NGO OSAAT builds classrooms, kitchen, washrooms at Kanyana School: Building a Brighter Future

NGO OSAAT builds classrooms, kitchen, washrooms at Kanyana School: The Karnataka Public School in Kanyana, Bantwal taluk, has received funding for the construction of classrooms, restrooms, and a midday meal facility from a non-profit organisation that assists rural schools in need of a solid and secure infrastructure across the country.

On Thursday, the institution was inaugurated and presented with a facility that will serve approximately 750 pupils ranging from kindergarten to undergraduate level. In 2011, One School At A Time (OSAAT) Educational Charitable Trust was established in India (Bangalore). The total cost of the endeavour is 85 lakh rupees. This project has been entirely funded by Vijaya and Vasantharam Somayaji, Jaya Holla and Vinod Menon, and their family members residing in the United States. Most donors are technologists.

NGO OSAAT builds classrooms, kitchen, washrooms at Kanyana School

According to Balakrishna Rao, one of the NGO’s members. This is the 78th school project that OSAAT has executed in India and the 56th project in Karnataka. Additionally, this is the first undertaking in Dakshina Kannada. A similar initiative was initiated at UBMC, Bajagoli, Karkali, and Udupi approximately 20 years ago. Nonetheless, the aided school has been closed.

The members of OSAAT stated that their donors requested assistance for this institution. Second, the school is situated on 16.5 acres and has KG to UG students who would benefit from the initiative. A member stated, “We have stringent criteria for project execution, and the Kanayana school met them.”

OSAAT has constructed four new classrooms, two lavatory buildings and a kitchen block as part of the Kanyana project. Each classroom accommodates approximately forty students. They have provided classrooms with seating and tables. As per the Building as a Learning Aid (BaLA) concept, classroom walls are painted with educational images. OSAAT’s engineering staff oversaw the entirety of construction.

Since its inception, OSAAT has transformed the decaying, dilapidated, and hazardous structures of numerous schools in India’s impoverished rural areas into sturdy ones. Functional “home away from home” for thousands of children.

“When selecting schools for our intervention, we adhere to very stringent criteria: the school must be a rural government school with a large student body. The teachers and SDMC members must be eager to enhance the school.

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