By Manzar Bilal, TwoCircles.net,
Patna: With the aim to improve the quality of education, Association of Indian Muslims of America, Washington DC (AIM) took a positive step by adopting a small primary school passing through poor condition in the Kopepur village, Faizabad district of UP.
Notably, Kopepur is a Muslim dominated village and educationally very backward with high percentage of illiteracy as well as large number of children who do not attend school.
In 2001 Faiz-e-Aam Muslim Educational Society, Faizabad, started a school in the village. But due to lack of fund school could not progress regarding building and had been run in 4 temporary classrooms with tinned roof without doors, windows and constructed floor. The school has 80 boys and 60 girls presently upto Vth standard. Examination of the school is conducted by N.I.O.S, ministry of H.R.D., govt. of India.
The school was given name with “AIM Junior High School” with an enrollment of 150
students in a ceremony in Kopepur village on April 9, 2009 where Mr. Kaleem Khaja participated on behalf of AIM.
AMI donated 11 lakh to transfer the 4 tin sheded class rooms into proper class rooms by
providing walls, doors, windows, flooring etc and also to build 4 additional pucca classrooms. The renovation works in old classrooms have been completed and construction of pucca classrooms is in progress which will be completed in early July 2009.
The school will begin functioning as a junior high school and will be operated by the Faiz- e-Aam Muslim Education Society, Faizabad which presently operates a few other
schools in the villages of Faizabad district.
AIM will be monitoring the quality of teachers and education at the school in the future and as per need AIM will provide funds, books. It will guide how to improve and maintain the quality of education at the school and also will be checking the performance of the school’s students in the annual examinations.
Mr. Kaleem Khaja appointed his friend who lives in Faizabad and a relative who lives in Lucknow to visit the school on every 4 months to check the quality of education at the school and to send report to AIM in Washington DC.
The goal of AIM is to make the standard of education in this school a model for
other community schools in the various villages in Faizabad district. AIM wants to prepare a large number of students who will get success with excellence marks.
The especial emphasize will be given on study of Science, Mathematics and English not merely to teach students reading and writing but to motivate them for going ahead to get success.
It will not be first and last step of AIM rather it will consider adopting more similar primary schools in villages of UP that are running in sorry condition and will provide all the necessities as well as buildings.