Sneha Hasthaalu has been empowering rural youth in India for 6 years through education, skills development, and community programs. It operates schools, libraries, career counseling, disaster relief and more, impacting over 4,800 students annually. The organization aims to enable underprivileged children and youth to reach their full potential. It adopts government schools, provides materials, computers and mentors and has reduced dropout rates by 30%. Sneha Hasthaalu is looking to expand its programs and community impact with additional funding and support.

1. Sneha Hasthaalu
2014-15

2. CONTENTS
 Introduction
 Goals & Vision
 Activities
 Achievements
 Our Impact
 Cost & Expenses
 How You Can Help
 Contact Us

3. Introduction
Sneha Hasthaalu has been established 6 years back and formally registered
two years back with an objective to empower the rural youth through
education and skilled development.
Commenced major operations in 2012.
Created a community of 200 plus regular contributors
Obtained certificate U/S 80G of Income Tax Act.

4. Goals & Vision
“Empower Rural Youth Through Education and
Skill development”
Our goal is to enable rural youth to realise their full potential in life by
providing them tools and motivation through education and other
activities.

5. Interventions
In order to achieve these goals, the focus areas of intervention are as follows:
At Child
School Adoption
Setting up of Computer training and other off-campus training systems
Conduct Career Guidance classes for 10th & 12th class students
Financial Support for talented poor children
At Teacher
Training and Motivation classes for Teachers
At Community
Setup free libraries in rural villages accessible to everyone
At Village
Help villages in natural calamities
Beautify and make greenery the villages through tree planting

6. School Adoption
Adopt rural government primary schools
 Partner with teachers and help them to improve quality of education during the
foundational years of children.
 Provide materials to schools (uniforms, stationary, drinking water and others)
 Provide computers to schools and prepare kids for tomorrow’s competitive world.
 Appoint mentors to monitor and improve efficiency and effectiveness of education.
 Augment teaching staff where needed.
 Encourage and incentivize the parents and kids to improve the attendance rate and
decrease the dropouts.
 Provide after-school tuitions.
 Provide Spot gifts and stars to students and teachers to encourage them achieve more.
 Works out better with logistics and cost effective to adopt a block (10+) of schools
than individual schools.

7. Financial Support
 Identify qualified youth who are talented and poor
 Provide financial support through out their education.
 Help them achieve their career aspirations through counseling.
 Qualification criteria includes excelling in a competitive entrance exam.
 Other criteria include their financial status, history of previous education
track records etc.
 Setting the condition that they have to pay back in 3 years after
education.

8. Off-Campus Training & Career Guidance
 Providing Computer training for +2 students and teachers from the adopted
schools.
 Arranging computer for every school adopted.
 Creating IT awareness for school children through off-hour classes.
 Providing infrastructure to use advanced internet learning classes through
internet/DVD etc.
 Career guidance to students to prepare them for real word:
 Annual event with the help of Doctors, Bank Managers, Cops, coaching
center professionals etc.

9. Free Rural Libraries
 Established a rural library in one of the villages.
 Main purpose is to establish as a knowledge center for rural children, youth and
farmers.
 Make various personality development books, knowledge books.. etc available for free
to rural youth.
 Provide content through various media as well:
 Daily newspapers
 Magazines,
 Books
 CD/DVDs etc.
 Provide internet access to make use of e-governance portals.
 Plan is to provide a common place and infra to empower rural women self-help groups
achieve their goals.

10. Help in Natural Calamities & Develop
Greenery in villages
 Establish infrastructure to respond to disasters ASAP.
 Provide logistics support to locals to recover faster from floods etc.
 Provide materials (e.g. food, cloths, transportation ..etc) for stranded
people
 Plant trees and flower beds along the schools, roads and other areas in
villages.
 Provide Tree Guards to protect these trees.
 Adopted schools to take care of planted trees.
 Encourage students and schools to maintain them through green-school
awards.

