On 1st. December 2009 Mani Singh visited Mandothi.
The main aim was to discuss the plan, made during "Board Meeting 2009", with the teachers and the principals of the Girl's and Boy's schools. More on his report.

Mani Singh also distributed 20 sets of pullovers & shoes, which belong to the school uniform, to poor students.

For a short film about the distribution of pullovers & shoes please click here

Board meeting on 19th. October 2009 at Kaldenkirchen Germany.
On 19th Oct 2009, the board members of Channo Devi Foundation met in Kaldenkirchen, Germany. The agenda of the meeting was to review the progress so far and build up short term and long term plan for the foundation’s activities. More.

On 5th. January 2009 Doris Kassilowski donated EUR 50,- to Channodevi Foundation.
This donation will be utilised to pay the tuition fee of Dipanshu for 2009, see Projects 2009. His yearly tuition fee is estimated at about INR 2.400,-.

On 26th. December 2008 Mr. Heinike presented a donation cheque of EUR 250,- to Channodevi Foundation.

Rinki Dalal is one of the students which have been selected by Channodevi Foundation to support her 3 year study at the college. Her annual college fee will be around INR 5.000,- so for 3 years it will be INR 15.000,- which is around EUR 250,-. According to Mr. Heinike’s wish, this donation will be spent to support Rinki’s study.

Mani Singh and Jori Singh visited Mandothi in October and November 2008.
Three projects were selected by the Channodevi Foundation for 2008 and all three projects have been realised: The Water Tank in Girl’s Higher Secondary School, 10 Black Boards & 5 Ceiling fans for Boy’s Secondary School.

The water tank in the Girl’s Higher Secondary School was almost complete in October, see under Projects 2008. Almost in whole of India there was too much rain fall this year. It caused delay in constructing the water tank and besides that it was very difficult to get labour to build it. Mrs. Anita took keen interest in our activities. She organised labour, had brilliant ideas regarding the execution of the construction and supervised it in her own free time.

She is already helping financially a boy named Vikas, see Projects 2009, to complete his Higher Secondary School. She requested us to help Vikas so that he can do a technical study for better prospect in life. There is a girl named Rinki having the same financial problem.

Mrs. Anita also mentioned another problem which the students have. Several class room windows open in houses of neighbours, see Projects 2009. The noisy neighbouring houses disturb the students during the lessons. Mrs. Anita requested whether the foundation could help the school with window doors so that the students could learn without disturbance.

Visit to Mandothi December 2007 - January 2008
Gita Heinike, Mani Singh and Jori Singh visited Mandothi 3 times during this period. The aim was to know about the success of the previous realised projects and gain information about new projects under the aims of the foundation.
All students who received help in 2006, see Projects realised in 2006, had passed their examination with good results which was a good news for the foundation.
As a starting point all realised projects up to now were in Government Senior Secondary School. For next step we also had other schools on our list where help was needed. We visited another school Government Girl’s Senior Secondary School. The school building is in a better condition than the previous school.
Gita Heinike discussed with the teachers of both schools about problems regarding the study of the students and how Channo Devi Foundation could help them. Being a principal herself, Gita Heinike could recognize and identify the school’s problems.
A list of projects was handed over to us on our next visit. We have selected some projects which are directly related to the aims of the foundation, see under Projects for 2008.

Mr. Vijay Kumar, see under Board, is a teacher in another school in Mandothi. In his school there are some children who are brilliant but their parents have little or no funds to support their children's studies. He requested us to help these children. He will send us the names of the children with income of the parents. This will be the third school for our activities in Mandothi.

November 2006 Vocation meeting at Bonn Gita Heinike vistied vocation meeting at Bonn. She informed the co-participants about the aim and activities of ChannoDevi Foundation. The participants donated a total sum of EUR 187,40 which has been deposited into the foundations’account.

October 2006
Board members meeting on 13-10-2006 at Nettetal-Kaldenkirchen.
This meeting was arranged for Mr. Mani Singh’s visit to Germany.
Gita Heinike and Jori Singh informed about their visit to Mandothi and their impressions.
It was discussed how to use the funds most effectively in mandothi for foundation’s original aims, without hurting the traditional structure and awakening new desires away from the original aims.
Mr. Mani Singh presented the current promotion plan to help the talented children. If these students improve their performance or at least keep it, then they will be helped next year as well. A procedure will be developed to keep track of their performance.
The board members supported the plan to help the talented children in this way in the future.

April/May 2006
Mr. Mani Singh distibuted school uniforms, books, stationary to 14 children.
Completion of girl's toilet.

22-01-2006
Mr. Mani Singh visited Mandothi. There is urgent need for the following:
Girl’s toilet in a high school.
New school year starts in April. A list will be made before that for those students who qualify for help for uniform, books etc. Mr. Mani suggested to make a data base with information about the parents with their income etc. This information will be verified by Mr. Vijay Kumar who lives in Mandothi. The database will also store the students progress in the school. In this way it will help the foundation to help the real poor students who have an ambition to study.

28-12-2005
Gita Heinike, Mani Singh and Jori Singh visited Mandothi on 28th December 2005. The schools were closed for winter holidays. A teacher’s training programme was going on in the school for the teachers from the region. Various possibilities were discussed with the teachers to help the schools and the children. The teachers were requested to make a list of projects where Channodevi Foundation can provide help. It will be collected by Mani Singh on 22nd. January from Mandothi.

19-12-2005
Board meeting in Nettetal-Kaldenkirchen with following decisions:
From 2006 onwards Kanzlei Berzdorf & Sasse in Meerbusch, Germany will do the financial administration.
Gita Heinike is nominated unanimously as board member.
Projects for 2006 discussed for which Gita Heinike and Jori Singh visited Mandothi at the end of Dec.

08-11-2004
Pullover distribution to poor children in Mandothi by Mr. Mani Singh. See distribution photo's under "BENEFICIARIES".

22-10-2004
Board meeting in Nettetal-Kaldenkirchen with Mr. Christoph Sasse as judicial advisor and Mrs. Gita Heinike as supporter of foundation’s activities to discuss the financial year 2003 and to support financially the activities which were coordinated during 2004 in India.

2004
Mr. Mani Singh along with village people made a list of children, whose parents cannot afford warm clothing’s for their school-going children.
During 2004 many visits were made by Mr. Mani Singh from New Delhi to Mandothi. He brought the paralysed young man Billu for various tests like MRI-scan to different doctor’s and hospitals in New Delhi.

31-03-2003
First board meeting took place at Nettetal-Kaldenkirchen Germany.

03-03-2003
Channo Devi Foundation registered at Düsseldorf, Germany under nr. 15.2.1-St. 963.