The Funding Report

2013-14

About Isha Vidhya Matriculation Schools

Isha Vidhya’s schools make high quality education accessible and affordable to rural children from

underprivileged families. The holistic, activity-based approach nurtures children’s development beyond

just academics, ensuring that students realize their full potential and learn in a joyful manner.

Today there are 9 rural schools in the districts of Coimbatore, Erode, Nagercoil, Tuticorin, Villipuram,

Salem, Cuddalore and Dharmpuri in Tamilnadu and in Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh. The first 7

currently have classes from Kindergarten to Std. 9, while the Chittoor School has from LKG to Std. 5

and Dharmapuri from LKG to Std. 6.

Many children are first generation learners in their families.

The scholarship support provided to needy students has enabled them to access such quality education.

English is the medium of instruction in the schools.

The school uses several methodologies; activity based learning tools & digital content to teach English

& the other subjects, thus augmenting the regular curriculum.

Facilities include Science, Math & Computer Labs, Digital Classrooms, Library & Sports facilities.

All-round development is emphasized through sports, yoga, arts & crafts, environmental awareness,

health & hygiene, nutritious noon meals, etc.

Total student strength combined in all schools is 5200, (with 46% girl students) of whom 2743 (56%)

are supported on full scholarships while the remaining pay a nominal fee. The scholarships cover tuition,

notebooks and textbooks. There are presently 267 teachers and 191 staff in all.

The student teacher ratio is quite low at 19.4:1, since special attention is given to slow learners.

School buses owned by the schools augment hired vans for providing necessary transport.

Highly subsidized nutritious noon-meals are provided.

New Initiative - Government School Adoption Project

In Coimbatore, Dharmapuri, Tirupur and Salem districts 33 Govt. schools have been taken up for various

initiatives aimed at improving quality of education in these schools. Isha Vidhya’s experience is being utilized

to impact methodology and teaching environment. Interventions in Government Schools include:

1. Hiring teachers to reduce the student-teacher ratio

2. Hiring teachers for special teaching to slow-learners to mainstream them,

3. English language program

4. Infusing hitherto neglected aspects like sports, yoga, arts and crafts, and health and hygiene.

In 2013-14, we also piloted two other initiatives which were well received and highly appreciated.

Bridge Course was aimed to improve the basic skills of slow learning students in 9th

standard from 267

schools who will be appearing for Public exams next year in Salem district.

Teacher Training Programs in Cuddalore and Vilupuram districts for about 150 Headmasters and

teachers in schools that were not adopted by Isha Vidhya to train and motivate them on resource

utilization and various other aspects.

On the strength of these pilots, two additional initiatives are proposed to be expanded in 2014-15 as follows:

1. Basic training for teachers to maintain discipline without physical punishment, motivating children,

lesson planning, access and use of classroom educational aids and digital content.

2. After School Tuition Programs for the rural children.

This is likely to result in several thousands of children benefitting from the transformation that is achieved by a

meaningful education.

Pictorial Journey through Isha Vidhya Schools

Isha Vidhya, Perumapalayam Clean Corridors – Ground Floor

Silence please – Library Learning by interest –Our classroom

Play & Sports Facilities

Sports is a key element of development of a child. Its importance can never be overstated. Giving our school

children these facilities is therefore a key priority.

Computer Aided Learning Lab

Computer-based education is an

integral part of the curriculum from

first standard upwards.

Math Lab

Math concepts are understood better

when children get to use the materials

in the Math Lab.

Arts and Craft activities

Yoga Sessions

Summary of Total Fund Utilization (2013-2014) Description of Expense Amount (Rs.) Equiv. Amount (US$)

Fixed Assets Addition 37,744,863 754,897.3

Operational Expense of Isha Vidhya Schools 67,754,358 1,355,087

Govt.Schools Adoption Project Expenses 5,356,362 107,127.2

Total 105,499,221 2,109,984

Expense Incurred on Fixed Assets 2013-14

Sl No. Fixed Assets -Head wise Breakup

All Amounts in Indian Rupees (Rs.)

