Photo: Sheri and the kids in uniform.
Today Sheri and I passed out uniforms to the students. It was supposed to be easy. A tailor had measured the children. A list collating student names to shirt and pant /dress size was not included. The delivered uniforms contained 150 shirts, 94 dresses and 53 pairs of shorts for 54 girls and 88 boys. All the shorts were sized extra small. So the chaos began. It took hours to hand out what we could and figure out what was needed. Sheri was thoroughly pissed but got over it once she saw packs of kids running around in their uniforms. Each with a small Rise Up crest on the pocket.
After reviewing where the two orphan boys (Niraj and Dharmendra) who are graduating from grade five and leaving the Rise Up school (but not the orphanage) will be attending (the government school) we decided that it would be better for them to attend private school. Trust me private school is not fancy but I feel that to give them the best chance possible they should go there. They are taking an entrance examination tomorrow. I figure with admission fees, monthly fees, books, uniforms, bus fee, etc. the cost for one year should be about 10,000 rupees (about $260). Maybe they could get sponsorship (hint, hint). My feeling is that we should commit to these nine orphan boys to get them through grade 10 (which is one sort of cut off point in India). Since they are orphans my feeling is that they will need a little extra something to have the chance to succeed since they don't have the family network which really is the backbone of Indian culture ( much more so than in the USA).
Cheers to all.
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