Save Children Save Society Academy

• Project Brief:
  To help develop our Manipur society (which is right now in back gear) the very first thing that we should come up with is quality education. Children of extremely low-income family should be given quality education to bring socio-economic change.
• Project Type:  Formal Schools
• Primary Focus: To prepare the kids so that they will eventually to go to formal school and then go to Colleges

Project Description:

SACSAS Academy is a secular organization dedicated to socio economic change in Manipur. In pursuit of this goal, SACSAS focuses on basic education in the belief that education is a critical requisite for socio economic change. It primarily aims at providing quality education to kids in the remote/far flung villages in Manipur where there is no form of education system. It has been successful in taking education to the first generation learners and to an area where education is not being adequately addressed by the government, probably due to lack of political interests in these areas.
 

Since 2014, Asha Redlands has been supporting Laishoi and Maovam district school running cost including teacher salary and other related education expenses.

SACSAS Academy, New Dampi Branch in Manipur started its operations in 2009 with Asha Houston acting as the steward for this Project. The entire school building construction at New Dampi was sponsored by Mr. Martin H. from London who approached Asha Huston initially for its approval. However, the recurring costs in the functioning of this school was a question at hand which led Asha Zurich becoming a part of the project to fund 50% of the recurring costs comprising salary of the teachers, study tools, uniform for students, text books, school maintenance and scholarships.
This school in New Dampi village caters to 9 surrounding villages and has strength of 164 students who study in classes from pre-nursery to class VI and is the biggest among all the schools operated by SACSAS
Asha-Zurich started funding fifty percent of the recurring expenses incurred every year from 2010.

Project Goals: 

1. To provide quality education to underprivileged and downtrodden (low-income) children in Manipur.
2. To nurture such small children (upto the age of 8) to have the habit of going to school so that they will ask their parents to send them to school once they come out of SACSAS Academy.
3. To encourage the formation of various local groups across Manipur to reach out to larger sections of the population.
4. To raise the required human and other resources to achieve the group objectives.
5. To provide opportunities to individuals living outside Manipur or India who wish to participate in SACSAS activities in Manipur.
6. To address, whenever possible, other issues affecting human life such as health care, environment, socio-economic aspects and women's issues.

Organization Description:

One of the main reasons why children of low income family stop going to school or do not go to school at all is because many of their parents do not send them to school for they want to use them to make money for their livelihood, or schools are far and there is no means of transportation to go to schools in neighboring villages. If the children do not have a habit of going to school right from the beginning they will not tell / urge their parents to send them to school. That is how they end up being illiterate. Generally the illiterate parents never feel the importance of getting their children quality education.
 

The first unit of SACSAS Academy was opened on the 10th of May 2003 at Yaoshulakpa (Laishoi) Branch of Moirang, Manipur. Laishoi is a village where there is no school at all. The guardian of the locality had been trying hard to have at least an Anganwadi branch or any form of school from the state government but the effort was all in vain. They have four teachers to take care of 65 downtrodden children. We are overwhelmed at the response of the parents of the village. We currently have 5 schools running in the remote villages of Manipur. 

SACSAS Academy is an FCRA approved organization and the funds can be directly sent to the head office in Moirang, Manipur.