We held our first Garage Sale at Kharewado, Vasco. The items on sale were recieved as donations from various people. Most of the items on sale were pre-used but in a good condition. Old and new clothing, footwear, toys, household knick-knacks and some home appliances were sold. The sale helped us raise funds for our school project.
As a part of our initiative to partner with schools, we donated reading material to one of our partner schools – Yuvak Sangh High School, Headland Sada, Vasco. The 134 books and magazines will augment the school library, and will be used by the children. Thanks to Amit T, Karuna, Lalit, Shubhangi and Sonali for donating books.
Please help collect reading material from your home, office, and from your friends and family. The material / envelope should be marked with your name. Your small contribution will go a long way to improve reading and learning in children.
FAQ:
What can I donate ?
Reading Material can include any books and magazines in reasonably decent condition that will help a child read and learn. They can include the 5-year old India Today that you have lying somewhere at home, the Amar Chitra Katha that your child doesnt read anymore, Gode Goshti in Marathi, or the workbook on Financial Accounting from your graduation that you have not touched for ages. They can be in any language (English, Hindi, Marathi, Konkani, Gujarati, Tamil, or even Swahili), and on any topic under the sun.
What will the club do with the reading material ?
These books and magazines will be sorted according to topic, suitability etc. and then donated to our partner institutions. We will be donating the reading material to the schools: (classes 1st to 10th) and colleges (11th-12th, B Com / BBA / BA) students. The children will be from ages 5 years to 20 years.
Which are your partner institutions ?
These schools and colleges are in the vicinity of Vasco / Dabolim, and have been shortlisted after evaluation on numerous parameters by our members Amit B and Snehal.
Dandiya Nite, an event organised to raise funds for our school project, was a great event. People of all age-groups had a wonderful time. Dandiya enthusiasts turned up in large numbers in colourful ethnic wear and were seen dancing away to garba and dandiya beats and Bollywood numbers. Numerous prizes including attractive cash prizes were given to the winners of the different dance competitions. The food court with mouth watering food stalls was a runaway success. Ladies lined up at the mehendi stall, while other games made it a fun filled event for everybody.
We were overwhelmed with the response. Our sincere thanks to all the participants, the Chicalim Sarpanch Mr. Cleto, Mr. Rajan Satardekar, Deputy Collector (South Goa), PI Braz, NISA, Goa Times, Vasco Watch, Vinsan Graphics, Sanjana Lotlikar, Vibhav Joshi, Aditya Mehta, Dr. Sanat Joshi, Ms. Lalita Joshi, Nimisha Saraswat, Vidya Tapadia, Pankajbhai of Jailaxmi Transport, Chaat Street, Flintstone, Wonder Ice Cream, Everton Vales, Temptations, Big G, Magsons, ING Bank, Ms. Sweeja Diwekar and RC Vasco, and Event Sponsors: Prime Builders, Hiralal & Co., RNSB Trust, ACM, Kiran Dhabolkar and Sons, Maharaja Hotels, NRB Group, S K Land Developers, Vijai Marine Services, Goa Medicare Devices, Hyundai – Goa Motors, Links – HDFC Car Loans – Devang Gosalia, Mahalaxmi Mines and Minerals, Mohit Ispat, Tarshish Exports and other donors; Prize Sponsors: Coconut Creek, 10 Calangute, The UB Group and Teles Mega Store;
We hope to be back next year with a bigger more memorable event.
Dandiya Raas is the traditional folk dance form of Vrindavan, where it is performed depicting scenes of Holi, and lila of Krishna and Radha. Along with Garba, it is the featured dance of Navratri evenings.
The Rotary Club of Dabolim, a part of the Rotary International family, will be investing the funds in our School Project. We are partnering with selected educational institutions in improving their infrastructure, buying training aids, and providing training for teachers. The project will improve the quality of education, impacting the lives of a large number of students and their families. Improving the employability of students is critical for India to harness the potential of its demographic dividend where over 52% of the population is below 25 years of age, and this project will be our small contribution towards the larger goal.
Rotary Club of Dabolim Goa will partner with (an) Education Institution(s) – a School or College, to try to Improve the life of children from lesser privileged sections of society.
We discussed the process so that the project can be easily repeated by us and by other clubs in the future:
1. Which Education Institution ? We will select the institutions based on some pre-defined metrics, instead of going with a school that is preferred by a member.
2. Focus Areas: Based on the data collected, we will decide whether the institution needs assistance in improving the quality of Teachers, purchase of Teaching Aids, or improvement of Infrastructure.
3. Investment: The above data will help us decide where we need to invest our time and money.
4. Feedback and Reward: This will ensure that we can clearly measure the effectiveness of our efforts, reward the best performers, and as this is a long-term project, use year 1 results to tweak year 2 focus areas and metrics for success.
Please DOWNLOAD the Presentation & Process PPT and Template for data XLS that were used by Lalit. Please note that these are meant to be a thought starter and template only. It will be refined as more members study and discuss it in subsequent meetings.
Project committee would be consisting of Snehal, Lalit, Jen, Umesh, Amit T, Charuta, Avez and Amit B.
We are looking for Rotary Clubs and Organizations that want to partner with us on this project. If you have any suggestions that will help us improve the effectiveness of the project, or would like to help financially, please contact us.
Please also see http://www.rcdabolim.org/projects/partner-with-a-school/
In November 2008, we visited the Keshav Smruti School in Dabolim, Goa. The objective was to understand whether we can add value to the school. We met the teachers and administrators of the school, and had a quick look at the school infrastructure.
In the next club meeting, it was decided to visit numerous schools to collect pre-determined data. This data will form the basis of deciding which school we will work with, and what are the specific inputs the school needs.
Dinesh, Snehal, Amit T and Lalit visited the school along with Rtn. Santosh Lotlikar of Rotary Club of Vasco da gama.
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