Dear Supporters,
Hope you are doing well. Four months ago, we started this campaign here on Milaap to help the kids in getting their school repaired. With your kind support we managed to raise a total of Rs. 215,360/-.

I was really excited to share the updates of the ongoing work on a frequent basis, but at the same time I thought of surprising you with the complete transformation we brought to the school. So I had to wait unwillingly for a long 4 months without sharing an update.

Let's give a big applause to our team:

• Team Milaap, helped us setup the campaign, without which it would have been difficult to achieve the targets
• Ramakrishna, the teacher and native of the village(where school is located). He was instrumental in taking care of logistics and operations of the work. Although we visited only few times, he provided us frequent updates, coordinated with the local community, coordinated with school staff, helped us in hiring a new teacher on contract basis.
• Harish Kasina
• Sivaram Yadala
• Sameer Nandan
• Anwar Hussain     

Our entire team worked hard to make this happen with the support from all of you. Here are the civil and other works that were carried during this 5 months:
1. Construction of new compound wall (When we cleared the destroyed compound wall, we noticed that the contractor who did the work in the past has not even built the basement for compound wall :(  So we had to do that work as well.)
2. Installing main gate
3. Plantation in school premises as well as plantation in the village  (Around 200 coconut trees were distributed to villagers. Few students were identified among the group as green leaders and given the task of monitoring the growth of the trees).
4. Hired a new teacher making the teachers count to 3. Next year Government will allot a new teacher since the student count will cross the limit set by Govt. (for every 30 kids, 1 teacher will be allotted. After the work is started we've seen 7-8 people rejoining this school from a private school, making a total of 55-60 kids. We are anticipating the count to grow beyond 60 next year.).
5. Repair work for the two class rooms, bathrooms, construction of one temporary class room.
6. Painting work for entire school building.
7. Art work inside class rooms.

Things to do in future:
1. There is only one tap for entire school making it difficult for kids during mid day meals. Not all students are washing hands/plates. We're planning to install 4-5 wash basins.
2. Focus on academic side for the school (projectors, computers, education related material etc)

Financial updates:
We seem to be on track, since we've efficiently managed the funds and managed to complete within the budget. I'll share the complete expenditure details(for each and every work) and the funds received etc in the following updates.

Sharing the video documenting the transformation of the school here. The impact is for you to see and share.
We cannot thank you enough for your support.

Warmly,
Ramakrishna
Harish Kasina
Anwar Hussain
Sivaram Yadala
Satyaprakash

Dear Supporters,

We received Rs. 25,240/- today from IBase IT employees (http://www.ibaseit.com/)
Thank you so much for helping us financially.

Dear Suppoters,
We'll be starting the compound wall construction work on this weekend if weather cooperates. I'll share updates, once the work is commenced.
Note: We set Aug 15th as the target date to finish off the 50% of school repair (external walls and painting) and compound wall construction.