The Kalleda Rural School that caters to poor children has added another feather in its cap. It now has a modern English Language Lab, thanks to Synchrony Finance, a corporate company.
The company has gifted ten computers and other peripherals worth over Rs. 5 lakh to the school and the lab was inaugurated by company business leader Faisal Ali Khan here on Friday.
The Rural Development Foundation (RDF) started the school in 1996 on the premises of the ancestral home of social worker Errabelli Rammohan Rao in Kalleda village of Parvathagiri mandal. It now has four schools and one junior college. The school being run at Kalleda has 600 students and 38 teachers.
Speaking to The Hindu , Mr. Faisal Ali Khan said they had been associated with the school for a long time. The company had provided one-month English speaking training to children at Hyderabad last summer. They felt a language lab would help sustain and enhance their learning and hence, gifted computers to the school.
“We have been focusing on education and sanitation in government schools in Hyderabad only. Now, we are delighted to reach out to rural children in this village,” Mr. Faisal said.
RDF chief executive Errabelli Vanditha Rao said her family wanted to give back to society and therefore, had started the school. “We also motivate others to pitch in. This school has produced many national and international players in archery,” she explained.
The newly set up language lab needs a lot more equipment. School principal T. Sridhar and vice-principal K. Ashoka Chary expressed hope that more people would come forward to help.
