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Christian School and Children Home
India has been placed in a special position in the world and
is becoming an economically rich country. This development is
limited to a select group of rich Hindu in the country. The Rich
higher caste people are receiving educations while the lower
caste are being denied these opportunities. . There are many
challenges borne by Christians and lower cast people. Special
quality education, health and common needs are limited to select
groups only. Education and Healthcare has become thriving
businesses. The more fortunate people sell education and
Healthcare for a cost that the Christians and lower caste
citizens cannot afford. Education is in the hands of Hindu
Higher cast people. Many private or corporate schools have been
established and they are collecting large amounts of money to
get quality teachers and are able to provide a good education to
those who are able to afford it. This is a great problem
for the Christians and Lower caste people because they cannot
afford this education.
Why we need to Establish a
Christian School and Children Home:
1. Christian parents are uneducated and cannot teach their
children.
2. They live in rural areas and are agricultural laborers.
3. Their incomes are very low and suffer from extreme
poverty.
4. Education is financially unattainable.
5. Poor children contribute to feeding the family. The
opportunity cost of sending a child to school is more than a
family can endure.
6. Christians and the poor are at the mercy of higher cast
people for jobs and wages.
Our Aim and
objectives:
Most of the Christians are lower cast people in India.
Because of widespread poverty and illiteracy, the church cannot
became self supportive. Many missionaries are trying to do good
works and evangelizing the India. Due to poverty churches daily
disappear; while existing churches depend on foreign support. As
Christians become educated and they will become healthier and
wealthier people. So they will be able to support the church
through the contribution thereby causing the church to be self
supportive.
Challenges of
establishing a Christian School and Children Home:
A school capable of this will not be established in a short
time frame. And it will not possible to do it with a single man.
This is going to require the hard work, patience, time and
dedication of many people working together. There are few basic
needs in order to start a Christian School and children's home.
We are in need of 3 main things.
1. Physical Capital:
There are physical needs like land, buildings, furniture,
play ground equipment, some other items for teaching purpose.
Most of these things are in the hands of the Hindus.
2. Human Capital.
There is a need of staff fulfilling positions of
headmaster, superintendent, teachers, clerk, night watchman,
janitor, cook and other workers.
3. Financial need.
We needto find supporters who will fund all of the things
we plan to achieve. Small, medium, and large donations will be
useful. We are able to purchase many things for very little
money; with a single cent we can purchase a slate pencil.
School and Home plant:
All physical needs are called school plant. School plan acts
as an important role in the quality education. For the quality
education we need to have a good atmosphere and location. If the
atmosphere is good children will be attentive and studious.
1. Facilities will have an affect on children’s health.
2. School plant needs to run the school in right manner.
3. Adequate facilities ensure efficient learning.
Different requirements of
Christian School and Home plan:
1. Class Rooms: We have to construct the class rooms based on
the number of students. Correct size and ventilation are very
important
2. Staff Room: We have to have staff room for the school to
function at a high level. The room will be useful as a break
room and resource room to prepare lessons. The teachers will
keep their books, other valuable things in that room.
3. Principal room: The principal will be there to organize
the school and to take care of the children. This room will
serve as an office.
4. Front Office room: All of the administration things like
record keeping. The Clerk and all other files will be in that
room.
5. Toilets: We need to construct toilets on the basis of
students.
6. Library room: A library is needed for the students to
research for reports.
7. Rooms for Children home. We will need a room for boys and
a room for girls and one room kitchen and dining hall.
It requires much hard work to see it come into existence. If
we have all of these items then we will have reached our goal.
Who we Consider as Orphans
The groups we are trying to reach are the marginally poor,
living outside mainstream society, and illiterates. We are also
trying to reach those families that can afford to offer a meal once a
day and those who are able to send their children to school.
If we can bring these children into our fold and then train and
nurture them in the Gospel from childhood we will have reached
three generations of Christians.
Foundation of School and
Children home:
It will start with limited number of students, few teachers,
little funds, so it will start small and will grow each year so
that it will become a large school in the future. Let us start
with basic school such as primary grades. The grades would
include LKG, UKG and 1st Class or in the United States
kindergarten, first and second grade. We add one class per year
and build a new classroom for each class each year based on
funds availability.
We could start this program at the bare minimum of a three
room building. It would contain a front room which would serve
as an office. Behind that there would be a kitchen/dining hall
for feeding the children. And along side of those two rooms a
classroom would serve as classroom/library. A possible fourth
room could be located above the first floor which would be an
open room to house boys, or it could be placed behind the
kitchen/dining hall. It is important to note, feeding students
is a custom in India. It would be equivalent to a school in
America not having a cafeteria. The school cannot exist without
feeding the children. For now we can start it in my house by
constructing two temporary rooms where I purchased some 5 cents
land by the side of my house. |