Information on Project SARIS
February 20th, 2010Project SARIS – Sanitation at Rural Indian Schools
Aim: To build 100 toilet blocks at Indian schools enabling girls to remain in education
Ladies Circle International Service Project 2007-2009
Sanitation at Rural Indian Schools (SARIS), an initiative by Ladies Circle International, is a unique attempt to promote female literacy in India by providing girls with toilet facilities at school. A lot of girls stop going to school when they reach puberty. They go home to go to the toilet and do not return for the rest of the day or they avoid going to the toilet all day and become ill. In order to enable girls to continue their education past puberty, Ladies Circle India is facilitating the building of toilet blocks in 100 schools throughout India, with the help of money raised in the UK and other parts of the world.
Each toilet block costs £750 to build and so far eleven have been built and another twenty five have been identified. The first one was built at Uttarpara Girls High School near Kolkata (Calcutta). This is a unique project because all money raised is sent directly to India, where Ladies Circle India manage the project on a voluntary basis, therefore no funds are lost to administration – every penny goes directly into bricks, mortar and labour. All materials and labour are sourced locally in India.
Ladies Circle was founded in the UK in 1932 as a sister organisation to Round Table. Circles gradually formed all over the world, joining together in 1959 to form Ladies Circle International and continuing to grow every year since. In the UK there are now over 250 clubs who join together to form The National Association of Ladies Circles in Great Britain and Ireland, NALC. As we celebrate 50 Years of Ladies Circle International it is wonderful to have the opportunity to work with like-minded ladies in India. All monies raised for Project SARIS by Circles in the UK are sent to NALC where two volunteer project managers work closely with Ladies Circle India to assess applications for toilet blocks to ensure they are located at schools where they can be of most benefit.
Whilst Ladies Circle is a large organisation in the UK, it does not hold registered charity status and therefore does not have a registered charity number. However we are able to work closely with our counterparts in India and being an International Organisation we are able to distribute the funds directly between the organisations with no administration costs. The bank transfer costs are paid by our membership fees rather than out of the funds raised. Every penny raised goes into construction.
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