August and September 2010 - Report

Dear friends,

All the HOPE staff are very happy and excited to see all our dreams come true. Now finally all the computer labs are ready. Computer classes on MS office skills at Maderna and Pali centers are progressing every day. They will start soon at Police Lines school also.

At the same time students from the 6^th and 7^th grade are getting trained in math and language skills as well as science, history, geography etc through Azim Premji Foundation (APF) CDs. These classes are conducted FREE of cost.

Below is the strength of the three Govt Schools.

	School Students	Maderna colony	Police line	Pali	TOTAL
1	Beginning of Month	168	147	479	794
2	Admissions	-	-	-	-
3	Dropouts	-	-	-	-
4	Course finished	-	-	-	-
	End of Month	168	147	479	794

*Policeline School computer lab is complete and soon will be open for the school students.

*Maderna and Pali School computer labs are complete and we have started

computer classes for the school students.

We are able to conduct regular computer batches on DIPLOMA IN COMPUTER APPLICATIONS (DCA) at the Pali lab for the local youth. On 23^rd Sept.2010 HOPE worldwide-Pali had its first ever certificate distribution ceremony.

Below is the Pali computer lab’s statistics

for the month of Aug. and Sept. 2010.

	Youth Students	Aug.10	Sept.10
1	Beginning of Month	46	6
2	Admissions	4	8
3	Dropouts	7	0
4	Course finished	37	0
5	Placed in jobs	-	-
	End of Month	6	14

The school students and the youth are so excited to receive MS office skill training at HOPE worldwide computer labs.

We have started FREE TUITION for Maderna colony Govt. school students after school hours. The goal of this is to provide help to the poor and weak students in their school curriculum. 22 students have enrolled so far for FREE TUITION. We are in discussions to start the same for Police Lines school students also.

We want to thank you for all your support and help without which we would not be able to achieve all we have so far.

We look forward for your feedback and support.

Thank you

1st Certificate Ceremony held

23^rd September was a day of joy for HOPE worldwide- Pali, as our first youth batch was awarded certificates. 30 students of Youth Batch completed their Diploma in Computer Application at Shri Sultan Govt. Sr. Sec. School. The students had four months of training and practice. As they receive these certificates they have felt as if they have crossed a milestone towards a promising career. The HOPE staffs were very happy to see their efforts with the government are finally bearing fruit.

We want to thank all the donors who have helped them to dream big…

We look forward for your feedback and support. Thank you,

SALMAN’S NEW HOPE

Salman (15) is the first in his family of nine members to reach 10^th grade. His father is a painter and daily wage earner, who finds it hard to make the ends meet. Salman decided to pursue the same profession like his father to support his family until last month that he chose to learn computers at the HOPE computer lab in Maderna Colony Govt. School. He is very ambitious and quick leaner and one day desires to have a better earning job. Salman is thankful to HOPE for giving him opportunity to learn computer skills for free.

July 2010 Report

Ramesh Sharma - Trainer, taking a Computer class for school
 students at Shri Sultan Govt Sr Sec. School - Computer Lab.

This month's exciting event was teaching computers – MS office to the 8^th 9^th  & 10^th grade student & interactive competency skills training through Azim Premji Foundation (APF) CDs  to 6^th  & 7^th grade students of Govt. School Maderna colony, Jodhpur.

In July 2010, 46 youth are learning DCA - MS office skill at Pali Computer training center. We had to shift the morning youth batches to afternoon because the school had started after the summer vacation. Our priority is to provide computer education to the school students during the school hours, this resulted in dropout of 16 youth students as they were not able to continue the batch in the afternoon. We will continually follow up to help them complete the course.

	Youth Students	Pali
1	Beginning of Month	58
2	Admissions	4
3	Dropouts	16
4	Course finished	-
5	Placed in jobs	-
	End of Month	46

The below school students are continually getting spoken English training at all the three Govt Schools.

	School Students	Maderna colony	Police line	Pali	TOTAL
1	Beginning of Month	158	142	519	819
2	Admissions	-	-	-	-
3	Dropouts	-	-	-	-
4	Course finished	-	-	-	-
	End of Month	158	142	519	819

Our program funding runs out by March 2010, and we continually approaching individuals and donors to seek support. We appreciate your support and feed back. Thank you

SWATI SINGH – Refreshed HOPE

Swati Singh with Ramesh Sharma - HOPE Training Center Pali

At 16, Swati Singh was forced to leave her studies to get married. Unfortunately, she got divorced after three months of marriage. Swati went into depression due to the events in her life. Later, she joined back her studies and recently passed her 12^th through distance education. Now Swati works as a teacher in a local school.  She heard about the HOPE computer training center through her friends. She enrolled herself for spoken English training and computer skills. These skills will help her in getting better paying job to support her family. Swati is very grateful and desires to complete the course this month. - Ramesh Sharma - Trainer, Pali

LEELA - An Opportunistic

Leela at the Summer Camp

Leela lives in a joint family. Leela’s in laws are very restrictive of her going out. Though a graduate, she had to convince them to join the summer camp to learn tailoring course offered by other NGO. As she came to learn these skills, she learnt about the HOPE computer training center (Pali) and enrolled for Computer and spoken English course. She took this opportunity to get acquainted with these skills to pursue her dream to be a Teacher. Leela is very grateful to HOPE for organizing the summer camp.

2010 - SUMMER CAMP UPDATE

HOPE worldwide organized summer camp at Pali and Maderna Colony schools. The main focus of this camp was to provide school children an opportunity to use their summer vacation in a way where they are learning and developing new skills. At the same time the youth batches on MS Office and Personality Development Skills were also progressing at both the above locations.

A Short two week - summer camp was organized for the student of Govt. Secondary School, Policeline, Jodhpur. In the camp students got an opportunity to interact and get trained on Frizbee (Flying Disc) Sport and Maths problems by Mr Andrew Lorimer (Australian volunteer), a professional mathematics and sport’s teacher. Great enthusiasm and commitment was seen in the students through out the camp.

DURATION OF THE CAMP: 18^th May to June 26^th 2010.

Main activities at Madern Colony School: Spoken English Classes, General Knowledge, English Action Songs and Poems, Interactive Games, Craft activities.

Main activities of the camp at Pali: Spoken English, General Knowledge, Personality Development Skills and Computer skills.

Students and Youth enrolled for the camp:

	Location	No. of students enrolled	Youth (Computer)
1	Pali	16	66
2	Maderna colony School	13	14
3	Police line	20	-
	Sub Total	49	80

*The youth were trained on DCA - MS DOS, MS Office and Personality Development Skills

Students activities in progress at Summer camp- Pali 

Summer Camp Certificate Ceremony 2010 - Pali

Summer Camp Certificate Ceremony - Maderna Colony, Jodhpur