ANNUAL REPORT 2009-2010

Let Us Serve the Needy

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ANNUAL REPORT 2009-2010

Message from President, MUKTI 3

Cyclone Aila: Relief and Rehabilitation Program 4

Post Aila Activities 5

Control Global Warming and Save the Sunderban Rally 6

Campaign for 'Save the Sunderban' organised by Uttarpara Ideal Youth Society 6

Exotic Bird farming Project by Self Help Group 7

Speech of Dr. Siddhartha Ganguly 7

Educational Camp for Madhyamik (Standard X) Students 8

Distribution of Solar Lamps in Sundarban 9

Village Computer Literacy Program (VLCP) 10

MUKTI Book Bank Project 2009-2010 11

Income and Expenditure Statement — 2009-2010 12

Balance Sheet 13

TSS Program by MUKTI 14

Table of Contents

Message from President, MUKTI

As we approach the year 2011, we reflect back and see a year of

great significance has passed. From MUKTI’s perspective, unfortu-

nately the year 2009-10 will be remembered as ‘the year of Aila’,

the cyclone that wreaked havoc on the coastal South and North 24

Parganas districts of West Bengal on May 25, 2009. The cyclone

washed away a diameter as huge as 250-350 km of land, flooded

most of the Sunderbans, and left 10,00,000 helpless people with

little or no access to food, safe drinking water, shelter or medi-

cine.

MUKTI immediately joined the

disaster relief effort. We have

been engaged in relief and

rehabilitation programs. We

provided immediate relief in

the form of cooked/dry food,

water, shelter, utensils, mos-

quito nets, and medical

camps. We followed it up by

long term rehabilitation pro-

grams like the organic agri-

culture movement to restore

fertility of the land and the

community kitchen program

to provide support to the peo-

ple who found themselves on

the verge of a famine–like

situation. In short, MUKTI pro-

vided all the essentials to pre-

vent further human fallout that

usually follows great catastro-

phic disasters similar to the

magnitude of Aila.

Scientists studying the effects

of climate change have pre-

dicted that extreme weather,

along with just a 45 cm rise in

sea levels would submerge 75

percent of the Sunderbans.

The sinking Sunderban islands

are one of the first climate

hotspots in India. It sets a

precedent for the impacts of

sea level rise which poor

populations in low lying

coastal India will face in coming years. Increased displacement of

people due to loss of habitation and land will increase India's

count of climate refugees and add to the burden of poverty under

which we are already reeling. At this critical

juncture where we only have eight years to

act, strong and time bound mitigation meas-

ures must accompany measures for adapta-

tion.

Lack of access to electricity is a great chal-

lenge to India’s rural economy. The need for

increased production of electricity in a growing economy often

stands in conflict with the need for measures to mitigate global

warming. An environmentally friendly way to electrify and boost

the rural economy like that of alternative renewable would pro-

vide a way out of this deadlock.

MUKTI’s Project GrEEN (Green Energy for Ecology and Nature)

addresses this issue by promoting solar and other renewable en-

ergy sources for village livelihoods. In collaboration with organi-

zations like TERI (The Energy Research Institute headed by Dr. R K

Pachauri), Cosmos Ignite of Delhi, and One Million Lights of USA,

MUKTI is all set to address the issue of electricity in the Sunder-

bans, and to fight global warming in the process.

The year 2009-10 will be also known for MUKTI family’s growth in

the form of Mukti Qatar. Recently a significant number of dedi-

cated volunteers from Qatar came forward and formed the MUKTI

Qatar chapter. MUKTI Qatar is committed to a focus on Indian

socio-economic issues with a prominent vision-defined mission.

MUKTI Qatar partnered with MUKTI India and TERI to make pro-

ject GrEEN a success.

I must mention our continuation with well-known and appreciated

projects like Book Bank, Coaching program, Village Computer

Literacy Program (VCLP), Talented Student Sponsorship (TSS) and

other projects in even larger scale than before, with great help

and support from more than 500 volunteers and 11 collaborating

organizations from around the world.

Thank you very much for all of your great help, and congratula-

tions to all the dedicated activists for the success achieved so far.

Let us continue to work together, so that we can continue to bring

positive change to the silently suffering sections of society.

