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Round Table India
In pursuit of Educating Underprivileged Children
Building a Future For Children
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Contents
This presentation covers four sections.
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Our Background
2
Our Dream
3
Our Success so far
4
Our Invitation
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Round Table India
We are an organization of young achievers driven by our aims and objects of community
service, self development, fellowship, and fostering international relations.
This unique movement works through “Tables” comprising 20-25 members.
Round Table India is an active member of the world wide organization of World Council of
Service Clubs and Round Table International.
Key Objects of Round Table
Member of
Round Table International
Community
Service
Self
Development
Internationa
l
Relations
Fellowship
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Round Table India- “Service through Fellowship”
From a small beginning in 1957 at Chennai, Round Table India has grown to 180 Tables.
Round Table India has a National & Regional leadership with a pan India reach in 75
cities and towns.
The profile of the 2500 members include professionals & businessmen with diverse
backgrounds and talents.
Members commit their time and talent to community service in the spirit of fellowship.
180 Tables
National Leadership
11 Regional Areas
Reach in 75 Cities and
Towns
2500 Members
Age group 25 -40
Diverse backgrounds and
talents
Service through Fellowship
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Contents
This presentation covers four sections.
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Our Background
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Our Dream
3
Our Success so far
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Our Invitation
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Are we really free ?
Fifty seven years since we achieved our Political freedom, we are
far from being truly free as we are yet to achieve Economic and
Social freedom.
As Round Tablers we too believe Social, Economic and Political
Freedom can only result through Education.
Prof Amartya Sen
Freedom Through Education
“To Build a Country, build a Schoolhouse”
“Extensive empirical studies have
demonstrated the critical role of basic
education in economy and social
development in Europe and North
America”
Social
Economic
Political
“The concentration on education was
responsible, to a large extent, for the
nature and speed of Japan’s economic
and social progress”
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HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU BEEN TOLD THAT INDIA
FACES AN EDUCATION CRISIS?
• Over 50 million Indian children in the age group 6 to 14 are out of
school
• Over 68% of all boys and 73% of all girls drop out of school before
class 10
• Over 34% of India’s adult population does not know how to read or
write
• Almost a third of the entire non-literate adult population in the world
lives in India
Source: MHRD estimates, Census 2001, Human Development Report
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THE GOAL IS UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION IN INDIA
Economic
development
Universal
primary
education has
both social
and economic
benefits
Health
Social progress
• Education: allows individuals to get jobs, support
themselves financially and improve their
standard of living
• Helps raise awareness of and achieve good
health, helps protect children from disease
• Helps improve self esteem and status in society
• Improves the quality of public debate; enables
people to recognise and assert their rights
• Helps reduce social and communal tensions
• Helps control population growth by raising
Population
awareness of need for and methods of family
planning, and giving women a greater say in
family planning decisions
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Extract from the Infrastructure section of “ PROBE” Survey
Public Report on
Basic Education ( Probe)
is an outcome of a
detailed field survey
covering five states. It is
acknowledged as a
landmark report, giving
the true picture on the
status of Primary
Education in the country
“Buildings soon deteriorate when the roof leaks – as the
monsoons in our country are so generous. It disrupts
schooling activity. Both teachers and parents complained
bitterly about the state of the school building during the
monsoons, when teaching activity was often disrupted,
sometimes for weeks, or even months at a time.”
“The Children huddle in two rooms, on sacking brought from
home. The second room is very dark.”
“The playground is full of muck and slime. The overflowing
drains could easily drown a small child. Mosquitoes are
swarming.”
“There is no toilet. Neighbors complain of children using any
convenient place to relieve themselves, and teachers complain
of neighbors using the playground using the playground as a
toilet in the morning.”
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GIVEN THE NEED AND OUR COMPETENCE, ROUND TABLE
CONCENTRATES ON THE “ ELEMENTS” IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
Fire
• Provision of Pucca Class rooms, so that the children are
protected from the vagaries of the weather
Earth
• Proper play ground, play pen and playing equipment for all
round development
Water
Air
• Provision of drinking water/ Bore well where required.
• Clean and pollution free environment. Emphasis on Hygiene by
providing Toilets in all schools built.
