PROJECT PROPOSAL

FOR

IMPROVING ACCESS TO QUALITY BASIC EDUCATION FOR GIRL CHILDREN and

CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

Submitted
To
Global Giving

Submitted
By
Nari Nidhi

Plot No – 11, Laxmi Nivas, Panchvati Colony, Majhouli Khetal, PO- Khabra,
Muzaffarpur-843146 Bihar, INDIA
Mob: 9430013517, 8651183313

e-mail: narinidhi.muz@gmail.com narinidhi_mzp@rediffmail.com

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To,
The Director,
Global Giving

Subject: improving access to quality basic education for girl children and children with special needs

Dear Sir,
We, on behalf of the Nari Nidhi, would like to submit the enclosed project proposal entitled as above for
your kind consideration and necessary action.

Ours is a non-political, non-profitable & secular voluntary organization working in the field of
awareness, health, education, training and skill development, women and child welfare activities etc. in
Bihar for SC/ST/OBC Women and Child, other backward and under privileged people for their
upliftment above the poverty line and to ameliorate their standard of social and economic lives.

It will be highly appreciated if the concerned authorities be kind enough to provide suitable
arrangements for implementing this project by our N.G.O. so that we can cover more and more
population.

Hope you would be kind enough to give due consideration of above facts and for the needful at your
earliest for implementing the project.

Thanking you
Yours Faithfully

Ms. Asha Choudhary

(Secretary)

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 Organization Profile

NARI NIDHI
AT Ram Pratap Bhawan
Village North of Kathpool, Mandiri
PO GPO Patna
Registered Office Address District Patna
State Bihar
PIN Code 800001
Email Narinidhi_mzp@rediffmail.com
narinidhi.muz@gmail.com
Village Plot No- 11, Laxmi Niwas, Panchvati Colony,
Majhoulia Khetal
P.O. Khabra
District Muzaffarpur
Administrative Office PIN Code 843146
Address State Bihar
Mobile No. 91- 9430013517, 8651183313
Email Narinidhi_mzp@rediffmail.com
narinidhi.muz@gmail.com
Mrs. Asha Choudhary
Secretary
SECRETARY Contact Mobile No. 91- 9430013517
Email- narinidhi_mzp@rediffmail.com narinidhi.muz@gmail.com

LEGAL STATUS
S.No. Particulars Registration No. Date
1 Registered under Societies Registration Act 826 30.03.1993
XXI,1860
2 Registration under Foreign Contribution 031170200 15.05.2001
(Regulation) Act, 1976
3 Income Tax & Other Registration
-Under Section 12A 84/2007-08,2100- 14.12.2007
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-Under Section 80G 804/07-08,2104- 14.12.2007

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-Permanent Account No. (PAN) AAATN6641A

-Tax Deduction Account No. (TAN) PTNN01178C

4 Registration No. of NITI AAYOG NGO BR/2016/0097008
Portal Unique ID
Goal All our efforts will enhance the capabilities of vulnerable people, especially women
and children, to better control their lives.

Vision We see a world where vulnerable people live a better life in a better community.
NARI NIDHI commits to this by being an innovator in development, valued by all.

Mission Nari Nidhi’s mission is to serve “Vulnerable individuals and families to achieve
sustainable improvements in their livelihood, education, health and sanitation status”.
We pursue our mission with both excellence and compassion because the people
whom we serve deserve nothing less.

BASIC DATA
Name of Proposed Project (DISHA)

State Bihar

District Muzaffarpur

Project Location 06 Urban and semi urban Slums of Muzaffarpur district

Project Duration One year

Grant Amount Requested INR 2586000.00 (Dollar 45101.00)

PROJECT PURPOSE:

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With the experience gained in the past 36 months we focused to work on Children with special needs
and their families tend to be overlooked and stigmatized. Mostly these are the children who are not
regular to classes due to various reasons. Like irregular attendance, caste discrimination, burden of
household work, low income families, health problems, stigma of backwardness, physical disabled. Nari
Nidhi will ensure that every child with special needs, irrespective of the kind, category and degree of
disability, is provided education in an appropriate environment. The thrust of Nari Nidhi will be on
providing integrated and inclusive education to all children with special needs in general schools. It will
also support a wide range of approaches, options and strategies for education of children with special
needs. This includes education through learning, special schools, model remedial teaching, part time
classes and community based rehabilitations (CBR) and cooperative programmes.

