advocated with key stakeholders to
secure sex workers rights, and to rehabilitate aged sex workers. CHANGES has also been
working with the sex workers children since its intervention and has supported most for
education and securing admission in the regular bridge schools.
CNP+ (Coastal Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS), East Godavari
CNP+ (Coastal Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS) is a registered Community based
Organization in the year 2002 for and by the People Living with HIV/AIDS in East Godavari
district. This district level network of PLHA is affiliated to TNP+ (Telugu Network of Positive
People Living with HIV/AIDS) and then to national network, INP+ (Indian Network of Positive
People Living with HIV/AIDS). The goal of the CNP+ is to improve the quality of life of People
Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA’s) which is realized through different mechanisms that
strengthens the capacities of the individual PLHA’s, including promotion of income generation
programs especially among women Infected and affected to HIV/AIDS. CNP+ is financially
assisted through a project of APSACS focused to render services to PLHA’s like, counseling,
referral, treatment for Opportunistic Infections, Awareness creation among general community,
Facilitating Support groups to take up income generation programme for women, pre and post
natal counseling to the pregnant and lactating mothers through a Drop-in-Centre and PPTCT
centers. CNP+ with its outreach activity in the entire East Godavari District has reached to more
than 3000 children living with and affected to HIV/AIDS. Before partnering with SAATHII, due
to resource limitations, the CNP+ services to children were limited to treatment provisions for
Opportunistic Infections and referrals to public health clinics.
Sri Ravi Teja Educational Society, West Godavari
Sri Ravi Teja Educational Society based in Elluru Town of West Godavari District is an
organization registered in the year 2000. The organization engages a residential orphan home
cum a school with around twenty children living with and affected to HIV/AIDS. The
organisational mission is to improve the quality of life of children supported by the organization.
In doing so Sri Ravi Teja Educational Society render supports to the children through provision
of free food, shelter, clothing and education to the home inmates. As most inmates are school
dropouts, the school provides educational support through age wise segregation. In addition,
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special tuitions are arranged through voluntary teachers for needy students with low learning
abilities. The organization also provides supplementary nutrition to the general children other
than to the home inmates.
Jyothi Educational Society, West Godavari
Jyothi Educational Society is an organization established in the year 1998 to render support
services to marginalized communities in the societies. Since the inception, the organization has
been serving the communities in three mandals of East Godavari district. In partnership with
APSACS/TRU/DfID, Jyothi Educational Society has served the street and brothel based female
sex workers to change high risk behaviour through Targetted Interventions. The organization
has focused on sex workers, their children in the rural villages and PLHAs. The organization is
pioneer in the district for initiatives in promoting sex workers rights through promoting CBO’s of
sex workers. Jyothi Educational Society, also engage in a Care and Support Centre for PLHA’s
through counseling, referral, treatment for Opportunistic Infections with financial assistance from
APSACS. Another service through assistance from BMGF (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation)
is treatment clinics for STD’s/STI’s of female sex workers. Promotion of literacy activities,
awareness generation on HIV/AIDS, Promotion of women based people’s organization and
income generation programs are other community outreach initiatives done by Jyothi Educational
Society. Besides the above it also delivers nutritional supplements to the PLHA families and
provides treatment services for Opportunistic Infections to the children living with HIV/AIDS.
Vianny Home, Nellore
Vianny Home is a faith based organization established in the year 1980 by the Congregation of
Holy Cross Rev. Sisters in Nellore district. The home reaches to the three mandals of Nellore
district aimed at overall development of women and differently abled children. The organization
engages in general health awareness programme including HIV/AIDS in schools and villages,
promotion of self help groups through micro credit and micro enterprise activities through
linkages and collaboration with institutions for credit and market access. Vianny Home has been
referring the children living with and affected to HIV/AIDS served through their community
outreach activity to the pubic health care institutions, social service agencies and to the
government orphanages for an effective care and support services.
Chaitanya Jyothi Welfare Society (CJWS), Nellore
Chaitanya Jyothi Educational Society, a registered organization in the year 1990 aims at
empowering the marginalized community especially the women and children. The organization
with its operational coverage to 12 mandals of Nellore district engages in the formation of
women groups, provide home and community based care to PLHA’s, promote marketing of
handicrafts made by women as part of income generation ventures. The organization also is
involved in a HIV/AIDS prevention intervention with composite groups with high risk sex
behaviour and in provision of care and support services to PLHA’s. The organization engage in
direct provision of nutritional supplements and referrals for the children living with HIV/AIDS to
the public health care institution for Opportunistic Infections, and to the public run orphanages as
to ensure shelter, education and other services.
Bhavani Educational Society, Nellore
Bhavani Educational Society based in Kavali mandal of Nellore district was formed by a group
of young and committed young social workers in the year 1992. The organization aims at
alleviating poverty and to bring health awareness among the villagers. The organization serves 32
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coastal villages in the Nellore district and the target on adults and children living with and
affected to HIV/AIDS. Bhavani Educational Society runs a care and support centre with support
from APSACS for the PLHA’s through which it renders services like, counseling, referrals and
treatment of opportunistic infection. Bhavani Educational Society also has an orphan home with
42 children inmates who are living with and affected to HIV/AIDS. The children are provided
free food, clothing, shelter and educational services through the home. The organization mostly
raises local resources in the form of donations or kind to provide all these services to the
children. Besides the above the organization also engages in advocating for children’s rights at
district level.
PASCA (Planned Action Service Committee for Achievements)
PASCA (Planned Action Service Committee for Achievements) is a registered organization
formed in the year 1984 in Ongole town of Prakasam district. The goal of PASCA is to bring an
overall development in the socio-economic life condition of Street children. The organization
serves the entire Prakasam district with a focus on Street children. PASCA engages in improving
the sexual health of street children through a partnership in sexual health project supported by
APSACS/TRU/DfID. PASCA has identified 800 street children and provide counseling services,
referrals to public health institutions for STD care, provide education, re- unification of their
families etc.
NHP+ (Network of HIV Positive People), Rangereddy
NHP+ (Network of HIV Positive People) is a registered Community based Organization in the
year 2004 for and by the People Living with HIV/AIDS in Rangareddy district. This district level
network of PLHA is affiliated to TNP+ (Telugu Network of Positive People Living with
HIV/AIDS) and then to national network, INP+ (Indian Network of Positive People Living with
HIV/AIDS). The goal of the NHP+ is to improve the quality of life of People Living with
HIV/AIDS (PLHA’s) which is realized through different mechanisms that strengthens the
capacities of the individual PLHA’s, including promotion of income generation programs
especially among women Infected and affected to HIV/AIDS. NHP+ is financially assisted
through CDC to run a Family Counseling Centre, Drop in Centre from APSACS for PLHA’s
like, counseling, referral, treatment for Opportunistic Infections, Awareness creation among
general community, Facilitating Support groups to take up income generation programme for
women, pre and post natal counseling to the pregnant and lactating mothers through a Drop-inCentre and PPTCT centers. NHP+ with its outreach activity in the entire Rangareddy and part of
Hyderabad District has reached to more than 3000 children living with and affected to
HIV/AIDS. Before partnering with SAATHII, due to resource limitations, the NHP+ services to
children were limited to treatment provisions for Opportunistic Infections and referrals to public
health clinics.
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