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ROUND TABLE HAS SET ITSELF AN AMBITIOUS TARGET
Our Effort
Create infrastructure for
educating underprivileged
Children
Our Approach
Supplement existing initiatives
working on Universalizing Primary
Education (UPE) through
partnerships with the
Governments, NGOs and
Corporates
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Contents
This presentation covers four sections.
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Our Background
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Our Mission
3
Our Success so far
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Our Invitation
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OUR SUCCESS SO FAR
We have witnessed dramatic surges in enrollment and retention when a clean and cheerful
environment is provided. We have also seen communities take ownership of the
infrastructure created.
NGOs
3700 class rooms in 1200
Schools built across the
Country.
Over 800,000 Children
benefited.
Rs 80 crores spent.
Partnership with Donors, NGOs
and State Governments.
Increased enrollment and
retention
Donors
Government
Ownership by the community
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Case Study - With Donors
Round Table Netherlands & India
Wipro Corporation
• Partnership with fellow International
•Gujarat Earthquake in 2001
•Round Table has been part of all relief
activities from Lathur, Orissa, Kargil to
Gujarat.
•Round Table’s appeal raises over Rs. 2.7
crores.
•Wipro Corporation donates Rs. 80 lacs
•14 schools built in the Earthquake
regions at the cost of Rs. 2.7 crores
Tablers
•Dutch Twinning started in 2000.
• Matching contribution by RT India Tables.
•Leveraging of funds through other agencies
like Cordiad, Novib – Doubling contribution.
•Built around 100 schools till date at the
cost of about Rs 6 crores
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Case Study - With other NGOs
Pratham
•Partnership that blossomed with the
Mumbai Tablers.
•Funding of Pratham projects – Balwadi’s
Bridge Courses, Balsakhi programs.
• Tables across the country helped Pratham
to incubate in each city – helping with
Admn, banks, coordinations.
•Implemented projects in Mumbai, Surat,
Baroda, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Patna and
Delhi.
MV Foundation
•Built over 12 schools schools in Ranga
Reddy District at a cost of Rs 25 lacs.
•Built 10 schools in Nalagonda District at a
cost of Rs 35 lacs.
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Case Study - With State Governments
Project Paathshala – Govt. of Karnataka
•MOU with the Karnataka Govt. to build
class rooms and schools in Govt. schools in
Karnataka.
• SDMC’s contribute 50% towards the
construction of the schools
•Under project Paathshala – 150 schools
built.
•Round Table identify areas where schools
will be built with BOE’s
• Complete execution by Round Table
Janmabhoomi – Govt. of Andhra Pradesh
•MOU with Andhra Pradesh Government
under Janmabhoomi scheme.
•Build class rooms and schools in Govt.
schools in Andhra Pradesh.
• Upto 70% funding from the Govt.
• Over 75 schools built.
•Schools built and handed over to the Govt.
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SOME OF RTI’S SCHOOLS
Name of School
Govt. High School
Sundakamuthur, Coimbatore
Class Rooms Built
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Children Benefited
600
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SOME OF RTI’S SCHOOLS
Name of School
School Building at Hosur,
Hubli
Class Rooms Built
4
Children Benefited
240
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SOME OF RTI’S SCHOOLS
Name of School
Presidency School, Chennai
Class Rooms Built
6
Children Benefited
300
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SOME OF RTI’S SCHOOLS
Name of School
Samata Vidyalaya, Pune
Class Rooms Built
6
Children Benefited
300
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SOME OF RTI’S SCHOOLS
Name of School
Mandi Vidya Niketan, Delhi
Class Rooms Built
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Children Benefited
700
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Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam
Inaugurating a Round Table
School
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Our Brand Ambassadors
Mr. R K Mishra
at a press conference promoting
Freedom Through Education
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Our Brand Ambassadors
Actor Madhavan
inaugurating a Round Table School
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Accountability of Round Table India
• Round Table India is a ZERO Overhead Organization
• Round Table India Trust is registered under Section 12 AA of Income Tax
act, with 80G IT exemption.