Cuddalore Dharmapuri Erode Coimbatore Tuticorin Nagerkoil Vanavasi Villupuram

Isha Vidhya Office

Total

1. Land 4,874,133 4,874,133

2.

Classroom Blocks and Lab

Construction 1,924,720 115,889 8,977,744 6,315,854 3,994,642 469,079 588,626 22,386,554

No. of Classrooms (9) (4) (4) (2) (19)

3.

Other constructions (Compound

Wall, Cycle stand, Security cabin,

playground, Corridor)

139,900

37,620

46,105

223,625

4.

Furniture & Fittings- Classrooms,

Labs, Office (benches, cupboards,

computer tables)

486,128 1,054,342 414,816 608,627 332,938 500,040 491,391 600,275 4,205 4,492,762

5. Computers and accessories 72,430 60,215 73,300 101,400 95,830 90,115 54,755 85,520 338,653 972,218

6. Solar panels and Power back up 180,000 180,000

7.

Digital Classroom equipment, PA

system, Photocopier and other

Electronic equipment.

5,590 407,051 92,269 147,470 214,351 177,493 5,673 1,049,897

8. Science Lab Materials 3,229 7,850 28,564 28,790 28,065 28,065 28,065 27,866 180,494

9. Math Lab Materials 8,950 98,250 8,950 32,230 8,950 8,950 8,950 8,950 184,180

10. English Lab: Karadi Path Materials 31,802 77,596 29,372 32,282 30,812 29,372 29,492 28,712 289,440

11. Library Books & Learning Materials

(DVDs, Montessori Material, Others) 63,400 3,560 330 48,654 115,944

12. School Bus 1,306,100 640,000 1,946,100

13. Kitchen Utensils & Equipment 18,383 2,897 2,662 23,942

14. Website Development 399,440 399,440

15.

Sundry assets -Carpets, footwear

stands, fire-extinguisher, School Bell,

Construction approvals, power, etc.

11,444 250,417 3,675 24,175 16,850 3,675 6,698 109,200 426,134

Grand Total of Fixed Assets 1,944,056 4,086,638 674,566 10,761,359 6,977,099 9,739,668 1,309,005 1,400,974 851,498 37,744,863

Operational Expenses of 2013-14

for Isha Vidhya schools

Sl No. Operational Expenses -

Head wise Breakup Total (Rs.)

1.

Salary 34,024,346

Teaching Staff 19,448,741

Non-teaching Staff 9,203,541

Staff & Labour Welfare 5,372,064

2.

School Maintenance

(Building, Computer and

Electrical Maintenance,

School Nursery and

Garden School repairs)

1,270,106

3. Electricity Charges 977,138

4. Functions and Events 1,066,611

5. Student Expenses(Uniform,

Notebooks and stationeries) 6,923,371

6. Students Noon Meal 6,558,594

7. Students Transport 12,634,942

8.

Admin Expenses (License,

Audit Fees, Security

Charges, Taxes & Misc

expenses)

1,303,183

9. Telephone and Internet 611,028

10. Training & Development 830,084

11. Travel and Transport and

Vehicle Maintenance 1,554,955

Grand total 67,754,358

Expenses incurred on

Government School

Adoption Project

2013-2014

S.

No. Expense

Amount

(Rs.)

1 Educational aids 7,44,784

2 Equipment for English

Lab 25,857

3 Traveling allowance 35,557

4 Staff Salary 42,70,421

5 Project promotion &

Fund raising 7,350

6 Supervisory, admin and

miscellaneous expense 2,72,393

Total 53,56,362

The above expenses have been funded by donations as follows:

S

No. Source of Fund

India Overseas Total

Rs.

(in

millions)

Equiv. USD USD

Equiv. Rs.

(in

millions)

Rs.

