Appeal - Chethana Special School

Karkala town is the headquarters of Karkala taluk. This taluk is primarily rural with some small towns. As most of our students are from the surrounding rural areas, our school is slightly different from other schols we see in cities. Corporation Bank was kind enough to understand our difficulties in transporting students from rural areas and donated a bus to our school. And our school bus serves a wide rural area covering a total 110 kms every day.

We have four experienced teaching staff members and two helpers to assist our students at Chethana Special School, Karkala, Karnataka. About 60% of our students are from below poverty line families. There are many students who cannot afford to pay school bus rent, fees, or annual donations

The reasons for this appeal are as follows
  1. Some parents cannot afford the initial deposit, monthly fees or transportation cost. Some parents are not able to bear any expense at all. To different degrees, we need to subsidize those, who cannot afford. Please remember that we cannot expect much monetarily from a daily wage worker or a widow who maintains a family by rolling 'beedis',

  2. We need to have better facilities for the students,

  3. We also like to expand our activities such as organizing camps, and workshops for psychiatric counselling to parents and eye check up, medical check up and so on to all students,

  4. As the student strength increases, we would like to hire some more qualified staff and


For this noble venture, we are raising donations through fund collection drives. Still we need to major contributors to buy land and construct building. We have audited last year's accounts. We will audit every year's account. We have secured benefit of section 80G for income tax purposes. Hope you will be a part of our endeavour to give something back to the society we live in.

Our average monthly school expenses are Rs. 76,800/-. . We try to make up the monthly deficit through fund raising and donations from committee members. Here we would like to point out that during summer school vacations and other school vacation days, monthly school expenses are lowered. We firmly believe "Where there is a will, there is a way."