- Sankar Halder, President, MUKTI

Participated Cyclone Aila Relief

& Rehabilitation program in

Sunderban and helped more than

20,000 people from 20 Gram

Panchayets of 5 Blocks.

Started the movement „Save the

Sunderban‟ to save the world

heritage site Sunderban from the

effect of Global Warming.

Started project GrEEN to

promote use of solar and

renewable energy in rural part of

India.

Newest chapter MUKTI Qatar

started with their significant

contribution towards project

GrEEN.

MUKTI website renovated with

many new features like display of

past & current project info, better

menu based navigation, news

updates, partner information etc.

Highlights 2009-2010

Cyclone Aila: Relief and Rehabilitation Program

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Villagers worked for the reconstruction so

that they can stay safe from the flood dur-

ing the next high tide. MUKTI provided

food to all the people who worked for the

Dry Food Help:

MUKTI immediately joined the disaster

relief effort. They started moving the

stranded people in affected areas to higher

grounds. MUKTI distributed dry food and

medicines to thousands of people in Braja-

ballavpur, Namkhana, Haripur, Brajabal-

lavpur GP, Kultali Block 19 Number Bhasa

(Bhubaneswari) and Amtala GP. They also

distributed milk powder to approximately

350 mothers with children ages between 0

to 12 months.

Cooked Food Help:

They started running food kitchen at differ-

ent centers spread out throughout the dis-

aster affected region. They provided

cooked food to 3500 affected villagers on a

daily basis. MUKTI also provided some

relief work at the Amtala GP. The spon-

sored one day food and meal for approxi-

mately 250 villagers.

Medicines, Clothes, Tarpaulin:

MUKTI donated medicines for 200 persons

to a government run medical center and

also donated clothes for 50 persons and

distributed to the needy people in the af-

fected villages. They organized camps in

19 number and Bhasa villages

and distributed clothes to the

villagers. More than 1700 peo-

ple were benefited with this

program.

MUKTI distributed 300 canvas

sheets in Samanta Para and

Damkal villages in Nagen-

drapur. They encouraged peo-

ple who were staying in the

temporary relief centers for

more than a week to return to

their own land and build tempo-

rary shelters with the tripals provided.

They tried to help displaced people back

to their home with food for few days. 200

mosquito nets were given to victims in

Nandakumarpur, Mathurapur-II.

‘Food for Work’ Drive:

MUKTI successfully finished

‘Food for work’ program. They

reconstructed river embank-

ment at Dakhin Kashi Nagar in

Herabagopalpur GP, Kuyamuri,

Purba Chintamonipur, Damakal

Ganga Ghat in Nagendraopur

GP, Banashyamnagar GP and

Amtali GP.

Cyclonic Storm Aila wrecked havoc on the coastal South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on May 25, 2009. Aila was the second tropi-

cal storm formed in Northern Indian Ocean in 2009.

Facts:

According to an IANS report, as

many as 5.3 million people have

been affected by Cyclone Aila.

In state West Bengal, an

estimated 40,000 homes

were destroyed and

132,000 others were

damaged.

In India, nearly 50,000

hectares of agricultural

land was lost during the

storm, costing an

estimated Rs. 125 crore

(US$26.3 million).

Source:Wikipedia

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Post Aila Activities

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MUKTI arranged few medical camps to help people to fight with different illness. These water bornes diseases usually provide more

hardship to the already affected people following a great disaster like Aila. They also executed rehabilitation program for restoration of

local water bodies to provide sweet water and to restrict spreading of diseases. MUKTI helped farmers by distributing cultivated Paddy

Seedling, teaching different agricultural practices that are economically viable, environmentally sound. They also provided educational

materials to many helpless students.

Sustainable Agricultural Project:

MUKTI and BTS jointly finished a pilot Sus-

tainable Agricultural project with the help

of AID. They helped farmers to adopt agri-

cultural practices that are economically

viable, environmentally sound. They were

trained to prepare seed bed like how to

raise crops in their home gardens, contain-

ers and community fields. They are also

trained to prepare Bio-Inputs like Amrit,

Fish, Coconut and Herbal Tonic. These

microbial rich bio solutions are the main

component of soil reclamation process.

It will drastically reduce the cost of cultiva-

tion and improve the soil fertility. Practical

demonstrations are given to the farmers.