GOAL:
The proposed project “DISHA” is targeting to provide educational requirements of 300 dropout and
Nonschool going SNE children’s especially girls through running 06 Remedial Education Centers in 06
Urban and semi urban Slums communities of Mushari Block under Muzaffarpur District of Bihar State
in India.

Expected Key Performance Indicators:

1. Enrolment of children with special needs in mainstream schools increased by about 300 by end
of the project,
2. Academic performance of about 300 girl children with special needs in key subjects improved
by end of the project,
3. Children with special needs advancing from lower to upper grades increased by 30% by end of
the project.
4. Children with special needs well equipped with supporting devices and appliances.
5. The outcome of the project will be an increased number of children with special needs in target
community receiving quality basic education through new approaches that include inclusive
methods of education.

Objective;

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  Strengthen Quality of education primary level and promote the concept of joyful learning
among 6-14 aged girl children through remedial education.
 Improve enrolment and retention of girl children through bridge school and supplementary
education like Remedial Education Centres (RECs).
 Mainstreaming of girl children with disability
 To enhance the basic skills of school dropouts.
 To stimulate the girl children to join mainstream schools.

The Project Target Group:

Targeted beneficiaries of the proposed project would be children out of school due to poverty, child
labor, migration, etc The total number of students to be reached is 300 Girls (aged 6 -14 years) in 06
centers . The total number of teachers to be trained is 06 non-formal school teachers.
As mentioned already Nari Nidhi’s specific target audiences are the women and children. Nari Nidhi has
gone through a good amount of literature and reports on the same and understands that in an area as
this, girl children are the most vulnerable and badly affected group. Every community looks upon its girl
children for a better and a safer tomorrow. Today’s children are tomorrow’s future and the future at
slums looks bleak looking at the economic, social and health backwardness of the children there. Hence
Nari Nidhi envisions for a better future for its children. Then of course slums looks at the well being of
the entire community by sensitizing them and educating them on some important social and health
issues that require urgent attention. In its quest to reach out to whomever it can, and it will work with
special focus on girl children from poor families having any physical disabilities as priority.

About the project area:

These are the urban slums in the heart of Muzaffarpur city namely Gandhinagar, Aghoria Bazar,
Akharaghat, Imlichatti and Majhoulia. The women are the main earning members of the family in these
slums. Gandhinagar comprises of hawkers and vendors originally migrated from Gujarat and Hindu by
religion. These women hawkers practice the trade of exchanging steel utensils with old cloths. These
cloths are then darned, washed, ironed and sold to the poor people. The inhabitants of Aghoria Bazar
are in the business of broom making. They even sell it in market. They have a very low profit in this
business. Muslims mostly inhabit Majhoulia. People are extremely poor and backward. They do all labor
and in return get a very low income. Akharaghat slum comes under the bank of river Gandak and
community inhabited by economically weaker section of society. Scheduled casts are more in number
with untouchability steel prevailing. In all these slums the young boys and girls in the age group 6-
14yrs either do the household chores or help their parents in their business. Thus they remain illiterate

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or attain a very low level of education. The ambience is very unhealthy with drains overflowing and
garbage dumped around the shanty settlements.

Key Strategies:
Nari Nidhi envisages the following are the broad strategies of project to promote quality education in
Slums.
 Promotion of 5 remedial education centers to around 300 needy girl children with quality
education and joyful learning to retention them in main stream education.
 Learning Centre decoration and preparation of teaching and learning materials along with
children.
 To support the development of classrooms for children with disabilities within regular schools.
 Provision of Devices, Appliances and calipers for the children with disability.
 Arrangement of excursion/exposure visit of children like Science exhibition, Zoo, Historical
places, cinema and park.
 Provision of supplementary nutritious food to reduce malnourishment

Key activities: 

