Project Period: 2010-2011
Project Location: Jamshedpur
Direct Impact: 106 students in 1 school
Indirect Impact: 530 citizens
Sunderhattu Bastee; where dawn begins with a search for two square meals. Locals with hardly any life sustaining amenities spend the day hunting for a meal. The outcome is yet another day with the same everlasting chase for making both ends meet. No drinkable water, no medicare, no education and no roads-this was the situation until Jojobera Cement Plant took the mission of addressing the problems facing the community. Children could be seen either picking up garbage or moving around in the streets during the day.
As a first intervention, the community constructed a school with Shram Daan with materials provided by Lafarge. Today, the school is fully aided by Lafarge India with educational kits, books, uniforms, furniture and maintenance of the campus.
The school started in the year 2001 with only 10 students in nursery. Today it has 106 students on its rolls from nursery to std. III.The 14 students who passed out from Class III in 2009 are now enrolled in other schools and are pursuing their education. The school focuses on learn with fun teaching methods and has a high student attendance of above 87%.