Main area of work was Kultali, Patharpra-

tima and Mathurapur CD Block. Each

farmer is supplied 50gm Bin, 100gm Palon,

25gm Mula, 12.5 gm Piring and 12.5 grm

Kolmi to start their work. Women self help

groups already functioning in the villages.

MUKTI is encouraging them for a large

s c a l e

prepara-

tion of

bio in-

puts and

s e l l i n g

to the

v i l l a g -

ers.

Medical Camps:

MUKTI arranged few medical camps in

different places to help flood affected peo-

ple to fight with different illness. They

treated around 450-500 patients in Kumir-

mari, 200 patients in Gosaba Block 2

(Chowrasta), 300 patients in Haripur, Ma-

danganj and Chandanpiri under Namkhana

Block. All patients were provided proper

treatment as well as medical counseling.

Most of the people were suffering from

stomach upset, dysentery, skin disease

and other water borne diseases. ORS was

also distributed among patients.

Sweet Water Projects:

MUKTI started their rehabilitation program

for restoration of local Water bodies to

provide Sweet Water among Aila victims

and restricting spreading diseases. MUKTI

cleaned nearly 12 ponds in G-plot area

comprising 7 villages and 10 big commu-

nity ponds in K Plot GP of Pathar Pratima

Block.

MUKTI Educational Rehabilita-

tion Program (MERP):

MUKTI provided educational materials like

books, white paper, pen, school bag etc to

Aila affected students who have lost their

house and all belongings and not able to

continue their studies.

500 students in each GP from class V to X

got books from MUKTI. Besides this MUKTI

distributed school books for all classes

from 5 to 12 in 3 schools and educational

materials to 167 students in Dakhinkashi

Jana High School.

Paddy seedling to support Agri-

culture:

MUKTI team cultivated Paddy Seedling in

Kumrapara, Nandakumarpara, Kakandighi

and Nagendrapur and handed it over to

more than 100 farmers, who were helpless

as they could not germinate seeds as acres

of land were submerged under saline wa-

ter. MUKTI also joined hands with SUNDER-

BAN DEVELOPMENT

BOARD (SDB) and dis-

tributed paddy seed-

lings to 180 acre of land

in extra remote area

like Basanti.

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Control Global Warming and Save the Sunderban Rally

mal rescue flood relief centers along

with human flood relief centre,

Sunderban need national and interna-

tional fund to act for stopping defores-

tation, and increase forestation.

Climate change human and wild ani-

mal refuges need proper rehabilita-

tion where international organization/

country must be funding for these.

On 7th December, 2009, a rally program

was conducted from Victoria Memorial

gate to Netaji Indoor Stadium not only to

raise a voice against the global warming

but also to create awareness about its fatal

impact on the delta region of Sunderban .

Almost 30,000 people including environ-

mental activist, journalists, common peo-

ple and school students from different re-

gions participated.

Activists of MUKTI participated to that rally

and spread their specific demands for sun-

derban at the program. They distributed

fliers and cards to the Honorable Minister

Kanti Ganguly, honourable deligates Mr. P.

K. Banerjee, Mr. Sailen Manna, Mr. Masdur

Rehman, Mr. Satipada Ganchowdhury and

others. The papers are also distributed

among participating people, students and

press journalists.

MUKTI attended the seminar inside Netaji

Indoor stadium and took initiative to launch

a common forum to save and work for Sun-

derban. They invited like minded people,

NGOs and associations to join the form and

work together.

The demands of MUKTI are:

Make sure emissions peak in 2015

and decrease as rapidly as possible

towards zero after that.

Developed countries must make

cuts of 40 percent on their 1990

carbon emissions by 2020.

Developing countries must slow the

growth of emissions by 15-30 per-

cent by 2020, with support from indus-

trialized nations.

Developing countries must slow the

growth of emissions by 15-30 percent

by 2020, with support from industrial-

ized nations.

Protect tropical forests with a special

funding mechanism – forests for cli-

mate.

We need a monitoring and measure-

ment body, who will be continually

monitor Suderban and design project

for appropriate measurement.

