Campaign by GURUKUL ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL & JR COLLEGE
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Gurukul School is a low-income private school serving the students majorly coming from Malwani, Mumbai, the second biggest slum in Asia for the past 16 years. The sudden but necessary lockdown due to COVID-19 has posed an unprecedented problem for us. Our students are from families of daily wage workers, unorganized sector employees, small businesses and need the continuity and support of their school now, more than ever. Their families are hit economically and may not see a steady income for the foreseeable future. This poses a problem for the families to send their children back to school.
We are also at a loss for salary payments at least for the next 4 months. Ordinarily, we cover our costs from the fees of some students and donations from benevolent people and organizations. As a result of their financial situation, we are not receiving any school fee and any other means of generating income through education projects is also gone. The delicate balance between our income and expenses has collapsed. We support over 900 students and 40 employees. With our income severely affected, we are unable to pay our staff and teachers. Our being unable to pay our staff and teachers’ salaries extends the chain of financial instability to many more families. Our staff includes men and women coming from marginalized backgrounds, whom we trained under us to teach the children from the underprivileged families and to manage and run the school.
We aim to protect the right of education and livelihood during this pandemic. We need your help now more than ever. We predict that this situation will go on for at least the next four months. Our students' parents will need some time to recover and be able to pay the fee.
Right now, online giving is more important than ever as it will allow us to put your gift to work right away.
Apart from the amount raised, we are also looking to raise money from other donations and our savings and loans.
Your support is crucial for the next 4 months. We have identified 200 students for whom paying fees would extremely difficult under the current circumstances and the money collected into their fees as this will give enough time to our students’ parents to build themselves up and for us to be back on track with other sources of earning or to set up new projects. We plan that at the end of 4 months, we are self-sustaining again.
GURUKUL ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL & JR COLLEGE
Beneficiary Charity
Farid Shaikh
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