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At RISE, we underscore the importance of quality and quality assurance in education. We are working to further developing our competency based learning standards. Your financial support can help us provide high quality education to rural, low-income children.

Cost of educating a child is estimated by us to be between $300 to $350 US Dollars (Rs 21,000 - Rs 24,500 Indian Rupees) yearly (for the academic year 2018 - 2019). The costs varies depending upon the grade of the child.

RISE School currently has a teacher-student ratio of 1:18. We want to lower this ratio further, primarily because we have many children per class, most teachers assist with non-teaching duties, and finally, every teacher is assigned multiple classes. We belive this ratio needs to be lower specially for complex subjects like Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology and Computers.

Annual (2018-2019) teacher salaries range from $980 to $1,250 US Dollars (Rs 72,000 to Rs 92,000 Indian Rupees) based on the number of years of experience. We are also under constant pressure to raise salaries for higher skilled staff, that is harder to retain in rural areas.

Extra-curricular activities help in students succeed in much more than just their academic endeavors. They promote strong thinking, social skills, physical strength, teamwork, creativity, time and stress management, better self esteem, nurturing talent, and holistic all round develpment.

Currently, we have classes for Yoga, Karate, Bharatnatyam (Indian classical dance) for which we engage specialists. We also train our students on athletics, life skills, gender equality & agriculture.

We anticipate cost for any activity like Yoga/Karate/Bharatanatyam for 1 year (2018-2019) for all children to be about $980 US Dollars (Rs 72,000 Indian Rupees).