Transcript CFL - Asha for Education

Sai Seva Sadan
Annual Update 2011-2012
7/18/2012
Mission
• Sai Seva Sadan is a nonprofit organization with
the mission to provide services to persons
with emotional, psychological, developmental
and educational, disabilities.
History
• Founder: Mr. Bhasker
• Mr. Bhasker worked in the AP Govt (now retired) as Director
of Industries, and had been successful in implementing some
social welfare activities in the scope of his position.
• Motivated by conversations with his daughter in law in 2006,
a psychiatrist who was working as a medical director of longterm residential care facility of Devereux
(http://www.devereux.org), a non-profit organization focused
on helping developmentally challenged children and adults
• Based on this, Mr. Bhasker started an organization in India to
help children/adolescents with mild to moderate learning
disabilities living in rural areas.
• First reviewed and funded by Asha in 2008
Location
• Hyderabad, India
• In a commercial
area near a large
Govt. hospital
• Their students
come from rural
areas to this
residential school
• They rent the top
two floors of a
building
Organization Structure
• Staff/Paid Positions
– Residential and Logistical Full Time
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Warden/Coordinator - 1
Foster care father - 1
Office assistant/Accountant – 1 (TBH)
Cook - 1
Helpers - 2
Watchman -1
– Residential and Logistical Part Time
• Psychiatric Doctor (Daily visit) - 1
– Educational Full Time
• Special Education teachers – 3 (8:1 student/teacher ratio)
• Speech Therapist – 1 (rotates among all 25 students in batches)
– Educational Part Time
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Vocational Teacher
Drawing Teacher
Tabala Master
Yoga Teacher
• Mr. Bhasker oversees the organization as Chairman/Managing Trustee; is
not paid by the organization
Activities
• Primary goal is to allow the individuals to grow and
function in society with dignity and when possible, teach
them vocational skills needed for an income
• Residential school provided free of charge to ~25 students
– Rehabilitation and education
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Physiotherapy and rehabilitation (in house or remote as needed)
Speech therapy
Basic skills and education tailored to the individual student
Extra-curricular activities
Vocational training
– Boarding and medical care
• Three square meals and other daily needs
• Medical care as needed including a daily visit by a local doctor and
trained psychiatrist
General Partner Updates
• Successes
– 35 children over the last 4 years. 16 were released to their
parents after 1-3 yrs in the school
– Marked improvement in children’s ability to function
independently
– Improvements in speech and mental state
– Vocational training is moderately successful
– Extra curricular activities have resulted in children
participating in national level painting competitions in
their category
– Positive media coverage
– Growth of awareness amongst rural districts where they
look for children
– Finally have the FCRA approval
General Partner Updates
• Challenges
– FCRA approval process was extremely frustrating
• New rules only grant 5 year approval
• Penalty imposed for exchange rate benefit in 2008. Paying it was the only way
to move forward
– Expenses are a challenge
• Building rent is expensive
• Very high costs of teachers and staff commensurate with care required of
special ed children
• As a result of the above two items, per child cost is expensive (~INR 4800/pm
in 2011-2012, ~INR 6700 in 2012-2013)
• Mitigate expenses by expanding to include a day care center
• Raise funds over time for a building and pursue NGO land grant
– Income is very Asha centric
• Need to grow both local and foreign donors outside Asha
– Continuity plan needs improvement
Site Visit Report
• 2012 Site visit report is pending; Expected by
end of the month
• 12/2010 is last site visit – By Vamshi
Finances - Expenses
2011-2012 Expenses (Actual)
Depreciation,
33479, 3%
Other ,
86000,
5%
2012-2013 Expenses (Projected)
Penalties,
0, 0%
Depreciation, 0,
0%
Penalties,
100000, 9%
Other ,
84082, 7%
Food , 270000,
15%
Salaries, 382140,
34%
Food , 149760,
13%
Rent , 396000,
21%
Salaries,
1098000, 59%
Rent , 390000,
34%
• 2010 – INR 11,39,463; 2012-2013 – INR 18,12,000
• 59% increase
Finances – Expense Increase
• 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 were very lean years
– No FCRA approval = No Asha funds disbursed for 20112012 (2010-2011 funds were partially released on getting
Govt exception in March 2011)
– A number of expenditures were cut to the bone to
conserve funds including unpaid salaries, no increases, etc.
• Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Govt program pays a minimum
of 9000 p.m. to special ed teachers in AP – Sai Seva
Sadan has to match this to hire teachers from 2012
onwards
• Offset partially by saved funds from 2008 and 2009 due
to lower number of students – these funds are now
exhausted
Finances - Salaries
Monthly Salary Annual Salary Actual Salaries Planned salary in
Name
2011-12
2011-12
2012-13
Paid 3/11-3/12*
Warden
5500
66000
56750
7500
Foster care father
3500
42000
39129
5000
Teachers (3)
<18000 (<6000)
216000
71184
27000 (9000)
Speech Therapist
5500
66000
13310
9000
Office assistant/accountant
NA
6000
Cook
4000
48000
33058
6000
Helpers (2)
4000 (2000)
48000
27650
5000 (2500)
Watchman
NA
4000
Part Time:
Doctor
10000
120000
80000
10000
Drawing teacher
2000
24000
15000
2500
Tabla teacher
2000
24000
14582
2500
Yoga teacher
2500
30000
11762
3500
Vocational teacher
NA
3500
Total
57000
684000
362425
91500
* Cuts, salary withheld, less part time, help etc. to save funds
% Increase
7.1
0.0
> 50
> 50
NA
50
20
NA
0
20
20
40
NA
61%
Finances - Funding
Interest
income,
19019, 1%
2011-2012
2010-2011
Sales, 12655, 1%
Misc, 12889, 4%
Misc, 1882, 0%
Asha, 0, 0%
Sales, 17066, 5%
Interest income,
26712, 9%
Other Donations,
385334, 25%
Asha, 1123358,
73%
• 2010-2011 – Rs 15,42,248
• 2011-2012 – Rs 3,10,018 - a drop of 80%
• Income vs expenses:
– 2010: +1,03,940
– 2011: -8,29,445
Other Donations,
253351, 82%
Finances - Savings
Cash Assets
March 2012
Current
Indian Funds
3,65,741
~80,000
Foreign funds
Interest
income
6,04,500
~20,000
26,712
• Balance has dropped a lot since 3/31/12 since
there have been no incoming funds
Audit Report
Asha, Seattle Involvement
• Our chapter’s support – Rs 14,61,000 per year
recurring
– Approved in 2008
• Actual funds disbursed
– 2008-2009 – 15,06,556 (exchange rate benefit)
• $35,625 (6/08)
– 2009-2010 – 0
– 2010-2011 – 11,23,358
• INR 8,45,392 (11/10) + $6300 (2/11)
– 2011-2012 - 0
Asks for Asha Seattle
• Vote: Approve 6% increase carried over from
2011
– Special case ask since their funding ask delay was
due to FCRA issues
Asks for Asha Seattle
• Vote: Approve limited portion (INR 5,00,000)
of 2011 budget for immediate disbursal to pay
pending salaries and rent through June and all
expenses (from June).
Asks for Asha Seattle
• Vote: Approve 2012 budget (include 4%
increase)
– Final approval and disbursal after site visit report
is complete
Questions?
Backup
FAQs
• Some FAQs at Asha, Seattle meetings.
How many rs are we spending per kid per year?
Does the amount being spent on infrastructure items
(building schools, repairing roofs, etc. ) look
reasonable?
o Where exactly is the partner located? (especially for
remote projects. Be ready to locate the project area on
a map)
o What is the graduation rate of the school?
o What is the student to teacher ratio in class rooms?
o What is the girl to boy ratio in the school?
o What are the line items in the budget?
o Why is the partner asking for more funding for line item
N? (You will be asked this if there are changes in the
budget line items)
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o