Sponser A Child
The objective of Adopt A Child program is to fund and sponsor the education of children in India who are at risk of discontinuing their schooling due to very impoverished circumstances. The goal of this program is to prevent the dropouts by orphans or financially backward children. In addition to getting financial assistance, in this program children are benefited from more individual attention by our team that have been established at each school / college location.
Information For Donors
It takes $10 (USD) or Rs.600 (INR) or equivalent amount to sponsor the education of one child per month. One donor can sponsor any number of students. Donations can be paid quarterly, half yearly or annually. Manasvi sponsors eligible students on donor name within 3 months from receiving the first donation. For new donations received after the month of December, students may be sponsored with effect from the month of June/July in next year (beginning of next academic year). Student mailing address and their school address is provided to the donors. Donors can communicate to students through mail or directly visiting project sites.
Project director at each project location monitors the progress of children, provide guidance and closely work with the children to ensure the quality of education.
Child Selection Criteria
Following is the child selection criteria for enrolling students into 'Sponsor A Child' program
- Child must be studying between 5th and 10th standard.
- Child must be studying in government schools.
- Manasvi does not sponsor children studying in private schools or religious schools.
- Child must not be getting more than Rs.500/year scholarships or aid from government or any other private agencies.
- Child and his/her parents must be financially backward (less than Rs 75,000 total family annual income).
- Children living in government facilitated social welfare hostel where free food and accommodation is provided are NOT eligible.
- Children who live and study in private hostel where they need to pay fees for lodging and boarding are NOT eligible.
- Girl students, merit students, disabled and orphans are given preference.
- Child gets preference when all her/his siblings (brothers & sisters) under the age of 18 go to school.
- Children who are ready to educate their parents, neighborhood adults and volunteer to empower their community will get preference.
- Children must show the performance improvement to be able to continue the scholarship form Manasvi. Evaluation is done on continuous basis and decision to continue/discontinue the student will be made on half yearly basis.
Benefits for the Sponsoring child
- Following is the list of items provided to each sponsoring child. uniforms per year
- Sufficient Note books & Stationary (Including but not limited to drawing sheets, coloring pencils, pens, plain papers, geometric box, school bag, geographic maps, science books etc.).
- School fee & Exam fee.
- Tuition Fee (to bring them up to the speed with their peers).
- Prizes for winning students in the competitions organized by Manasvi.