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Hi Friends,
I wanted to provide some context about Siri.
Couple of years back I started searching for an NGO that is not widely known, has no corporate tie-ups but is doing some great genuine work for differently disabled children.
Siri fit the requirements and they are unique in many ways.
First - they focus on the villages where parents do not have enough information to manage a differently abled child. Often they leave the children at home, locking them up while the parents go out for work, mostly as daily laborers. Siri voluntarily reaches out to such parents, educates them and enrolls children as day scholars or provide hostel facility depending on the parents economic situation.
Second, Siri not only educates the kids but prepares them to be self reliant by providing vocational training.
Third and most important is the funding. Ms.Gopi Devi, the Director of Siri, started the institute in 1994 with her own money. Since then, the institute mostly relied on self funding or contributions from donors and has expanded to multiple locations. This is commendable considering that the institute now has more than 70 students staying in hostel plus many more day scholars.
I have been funding two students ($50) every month from past two years and had a chance to visit the institute on a recent trip to India. After seeing the work that Gopi Devi and her team is doing to help these differently abled kids succeed in their lives, and hearing about the fund crunch that is impacting the institute to better help the kids, I felt much more can be accomplished with help from all of you.
I know $4000 is an ambitious goal but it can be accomplished with your support. Any donation - $5,$10 $20 or $50, will help us to get closer to the goal.
Looking forward for your support.
-ravi
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A request from D. Gopi Devi, Director of Siri Institute -
Siri institute has been offering its Teaching and Training services since 1994 (22 years of
service completed) to the mentally challenged through its professionals for improving life of mentally
challenged and helps in learning sustainable life skills.
The organization is a non profitable free teaching and training institute for Mentally Challenged since 1994, offering its services from Samalkot, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India, covering three mandals of East Godavari District those are Samalkot, Prathipadu and Peddapuram (consisting of more than 80 Villages) with trained professional staff to cover 210 students.
The teaching and training to the mentally handicapped project is supported by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, New Delhi, since 1999
Siri has the following objectives:
- Create awareness in the families about mental retardation.
- Create awareness in general public.
- Providing maximum available service to mentally challenged.
- Providing Special Education and training to mentally challenged
- Optimum training in Vocational trades for achieving rehabilitation for mentally challenged.
- Domestic ability development for women trainees to minimize their dependency at their home.
- Providing hostel service to trainees from distant places.
- To protect human rights of mentally challenged
Funding - The current source of funds is not continuous and the funds are not sufficient to meet the organization requirements throughout the year. To create a continuous source of funds, we plan to get some corpus fund with the help from donors, which when deposited in bank as a fixed deposit will provide interest that can be used for meeting organization needs.
Appeal - We are appealing to genorous donors to donate and provide financial support these differently abled but gifted kids better.
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I wanted to provide some context about Siri.
Couple of years back I started searching for an NGO that is not widely known, has no corporate tie-ups but is doing some great genuine work for differently disabled children.
Siri fit the requirements and they are unique in many ways.
First - they focus on the villages where parents do not have enough information to manage a differently abled child. Often they leave the children at home, locking them up while the parents go out for work, mostly as daily laborers. Siri voluntarily reaches out to such parents, educates them and enrolls children as day scholars or provide hostel facility depending on the parents economic situation.
Second, Siri not only educates the kids but prepares them to be self reliant by providing vocational training.
Third and most important is the funding. Ms.Gopi Devi, the Director of Siri, started the institute in 1994 with her own money. Since then, the institute mostly relied on self funding or contributions from donors and has expanded to multiple locations. This is commendable considering that the institute now has more than 70 students staying in hostel plus many more day scholars.
I have been funding two students ($50) every month from past two years and had a chance to visit the institute on a recent trip to India. After seeing the work that Gopi Devi and her team is doing to help these differently abled kids succeed in their lives, and hearing about the fund crunch that is impacting the institute to better help the kids, I felt much more can be accomplished with help from all of you.
I know $4000 is an ambitious goal but it can be accomplished with your support. Any donation - $5,$10 $20 or $50, will help us to get closer to the goal.
Looking forward for your support.
-ravi
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A request from D. Gopi Devi, Director of Siri Institute -
Siri institute has been offering its Teaching and Training services since 1994 (22 years of
service completed) to the mentally challenged through its professionals for improving life of mentally
challenged and helps in learning sustainable life skills.
The organization is a non profitable free teaching and training institute for Mentally Challenged since 1994, offering its services from Samalkot, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India, covering three mandals of East Godavari District those are Samalkot, Prathipadu and Peddapuram (consisting of more than 80 Villages) with trained professional staff to cover 210 students.
The teaching and training to the mentally handicapped project is supported by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, New Delhi, since 1999
Siri has the following objectives:
- Create awareness in the families about mental retardation.
- Create awareness in general public.
- Providing maximum available service to mentally challenged.
- Providing Special Education and training to mentally challenged
- Optimum training in Vocational trades for achieving rehabilitation for mentally challenged.
- Domestic ability development for women trainees to minimize their dependency at their home.
- Providing hostel service to trainees from distant places.
- To protect human rights of mentally challenged
Funding - The current source of funds is not continuous and the funds are not sufficient to meet the organization requirements throughout the year. To create a continuous source of funds, we plan to get some corpus fund with the help from donors, which when deposited in bank as a fixed deposit will provide interest that can be used for meeting organization needs.
Appeal - We are appealing to genorous donors to donate and provide financial support these differently abled but gifted kids better.
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Ravi Kiran Nidadavolu
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Redmond, WA
