An appeal from Palamoor NRI Forum

In tune with the spirit of Palamoor NRI Forum's desire to give back to their home land and help in their
individual capacities, a few forum members have responded to a request for help to sponsor education
for rural kids who are in Bridge Schools.

For initial phase, some forum members came forward and pledged to support 30 kids for next five years
and promised to give $30,000 over the span of 5 years.

Bridge Schools are established by Govt. of Andhra Pradesh under District Primary Education Program
(DPEP), with its objective to bring child labor and school drop-out children back into mainstream
school education.

Bridge Schools by design are intended to provide a smooth transition for these children to regular school environment. These children are encouraged to join regular school system after successful orientation from Bridge Schools. Ground reality of the transition from Bridge School to regular school system is a little different. In first place, the reason for these dropouts and child labor is abject poverty. Even after going through this bridge program, most of these kids are bound to dropout due to lack of financial assistance and backup.

Sevabharati is a local social service organization working in the areas of education, health care and rural development activities. In particular, Sevabharati requested us to help sponsor a few children who have passed out of bridge schools.

Sevabharathi selected above two hundred kids from 154 bridge schools on the basis of a talent search exam. During this screening exercise a total of 90 teachers were involved and they examined 2,000 kids. These kids were tested in English, Math, Science, Social studies, General knowledge and Telugu. About 270 of these kids who secured more than 75% on the exam and showed promising for further education were selected for further assistance.

In Sevabharathi's opinion, these kids should be supported for the next five years so they don’t slip out of the school system. Roughly around $200 per kid is sought per annum. The help is sought for next four years. In the first phase, kids with more needs, particularly those who are either orphans or kids with single parents are identified for the help.

Some of us at Palamoor NRI Forum think that these kids deserve better assistance and support. With help of Sevabharathi, Palamoor NRI Forum is committed to help these kids to the maximum extent possible. So far, commitments for 30 kids have come through. Much more is needed for this worthy cause.

As per 2001 census, there are 2, 79,004 (two lakhs seventy nine thousand and four) kids are out of Mahabubnagar district school system alone.

District	Boys	Girls	Total	School Data	No. of Kids out of School system
Mahabubnagar	4,86,078	4,51,714	9,37,792	6,58,788	2,79,004

Palamoor NRI Forum appeals to its members to assist in sponsoring rest of the students who were screened by Sevabharathi. A sum of $200 per year is needed to support each student. Your commitment is needed for 4 years. An estimated total of $800 per student spread over a period of 4 to 5 years is requested from the sponsors. Your donations for this cause are 100% tax deductible. Yearly donation of $200 covers schooling, hostel facility, food, books, and clothes.

We feel this worthy and noble cause, helping a poor student in need is an excellent way to pay back your mother land. This basic education gave all of us an opportunity to come to this land of opportunities. Our humble request to all Forum members is to show your generosity and help in sponsoring these poor kids. You can sponsor more than one kid and enable the entire selection of kids to enjoy a proper and fruitful education.

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Sponsored by	Kid's Name	Village	Mandal	Pic
Kamlesh Naam	Boya Laxmanna	Bingidoddi	Aiza
Kamlesh Naam	Alakunta Venkatesh	Devarakonda	Devarakonda (NLG. Dist)
Parmesh Bheemreddy	Laxman Angoth	karukonda	Bijinapally
Parmesh Bheemreddy	Maredu Ramulu	Vattipally	Telkapally
T.Ramchandra Reddy	Mondi Srinivasulu	Manganoor	Bijinapally
T.Ramchandra Reddy	Tikkala Ramesh	Peddapally	Telkapally
Rammohan Konda	Patlavat Ramesh Naik	Buddaram	Gopalpet
Ram Dornala	Vamshi Krishna	Pedda Dhanwada	Vadeepally
Srinivas Bikkumanla	Pojala Ramanjaneyulu	Maradugu	Amrabad
Srinivas Bikkumanla	Irigadindla Suryam	Udimila	Amrabad
Arjun Dyapa	Ramu	Ragiah Palem	Amangal
Arjun Dyapa	Ajay Kumar	Veldanda	Veldanda
Dr. BN Reddy	Vandrasi Ravindar	Nawabpet	Nawabpet
Bhuvanesh Boojala	Veeresh Goud	Indivasi	Gattu
Bhuvanesh Boojala	Golla Ramudu	Bhainapally	Aiza
Devendar Tadkapally	K.Anil Kumar	Narayanpet	Narayanpet
Srikanth Konda	Savari Sai Kumar	Pallerla	Maddur
Ravi Mayreddy	Kalmuri Chandrashekhar	Busireddypally	Pangal
Karunakar Madhavaram	Govardhan	Billakallu	Balmoor
Venkat Reddy	Nagendar	Dhainampally	Aiza
Vijay Sanikapally	Nenavat Raju	Chowdarpally	Veldanda
Vijay Sanikapally	Ramavat Narender	Chowdarpally	Veldanda
Krishna Dyapa	Bheemrayudu Narasimha	Nidugurthi	Utkoor
Srinivas Mamidi	P. Anil Kumar	Nidugurthi	Utkoor
Gautam Kasireddy	Vemanna	Aiza	Aiza
Raghu Chilka	Chintaraju Kurumurthy	Soorapuram	Lingala
Satish Salikuti	Aleti Ramesh	Raipakula	Telkapally
Ranadheer Yanala	Gaddam Venkatesh	Thirumalapuram	Pedda Kothapally
Rajavardhan Chilka	Vemula Shivaram	Appayipally	Lingala
Praveen Vaddi	Putta Krishna	Nainonpally	Pedda Kothapally