Sponsorship Programme ~ Sponsoring a child will take you to another WORLD, The WORLD of Your Child
The sponsorship programme started in 2000-01 out of a felt need for a long term support for children in IPER. This programme is providing sustenance to many children who are deprived of any support from their families. A day care centre is run for these children. Presently more than 100 children have been sponsored. Majority of them are sponsored by people from Finland while a number of then are from England and USA. Indian people too are now a days coming forward to sponsor children for their education and nutrition.
A few of these children have completed their school education and are pursuing higher secondary and university education. Many of these children are showing proficiency and are excelling in their performance. Many of them are pursuing special skill classes like computer, music, handicrafts, arts and so on. Special sponsoring has been done for students especially girls who pass out School and pursues their career in higher education.
The sponsorship fund covers the entire cost of the child’s education, medical care including first aid and basic treatment of the child when sick and provides for the mid-meal for six days a week. Special nutritional diet is given for those who are sick or malnourished.
Most of the children who go to formal schools have a regular schedule of special coaching to support their school performance, co-curricular activities, computer literacy and cultural activities. All sponsored children get the necessary educational materials such as school fees, uniforms, shoes, school bags, stationary and books. Sponsorship has made available to these children a good present and a happy and secured future.
Who is sponsored?
Financial condition of the child’s family (low income)
The child’s academic status and capability to continue his/her education (quality of performance)
Nature of employment of the earning member of the family (regular and irregular)
Family cohesiveness (parental support)
Single parent (mostly mothers)
Ability of the family to provide the basic requirements for the child’s development and health care
Family size where resources are shared by the children (often in large families girls and younger children are at a disadvantaged situation)
Frukt. R.F &‘Kalkutan lapsetry’
Since 2001 in Finland two organizations came up for the children of Kolkata to facilitate Finnish sponsors for children. They advocate, facilitate the collection of sponsorship money and reporting to the sponsors which IPER mails to them. Any expansion of the programme of reaching out to more children they are the first to initiate it in their country.
SPONSOR A CHILD FOR HER EDUCATION, MEDICAL CARE & ONE MEAL A DAY BY PAYING JUST €12/$12/£10 A MONTH.
Letter of Conditions of Sponsoring a Child
The sponsorship programme is run from the Institute’s own premise at Prince Anwar Shah Road, Kolkata. Here we run a day care centre, a children’s clinic and a kitchen. We also have a vocational unit.
All the sponsored children come to the centre and spend the day in learning, playing and creative works. They are provided with nutritional, educational and health care support
About 200 children come in this centre regularly to join different projects.
Nearly 250 children are mainstreamed every year in regular formal schools.
The Institute also has a college of Research and Training affiliated to an Indian University
The children hail from a very low economic family background. They live in shanties and slums.
They attend the centres run by IPER and regular contacts are maintained with them by the social workers of the Institute. They have access to plenty of safe water for drinking, cleaning and washing at the Institute.
If you sponsor a child, you will receive information (sponsorship reports) about them once in every three months. You can have their photographs. You can have personal contact with them through our organisation. They can write to you, but only in their mother tongue (own regional language) along with a translation of it.
Your contribution towards sponsorship will come to the above- mentioned address through our foreign currency account in Indian Overseas Bank.
A receipt for your donation will be issued from our Institute and you will be entitled to an income tax exemption as per Indian law. The receipt will be sent to you Under Certificate of Posting along with the first report of the sponsored children.
Presently the sponsoring money is $12/€12/£10 per child per month.
Nutritional, Educational and Health care requirements of the sponsored child are met through this amount including an administrative cost. This amount should be paid quarterly at the beginning of the quarter.
It is desirable that a sponsor continues the sponsorship till the child attains maturity at the age of 18 or at least 5 years.
He/she should pay the sponsorship money quarterly/half-yearly/yearly.
Sponsorship payment should be made at the commencement of every quarter if paid quarterly or at the beginning of sponsorship.
Bank Service charges should be deducted from the sponsoring amount.
A note should be intimated immediately after the sponsor instructs the bank to send money in our favour.
Sponsor should send all letters, pictures or inexpensive simple gifts to children if he/she wants to through the Institute.
Sponsor should not give any gifts or money directly to the sponsored child or to his/her family.
Personal visit to the sponsored child may be made with prior intimation of the Institute.
You can directly pay through bank in favour of the Institute of Psychological & Educational Research.Please make all payments by cheque/demand draft/money order to Indian Overseas Bank, Ballygunge Branch. Swift Code : IOBAINBBA001
You can also send a crossed A/c payee cheque in favour of Institute of Psychological & Educational Research through registered post to us at P-39/1, Prince Anwar Shah Road, CIT Scheme 114A, Kolkata -700 045, India.
If you seek more information please write to
Sponsorship Programme
mail to: iperdc@gmail.com/ipernew@vsnl.com
YOU CAN ALSO SPONSOR A LEARNING CENTRE IN THE COMMUNITY
SPONSOR A COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTRE With 30 children and one teacher-facilitator
