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BACKGROUND
MESCO or Modern Educational Social & Cultural
Organization has been working with the poorer
sections of society. Its emphasis is on providing
quality education to the underprivileged sections
of society. It has been providing, indirect
support for education i.e. financial assistance to
students from school to professional levels on a
continuing multiyear basis as also direct
education through the management of a primary
school and 12 Nursery Schools, catering to over
550
students. |
Tiny Tots of Our Nursery School |
It has over the
years been able to improve the quality of its curriculum as also able to
recruit better trained teachers whom it is able to retain because it believes
in low student:teacher ratio, ongoing teacher training, conducive service
conditions, attractive pay package and a participative management style of
functioning.
Except one NURSERY SCHOOL, 11 Nursery Schools are being
run in community halls or private ownership premises and MESCO enters into an annual (eleven months leave and
licence) contract.
An interesting child centred play way and experiential
approach is adopted in terms of the curriculum. A lot of
materials, games, and other educational aids are used.
Help from experts and institutions involved in child
centred early childhood education is taken in the
conduct of workshops and training programmes for the
teachers.
While all children enter the next level more than 75% of children from our
Nursery Schools, each year are getting into reputed
schools of the area. This to us is the greatest
achievement; for MESCO, each year, is able to put over
350 students into good schools.
MESCO believes that even in slums and backward areas
parents do perceive and realise what is being provided
in terms of quality of education and are willing to pay
upto their means and ability. It has been MESCO's
endeavour to see that nobody is denied education because
of their inability to pay and subsidised tuition fees
are then charged from such students, on an already
highly subsidised fee structure (covers only 60% of
costs).
We at MESCO appeal to you to support us in any one or
more of the following ways:
1. Paying us a donation amount to be set aside as a
Corpus to take care of the deficit (Rs. 60,000/-
covered by a corpus of Rs. 5.0 lakhs per school); or, an
annual contribution of Rs. 60,000/-.
2. Paying for educational material approximate
cost Rs. 10,000/- per school, annually.
3. Paying for capital expenditure in terms of
furniture and play equipment; estimated one time cost Rs.
50,000/- for setting up a new school.
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