Currently Calcutta Rescue provides education for approximately 500 children - 160 younger Non-formal pupils educated at our own schools and over 350 Formal students in mainstream schools.
As our school programme has grown, our facilities have become inadequate. Both of our schools are at capacity, with overcrowding threatening to diminish the quality of education provided. The Formal students desperately need to have additional tuition and a quiet place to study after school - coaching centres for these students are urgently required in their own locality. This will greatly reduce the pressure on our own already stretched school resources and will be a lot more time efficient for the students themselves.
Currently, we have one centre but require another closer to Number One School, secured on a rental/tenancy basis. A coaching centre consists of 2 classrooms, one common room with separate washroom facilities.
The estimated cost for this is: Purchase of desks, chairs, etc. Rs.120,000 (€1,810). Rent for three coaching centre is approx. Rs. 216,000 (€3,265) per year.