(in

millions)

Equiv. USD

1

Corporate/Institutio

nal Donors

LIC Golden Jubilee

Foundation,

Yatra Foundation,

IDBI Banl Ltd.,

Asha Education,

Kosmix Marketing,

etc

12.38 248000 11000 0.53 12.91 259000

2

Individual Donors

(including donations

received through

ECS on a monthly

basis)

22.18 447000 198000 9.92 32.1 645000

3

Donation Platforms 12.99 256000 1000 0.03 13.02 257000

Give India 11.69 234000 11.69 CAF India/ CAF

America 0.51 10000 1000 0.03 0.54 11000

Global Giving 0.78 12000 0.78

4

Fund-raising Events

in India 13.28 266000 13.28 266000

Mumbai Marathon 9.44 189000 9.44 189000

Delhi Marathon 0.91 18000 0.91 18000

Chennai Marathon 1.28 26000 1.28 26000

Bangalore Marathon 0.18 4000 0.18 4000

Hyderabad Marathon 1.06 21000 1.06 21000

Auroville Marathon 0.17 3000 0.17 3000 Sale of paintings by

Subbiah Siva 0.24 5000 0.24 5000

5

Fund-raising Events

Overseas

63000 3.14 3.14 63000

Sevathon(San

Francisco) 45000 2.23 2.23 45000

Dance Program by

Radhe Jaggi in

Malaysia

15000 0.76 0.76 15000

Boston Isaimazhai 3000 0.15 0.15 3000

Grand Total 60.43 1209000 273000 13.62 74.44 1490000

Our Key Supporters

Accreditations with Funding Platforms

Major Corporate Donors

We are deeply grateful to all our corporate partners for supporting Isha Vidhya in its endeavours.

Our major corporate donors are mentioned below.

Our Top Corporate/Institutional Donors

Indian Diamond

Industry

Other Corporate/Institutional Donors

Saryu Properties And Hotels Private Ltd

Hitachi Metglass

Ramani Anil Shah Charitable Foundation

Sri Rameshwarlal Bhuwania And Smt.

Mangala Devi Memorial Trust

Kad Industrial Solution

Lakhi Foundation Smt Jayalaxmi

Vasantrai Doshi Charitable Trust

Bhogilal Leherchand Foundation

We also wish to acknowledge and express our heartfelt gratitude to all our

individual donors and volunteers for their contributions and constant support.

Major Individual donors

We wish to acknowledge and express our heartfelt gratitude to all our individual donors for their

contributions and constant support. Donors who have donated more than Rs.1,00,000 have been

mentioned below.

S No. Name

1. Aditya Jain

2. Manoj Patel

3. Balasubramanian Gopalan

4. Sowmya Sathyanarayanan

5. Bhaskar Srinivasan

6. Chitra Rajasekaran

7. Nirmala Bidani

8. Narayan Naik

9. Palaninathan Ravichandran

10. Sashi Njts

11. Narmadha Punithavelu

12. Kalpana Maniar

13. Chandur S Changrani

14. Sankararaman.r

15. Satwalekar M Deepak

16. Abhijit Satwalekar

17. Manju Sood

18. Ramu R

19. Sadashiv Rao

20. Sriram Raghavan

21. Sathyamoorthy S

22. Prashant Thakker

23. Jayganesh Jayaraman

24. Agarwal Nalini

25. Aparna Bavle

26. Kayalvizhi Sambandam

27. Samir Lal

28. Sanjay Chandiram

29. Vinayak Priya

30. Akbar Padamsee

31. Arun Menon

32. Chalat Balaraman Murali

33. Jyotindra Manibhai Trivedi

34. Narayanan K.T.V

35. Rajesh Swaminathan

36. Sathish.K.S Kumar

37. Srikanth Nagaraja

38. Subramanian Srinivasan

39. Subanithya Dhamotharan

40. Sudha Narayana Swamy

41. Vijaya Rathinavel

42. Vishal G.warke

43. Uday Marty

44. Jeganathan P

45. Rajasekhar V

46. Ramakrishnan

47. Prashant Jain

Highlights from our Monthly Newsletters 2013-2014 SCHOOL BUZZ

Science Exhibition @ Cuddalore School Isha Vidhya

Cuddalore

conducted a school

level exhibition for

which students

created exhibits and

models related to all

subjects.

Guest Lecture by ISRO Scientists Sheeju Chandran

and Vishwanath,

scientists at Vikram

Sarabhai Space

Centre (VSSC)

Trivandrum, visited

Nagercoil school

and held a guest

lecture session for

senior students.

