LSVDF extends Sneha Hastalu to schools in VV Palem

Kandukur: By responding to the call to adopt villages and develop them as the smart villages, many VIPs and corporate companies came forward and announced their commitment. But, Lingapalem in Voletivaripalem (VV Palem) mandal of Prakasam district was adopted by its children who were settled in various parts of the world and want to provide better facilities to the next generation.

The members of the Lingapalem Smart Village Development Forum (LSVDF) started their work with safeguarding the trees and protecting the green cover in the village in 2016. As almost all of the members are students of local government school, they didn't absorb the fact that the locals are sending their children to private schools in the town, quoting that there are no facilities in the local school.

So, they started adopting government schools one by one in the area, to a total of six schools with average of strength 250 for the academic year by 2019-20. Now they are adopting the government schools in Lingapalem (G), Lingapalem (HP), Rollapadu, Bangarakkapalem, Kakarlapalem and Kalavalla villages.

They are providing Student Kits, consisting of a school bag, stationery, tie and belt along with the free supply of note books whenever they complete the earlier books in these schools.

Apart from high quality kits, the LSVDF is also providing digital teaching equipment like Smart TVs, loud speakers and mikes, running water to toilets, mid-day meals kitchen and garden, maintenance of plantations and play grounds, movable white boards and notice boards, providing furniture like benches, chairs and tables, construction of compound walls, providing electric equipments like fans and lights, supplying of materials for competitive exams, guidance to teachers, and other development works in school infrastructure.

For supply of school kits, the LSVDF is partnered with the Sneha Hastalu NGO. The NGO takes care of sourcing the best quality bags, books and other stationery at good price and keeps track of the expenditure. So, the forum sends the required money for the kits to the Sneha Hastalu and sees they distribute the kits to the excited children in these schools. Rajababu Gorrepati, software development specialist in Ericsson in Chennai and member of the LSVDF, and his team members distributed the school kits on Friday and Saturday with the cooperation of the Sneha Hastalu team.

He said that they visited the schools they adopted and discussed with the teachers, parents and students about the issues in the schools. On Friday, they discussed with the villagers about the construction of compound walls in the leftover schools.

He said that they had a long way to go, but their efforts are already proving fruitful with the recent results. He thanked the Sneha Hastalu team for being a support in taking the pain in sourcing the materials and supplying them to the schools, with the same commitment.