11. Achievements by numbers
 60 schools adopted impacting 4800 students
 Supported 15 students financially through out their education
 Established 2 rural libraries.
 3 mentors, 5 teachers, 4 tutors, 2 librarians working for our foundation.
 One water purification plant providing clean water at minimal cost.
 Planted 2200 plants with 680 tree guards
 Arranged 60 computers (donated by Infosys)
 Provided Computer Training for 110 students in summer
 Distributed about 40K books, 1000 plates for midday lunch, 500 school
bags

12. Impact
 Reduced drop out rate by 30% from government schools compared to last
year.
 Improvement in attendance, taking kids away from work to schools by 20%
compared to last year.
 More number of girls moving from 5th grade to high school.
 Teachers taking extra care to make measurable improvements in quality
of education.
 Around 140+ kids came back from private schools (non-affordable) to
government schools
 Parents more willing to send their kids to school than to work.

13. Impact
 Streamlined system
Completely streamlined system of school adoption that can be mirrored and repeated
easily.
o Our system has been followed to adopt 12 schools by other charitable trusts.
 Partnership with other NGOs
o Sikshana came forward to train the mentors and school teachers
o Infosys provided 60+ computers and monitors
o Partnership with Telugu People foundation to provide financial support to talented and poor
students.
o Many other foundations providing charitable donations to help us improve our operations.
 Local Support
Able to establish a support system with local authorities (MEO, MDO, MLAs) to
provide logistic as well as administrative support.
o Local SBI provided water filters for schools
o MDO came forward to provide a bore well to supply water for the schools

14. Costs & Expenses
• Rough guidance of expenses involved in these activities.
Program Expenses (INR) Comments
School adoption 400/student/year. Includes salary for
mentors etc.
Library 1,00,000 one time cost
6000 per month
Not including building
(approx 3,00,000)
Tree plantation 150/tree Includes tree guards,
transportation
Computer, UPS etc 5000/computer Includes UPS etc. Not including
actual comp. & monitor.
Fin. Support to Youth 25000/student/year. Excluding tuition fees.

15. How Can You Participate
 More School Adoptions
 Establishing Training Center to Empower rural women through training
in embroidery and other skills .
 Tree Plantation In the interest our future generation and to protect our
deteriorating environment.
 Spreading the awareness how the Government school children also can
learn better with small interventions.
 Establishing rural libraries in villages
 Financial support for poor talented graduates

16. 2014-15 and beyond & How You Can Help
 Need to find a permanent building for existing library. (about INR.3,00,000)
 Continue Supporting ~4800 existing students in adopted schools. (about
INR.19,20,000/Year)
 Add to existing schools based on receipt of donations – Target is to add 1500
more students – INR.6,00,000/Year extra)
 Establish 2 more rural libraries (INR.4,00,000 / library, INR 72000/year/lib)
 Tree Plantation – Another 1500 trees (INR.2,25,000)
 Continue with Computer coaching for 150 students (INR.1,50,000/year)
 Financial support : 4 continued + 4 new (INR.2,00,000/year)
 Empower rural women through training in embroidery and other skills
(INR.2,00,000 one time cost, INR.6000/month)

17. Contact Us:
URL www.snehahasthaalu.org
EMAIL snehahasthaalu@gmail.com
BLOG http://friends4helpinghands.blogspot.in/
FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/SnehaHasthaaluFoundation

18. Photos of Various Activities

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21. School Uniform Distribution
 Out of 11 Adopted Schools, one school is Aided School. Government do
not provide Uniform to this School.
 As this is the first school we adopted 3 years back, committed to
provide uniform once in every 2 years.
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22. August 15th Celebration @ all adopted schools
 Sneha Hasthaalu team participated in August 15th Celebrations
 Distributed Sports Material at each School
 Conducted Games at each School And gave away the Prizes
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24. Tree Plantation
 Got Support from Forest Department and Distributed 1500 Saplings @ 48
Schools.
 In every school one/two students adopted one Sapling and nurturing the
same. At each school minimum 10 Saplings are planted.
 Offered Prizes to students, based on progress of plantation.
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26. Review Meeting with teachers for every 3 months
 Got feed back from each teacher and each school
 Noted other requirements from Schools on Priority base.
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27. Reward program with Stars
Bunch of STARS provided @ each school. School teacher gives the STAR(s) to
best performed student(s).
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28. Teachers Day Celebration
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29. Computer Training For 11th Class(Inter)
Students and School Teachers
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30. Village Library
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31. Career Guidance and Teachers Motivation
Classes
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32. HudHud Relief Activities
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33. Drinking Water arrangement for 1500 students
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