State Level Science Exhibition After winning the

2nd prize in District

level Science

Exhibition, S M

Abimanyu and

Sooryababu R

presented their

model in the State

level Science

Exhibition, held at

Thambaram.

National Children Science Congress After winning the

District level NCSC

competition, the

students of

Tuticorin School

qualified for the

State level

competition which

was held in Dec

2013.

Dharmapuri School shifts into its own building On 12th Sep, 2013,

Isha Vidhya Infosys

Matriculation School

started operating

from their own

premises provided by

Infosys Foundation.

Coimbatore School A classroom was

inaugurated at Isha

Vidhya Coimbatore

school on 18th June

2013. Larsen and

Tubro, the

engineering giant

sponsored this

classroom.

Villupuram School Six new classrooms

were inaugurated on

14th June 2013 at Isha

Vidhya Agility

Matriculation School,

Villupuram. Agility

Logistics Pvt. Ltd

have sponsored

construction of these

classrooms.

Library Corner at Villupuram School Villupuram School

Principal inaugurated

a Library corner in

KG classes which is a

small book

zone within a

classroom populated

with books created by

teachers which are

colourful and pictorial

and appeal to young

minds.

FUND RAISING

Global Giving Bonus Day We participated in the Global Giving Bonus

Day, 12th Feb 2014. On this day, Global

Giving was topping every donation by 30%

until funds of $75,000 ran out.

We ran a twitter campaign (@IshaVidhya)

and also posted on facebook. Thanks to

several supporters who actively participated

by sharing the FB post and tweeting about

us, we raised over $2,500.

‘Make a life’ Golf Jaunt

Make a life Golf Jaunt had been conceived

and designed to raise funds and increase

awareness about education in rural India.

Mumbai edition was held on Jan, 4th, at

BPGC, Chembur where prominent

businessmen and executives played golf

with Sadhguru, founder Isha Vidhya. The

participants loved the serene yet energy

filled atmosphere created by the volunteers.

Siva Subbiah Raises fund by painting

Siva Subbiah, CEO, United Designs, Hosur has

many interests besides running a flourishing

business. Having felt the need to make a

contribution towards children in rural India, he

decided to paint and raise fund by selling it. Siva

succeeded in raising 2.4 lakh rupees by doing so.

Samarpan by Radhe Jaggi

A fund raising event had been conducted at Malaysia on

September 10th

, 2013 where dancer Radhe Jaggi performed pieces

from an age old art form “Bharatanatyam”. The proceedings from

the event where given to Isha Vidhya.

MARATHONS

TCS Bangalore Run 2013 Forty Isha Vidhya

supporters ran in the TCS

Bangalore World 10K Run

on 19th May '13. The

funds raised via Bangalore

2013 run would be used

for the upcoming school in

Dharmapuri.

Hyderabad Marathon

170 runners ran for Isha

Vidhya, of whom 96 took

on the 21km challenge.

Amazingly, we had two

12-year-oldkids who ran

21km and also two below

10, who ran the 5 km race.

Durai Murugan completed

the 42km full marathon

wearing Isha Vidhya t-

shirt, a first for us in

Hyderabad!

Delhi Marathon Isha Vidhya was the

second largest NGO group

in the ADHM2013 with

320 runners. This time

thirty people participated

in the 21 km category and

over 35 girls from a school

ran in our support. Mr.

Srinivasan Raghavan, aged

63, completed 21 km in

2.50 hr. He is an

inspiration to all!

Chennai Marathon Chennai has always

supported Isha activities

and they came forward

again to participate in the

Wipro Chennai Marathon

2013. 580 Isha Vidhya

volunteers including 140

female runners, 34 children

(less than 18 years of age)

and 10 senior citizens

(above 60 years) ran the

Chennai Marathon in

support of Isha Vidhya.

Mumbai Marathon On Jan 19th, over 150 Isha

volunteers and 160

corporate employees of

HPCL, BPCL, Mahendra

Brothers, MyIris.com,

India Infoline, ICICI

Lombard, Himedia & All

Cargo ran in the Mumbai

marathon in support of

Isha Vidhya. This was the

fifth year Mumbai

volunteers have been

taking part in the

Marathon.