We need to setup sufficient wild ani-

Support Save the Sunderban

Project, Visit

www.SaveTheSunderban.org

On 20th December, 2009 Members and

activists of MUKTI did the campaigning for

save the Sunderban. 14th Senior Citizen’s

Walking Race was organized by Uttarpara

ideal youth Society, Uttarpara.

Main demands are

Make sure emissions peak in 2015 and

decrease as rapidly as possible to-

wards zero after that

Developed countries must make cuts

of 40 percent on their 1990 carbon

emisisons by 2020

Developing countries must slow the

growth of emissions by 15-30 percent

by 2020, with support from industrial-

ised nations

mal refuges need proper rehabilita-

tion where international organization/

country must be funding for these.

Protect tropical forests with a special

funding mechanism – forests for cli-

mate

Replace dirty fossil fuel energy with

renewable energy and energy effi-

ciency

We need a monitoring and measure-

ment body, who will be continually

monitoring Suderban, and design

project for appropriate measurement.

Along with human flood relief centre,

we need to setup sufficient wild animal

rescue flood relief centres.

Sunderban need national and interna-

tional fund to act for stopping defores-

tation, and increase forestation.

Climate change human and wild ani-

Campaign for 'Save the Sunderban' organised by Uttarpara Ideal Youth Society

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speech. He mentioned how spending few

minutes on each of these elements can

enhance and maintain a comfortable state

of mind and its expressions.

The discussion also emphasized on main-

taining health, proper body weight, nutri-

tious food habits and regular exercise to

achieve happiness. The event did help the

youth of Sundarban to have a clear idea

regarding leading a healthy, successful

and happy life. The UN declared the year 2010 as the In-

ternational Year of Biodiversity and Inter-

national Year of youth. Keeping this and

worldwide events for youth in mind, MUKTI

India organized an event for the youth of

Sundarban on 10th January, 2010. Dr.

Siddhartha Ganguly, an Anatomist con-

ducted a discussion leading a successful

happy life through body and brain. The

event was organized by Judhisthir Halder,

Madhusudan Bairagi, Coaching centre

teacher and other members of MUKTI.

The event took place at Santosh Gorai

Balika Vidyalaya, Kankandighi, Sundarban,

West Bengal, where 100 students of class 8

and 9 from eight coaching centre par-

ticipated. The discussion encom-

passed issues relating achieving true

happiness without making others un-

happy.

Dr. Ganguly also clarified that a state

of unhappiness should not be ac-

cepted as destiny. He described how

brain controls all the elements of our

body and all the feelings of our mind.

He pointed out that everyone should

spend some time each day thinking

over the factors that brings happi-

ness. He lectured over six critical

elements of our body language –

walking, arm position, eye-contact,

posture, facial expressions and

Speech of Dr. Siddhartha Ganguly

drapur and Kankandighi GP of Sunderban.

The main target is to make low income

village woman group independent.

Since Aila cyclone affected most part of

Sunderban, current agriculture system and

other income generation sources are al-

most closed for local people. So MUKTI put

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a very significant effort to create entrepre-

neur among village women to generate

source of income. MUKTI started several

Self help group (SHG) project in Nagen-

Exotic Bird farming Project by Self Help Group

“State of Unhappiness

should not be Accepted as

Destiny”

Educational Camp for Madhyamik (Standard X) Students

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camp again for the next year's students.

On 23rd January 2010, on the 114th birth

anniversary of one of the greatest leaders

in the Indian independence movement,

Subhash Chandra Bose, MUKTI organized a

two day educational program aimed at

helping the students of Kankandighi Gram

Panchayat and Nagendrapur Gram Pancha-

yat to do well in the Madhyamik examina-

tion. The session was conducted by the

teachers of Dumdum K. K. Hindu Academy.

28 girls and 36 boys of Kankandighi Gram

Panchayat and 41 girls and 35 boys of Na-

gendrapur Gram Panchayat attended the

program. The students were from Jata Na-

gendrapur High School, Nagendrapur

Hetamkumari High School, Jata Jogen-

drapur High School, Babujan Sipai High

School and Panchanan Shikshaniketan.

