Early children Education Program

Project Information:

Vision/Goal:

To establish effective preschool education system that enables all early age children especially the disadvantaged to be civilized and to be successful learners.

Project Title and Project running time:

Project Title: Early children Education Program:

Project running time: This project will be started from 1^st January 2014 31^st December 2014. Project duration is 1 year and it will be extended depending on consideration of the donor.  

Project Location:

The children of above locations are deprived from early education. The parents of the beneficiaries are mainly uneducated. Their parents can not earn enough money to afford their family. They are Rickshaw pullers, Drivers, labors and unemployed. Their  wives work in different professions such as maid servant, labor, soil cutter for village road construction and sweepers etc.  

Target Group

300 early age children of poor and vulnerable families of Jessore district and the families of project areas will be the direct beneficiaries and indirectly whole community will be benefited.

Need Assessment

ALO always works in the project area through making area’s need assessment. ALO has a concrete survey team. By observing the family conditions, advantages and disadvantages, ALO has taken this project in hand. During conversation with the beneficiary’s families, The families have expressed their wishes and necessities that their children is to be needed for education and this project should be implemented for their children’s education. At the presence of the family members, it is discussed and made final to submit.   

Relevance to poverty

If this project can be implemented, the poverty will be removed from the beneficiary’s family. Education purpose expenditure that their family expended for children education will be reduced.

Objective(s):

• To make the early children educated.
• To reach them in the Government school.
• To make their parents aware
• To create the project area educational environment
• To improve the learning environment in schools by involving 300-children
• Establish effective preschool model that impacts learning (4-6 years old)
• Build up community initiatives that support school and children.
• Develop early primary education approaches that sustain learning (4-6 years old).
• Mass awareness building to the parents.
• Establish a Positive Climate that Supports Children as Literacy Learners.
• Create a Physical Learning Environment that Promotes Reading and Writing
• Provide opportunities for reading and writing and oral communication throughout the day and in various activities
• Develop approaches that foster improvement in the education system.
• Create a comfortable, cozy, well-lit area away from the very active areas in the classroom, where children can read on their own, read to one another or be read  by an adult, without being interrupted.

Measures and Activities of the Project:

After conducting the concrete survey, the survey report will be submitted to the Executive Director. With the help of executive committee and implementation committee, the Executive Director will be responsible for all activities. The project will be implemented in Jessore Powrashava of Jessore District. This project is being prepared for the early children. The children do not go to school in fear of expenditure. Because, their parent’s income is very poor. They can not afford for daily necessities let alone education. It is far reaching thinking for them.

Program activities and Target:

Project Staff:

Staff Appointment:

Each and every project needs some personnel to carry out the project activities smoothly and effectively.  So, for this project necessary project Facilitators staffs will be selected and appointed. Skilled and experienced staff will be appointed for implementation the project activities among the children. And expert personnel will be collected from the out side. After appointment, they will be deputed in the field to perform their duties and responsibilities.

The selected staffs whom will be appointed are given below;

Coordinator-1

Accountant-1

Supervisor -1

Teacher – 10                                                                                                               

Coordinator Duties and Responsibilities:

Coordinator of the organization will coordinate of this project and will be responsible to the Executive Director.

S/he will be In Charge/responsible for all sorts of activity implementations, management, and administration, communication etc. Guide staff, supervise, follow up and monitor the activities of project staff as well as the beneficiaries. Guide survey, Identification of the targeted people as per the set criteria of the organization and help to Organize people.  .

Helps Field Organizers in nurturing the organized groups and identification of the participants for different activities like training, seminar, workshop.

Maintain project regarding information, records, documents, accounts etc. up to date. Look after organization assets.

Identify needs, arrange training, workshop, seminars and other programs as per the project plan.

Ensure timely and smoothly project activity implementations as per project plan.

Communicate with the Local Administrative personnel, Upazilla level Government personnel, and local elite.

S/he will be reportable to the Executive Director, provide Monthly progress reports, identify and solve problems at the project implementation problems if necessary, inform about the raised problems to the Executive Director immediately. S/he will work with closely with other project staff. Implement and carried all legal orders of the Executive Director.

Participate in different training courses, workshops, seminars etc., arrange & conduct training of staff.

Prepare plan of activities, budget, weekly & monthly action plans. Attend and conduct monthly staff review meetings.

Compile weekly progress reports of Field staff, submit to the Executive Director in the first week of the month.

Approve the leave of project staff, maintain records, and personnel files.

Accountant Duties and Responsibilities:

S/he will be reportable to the Executive Director and will be responsible for all financial functions.

He will sign all the financial matters in favor of the organization.

Maintains accounts related documents, vouchers etc. up to date following accounting principle & audit standard.

Prepare monthly financial statement, budget Request and assist the ED in appointing the staff as per need.

Maintain cash-book, Ledger book, petty cash book, and journals etc. daily basis as per accounting principles/audit standard.

Monitor the budget heads and inform the ED about the positions of the budget.

 Prepare all vouchers, papers, documents etc. and takes ED’s approval regularly.

Ensure daily posting of the daily transactions.

Prepare the project budgets, quarterly budgets, half yearly budgets, annual budgets and monthly budgets and give requisitions with the approval of the ED.

 Communicate with the Bank regarding the financial purposes of the organization.

Provide Accounting training to the staff. 

Prepare and submit monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and annual financial reports to the ED.

Handle and ensure financial administration and management.

Face any kind of audit.

Assists the ED for the development of different financial policies and decision-makings.

Identify and solve financial problems at the lowest level from which they have arisen.

Maintain the organization’s budget policy and procedures.

Supervisor Duties and Responsibilities:

S/he will be reportable to the Coordinator.

He will supervise, follow up and monitor the Field Organizers, activities and other organizational activities at the field level as s/he assigned.

Ensure project activities implementations at the assigned areas through utilizing the field staff, volunteers and group members. Maintains the related area documents, accounts, records etc.

Prepare monthly and quarterly work plans and ensure smooth implementation.

Prepare monthly progress reports for the Coordinator.

Guide and supervise the Field Organizers and volunteers at the field level.

Make regular and frequent field visits to check up the project activities.

Assists the Coordinator to develop of different program policies & decision makings at the field level. Identify and solve field problems at the lowest level from which they have arisen.

Project financing planning:

DETAILED PROJECT BUDGET

Total Project Cost in BDT    497,000

 ALO Contribute                     81,000

DONOR Contribute              416,000