Aligning towards Schaeffler India’s commitment for supporting rural community development, Schaeffler India, a leading industrial and automotive supplier, has supported and constructed Boys Hostel for Lok Vidyalaya school in Lamdapura village near Savli. The hostel facility includes bunk beds for students with individual storage cupboards, a common dining hall, a well-equipped kitchen and storerooms, and proper common toilet facilities on each floor.
The core purpose behind this initiative is to provide much safer and healthier educational environment to the under-privileged boys and to expand their overall educational opportunities. This is in line with their flagship CSR initiative ‘HOPE’and its vision of building a nation that is self-sustaining and prosperous by creating a pool of equal opportunities for the young children.
More than 93 percent of the students of Lok Vidyalaya School belong to marginalized communities (SC/ST/OBC) with nearly 40 percent of the students being girls. Since the involvement of Schaeffler India, the effect on student enrollment has really inspired the student retention ratio to increase to 90 percent with a male-female ratio of 60:40. Infact, before the boys hostel Schaeffler India had previously built a girls’ hostel.
Schaeffler India’s CSR Head, Mr Yogesh Kapse paid a visit to Lamdapura.
A health camp was planned at the Lok Vidyalaya, Lamdapura. The school has been adopted by Schaeffler. The health camp consists of various health specialists for early screening and diagnosis of the school children and to provide them with early treatment as a preventive measure.
