G-2189

Mothers Teaching Slum Children

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Project Description

Region: Asia

Country: Bangladesh

Location: Cox Bazar

Total Budget: $54,480

Area of Focus: None



1. Cooperating Organization

In partnership with the Amarok Society to add a new school that will incorporate the ODL (Open & Distant Learning) methodology. This teaching method transitions an existing curriculum program to increase efficiency and quality with 25% less instruction time for new teachers and support high quality instruction for all teachers.

The Amarok Society now operates 22 schools in the Bangladesh slums that currently teach 550 illiterate mothers, each who teach 5 extremely poor children. They are teaching 2750 children. Currently, a new teacher requires several weeks of training followed by intense mentor-ship by the senior staff in order to ensure quality. Costs for new schools are considerable in terms of personnel time and travel costs for senior staff, and there is a considerable cost of time expended until a teacher is highly effective in her instruction of women - who in turn will copy what she does when teaching the children.

This grant updates the teaching and learning tools, methodology, and materials while reducing the cost and increasing quality of teaching.

• An extremely capable, highly regarded ODL expert from a University in India

• The Indian consultant's travel to Bangladesh two times

• Creation of ODL Guide Books

• Rental facilities for workshops for the 21 Teachers and 21 Teacher Assistants and 4 Senior Management

• Establishment of a new school near the host Rotary Club facilities to ensure very close involvement by the host club

• 2 Material Creation Specialists for educational game-making

• 1 Project Manager responsible for drafting reports and carrying out the monitoring including baseline documentation

• Supplies and materials to implement the work

• Printing of the ODL Guide Books

• Printing and lamination of educational games

• 1 Laptop computer and printer

2. To develop ODL (Open & Distant Learning) Guide Books, based on existing curriculum for year one of study to increase efficiency, increasing quality of instruction in 25%. less time.

3. To establish a new test school (one teacher, one assistant teacher, 25-mothers who attend school for 2-hours per day and go home and teach 5-children what they learned that day).

4. To validate the ODL Guide Book methodology and teaching techniques and fine tune materials. Then incorporate these changes into the test school.

5. To train all education staff in how to use this ODL Guide Book and implement in all other existing schools. And to train all education staff in how to add new material to lessons and expand the Guide Book with relevant materials.

6. To prepare educational games and train education staff how to make new simple games for review in grammar and vocabulary, novels or stories they are reading, current events discussion, etc.

Primary Host Partner

District: 3282

Rotary Club of: Cox's Bazar City

Primary Contact: Samsul Shohel

Email: sams.shohel@gmail.com

Primary International Partner

District: 5240

Rotary Club of: Cambria

Primary Contact: Monty Rice

Email: mgr@amcf.com

Project Status

Dropped
This project has been "Dropped". Check the history log entries to see why it was dropped.

Project listed for the 2021-22 Rotary Year.

The TRF Grant application number is #18753.

Proposed Financing

Existing Contributions Towards This Project

Date

Cash

DDF

Total

Cambria (5240)

30-Aug-19

$3,000

$3,000

$6,000

Santa Maria (5240)

3-Jul-20

$1,000

$1,000

$2,000

Bakersfield Breakfast (5240)

3-Jul-20

$3,000

$3,000

$6,000

Newbury Park (5240)

3-Jul-20

$1,000

$1,000

$2,000

Remaining Amount to Raise

Additional Club Contribution (Needed) - Add a contribution

$32,080

-

$32,080

Amount Requested from The Rotary Foundation

-

$6,400

$6,400

Total

$54,480

Note: as of July 1, 2015 there is a 5% additional support fee for cash contributions. This fee does not appear in the financials above because it does not apply if the funds are sent directly to the project account (without going through TRF, and therefore without Paul Harris credit). Clubs sending their cash contribution to TRF must be aware they will have to send an additional 5%.

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History Log Entries

30-Aug-19

by Philippe Lamoise

System Entry: Creation of project page.

3-Jul-20

by Monty Rice

System Entry: Pledge of $1,050 with $1,000 DDF by Virginia Souza of the Rotary Club of Santa Maria, District 5240.

3-Jul-20

by Monty Rice

System Entry: Pledge of $3,000 with $3,000 DDF by Michael O'Doherty of the Rotary Club of Bakersfield, District 5240.

3-Jul-20

by Monty Rice

System Entry: Pledge of $3,000 with $3,000 DDF by Michael O'Doherty of the Rotary Club of Bakersfield Breakfast, District 5240.

3-Jul-20

by Monty Rice

System Entry: Pledge of $1,000 with $1,000 DDF by Dana Moldovan of the Rotary Club of Newbury Park, District 5240.

5-Jul-21

by Philippe Lamoise

System Entry: Project dropped by Philippe Lamoise.

Reason for dropping: Requested by Monty Rice: Grant was not approved by TRF Grant Committee

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