Divya Deepa Charitable Trust is an NGO established in

Mysore, India Mysore (), officially Mysuru (), is a city in the southern part of the state of Karnataka, India. Mysore city is geographically located between 12° 18′ 26″ north latitude and 76° 38′ 59″ east longitude. It is located at an altitude of ...

which runs

Kaliyuva Mane Divya Deepa Charitable Trust is an NGO established in Mysore, India which runs Kaliyuva Mane, an alternative school for the underprivileged children in and around Kenchalagudu village where it is situated. The mission of the trust is to create ...

, an

alternative school An alternative school is an educational establishment with a curriculum and methods that are nontraditional. Such schools offer a wide range of philosophies and teaching methods; some have strong political, scholarly, or philosophical orientati ...

for the underprivileged children in and around Kenchalagudu village where it is situated. The mission of the trust is to create a replicable model of educating ''out of system'' - opportunity deprived children.

Kaliyuva Mane

The school, mostly populated by school dropouts from conventional schools, helps rural children appear for

SSLC The Secondary School Leaving Certificate (commonly referred to as SSLC) is a certification obtained by a student on successful completion of an examination at the end of study at the secondary schooling level in India. The SSLC is obtained o ...

examination of Karnataka state. An example of the alternate modes of teaching is the kid's bank inside the campus in which all students have personal savings account.

Volunteers

Many undergraduate students from

SJCE JSS Science and Technology University, or in its full name Jagadguru Sri Shivarathreeshwara Science and Technology University, formerly Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering (SJCE), is a private university located in Mysore, Karnataka, ...

National Institute of Engineering National Institute of Engineering (NIE) is a private engineering college located in Mysore, Karnataka, India. It was established in 1946 and granted autonomy in 2007 from Visvesvaraya Technological University. History NIE was started in 1946 ...

Mysore Medical College Mysore Medical College & Research Institute (previously called Mysore Medical College), also known as Government Medical College, Mysore is one of the oldest medical colleges in India. It is located in the heart of Mysore city adjacent to the r ...

and Vidya Vardhaka College of Engineering and some IT professionals based in

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are volunteers of the trust. The trust often conducts various fundraising activities in Mysore city. The volunteers involve themselves in a unique activity called ''paper empowerment'' in which they collect old newspapers from houses in Mysore and sell them to raise money, apart from setting up stalls, and designing and selling greeting cards. They also take up informal teaching at the school.

Recognition

The school has ''no'' government recognition as a school, despite its successful history, because of the way it is structured, not conforming to standards. But it has been recognized as a charitable trust. Notable people like N. R. Narayana Murthy, the founder of Infosys have been reported to have visited the school

Achievements

In Spark the Rise competition sponsored by Mahindra, the trust ended up as the second runner up from ideas all over India. Six students were mainstreamed in May 2012 when they passed the

examination of Karnataka State.

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