1. Remedial Education (RE):-

The first step to planning the child's learning in a Remedial Centre, starts with assessing his/her level of
learning/ grasping ,and diagnosing the problems that interfere with certain concepts, or in connecting
different ideas, etc across various disciplines. Once this is identified, appropriate remedies for
overcoming these difficulties are identified in accordance with the child's learning style. Teacher
volunteers will train on the process of identifying the various learning disabilities, and helping
individual children learn better. Simple remedies for the improvement of classroom dynamics go a long
way in helping children learn better.
The classroom processes are child centered. Use of appropriate and adequate activities to allow children
to learn at their own pace while emphasizing progression through the curriculum. The teacher to work
as a facilitator in the multi-level teaching-learning process. To make the learning effective, use of
appropriate learning material (textbooks, workbooks, activity cards or sheets, multi-grade kits).
Continuous and comprehensive evaluation of learners to assess the ability of children before they get
mainstreamed and also the quality of education provided in the centers.

2. Strengthening Girl Child Education:

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50% of girl children in slums get dropped out after 8-9th Standard and 70% after 10th standard. Going
to High school remains a dream for large number of girl children because of economic problem, taboos
attached with girl child education.  Nari Nidhi - DISHA project is working in addressing this issue and
noticed high dropout of girl children after completing 10th standard. This is where we are working
with families and individual girls to go for higher education by counseling and integrating them with
the facilities available in the area.

3. Excursion of children to Historical places/zoo/scientific exhibitions:

Engaging children in the activities like childhood exchange programmes will build self esteem and help
develop social skills as well as help their overall growth. It will act as forum for children from two or
more neighboring villages to gather together, at one location and participate in cultural and sport
activities, and also enhance their cultural and intellectual skills. These activities help in build self esteem
and help develop social skills as well as their overall growth.
This activity will support children in terms of positive impact on social behavioral and effective
communication among children in bridge and remedial education centers. Hence Nari Nidhi plans 02
exposure visit programmes during project period and the activity will also support other children who
are in lower grade in the schools and also other dropout children.

4. Provision of supplementary nutritious feeding:

The supplementary nutritious feeding activity which is key intervention for nutritional support to poor
children will indeed brought many children into center and assures their retention at center. However,
it will be conducted with the due seriousness it deserves. A different food recipe will be provided on
each of the six days in a week in each month.

4. Support with appliances to the children with special needs with the consultation of expert, Red Cross
society and district/State level disable rehabilitation centers. This activity will support children in terms
of positive impact on social behavioral and effective communication.

Activity Details:
S. No. Activity Targeted Objectively Time line Source of
Number variable verification
indicators
1 Establishing and starting 06 Enrollment 1st Month List and
Functioning of Remedial register and location of

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 Education centers functioning of centers
centers
2 Purchase of teaching and 30 No of learning 2nd Month Stock and
learning Materials materials distribution
register
3 Exposure visit of children 02 More than 2nd Month Participants
300 numbers onward list, Report and
of children photo
from poor
families would
get involved in
exchange
programme
and reduce the
school
dropouts
4 Procurement of disability 30 children will 3rd Month on Beneficiaries
devices/appliances equipped with wards list,
disability distribution
devices and register and
appliances photographs

Planned Target and Expected outcome in Project location in the 2nd Year
 
Annual Expected Outcome during Project intervention Target to be
achieved
Remedial Education for school dropouts, slow learners and children with learning 300
difficulties
Provide children with 5 note books and a pen ( Joy of Giving Programme) 300
Children below 6 enrolled in schools due to project intervention otherwise they 300
would have not enrolled on right age through enrolment campaign.
Children participated in sports and cultural programmes through children’s 300
learning exchange programme or picnics or neighbor childhood exchange
programmes.
Children with disability will equipped with Calipers, devices and appliances 31

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Monitoring and Evaluation
The project once implemented will be regularly monitored and documented by Nari Nidhi in the form of
periodical progress report with quantities and qualitative achievement analysis for sharing with
concerned project stakeholders and beneficiaries. A careful monitoring plan will form part of the project
implementation. This will be accompanied by intensive presence of the project staff in field. Nari Nidhi
will organize an evaluation for official review at the end of the project. Nari Nidhi looks forward to
working with communities to provide access to quality education for vulnerable girl children. Nari Nidhi
has been implementing Non Formal Education Project since 2014 with the financial support of various
partner organizations and succeeded in joining more than 1200 girl children in mainstream school and
improved the quality of education and motivated confidence and self esteem in the minds of children.

