Is it worthwhile for NGOs to lobby with government after creating good model?
We have signed a Public Private Partnership MOU with AP government. We assist in running two schools with around 400 children. We have also signed Private Private Partnerships with several NGOs and help run 13 such schools in Hyderabad. We have almost 4700 students in such schools which we run in Private Private Partnerships. How do you get your funds? ICFAI provides 98% of our funds. Since we run quality education program running a school such as ourselves is expensive proposition. It costs almost Rs. 1.2 crores annually for our Fatehnagar school. It cost Rs. 10,000 for child for one year’s education. This involves apart from education, food and other expenses. It is funds from ICFAI that almost entirely funds IRS apart from ACLs. It is ICFAI funds that are used for health camps. We have treated 2700 patients in our eye camps, 4800 general patients, 750 in dental camps , distributed 1500 spectacles and so on. We have carried out 250 cataract operations and treated 8 cancer patients. W
