Activity Report of The Lily Foundation during 2011

Our foundation’s war on illiteracy is continuing and gaining strength as days pass because of your patronage and continued support. Faced by challenges of economic slowdown Lily Foundation remained dedicated towards its cause “Break the cycle of poverty through the gift of education”. We thank all our patrons for your generosity and unwavering support that helped to achieve what he have in this year.

A. Basic Literacy Group:

To enable the children of the busy BPL (Below Poverty Line) families fighting for bare survival receive the basic education to integrate themselves in the mainstream education system Lily Foundation has established AALO Study Homes which are located in Behala ( 2 units), Boral, Narendrapur, Santoshpur and Akra (2 units)

In these homes apart from education our foundation also provides free snacks, distributes school dresses, bags and books once a year and arranges free health check up and field trips for the kids.

Some important statistics related to AALO Study Homes:

• 63% students mainstreamed (admitted in Govt. sponsored primary schools)

• 7% dropouts

• Text books and stationery worth Rs. 42000/- (approx.) distributed

• School uniforms worth Rs.22000/- (approx.) distributed

• Field Trips organized; students visited places of interest like Botanical Garden, Bird Sanctuary, Narendrapur and Nalbon in Saltlake.  

Patron and well wisher Ms. Sadhana Aggarwal upgraded facilities with benches, fans, fluorescent lamps, and also by paying monthly electric bills.

Rotary Club of Chowrenghee, Calcutta , Crystal Roadways and Indus Food Products and Equipments Ltd. also cooperated in this venture.

B. Basic Literacy Group Programme also includes:

Grades III & IV kids get free coaching.

2 Primary Coaching Homes are operational in Suklai (Bankura), Hotar

C. High School students Coaching:

In villages where poverty is more terrible, the literacy level is also very low, there are high school students who barely pass (sometimes don’t even pass) in some key subjects like English and Mathematics. This is because of lack of adequate guidance. It is almost certain there that without coaching the students will not be able to successfully graduate from High School (i.e. pass Secondary Examination). In order to assist these students Lily Foundation runs AALO High School Coaching Homes.

6 such HS Coaching Homes have been already running in the villages of Dhulai, Narrah and Hijaldiha in Bankura district, in the town of Bandel in Hooghly district and in Ghatsila, Jharkhand.

Total intake capacity in these 6 HS Coaching Homes: 130 students.

Lily Foundation provides free stationery support, test papers for these students.

Over the past few years we have noticed exemplary performance of the students who have been coached in the HS Coaching Homes.

To help you in understanding how our HS Coaching Home students perform in Madhyamik we present the statistics below:

Performance of AALO HS Coaching Home students in 2011 Secondary Examination:

D. Scholarship for High School students:

There are families in villages and in small towns where the head of the family earns a very meager income from seasonal farming, or poorly paid government or private jobs, or from a very small business that he owns. They too have a large family to support and because they do not have a decent income are unable to spend sufficiently for their children who are academically very good in high schools. These children would do much better if they receive encouragement and support in buying additional books, in engaging a private tutor for one or two weak subjects or in meeting miscellaneous other expenses. Lily Foundation through its SMILE Scholarship programme supports these children with the objective that they can place themselves in top 20 to 25% of their classes. Historically the SMILE awardees have performed exemplarily well in Secondary and Higher Secondary Examinations over the past years.

Performance of SMILE Scholarship students in Secondary and Higher Secondary Examinations 2011:

In Secondary Examination 2011:

In Higher Secondary Examination 2011:

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E. Employability Skill development:

Now a days there is very little opportunity to get a decent job in any industry without acquiring expertise in computers. But in vast part of the country there is very little scope of learning computers in schools. Majority of computer learning institutes are guided by profit motive, they are based in cities or major suburban towns and charge very high course fees from their students. To ensure that expertise in computers is not confined to the elite few and is spread across the majority of poor village youth Lily Foundation has established computer learning centers (Lily Computer Centers) in small-town high schools or in leased or wholely-owned buildings.

Currently 5 Computer Learning Institutes are operational: these are,

·         Lily Foundation JC High School Computer Center at Ghatsila, Jharkhand.

·         DMS Computer Center at Dhulai, Bankura.

·         RN Pal Institute at Hotar, South 24 Pgs.

·         Vidyasagar Center for Computer Education, Kulbani High School , Kulbani, Paschim Midnapore.

      and the newly launched center at:

·         Kuntala Bagchi Memorial Computer Center at Hijaldiha, Bankura.

Two certificate courses (primarily on MS Office) are being conducted in these institutes. The examinations (Theory & Practical) are being conducted by Webel Informatics Lt

In Computer Centers located at High Schools ( JC High, Ghatsila and Kulbani High, Paschim Medinipur) students are taught only basic applications suitable for early learning.

Some successful students :

i) LABANEE MAL: student of April to September 2010 batch at DMS Institute is currently employed under ICDS Project of GOI, Sonamukhi Block from December, 2010.

ii) TANMOY DUTTA: student of April to September 2010 batch at DMS Institute, Dhulai is currently employed as clerk in the Indian Army from December 2010.

iii) ANJANA GHOSH: student of April to September 2010 batch at DMS Institute, Dhulai is currently employed at Dhulai Gram Panchayat from July 2011.

iv) ASTIK KHANRA: student of October to March 2011 batch at DMS Institute is currently employed as trainee jawan in the Indian Army from September 2011.

v) ANUPAM NASKAR: student of April to August 2010 batch at RN PAL Institute, Hotar is employed as staff in IQST from January 2011.

vi) GITASHREE CHAKRABORTY: student of April to August 2010 at RN PAL Institute, Hotar is currently employed as teacher at Children’s Academy in Sonarpur.

vii) ANJU BASU: student of April to August 2010 at RN PAL Institute, Hotar is employed as a staff at Sarada Ramakrishna ( S-O-M) Sevashram in Hotar.

viii) NILIMA NASKAR: student of October to March 2011at RN PAL Institute, Hotar is also employed as a teacher in a primary school.

ix) KUSH HALDER: student of October to March 2011 at RN PAL Institute, Hotar is as a staff in private concern.

F. Employability development skills-Low income family adults:

Lily Foundation is focusing upon developing employability development skills through its vocational centers which help the trainee to earn money for their family and subsidize their family income.

One of its vocational centers is at Narrah village in Bankura district. There village women are being trained in Tailoring and Embroidery lessons at AALO Sewing School to help them become self reliant.

Another new venture has been already launched under CSR scheme of Andrew Yule & Co. Ltd. where low income family youths are provided training in household electrical wiring. Our objective is to make them self dependant through establishment of their own businesses or getting employed

G. Ambulance service:

Launched for residents in Dhulai who lack access to emergency health care services due to inadequate transportation facilities. The service was inaugurated on 17^th December, 2010.

We promise to continue our benevolent activities in future with your prized support help our children to build their dreams and realize their aspirations. Your patronage helps us not only to support a poor child or his immediate family but helps to build our nation’s foundation for a just, democratic and educated society.

Thanking you all,

The Lily Foundation, India

"We bring light."

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