Newsletter 2019-20 Issue 1

Education

Manipal Foundation supports the Bangalore Effective Education Task Force (BEETF), which now consists of more than 100 members including implementing NGOs, Funding agencies, Volunteers, Corporates etc. BEETF recently celebrated their Annual Day, 1st June 2019 at the MLR Convention Hall, Whitefield to celebrate the mainstreaming of 400+ bridge students into Government and low-cost Private Schools.  The Bridge-School children, along with their seniors and teachers showcased their talents.

Livelihood and Vocational Skills

Our Livelihood and Vocational Skills project at Sikkim is being received very well by the candidates.  Our second batch of 30 students were trained and also completed the assessments.  The synopsis of the results is given below

GRADE NO. OF CANDIDATES % MARKS RANGE
A 10 Above 70%
B 7 56 – 69%
C 11 41 – 55%
D 2 Below 41%
TOTAL 30

Our implementing partner will assist to place them suitably.  Our candidates have the option to also become entrepreneurs by taking home-orders.

Assessments in progress

Our candidates