On 23rd January the program started at 10

am with Mr. Probir Banerjee offering Floral

tribute to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. This

was followed by flag hoisting after which

all the teachers of Dumdum Hindu Acad-

emy, teachers and volunteers of Mukti,

students and villagers offered their respect

and homage to Netaji. The first day's ses-

sion span 7 hours where the key points for

success in the Madhyamik examinations

were stressed. The teachers emphasized

on solving previous year's papers, com-

plete revision, proper time management

during exam, answering of full number of

questions, careful reading of the question

during exam, rechecking of answers and

proper organiza-

tion of thoughts. At

5-30 pm on the first

day after the edu-

cational session

MUKTI India did

arrange a cultural

show by the stu-

dents.

The show con-

cluded with a song

by Mr Nityananda

Pal, the Head Mas-

ter of Dumdum KK

Hindu Academy. The accommodation and

food for the students and teachers were

arranged by MUKTI.

On 24th January the program started at 8

am. Chemistry, History, Bengali and

Mathematics sessions were conducted by

respective teachers who stressed on tips

for scoring high marks in the examination

like writing practice, maintaining proper

time table etc. After the completion of the

teaching, Sri Barun Halder was awarded

for his success in the examination last year.

Panchanan Das and Mamoni Halder, two

students described how they got benefit-

ted by attending the educational camp.

Soumen Jana, Animesh Bera, teachers of

MUKTI and Judhisthir Halder, Raghunath

Bairagi And Madhusudan Bera- volunteers

of MUKTI gave

speech on the educa-

tional camp.The camp

concluded with a

cultural program by

students of MUKTI

Cochin Centre and

floral bouquets were

presented to all the

teachers of Dumdum

KK Hindu Academy

by the students.

MUKTI India is look-

ing forward to suc-

cessfully organize the

Coaching Center Project

The project target villages are

extremely rural and isolated from

the basic luxuries of

development.

***

In these area only 70% of

children are going to school and

there is a lack of schools.

***

The entire population residing in

these area is still struggling to

revive themselves from the

destruction caused by the

disastrous cyclone AILA that had

hit the district in May 2009.

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MUKTI to treasure the memories of the

event in the forms of pictures and videos.

The distribution ceremony was accompa-

nied with an interactive training session

aiming at imparting correct knowledge

regarding usage of the lamps instead of

kerosene lanterns for lighting purposes.

The audience response in the event and

planning for further progress in the solar

projects between the collaborators of the

event promised success for the future solar

projects.

Sundarban, the largest inter-tidal delta

region of the world, is formed by the

Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers.

The unique landscape of marshlands,

dense forest of large mangroves and salt

water swamp lying along the Bay of Bengal

from the Hooghly River Estuary of India

and the Meghna River Estuary in Bangla-

desh is also the home of the famous Royal

Bengal Tiger along with many birds, croco-

diles and other forest animals and aquatic

creatures. Besides its characteristic flora

and fauna, Sundarban is also inhabited by

more than 4 million people of which ap-

proximately 60% fall below the poverty

level.

Due to disadvantageous geographical lo-

cation and non-availability of grid quality

power the residents

of Sundarban suffer

from chronic short-

age of electrical en-

ergy and have to

depend on expen-

sive and inconsis-

tently available kero-

sene oil for lighting

purposes.

On 25th December,

2009, MUKTI India, in

collaboration with MUKTI for Social

Development, USA and OneMil-

lionLights, USA distributed 40 solar

lamps among the talented but

needy students some underprivi-

leged villagers of Dakshin

Kankandighi, Sundarban, West

Bengal. This marked the initiation

of the partnership between MUKTI

for Social Development, USA, One-

MillionLights, USA and MUKTI In-

dia. MUKTI for Social Development,

USA is a California, USA based

NGO focused on fostering self reli-

ant and thriving communities

amongst low-income and under-privileged

and on creating nurturing environment

where every individual in the society can

reach their full potential. OneMillionLights,

USA is a USA based NGO trying o reach out

with their solar projects to people in parts

of the world where there is no electricity.

MUKTI for Social Development arranged

for the necessary funds, whereas OneMil-

lionLights matched three-fold for the initial

lot.

The event was organized by Mr. Judhistir

Halder, Coordinator of the Coaching Cen-

tre Project and other members of MUKTI

India. Mr. Himan Mukherjee, representa-

tive of MUKTI for Social Development and

OneMillionLights, Ms Koel Ghorai, Chief

Coordinator of the Solar project of MUKTI

India and Mr. Debabrata Haldar of MUKTI

India distributed the lamps.