SUSTAINABILITY
As far as project sustainability is concerned, the beneficiaries shall serve as role models and shall be
advocates for education for girl children in their community. A well educated new generation shall lead
to demand generation among the community members for increased access to quality education and
subsequently shall ensure community ownership driven sustainability of the project. After the completion
of the project, the center along with the resources shall be utilized to continue the process. The quality
teaching imparted during the course of the project may attract financial grants from other sources and
shall consequently lead to institutional sustainability.

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 Budget 2017 - 2018

S. NO. Component Cost Unit Amount in Amount in

INR/Month INR Dollar

1 Honorarium of One Project Coordinator 20000 12 240000 6000

Establishment of remedial School
2 Education Centre Black Board, Water 6
Jug, and Glasses, chalk, Duster, Teaching
Books, Benches, Table and Chairs 50000 250000 4167
volunteers fees for 6 teachers/ @Rs.6000
3 per month for all the 12 months 36000 12 432000 7200
Rent of remedial centre @Rs. 5000X6
4 Center x12 month 30000 12 360000 6000
Learning and teaching materials and
5 work books (Student performance 6
measuring books) 30000 180000 3000
Nutritious Supplementary food @ Rs.
6 10000 pm X 6 centre*12 month 60000 12 720000 12000
Organizing "Educational information fair
7 Education fair/rally etc. 30000 2 60000 1000

8 Exposure Visit for all student 30000 2 60000 1000

9 Program Travel for Monitoring purposes 6000 12 72000 1200

10 Provision for disability assistive devices 200000 3334

Audit Fee 12000 1 12000 200

GRAND TOTAL 2586000.00 45101.00

Indu Kumari
REC Student

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REC Majhoulia
Age: 12 year
Father: Mr. Ashok Kumar
Mother: Ms. Kangana Devi
Our teacher loves us very much. We can learn our lesson easily. Because she teaches us well.

Anjali Kumari
REC student
REC Aghoria Bazar
Age: 10 year
Father: Mr. Jayshankar Mahtoo
Mother: Ms: Anita Devi
There is no school in our locality. We have got
the scope to study for establishing REC
center. We feel well to read in this center. Our
teacher is nice. We can dance and sing here.

Pinki learns to learn!

Pinki is an 11 year old bubbly girl with moderate to
severe CP. But this wasn't the case initially. When
our field workers identified her, Pinki had no
mobility and was in a lying down position all the
time. Our teacher admits her at RE centre and tie-
up with district disability rehabilitation centre
Muzaffarpur. After regular therapy, her mobility
has improved and she was able to go to school.
The rehabilitation team then started working with
her using AAC (Augmentative Alternate
Communication Chart) and her communication
improved tremendously. The communication
methodology was taught to her parents, friends
and teachers. With this, her learning improved
largely. She is now in Std. III at her nearby school.
She is taking once a week to the RE centres at
Majhoulia where she essentially gets to interact socially. With all these developments, Pinki is a
motivated and happy child. She is also one of the most regular students at our centre.

Success Story:- 2

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Name: Jyoti Kumari
Age: 14 years

Jyoti Kumari was a school drop-out. Jyoti is

currently studying in class-V at Radha Devi Middle
School. Her father Manoj Pandit is a daily wage
earner with monthly income of around Rs
2000.She has 2 brothers and 1 sister. She had
dropped out of school due to financial difficulties.
Nari Nidhi had started project – Improving access
to basic education for children with special needs
where a Remedial Education centre was
established in the Akharaghat slum. Jyoti joined
the RE centre where she studied for 3 hours
daily .Seeing her dedication and commitment, the centre teacher gave her coaching even after
the classes were over. Jyoti is a brilliant student who was given admission in the higher class -5
after clearing merit test. Now she is in class- 5th and is a role model for her community members.
Her parents are proud of her and no longer stop her from studying.

PICTURE ZONE

Joy full learning Participated in children club meeting

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Republic day celebration Class room activity

Supplementary nutrition feeding Class room activity

Class room activity Class room activity

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Pupil, Parents and teacher meeting Distribution of learning materials

EXPOSURE TRIP OF STUDENTS TO VAISHALI

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