StudyFin- Financial support to reduce school dropouts in Maharashtra

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At Thinksharp Foundation, we are successfully running project StudyMall in 28 villages in 28 rural schools across Maharashtra,India . Through StudyMall we are helping approximately 5000 rural children by providing them books,digital learning and other better educational infrastructure. While working in rural areas, we closely observed lack of financial resource is one of the critical reason for discontinuing education. One of the major cause of dropouts in secondary schools in rural areas, is lack of financial support. This led us to launch our  new project "StudyFin". StudyFin project supports to financially disadvantaged children to pursue secondary education (9th to 12th Std) and vocational education. Special emphasis is for the girls who cannot pursue or have dropped out of the school due to financial constraints. This will help rural children for completion…
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7th StudyMall launched at Village Panodi, Dist Ahemdnagar

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We are very happy to share that our 7th  StudyMall Project was launched on 02 Dec 2017 at Balpan English School. On occasion of the opening ceremony a science exhibition was also presented by  150+ school's talented little scientists . Children made windmill, sound and air properties, volcano eruption, rainbow formation, motor driven boat, sprinkler irrigation, ATM machine, Hydraulic lift etc as part of science exhibition. To know more click the link to see exclusive pictures of this event on our Facebook page album. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.955111167961433.1073741835.181244028681488&type=1&l=fd30796769  This  School is started by a very dynamic couple and social entrepreneurs themselves Mr and Mrs Munde. They both have two talented children Pratik and Varad,  and they realized  they had to send there eldest Son Pratik to a town place to study in English medium.…
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Bringing social change with the help of social media SM4E2017

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On 05 and 06 Oct 2017 we, Thinksharp Foundation had an opportunity to attend a workshop organised by Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) (Read about there amazing work at http://defindia.org/).  On behalf of ThinkSharp Foundation team, I was privileged to attend the workshop. This workshop was organised in a beautiful location by DEF'S SM4E2017 team (SM4E is social media for empowerment, Read about them at http://sm4e.org/). Th workshop was at Sanskriti Kendra Anandgram, Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road, A nand Gram, New Delhi, Delhi.    While we all use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and many other social media tools to stay connected with our friends and family. There are organisations who use them to help society and to bring change in society . DEF is one such international organisation who connects, educates, and creates awareness regarding digital empowerment…
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6th StudyMall Launched at Z.P.School Badakwasti, Dist-Aurangabad

6th StudyMall Launched at Z.P.School Badakwasti, Dist-Aurangabad

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On 07 Oct 2017, we launched our sixth StudyMall at Z.P School, Badakwasti, Taluka Sillod, Dist.Aurangabad, Maharashtra . Badakwasti is a small village with approx population of 7000 people . Here is short story of before and after transformation of this school and how StudyMall has added needed educational infrastructure for this village children. (Watch our 2 min transformation StudyMall launch story in video form @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0y5svk-Q5o) On 29 July 2017 our team consisting of Rahul sonawane and Founder Santosh Phad visited Z.P. school at Badakwasti, Tq. Sillod, Aurangabad . We got a request from  school teachers Mr.Vishasir and Mr.Prakash sir (Prakash Rajput & Vishal Tipramwar ) to install StudyMall in there school. This school is model school for entire Maharashtra region which is having DigitalClass running on solar source, Water storage, Separate Dining area…
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Children from Village Rumhana, will now learn, read and play better.

Children from Village Rumhana, will now learn, read and play better.

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On 04 Nov 2017 we visited Z.P.School of  Village Rumhana, Dist Buldhana. We did pre inspection of Z.P.School. We were humbled by support and co-ordination of Chate sir, Z.P.School staff, students and parents especially considering it was school holiday.   Rumhane is a small village with approximate total population of 1000 +.  Z.P.School of this small village is from  1st to 4th std and is Marathi medium, with total student count 84 (40 boys and 44 girls). Total number of  teachers is 03. School has 6 classrooms out of which only 2 are RCC ,1 tv, and 24 hour electricity is current infrastructure. Honoring  commitment of village residents, gram Panchyat, teachers and Chate Sir for betterment of educational infrastructure to be made available  for this village children, we are going…
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Children from Village Kumbefal and Kalegaon will soon read and learn better.

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On 05 Nov 2017 we visited Z.P.School of Village Kumbefal, and Village Kalegaon, Dist Buldhana. We did pre inspection of both Z.P.School's. We were humbled by support and co-ordination of Respected  Bodade sir and Bodade Madam.  Also thankful to Z.P.School staff, students and parents for extending warm welcome in school especially considering it was Sunday. Watch our 1 minute video of both schools which provides an overall view of current infrastructure of both this school. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ2Qf2kmiT0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejmqmoDS2Pw Kumbefal and Kalegaon village  are small villages located in Taluqa Khamgaon. On our way to the village we could see their  geographical location i.e located in mountainous region. Approximate population of Kumbefal is 2800 and that of Kalegaon is 3500. Kumbefal village Z.P. school is from 1st to 8th  std (Marathi) and has 233…
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