The school has started on site A primary school, middle school.  The children get food and amenities. They are able to get admission in the local government  schools after their time in the hostel. The site visit people suggested that the school attempt to start a new hostel with paid students.  They are advocating that the District Magistrate to provide meals because the children are  below poverty line but the DM said that the school is not government school, they cannot help. There 15 kids are in local government high school as opposed to only 2-3 last year.  Right now their fund crunch is the biggest issue. The teachers have called Manoj, so have the  NGOs who are involved and requested that the money from us not be stopped. The teachers teach upto class 4 and some of the teachers are also helping the other children  with their school work. Average age of the boys-? Between youngest 4 or 5 and oldest kids around 15 or 16.  A detailed breakdown of the costs associated with running the school was estimated by the  site visit report, they estimated the annual expenses as Rs. 17.5 Lakhs. The project works with really poor students and are very clear that the kids have to ego to  school, no matter what- and they must be poor. About a month ago, Manoj got calls from two ladies, who are social workers and pleaded to  Manoj to continue supporting the school. The site visit included a detailed breakdown of all the kids and all the names of the kids who  go to High school. The total budget for what their expenses for this year is Rs. 17.89 Lakhs.  In keeping our support to previous level, we can only give support to the following items: Diet  charge, which includes groceries and cooking- Rs. 10.80 Lakhs. Eval doc: one of the big things was to work with getting more updates on the students- which  Manoj has been able to do, get marksheets of the children- Manoj has been doing that. Where do they get the rest of the funding from?- some local donations, some farming, some  other funds. Last year the money sent was similar to the money for this year.  Did we do a cut last year? We only funded at the same amount for the last three years- we 
 The school has started on site A primary school, middle school.  The children get food and amenities. They are able to get admission in the local government schools after their time in the hostel.  The site visit people suggested that the school attempt to start a new hostel with paid students.  They are advocating that the District Magistrate to provide meals because the children are below poverty line but the DM said that the school is not government school, they cannot help.  There 15 kids are in local government high school as opposed to only 2-3 last year.  Right now their fund crunch is the biggest issue. The teachers have called Manoj, so have the NGOs who are involved and requested that the money from us not be stopped.  The teachers teach upto class 4 and some of the teachers are also helping the other children with their school work.  Average age of the boys-? Between youngest 4 or 5 and oldest kids around 15 or 16.  A detailed breakdown of the costs associated with running the school was estimated by the site visit report, they estimated the annual expenses as Rs. 17.5 Lakhs.  The project works with really poor students and are very clear that the kids have to ego to school, no matter what- and they must be poor.  About a month ago, Manoj got calls from two ladies, who are social workers and pleaded to Manoj to continue supporting the school.  The site visit included a detailed breakdown of all the kids and all the names of the kids who go to High school.  The total budget for what their expenses for this year is Rs. 17.89 Lakhs.  In keeping our support to previous level, we can only give support to the following items: Diet charge, which includes groceries and cooking- Rs. 10.80 Lakhs.  Eval doc: one of the big things was to work with getting more updates on the students- which Manoj has been able to do, get marksheets of the children- Manoj has been doing that.  Where do they get the rest of the funding from?- some local donations, some farming, some other funds.  Last year the money sent was similar to the money for this year.  Did we do a cut last year? We only funded at the same amount for the last three years- we
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