Auroville Marathon

9th

Feb 2014 was an

unforgettable day for

Cuddalore Isha Vidhya.

Seventy three teachers,

admin staff, drivers,

ayamas and students,

including the 60+ year old

School Principal,

participated in Auroville

marathon held in

Pondicherry. Isha Vidhya,

with hundred and twenty

three runners, stole the

show.

Sevathon, San Francisco Isha Vidhya has been participating in Sevathon organized

by ICC at San Francisco for past two years. Sevathon has

allowed us to reach many folks in Bay Area and across US

that enabled us to create awareness about Isha Vidhya and

the kind of work that is being done in rural parts of India.

The funds raised had been utilized to support scholarship for

100+ underprivileged rural kids spread across 9 schools in

Tamil Nadu & Andhra Pradesh.

STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENTS

Art2012 Drawing Competition

Art 2012, a national level

drawing competition

organized by Viveka

Foundation, Namakkal,

was held in Isha Vidhya

Erode in Nov 2012 and 86

Isha Vidhya students from

LKG to 8th standard

participated.

Chess competition

Isha Vidhya Nagercoil

students participated in the

chess competition held by

Chess Academy of

Nagercoil. Yogeswaran, a

4th standard student, was

placed 7th.

Win in Volley Ball competition

Eighth class students of

Vanavasi School won the

volley ball match

organized by Rural

Development Competition.

They have qualified for the

district level competition!

National Children's Science Competition

Tuticorin students won the 1st prize in the district level

competition of 'National Children's Science Congress' and

were automatically selected for State level competition. Group

of five students, Subhasini (8th std), Akash G. (8th std),

Kanthimathi (6th std), Pravin Kumar (7th std) and Lavanya L.

(7th std), presented a research on "Solar – an alternative

source for cooking".

Impact Stories Rithika, scholarship student, shares about her life

A friend told my mother about Isha Vidhya and its scholarship program. Then we came to see this

school. My mother helps in a book store in Dharmapuri town.

I am very happy and grateful to be in this school. I love coming to school every day, though it is a bit far.

I am learning good habits. In my previous school they used to beat us for small mistakes but here

teachers are very kind and they never beat us at all. I think I am really lucky to be here. The school has a

Math lab, English lab, Computers, library and studying is like play.

Seeing me, my brother too wants to come to Isha Vidhya. Even kids in my neighborhood are more

willing to play with me now, as I go to a good school. I am so glad about it.

I like science very much. I want to be an Aeronautical Engineer so that I earn more money and help

children like me to study well. I like to play KHO-KHO. I have a good school, good teachers, good

friends and hope for a good future.”

Like Rithika, Isha Vidhya School is changing the lives of several other children

who are here on full scholarships.

Rithika studies in Standard 6th in Isha

Vidhya Infosys School. She travels 19 kms

from her village every day to get to school.

Prior to joining Isha Vidhya she studied in a

Government school near her house. When

asked her about new school (Isha Vidhya),

she said, “Where I live, most of my friends

study in private English medium schools. I

could not do so earlier because my father

could not afford it. He sells key chains and

purses at the bus stand. I have an elder

brother, Pradeep, who is studying in 8th

Standard in my previous school, and we both

help our father every day in the evening.

Aiswarya. R shares about the impact of Isha’s Govt. School intervention on

her life:

I do not know to read Tamil. Divya Teacher from Isha remedial class

taught me how to read Tamil. She taught me very clearly and also

helped me to improve my handwriting. In Maths subject I knew only

addition and subtraction. But after I joined in Isha remedial class, I

learnt maths very thoroughly. Isha teachers taught me the difficult

words in English too. My teacher sits next to me and teaches me in

easy method and I understand whatever the teacher teaches me.

I like teacher Divya very much. She is very beautiful, caring and kind

hearted. There are so many words in Tamil and English which I did

not know but now I have learnt those through the Isha teacher. All

the teachers are very nice.

