By Benjamin Chinnappan | Chairman
Kakkanur is a small rural village with a population of 3000, twenty Kms, west of Villupuram. The village has 74% literacy rate. Most of people are economically poor agriculture families. St Little Flower School (St. Theresa) established in 1929 by the French Missionaries produced many graduates and literate in the past nine decades.
Most of our people are very poor economically as the monsoon failed miserably in the past. They have gone through lots of loses and suffering through unemployment and poverty. Half of the youth have migrated to cities in search of jobs in order to earn bread for their families. Consequently, the literacy rate dropped down for some time. For years, the village remained at a stagnant point without much progress. Now there is some hope with this outside intervention. This is a huge investment for the morale and strength of the people. The have come together to take the village into a new direction. This is where St.Little Flower Higher Secondary would play a vital role in shaping the community.
This March, we were able to purchase and gift a new school bus for the children of St. Little Flower School, Kakkanur. This new bus will help in reducing the number of school dropouts in and around the villages and will ensure equal opportunity for the girl children to commit to school.
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