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Fun and games at Kanuru school

Saturday, February 11th, 2012

CONGRATULATIONS to the HEAL-funded ASNRAZPH school in Kanuru, Vijayawada, which was recently given the honour of hosting the ‘zonal games’ in their area.

The school, visited by the entire Cycle India party last month, was extremely proud to have been asked to stage the event involving 32 schools.
The games are held at a different school each year and Kanuru were pleased to report the 2012 event a complete success.

No fewer than 600 boys and 100 girls took part over five days of sporting competition, following an opening ceremony in which members of the UK cycling team were invited to cut a ribbon to open proceedings.

The HEAL children, in particular, stood out in their smart new t-shirts, donated by HEAL India’s Mrs Bhavani, who also recently provided the school with colourful poster boards to assist in science classes.

Kanuru enjoyed success in several of the sports, with the boys winning the badminton and finishing runners-up in ‘kho kho’, while the girls came out on top in volleyball.

The school gave the cyclists a rapturous welcome and staged a show for their guests, including singing, dancing and even a comedy sketch which was enjoyed both by the visitors and the watching younger children.

HEAL originally provided school uniforms to the children of Kanuru School before the introduction of a new government scheme which brought in free uniforms. However, HEAL was happy to supplement this by providing each child with a free pair of shoes as many of them were still walking to school barefoot.

The Anne Siva Nageswara Rao, Aruna, Zilla, Parishad High School, to give it its full name, already receives limited government funding, but HEAL was keen to help after being greatly impressed by the energy and hard work of the headmaster and his staff.

Since the summer of 2009, HEAL India has worked alongside the existing benefactor Mr Anne Siva Nageswara Rao, who started the school, to help improve facilities and educational standards.

HEAL is looking forward to continuing that assistance for the benefit of the hundreds of children at this school. And further education scholarships will ensure that school-leavers can go on to achieve their ambitions.

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Things are improving at Kanuru School.

Saturday, November 19th, 2011

Previously, HEAL has been providing school uniforms to the children of Kanuru School, but this year the school has been able to take advantage of a new government scheme which provides free uniforms. Instead, HEAL has provided each child with a free pair of shoes.

Until now, most of the children have been going to school barefoot because they do not own any shoes. Now, thanks to HEAL, they can walk to school along the rough roads more comfortably. 426 pairs were given out and the cost was £1600 so for a donation of less than £3 it can really make a massive difference.

HEAL is committed to removing all obstacles to a good education, and giving the children shoes is just another success along the way.

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Follow Heal on Twitter

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

HEAL are embracing new technologies and want to tell you more about all the things we are doing, so we now have a Twitter account!

Please follow us on @healvillage so that you have updates on our progress at your fingertips.

Among the latest ‘tweets’ is a picture posted from Kanuru School in Vijayawada, a Heal-funded school, showing the children in their smart new uniforms.

There will also be future updates from the Heal Children’s Village in Guntur and from the site of the new Paradise Village project where a ceremonial Puja ritual will be held during November prior to the long-awaited commencement of building work.

The Puja is performed to bless the building and the project and has importance in ensuring its success.
Amanda Smith is currently in India to keep an eye on progress before taking up her new role as vice-principal of the Heal Paradise Village in Thotapally and is also spending time visiting with the children in Guntur.

She will be tweeting updates direct from India, and her Indian adventure can also be followed through her personal blog online at amandainindia.edublogs.org.

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Latest news from Heal

Sunday, December 5th, 2010

HEAL is delighted to share news of our projects, and we hope you enjoy reading about the good things that have been achieved and enjoyed this year, plus news of the exciting prospects for 2011.

In this newsletter:
• Paradise Children’s Village, Ganavaram
• Bhadrachalam
• Kanuru School, Vijayawada
• HEAL Children’s Village, Guntur
• Cycle India 2012

To view the Heal newsletter click on the Heal newsletter pdf.

Thank you.

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Visit Report – Anne Siva Nageswara Rao, Aruna, Zilla Parishad High School, Kanuru, Vijayawada

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

Report by John Broadhurst, one of Heal UK’s trustees:

On the 10th November 2009 a party of us from Heal, Bhavani, Vijayalakshmi, Arlene, Prasada Rao and John had the pleasure of visiting this fine village Government school. You may wonder why we visited a Government school. The Government funding for the school is adequate and it is through the energy of the donors, the Headmaster and the teachers that progress has been and is being made and why Heal is engaged.

As we arrived at lunch time we saw the children eating their lunch on the porch right in front of their classrooms. This is the whole school taken from a central position on the porch:

Mr Anne Siva Nageswara Rao, (second from left – picture below), was our host and introduced us to his staff and to the exuberant children. It is clearly Siva’s calling to give these children a good education and lead them into further education once they leave the school. He started the school, hence it has his name.

He is justly proud of his children’s academic performance, despite the limited resources. These are the statistics that are displayed openly in all Indian schools. An 88% pass rate in the national examinations is no mean feat.

With Heal’s support these scores are bound to creep up and the further education scholarships will help the children take advantage of this beginning.

Heal is now funding school uniforms and shoes, school bags and books, for almost 400 children, as well as further education scholarships for some of the school leavers. As we know in the Heal Village at Guntur we cannot stop supporting a child when they are just beginning to engage successfully with the future. So Heal will be gradually increasing its funding for children leaving the school, and Siva too will be out hunting for support to ensure these children achieve their ambitions.

Everywhere we went we were met by the cheerfulness and enthusiasm of the children.

And it is wonderful to see girls also being able to take advantage of education.

After receiving funds from Heal for the basics and scholarships, Siva’s next ambition is to build a science laboratory to enhance the chances of his children achieving the standards needed in the national exams to compete successfully for places in higher education colleges to realise their ambitions.

Good luck to them with all their ambitions and their life adventures.

What a pleasure it has been to be engaged in this endeavour.

John Broadhurst

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