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PRAYAG CHARITABLE TRUST

Prayag is an Indian non-profit, charitable organization providing education for under-privileged children. The organization is mainly run by students and working professionals. It provides supplementary education and psychological counseling to the children. It also provides infrastructure facilities to needful schools. It follows a syllabus which incorporates both conventional and activity based learning.

HISTORY:

Prayag was founded on January 11, 2013 in Chennai by a group of friends,all of them united by a single cause, to provide quality education to under-privileged children. The organization has adopted five schools and engages classes in three homes across Chennai. It has benefitted 2032 children in total.

INITIATIVES:

ADOPTION DRIVE:

Prayag is involved in identifying necessitous schools and help them with logistics and infrastructure facilities. In this process Prayag has adopted schools in Chintadripet and Alandur to work on infrastructure facilities. Apart from this, it also provides logistic support and a year’s supply of stationery for the students.

SUPPLEMENTARY EDUCATION:

In this initiative, Prayag’s volunteers visit underprivileged homes every weekend and provide training to the students. The volunteers teach and train the students in Mathematics, English and personality development skills. The main aim is to prepare the students to face various real life challenges. In this regard, Prayag conducts orientation sessions for volunteers and maps those to the most appropriate center and programme based on their area of expertise. Prayag designs its own customized syllabus to train children of various age groups. Currently there are three sets of syllabi:

* Students of grade 1 to 5 are taught Phonics.

* Students of grade 6 to 8 are trained in Spoken English.

* Tutoring is also done based on their academic syllabus.

SPONSORING DESERVING CHILDREN:

Prayag identifies and adopts indigent children across various age groups and their educational needs are taken care for a complete academic year. The scheme covers payment of school fees along with uniforms, stationery, textbooks required for an academic year. Prayag also keeps track of the progress of every student adopted under this scheme.

EVENTS:

DEEKSHA:

In mark of its first anniversary, Prayag conducted ‘Deeksha’ on March 29, 2014. This event involved setting up of computer labs in St.Antony’s School, R.B.C.C School, St.Augustine School and Dhanakoti Middle School located in Chindadripet. Prayag prepared and provided computer manuals for the softwares installed in the schools. Also playgrounds were setup in these schools with all the required sporting equipments.

SANSKRUTI:

Sanskruti was a fund raising musical concert conducted by Prayag on June 22, 2014. Singers Abhay Jodhpurkar,Nikhil Mathew, Ajeesh Ashok,Madhu Iyer, Jananie S.V and Vinaita performed in the concert. The funds raised from the concert were used to sponsor education of the underprivileged children.