Who are you trying to help? What issue are you trying to address?

We the Assisi Sisters of Mary immaculate are running this special school for the mentally challenged from 1989 onwards in Nagpur, India, and it is felt need of the place. The number of students in Jeevoday School is on the increase and it is our urgent need to construct more classrooms for the mentally challenged boys and girls to train and educate them in various skills and make them self sufficient and brings them to the mainstream of the society. The school is now facing hardships to enroll more mentally challenged students and there is great demand from the parents of the children.

What is your project and how will it help?

Due to accommodation paucity the strength cannot be raised and many deserving cases are turned down. We have therefore started to construct one more floor about 1314.78 Sqm construction of the second floor in the existing building which will pave way to admit more students and give education and training to them with required facilities.

We are constructing few more accessible classrooms, rooms for various therapeutic exercises such as physiotherapy, speech therapy, computer lab and multipurpose hall for the cultural performance of the students and training programmes etc. It is our urgent need to expand our existing building and parents of our students and some local people are supporting us according to their capacity, but we are currently facing the fall short of fund for the completion of the construction.

How can other people partner with you on your project?

People can partner with us by providing funding.

Please detail the resources that you need.

Total cost of construction of 2nd 3rd floor of Jeevoday Special School: Rs. 42,333,264

Rs. 1,000,000 = USD 20,500

Summary of the Estimate of the 2nd floor construction

Earthwork – Rs. 57,550
Plain cement concrete – Rs. 124,950
Masonry – Rs. 1,754,468
Reinforced Cement Concrete –Rs. 2,814,810
Plastering – 1,364,000
Steel Work – 2,085,750
Doors, windows and ventilators – 2,130,240

Total – Rs. 10,331,768

Less Profit & Over Heads (Discount) – Rs. – 1,131,768

Net cost for the 2nd floor construction – Rs. 9,200,000 = USD 190,000