Mr. Andrew

R o h a n

Prashant, an

MBA student of

Army Institute

of Manage-

ment, Kolkata

was present

during the

event and con-

tributed by

e n a b l i n g

Distribution of Solar Lamps in Sundarban

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Do you Know?

“Every hour on the Earth's

surface falls enough solar

energy to meet world energy

needs for an entire year. Our

energy problems would be

solved if we find a way to

harvest that energy.”

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Village Computer Literacy Program (VLCP)

work. Her smiling photograph along with

the other photographs of the school, in-

structor and curious students and provided

below this document.

Even though West Bengal Ex-

amination Board does not make

it compulsory to conduct exami-

nations in this subject, MUKTI

volunteers routinely made sur-

prise performance checks of the

students through examination,

informal queries and question-

naire to random students. Not to

our amazement and to our pleas-

ure, MUKTI evaluation of the

VCLP program at Kashinagar

High School was found to be

very progressive. One of their

main inputs was that it is indeed

true that the students were get-

ting well acquainted with the

subject which was not even heard of by

their parents a year back.

The same is the story at Guptipara at

Hooghly district which is primarily a com-

puter centre for the sole purpose to impart

training to the needy people free of cost by

providing them career oriented training.

The trainings are mostly on application

packages on topics related to Finance,

AutoCAD, and Tally etc. The trainings are

imparted by a computer learned person

along with two more local Guptipara volun-

teers using two computers.

A huge round of applause and thanks defi-

nitely goes to TCS since their computers

are key in shaping futures both for school

students as well as trained personnel who

otherwise would never have dreamt to

learn these important subjects amidst their

socio-economic hardships. VCLP has been

in past and will be in future, a very suc-

cessful program in creating a big and posi-

tive difference for this impoverished sec-

tion of society.

MUKTI Designed a grand project called

‘Village Computer Literacy Pro-

gram’ (VLCP) with the sole noble intention

of imparting free and needed computer

education to the poor and

interested students of the

Sunderban area. The pro-

gram was imparted with

the help of Tata Consul-

tancy Services Ltd. (TCS)

which donated total 19

computers to MUKTI. With

the much needed input,

MUKTI went on to set-up

four different labs; one

within the Kashinagar High

School situated in Kashina-

gar near Kakdwip in South

24 Parganas district; one at

Guptipara situated in the

Hooghly district of West

Bengal; one at Bankura

facilitated by MUKTI

Bankura chapter and the most recent one

at a Coaching centre at Gobindapur vil-

lage, near Kakdwip.

The Kashinagar High School is a mid to

large size school comprising of approxi-

mately 750 students. The students are stu-

dious, meritorious but unfortunately do not

possess the liberty of even having a com-

puter in reality in their lives. Four com-

puters from TCS were donated to this

school which set-up a computer room. The

teachings were impacted by computer

literate teachers from the school, trained

initially by two MUKTI volunteers who even

helped with the set-up of the computer

room. Not only the students but even their

parents were excited. The classes are or-

ganized twice a week. Since learning com-

puters is a huge subject in itself and that

these students were relatively unknown to

this subject, the training program was pri-

marily divided into two parts

The first was to impart Practical knowledge

(Microsoft Office software packages like

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Paint)

and the second part was to impart Theo-

retical knowledge (basics of computer

system, its architecture, numbering system

etc.). The main emphasis was for students

to have realized the knowledge of com-

puter system and its application which in

turn would help them in their higher stud-

ies. Keeping in mind the limitations in num-

ber of computers and training personnel (1

teacher and 4 computers), the computer

classes were not made compulsory to the

students. Only interested computer educa-

tion seekers between classes V to X were

entertained. MUKTI received wide support

from the school headmaster, Mr. Shyamal

Samanta, who has been very keen and

enthusiastic of the project. He is also happy

with the progress of his students’ education

in this subject. His idea aligns with ours in

the sense that if we can provide and ar-

range more computers in the future, more

and more students can facilitate from the

program and make a better living or

higher studies through it. Talking about

students, a classic example of one of the

brightest is Ms. Swagata Mandal of class

VI. She has already started showing confi-

dence not only in operating computers on

her own but also realizes that her dream to

become a doctor is not totally unrealistic

and it will come true through vigorous hard

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MUKTI Extended its Book Bank help to 14

Aila Affected Schools of Sunderban. The

Book Bank is the student resource for all

the Course Books that a student may re-

quire for his academic pursuits from Class

5 to Class 12. The Book Bank offers issuing

of books and also provides all enrolled

students with all his course books for a

period of one year. Our books go to chil-

dren, the ill, and the indigent, in places

where there is no access to books.

