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Evershine Foundation for Education

About

Website URL:	http://www.evershinefoundation.org/
Partnership Status:	Partner
Partner Headquarters (City):	Pennsylvania
Partner Headquarters (Country):	USA
Primary Country of Operation:	India

Description

The Evershine Foundation For Education was founded to address the social development and educational needs of poor and underprivileged children in the local villages of rural Hulahalli in Bangalore, India. 2006 marked the tenth anniversary of the Evershine English school.

Evershine's mission is to:
1) To support and promote the advancement of educational activities in all its branches and to encourage educational assistance irrespective of religion, race, caste, or social status.

2) To provide support for the general health and well being of the children and to build an orphanage in the area of the school to provide adequate housing for children in need.

Evershine Foundation for Education is a tax exempt public charity that was formed in the USA under section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code for charitable and educational purposes.

Impact

Evershine has helped 299 students to date with the completion of construction of one school (measuring 2016 Sq.ft each floor with 3 floors). The Evershine Foundation has won numerous grants for its community-driven education initiatives for the past 15 years in India and the past 2 years in the Philippines.

The foundation’ began as an effort by Adele Gizdavcic and Liz Pileggi to provide for the education of two children in one of the rural villages of India at the recommendation of Fr. Frederick Clement, a Roman Catholic priest in the year 2000. Since then the family members of the two ladies joined in the effort to provide for more poor children to obtain a decent education.

Interactions with Givology

Givology supports Evershine's commitment to the schoolchildren of Hulahalli and will raise funding for the improvement of the school building and the funding of tuition.

Students and Projects:

Divya Jagadish
$275 of $275 donated
Karnataka, India
Divya Jagadish comes from a family of four. Her family consists of her father, mother and brother. Divya is a very intelligent student, hard working and rarely misses a day of class. Her father is an electrician and mother is a house wife. Though the father has a regular income, it appears to be enough just for day to day sustenance especially in these days of recession. Given this situation, it is a risk that the father would may pull one of the children from school, and since Divya is a girl, it would most likely be her who is deprived of schooling. Her brother would stand a better chance of going to school because it is expected that he will support the family financially when he grows up, while Divya would be married off. Divya's dedication, hard work and the interest that she shows in studies will go a long way to enable her excel in her career. However, this cannot be realized without any financial assistance. Else, it will be a sheer waste of Divya's talent, hard work...

Sherine Alice Mary Anthony
$275 of $275 donated
Karnataka, India
Sherine comes from a poor family of high values. Her father works as a construction worker and also does other odd jobs to supplement the family income and support his wife and three daughters. The eldest of the three daughters has joined a convent aspiring to be a Nun. Sherine is an intelligent student and consistently gets good grades in school. She wishes to continue and finish her schooling. However, her father has found it very difficult to fund her schooling even though he believes it is more than worth it to educate his daughter. For a girl in India, it is frequently difficult to finish one's education.

Ranjita Sampange
$275 of $275 donated
Karnataka, India
Ranjita comes from a family of four. She has a brother. Her father is a construction worker. Her mother is also a construction worker and in the absence of construction work, does odd jobs to sustain the family. The overall annual family income is very low as the jobs are irregular, a problem which has worsened due the current recession. With this income they are able to meet only the family's basic needs and find it difficult to send both of the children to school. Normally, in circumstances like these, the daughter would be pulled from school so her brother might continue. The daughter would then be married off as soon as possible to ease the family's financial burden. Thus by helping Ranjita receive an education, donors can ensure she will have a better future and a chance to help her family through a successful career.

Akshita Sampangi
$257 of $257 donated
Karnataka, India
Akshita Sampangi has a sister and a brother and lives with her parents. Her father is a daily wage labourer in agriculture and construction and switches between the two depending on availability of work. He mother too works as daily wage agricultural labourer and finds work on a seasonable basis. The family consists of five members- mother, father and three children. With a meager annual salary of 20,000 INR the parents try to make ends meet while continuing to send the three children to school. If one child is funded, therefore, the entire family will be relieved of some of their financial burden. Without any assistance, the parents would most likely end the education of one of the children - most likely the girl. When work is not available, the family struggles to even put 2 meals a day on the table. It is therefore urgent that they receive help.