• Accounts of Round Table India are audited annually by reputed auditors –
M/s Deloitte Haskins & Sells
• Round Table India conducted Road Shows in the US in 2005 – US$
110,000 raised from various donors which resulted in 18 schools being built
across the country at a total cost of US$ 350,000. All donors from US get
501(c)3 Tax exemption. Money can be paid to “Freedom Through Education
– USA” Account in the US
• Dutch World Tour for Children – Group of 45 Dutch Nationals traveled
across the country. 18 Schools were built with Euro 90,000 contribution
leading to total spending of Euro 300,000
• Regular Updates of schools built sent to Donors alongwith photographs
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Round Table India’s Initiatives
Round Table India always helps in times of Natural Disasters:
• At the time of Orissa Cyclone, immediate relief work carried out and
14 school cum shelters were built under CYSD at an outlay of Rs. 1.6
Crores
• At the time of Gujarat Earthquake, apart from immediate relief work,
14 schools were built at a total cost outlay of Rs. 2.7 Crores
• During the current Tsunami crisis, immediate relief work being carried
out in most affected areas in Tamil Nadu, Kerala & Andhra Pradesh.
Long term plan of rebuilding large number of schools cum shelters
together with the Government in the affected areas, besides
rehabilitating fishermen with fishing boats and nets.
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Other Successes of Partnerships
• RTI and Coke have built had an MOU for 80%-20% partnership to build
schools in Hyderabad / Vijayawada / Bidadi / Nemam around Coke’s
strategic interest locations.
• Similarly Schools were built with ITC and Mysore Minerals
• DTDC is undertaking FREE courier services and building schools with us.
• Bajaj Allianz offered excellent corporate alliance for General Insurance
• Hewlett Packard also offered deal on Laptops
• Rotary Clubs of Dist 3230
• Endorsement by Central Govt. on RTI for Infrastructure Development. Tieups with various other State Govts. MOUs entered In Tamil Nadu, Gujrat,
Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh.
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Our Record
WE HAVE BUILT 3700 CLASSROOM IN LAST 12 YEARS
Year 2004
Year 2005
Year 2006
Year 2007
Year 2008
299 Classrooms
391 Classrooms
878 Classrooms
596 Classrooms
342 Classrooms
Rs. 5.04 million
Rs. 6.06 million
Rs.21.13 million
Rs.12.45 million
Rs.12.54 million
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Contents
This presentation contains four sections.
1
Our Background
2
Our Mission
3
Our Success so far
4
Our Invitation
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Partnership for Transformation
Round Table India seeks to bring about this transformation in
partnership with Corporates, NGOs and the Government in
their chosen Geographical and Infrastructure focus.
Round Table India will contribute and ensure proper
deployment of the funds and timely execution of the project.
Partnership for
Transformation
Industry/NGO/Govt.
Round Table
Timely
Execution
by the
Tables
Geographi
cal Focus
Proportiona
te
Contributio
n
Infrastruc
ture focus
100%
Funds
to the
project
Contribution
Monitorin
g
by Area
and the
national
Board
Transformation
in the chosen
Geographical
and
Infrastructure
focus
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PROJECT EXECUTION
Key activities involved
in construction
Round Table’s Proposition
• Obtain list of potential sites
Site
identification
from Block Education officer
and conduct independent need
assessment
• Develop low cost and efficient
Building
blue-print
development
plans for school based on
standard modules already
developed
• Efficient procurement of
Material
procurement
materials with direct
involvement of local tablers
• Local tablers closely monitor
Construction
project
managemen
t
Round Table’s
key proposition
includes
• Significant
involvement at
all stages
• Project
management
skills and
experience
project to ensure timely and
quality completion at optimal
costs
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Our invitation
We invite you to participate in our program “ Freedom through
Education”
Your participation can be at an overall level in the on going projects
identified by RTI or specifically in the projects identified by you.
• Cost
of each school
approx. Rs. 18.30 Lakhs
•We shall bring in our
sweat equity / credibility
Identified
by RTI
Identified by
the Donor
• All Projects will be
monitored by Round
Tablers at every step
Infrastructure
•200 children will benefit
by every school you help
build.
Complete School
Across
the
Country
Additional Class
rooms
Water Facilities
Native
State
or
Place
Toilet Blocks
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How can you help? –
Partner with us on Building Schools
• We would like to enter into an MOU on a Pan India basis.
• Identify Cities / Towns / States of strategic interest (where RTI has
presence) and build schools under this Partnership program.
• A school for us means up to 5 class room with Toilet block,
drinking water facility, play pen area, room for head master and can
have an outlay of Rs. 18.30 Lakhs.
• The pace and road map for rolling this partnership out can be
worked out jointly.
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Thank You
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