MUKTI Stretched their hands to help 1500

students in 5 Block areas of the Aila af-

fected schools. MUKTI successfully organ-

ized MERP (MUKTI Education Rehabita-

tion Programme) in different school in the

area namely Kultali, Jharkhali, G plot & K

Plot. MUKTI Volunteers visited the individ-

ual School & distributed the book where

the student does not have access to books

for further studies. Before distributing the

book to the school.

MUKTI team used to purchase the books

from local agent & do the necessary work

in the MUKTI office i.e. segregating the

books by class wise. The team including

photographer used to start early in the

morning from MUKTI Office.

The volunteers have to travel several kilo-

meters by crossing the river & moved

through designed motorized cart & distrib-

uted the books to several remote schools

with the help of Head Master &

Teachers. All this activities used to

take entire day.

The camp operated from 7am to

5pm. This book bank project has

held from June 2009 to August 2009

and the schools where the pro-

grammed has been held as follows:

Name Of the School Block Nagen-

drapur H.K. High School Purba gurguriya

high school Herobhanga bidyamandir.

Khagendrasmriti bidyamandir Ambika

Nagar high school Babujan Sephai Hgh

School Shibnagar Mokshoda sundari Kuye-

muri uchabidyalay Dakshin Kashinagar

high school Bhubineswari Joykrishna High

School K-Plot Girls school G-Plot High

school Jata Nagendrapur High School.

MUKTI successfully completed the

service and have helped the stu-

dent community in large to obtain

their books of study easily. We

have served more than 1500 stu-

dents from various Secondary &

Higher Secondary School for the

area of Kultali, Jharkhali, G plot & K

Plot.

MUKTI Book Bank Project 2009-2010

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1500 Students in 5 Blocks of

Sunderban area received help

through Book Bank project in

this year of 2009-2010

Do you know?

Women receive

on average only

1.8 years of

schooling in

India!

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Income and Expenditure Statement — 2009-2010

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Balance Sheet — 2009-2010

TSS Program by MUKTI

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routine basis through its network of volun-

teers. This activity will be coordinated by

MUKTI's regional Education Coordinator.

Performance indicators such as updated

school results will be gathered; feedback

from school teachers will be solicited as

necessary. MUKTI will track on-going

needs for each student and will communi-

cate this to sponsoring individuals/

agencies to ensure that there is no inter-

ruption in a child’s' education. MUKTI will

also elicit local feedback on the financial

situation of the families.

The TSS Project is a scholarship program

created by MUKTI through which individ-

ual students are provided with the support

required to get access to a structured edu-

cation. This proposal, prepared by the

board of MUKTI, outlines the financial sup-

port required for implementation of the

project. Additionally, MUKTI requests the

sponsor to consider extending financial

support over several years for the selected

student so that the targeted student can get

established in his/her life.

Total 110 students from 24 Parganas(South

& North), Bankura and Midnapure were

sponsored in this year.

The selection of students is based on both

means and merit. The following criteria are

used for selecting students for TSS funding:

Past results from school exams and

feedback from their respective school

teachers are indicators of the student's

ability.

Local knowledge and feedback is util-

ized to appraise a family's financial

situation.

The approximate annual in-

come of the family is used an

indicator to determine the

family’s inability to provide

adequate financial support for

their child.

The assessed annual budget

per student is 5,000 INR in this

year. This amount takes care

of the following:

All required textbooks

will be purchased and

provided to students by MUKTI.

Other required expenses like school

fees, exercise books, pen, pencil etc

will be provided.

A school uniform will be provided to

each student.

A small amount is provided to each

student on a monthly basis to provide

for some basic necessities such as

nourishment (INR 100).

MUKTI will be gathering feedback on a

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Email:

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