Education India Project #47831

Give 400 needy children & youths a future in India

by HUMAN-Stiftung

Give 400 needy children & youths a future in India

Project Report | Jun 9, 2021
Big challenge during Covid-19 pandemic

By Karlheinz Neumann | Founder and project leader

On March 1st, 2021 we were so happy that we could start inclusion school classes in our Keshwa Child Welfare Center in Sonbhadra. Despite government restrictions due to Covid-19, 25 children attended daily lessons.

At the beginning of April, we had to close our Keshwa Child Welfare Center again, as the second corona wave had broken out in India from then on. According to the media, dramatic scenes have taken place in certain regions of India. In Uttar Pradesh, too, there were sometimes high infection rates, illnesses, and deaths.

We were therefore only partially able to look after some families as an emergency program. As of the beginning of June all regular programs are still not allowed to be carried out. The environment in our Keshwa Child Welfare Center is thankfully not that severely affected by Covid-19, as we are active in a rural area. However, the effects for the locals are quite large.

However, we can use this difficult phase to carry out minor maintenance work on our center, such as plastering the outer wall and fencing our new property.

What is next now?

It is not possible to give an exact forecast as to when the government will ease the restrictions again. But we very much hope that there will be a new opportunity to restart our programs in July, especially the inclusion school and the skill development program. Our child emergency program will probably not be able to start before September / October, as various agreements with the authorities are still necessary and travel restrictions within India for onsite visits to be expected for some time.

Let us keep our fingers crossed that the pandemic in India will ease off as quickly as possible. We are wholeheartedly with all people who are affected by the pandemic and of course we are happy, when our project work again fully benefits the people in need.

As we are not working in the medical field, we currently have limited options, but do not lose confidence. We continue to pay our permanent staff their wages so that their families do not have to suffer from the pandemic.However, this also means that our expenses will only decrease slightly, since wages and infrastructure costs are almost the same.

Support families with severe Covid-impact

Plastering of outer wall in Keshwa Child Center

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Feb 13, 2021
Our vision is gradually becoming reality

By Karlheinz Neumann | Founder of HUMAN Stiftung and project leader

Skill and School Counceling Day

India is in the process of gradually easing its strict SARS-Cov-2 restrictions. What does this mean for our Keshwa Child Welfare Center project?

After we were suddenly stopped with the adoption of our “brand-new” programs by the pandemic in spring 2020, all major programs will start in the coming weeks: Skill Development, followed by our new inclusion school and then the ChildLine service. We have never completely stopped looking after the poor people in the villages (outreach program), Disability Welfare and Women Empowerment programs.

In February, the Skill Development Programs with licenses from the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and the National Small Industry Corporation (NSIC) will kick-off. The last details are just being clarified and then annually around 300 young people and women will begin their professional training as self-employed tailors or beauty therapists.

For our unique inclusion school in Sonbhadra District, we are now firmly expecting school to start on March 1, 2021, according to the announcement by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in Uttar Pradesh. It is the first school of its kind and we will gradually start with children from nursery age to 5th grade in our modernly equipped center. We expect around 100 children in school in 1-2 years. It will take some time, because we start from scratch. An unbelievable offer for the children from poor families together with handicapped children.

To run the school, we also had to buy a piece of land, which is next to our center. On 6,600 sqft, we have enough space for games and sports and over time we want to use a small part as agricultural cultivation area or planting area.

Finally, some more positive news: The local government in Robertsganj has decided to repair the dilapidated road to our center and implemented it immediately, so that we are now easily accessible by vehicle. This is also a sign of appreciation and recognition for our offer and our work.

We would like to pass this recognition and appreciation on to our donors who make this work possible. Thank you so much.

Skill and school counceling Day

Road Construction

New land: School playground and planting area

Library with books for students

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Oct 22, 2020
License for Inclusive School at Keshwa Child Welfare Center

By Karlheinz Neumann | Founder of HUMAN-Stiftung and project leader

Advertising for our "Inclusive school"

Although the corona pandemic in India is still having massive effects and thus also our activities are severely impacted, we have achieved two very positive results in the last few weeks:

1. We were granted a license from the Indian Government to run an “inclusive school”, means a special school where children with and without disabilities learn together. This is the first license for an inclusive school granted to an organization in the Sonbhadra district. We are very proud of this. We now, of course, very much hope that we can start running the school as soon as the Corona situation allows. The breakthrough came in a conversation with Dr Ajaya Kumar, Government Representative for Special Disability Education. We have already collected data from over 120 families in the area close to our center where people with disabilities live. We will offer our classes over time to nursery, pre-school and class I-V. The quality of our Infrasturcture and our lessons are comparable to private schools. However, children from BPL (Below-Poverty-Line) families are free of charge, other children have to pay a very small fee. So this is a great opportunity for children to benefit from an education they would never get in a public school, if they go to school at all.

2. We will purchase a piece of land opposite from our Keshwa Child Welfare Center. We need this property as a playground and sports field for the school and want to keep the option open to possibly build a small additional building at a later date. The plot has a size of approx. 6,800 sqft.

The press reports every now and then about our intention to run an inclusion school. The registration phase for the Inclusive School has started.

As the numbers of infections across India are still very high, we currently only can offer our services to people in the villages. From time to time we are allowed to make some small events in our Center, like on Independence Day with a limited number of children. The same applies to the other programs. We are currently not allowed to run our “Skill Development Program” and other programs. We do not assume that approval will be given before November 2020.

Keep your fingers crossed for us that we will be able to offer all our programs for the benefit of children and women again by next year at the latest.

Children visiting the KCWC on Independence Day

Press release about our new school project

Our additional land for school project

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