Sitanjali Foundation

Construction of new schoolscompleted costruction for schools in haripura, degam, adada and rangpur and commenced 3 new projects in chovisi,pardi and soldhara, gujarat, india - see below. Combined construction costs were $774,031 - haripura primary school- this was a complete ground up construciton of a dangerous, old and poorly constructed school building to a modern 2 floor 10 classroom school (including computer room, rest-rooms and library), which increased the student capacity to 300 for grades 1-8. The new school is currently operational and a continuing maintenance / improvement plan has been implemented to ensure its survival- in 2023 completed the final building and 3400sq ft hall and a 400ft compound wall with a gate to ensure the safety of the students. - degam primary school - this was a complete ground up construciton of a 110 year old dangerous, wooden structure to a modern 3 floor 15 classroom school (including computer room, rest-rooms and library), which increased the student capacity to 280 for grades 1-8. The new school is currently operational and a continuing maintenance paln implemented to ensure its survival. In 2023 completed the final building and a 3100 sq ft hall and a 300ft compound wall with a gate to ensure the safety of the students. - adada primary school : village - population -1,200. Number of students 175. Grades 1-8. This is a 10,000 sq.ft building with 10 rooms. Construction for main building is reinforced cement concrete (rcc). The expected life of the building is 100-125 years with proper maintenance. All old buildings were demolished except one and ground was cleared. The saved building was used to store construction materials. Once construction was complete, the last building was demolished and the ground was cleared. Current open ground can accommodate about 350 students for an event. - rangpur primary school - village population- 1100. Two new rooms were built ground up 1000 sq.ft. Each. A full science laboratory has been st pu in one room. One room has a room for library and another room for meetings. The copmound wall and gate wre rebuilt and painted. Social welfaresitanjali contributed $361,617 towards several other social welfare organisations and inviduals meeting the organizations mission. Diamonds in the dirtcontinued "diamonds in dirt" program. Under this program students in canada, usa, germany and india would be sponsored. The students are financially weak and they would have to quit the student programs without this aid. The students were selected on a case by case basis. During the year we assisted 17 students with $180,980 donated towards edcuational assistance