AP Janmabhoomi Project Outreach team motivating NRIs to Donate

Ongole: The AP Janmabhoomi and its Project Outreach team are helping a number of schools in Andhra Pradesh to get digital classrooms.

With their effort, more than 2,700 schools in the state received the digital classroom equipment with the contributions from the non-resident Telugus and government.

The interns under the Project Outreach are visiting the mandal headquarters in every district and meeting the officials, public representatives, families of people living in foreign land to motivate them to show their love towards their motherland.

The AP Janmabhoomi, which is working with the non-resident Telugus under the guidance of Komati Jayaram, the special representative for the Government of Andhra Pradesh in the United States of America, has motivated more non-resident Telugus to contribute for the digital classrooms at more than 2,700 schools in Andhra Pradesh.

These digitised schools are connected with the real time governance, where every school updates the number of hours used and a statistical comparison is available of the CM’s CORE Dash Board.

It is observed that the attendance in the digital schools is increased considerably, with an average of 20 percent hike in the attendance and student strength.

To spread its wings and increase the presence, the AP Janmabhoomi started Project Outreach, a pilot programme to train interns from various colleges and let them know the situation in the government schools and encourage them to educate the non-residents to contribute for the schools they studied or the schools in their native villages.

After filtering 2,500 plus applications, the organisation selected just 120 deserving candidates and provided orientation sessions.

The interns who have completed their three of the five weeks association with the AP Janmabhoomi, have already visited 300 plus mandal officers and reached out to more than 1,000 NRIs and made them established digital classrooms in 50-plus schools with an expenditure of Rs 10 lakh.

In Prakasam district, seven interns-- Polani Balaji, Shaik Subhani, Moopanar Suneel, Kavyasri Tulabandhu, K Bharathi, Lakshmi Sowjanya and Annamraju Vishnu Teja-- visited more than 15 mandals and interacted with more than 40 district and mandal level officials.

They contacted a number of NRIs through their family members in the villages and are coordinating with them to digitize a number of schools in the district.

These interns of the Project Outreach found that the project is also playing a pivotal role in ensuring their holistic and all-round development, by helping them to overcome new challenges and equipping them with problem solving capabilities and exposure.

Vyshnavi, top performing intern in first week said that interacting with bureaucracy is the biggest positive point of this internship and it has also helped her increase her patience levels substantially whilst waiting for officers with very busy schedules and NRIs working in different time zones.

With constant and combined efforts, the AP Janmabhoomi team believes that with the help of generous NRIs, they can change the face of educational system in Andhra Pradesh and deliver the joy of learning to each and every school in the state.