R. Aiswarya

IX-C

Athiyamankottai Girls Higher Secondary School

GSAP Remedial Classes

Government Higher Secondary School,

Madampatti

Government Higher Secondary School,

Sundakamuthur

Current Funding Requirements

The requirement of funds for 2014-15 are summarised below:

S No. Description Amount

(Rs.)

Equiv.

Amount(USD)

Equiv.

Amount(GBP)

1 Infrastructure Requirements for all Isha Vidhya

schools. 8,83,28,739

1,766,575 1,177,717

2 Student Sponsorships 4,78,50,000 957,000 718,000

3 Govt. School Adoption Program (40 schools) 1,30,00,000 260,000 173,333

Total 149,178,739 2,983,575 2,069,050

Salient aspects of the above requirements are given below:

Student Sponsorship Requirements

Student Sponsorships

S.No. Description

(Amt. Reqd. Per Child Per Year)

Numbers

Required

Amount

(Rs.)

Equiv. Amount

(in USD)

Equiv. Amount

(in GBP)

1 Full Educational Support

(Rs.20000/$480/GBP 300) 500 1,00,00,000 2,40,000 1,50,000

2 Scholarship (Rs.10000/$240/GBP150) 2750 2,75,00,000 6,60,000 4,12,500

3 Transport Subsidy (Rs.5250/$130/GBP 80) 200 10,50,000 26,000 16,000

4 Food Subsidy (Rs.3000/ $72 /GBP 45) 3100 93,00,000 2,23,200 139,500

5. Govt. School Adoption (33 existing + 7 new schools) 1,30,00,000 2,36,364 1,73,333

Total 6,08,50,000 13,75,564 8,91,333

Infrastructure Fund Requirements

S.No. Description

All Amounts in Indian Rupees (in Lakhs)

Equiv. USD

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1 Class rooms 41.93 6.99 41.93 27.96 41.93 55.91 55.91 55.91 328.48 656960

(Quantity) (6) (1) (6) (4) (6) (8) (8) (8) (47) (47)

2 Classroom

Furniture 8.79 5.02 5.02 3.77 5.02 6.28 6.28 6.28 46.44 92880

3 Compound Wall 1.00 1.00 2.00 1.00 3.00 1.50 2.50 1.00 13.00 26000

4 Common Area

Construction 2.75 - 13.54 11.71 8.13 15.37 15.37 14.71 81.58 163160

5 Noon meal

Kitchen 5.50 - - - - - - - 5.50 11000

6 Kitchen

requirements 3.40 - - - - - - - 3.40 6800

7 Computer Lab

Equipment 0.30 0.30 0.30 0.30 0.30 0.30 0.30 0.30 2.40 4800

8 Science Lab 0.30 0.27 0.27 0.27 0.27 0.27 0.27 0.27 2.16 4320

9 Math Lab 0.41 0.22 0.22 0.22 0.22 0.22 0.22 0.22 1.95 3900

10 Arts & Craft 0.08 0.08 0.08 0.08 0.08 0.08 0.08 0.08 0.66 1320

11 English Lab:

Karadi Path 0.46 0.48 0.46 0.46 0.46 0.46 0.46 0.46 3.69 7380

12 Learning

Materials (DVDs,

Montessori

Material, Etc)

2.49 2.34 2.34 2.34 2.34 2.34 2.34 3.14 19.66 39320

13 Library Books 0.20 0.60 0.08 0.60 0.60 0.60 0.60 0.60 3.88 7760

14 School Bus 66.00 33.00 49.50 66.00 33.00 49.50 16.50 33.00 346.50 693000

15 Photocopier 0.45 - - - 0.45 - - - 0.90 1800

16 Cycle Stand 1.50 1.50 1.50 - 1.50 - - 1.50 7.50 15000

17 Green Nursery

requirements 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25 2.00 4000

18 Sports

requirements 0.96 0.96 0.96 0.96 0.96 0.96 0.96 0.96 7.68 15360

Total 136.77 53.00 118.45 115.91 98.51 134.03 102.03 118.67 877.37 1754740

We seek your continued support for this current year.

Thank you for making it happen!