DSSC -USA Computer Project 2011 D.S.Senanayake College OBA USA

DSSC -USA Computer Project
2011
D.S.Senanayake College OBA USA
SUMMARY OF THE PROPOSAL
The D.S.Senanayake College USA OBA branch is setting up a project
aimed at raising funds to help students with updated computers and other
software.
As you know, technology is changing quite rapidly resulting in a frequent
need of new computers and other tools necessary to make sure the current
students have access to the general standards of education.
One of the major issues D.S. Senanayake College is facing right now is
not being able to provide any continuous computer education to students
from grade 6 through 9 due to limited number of computers. This has
resulted in not conducting necessary computer courses which all other
schools are currently providing.
The intention of this project is to provide resources needed for computer Lab
4 and to alleviate the above mentioned resources limitation. We believe that
for the project to be successful, we need at least 20 new or one year old
computers to be donated to the college.
It is only by your donations that we can help to buy required computers for
our school. All funds contributed towards the DSSC OBA USA will be used
to buy computers and our target is to buy minimum of 15-20 computers.
Thank you in advance for your consideration and support.
Sincerely,
DSSC OBA, USA
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CONTENTS
SUMMARY OF THE PROPOSAL ................................................................................... 2 CONTENTS........................................................................................................................ 3 SECTION 1: CONTEXT
1.1 Background to the Computer Education program at DSSC ............................. 4 1.2 Background to the DSSC USA OBA and our involvement in helping the
college and the currents students. ......................................................................... 5 SECTION 2: OBJECTIVES,STRATEGIES & ACTION PLAN
2.1 Objective ........................................................................................................... 5 2.2 Strtegies............................................................................................................. 7 2.2 Action Plan........................................................................................................ 8 SECTION 3: CONCLUSION ............................................................................................. 9 SECTION 4: DSSC USA OBA BOARD MEMBERS & KEY STAFF MEMBERS ... 10 3|Page
SECTION 1: CONTEXT
1.1 Background to the Computer Education program at DSSC
The Computer Society has a membership of over 1500 students and is one of the mostly active
student bodies of the college. Since its beginning in 1993, the opening of the computer laboratory
with 20 workstations, the society has been utilizing valuable computing knowledge to the
college’s student population. Recently the Computer Society organized an all island software
competition and many workshops at the National Level to share the knowledge with other
schools.
The school has only 3 main computer labs for the teaching and learning processes.
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Computer Lab 1 (SEMP Lab) has 20 computers. ( in 2006)
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Computer Lab 2 (Grade 10 - 11) has 07 computers ( in 2007 )
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Computer Lab 3 (primary) has 40 computers ( in 2007)
These three labs are used for the following programs offered by the school to the students.
Grade 1 to 5
Students are offered a basic computer awareness program. Approximately 1600 students take
advantage of the offered course to learn the basics. It is the computer Lab 3 with 40 computers
that is used for this course.
Grade 6 to 9
Students are not offered any computer lessons due to the lack of computer resources at the
school.
Grade 10 and 11
Students in Grade 10 and 11 are required to take the ICT course under the current curriculum
and to accommodate computer Lab 2 is used and it has only 7 computers. This year, total of 373
students have Enrolled for the ICT course which will be managed with only 7 computers.
Grade 12 and 13
Students in Science & Commerce sections have an option of enrolling in the GIT course.
Currently approximately 500 students are enrolled for this course.
They also can enroll in the ICT course which is offered as a major subject under the current
curriculum. There are 50 students currently enrolled in this course.
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1.2 Background to the DSSC USA OBA and our involvement in
helping the college / currents students.
The D.S.Senanayake College OBA USA branch was set up in 2008 and is a voluntary based
association of the past pupils of DSSC living in United States of America. The board/committee
consists of 10 members and the membership of approximately 40 past pupils.
One of our main projects conducted yearly is the DSSC USA Scholarship Fund Project.
This project uses its funds to assist DSSC Advanced Level students who have excellent
academic track records but face financial difficulties in pursuing their studies.
The project was initiated in 2008 and the goal was to help a couple of deserving students by
providing financial assistance for tuition and other amenities on monthly basis. The DSSC OBA
USA has been successful in setting up a USA/Sri Lanka fund that helps five to ten of our DS
brothers who need financial assistance on a yearly basis. Currently the fund totals approximately
$7600 and we have sponsored a total of 14 students to date.
http://www.dsscusa.org/scholarship/index.html
SECTION 2: OBJECTIVE, STRATRGIES & ACTION PLAN
2.1 OBJECTIVE
For a college of approximately 6000 students, only a total of 67 computers are available. Further
these computers needs to be replaced with newer models as well.
In order to achieve success in providing a comprehensive and continuous computer education,
we need to equip the empty Computer Lab 4 with new computers. Currently the Lab 4 does not
have any computers and is not been used.
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We believe that for the project to be successful, we need at least 20 new or one year old
computers to be donated to the college, so that the college can use Lab 4 and start providing the
necessary classes to the grades 6 through 9.
The goal of this project is to collect at least $3000 (approximate Rs. 324,000), which we have
calculated to be adequate in order to donate 20 computers to our college. After our complete
financial analysis, it was decided that the computers be purchased in Sri Lanka. The main reason
being the fact that, all computers purchased will then have a valid one year warranty. After market
research, the best offer with one year warranty quoted to be approximately Rs. 16,000 per
computer. Hence if we achieve our goal in collecting $3000, it would allow us to purchase the
necessary computers needed.
The funds / donations gathered from our members and very generous non members will be
handled by the DSSC USA OBA Branch committee members. All funds (100%) will be used to
purchase computers and will not be used to cover any administrative costs.
DSSC USA OBA as a policy, Commits to Transparency. We believe that, transparency promotes
honesty and accountability. Therefore all finances relating to this project will be displayed online
on our website (www.dsscusa.org).
We would gladly welcome suggestions from donors and members with regards to this fundraising
project.
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2.2 Strategies
We see this as a six months project, at the end of which we believe that the computers will be
donated, and it will be the responsibility of our college to maintain these computers.
The planned Strategies for the six month period are as follows:
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2.2 ACTION PLAN
All donations will be accepted by checks. These will be deposited in the US Bank accounts, which
will allow us to keep track of our donations received.
Please make all checks payable to “G Gunawardena”. If you wish to remain anonymous, please
write it on the memo of the check.
Please send checks to the following address:
DSSC USA
C/O. L Gunawardena
3 Prairie Rose Lane
Gaithersburg, MD 20878.
USA.
If you wish to transfer money directly to our Bank of America account, please send us an email to
dssc.usa@dsscusa.org and we will provide account details.
Please Note: Since the DSSC-USA scholarship fund is not a registered 501(c)(3)
organization, the donations are NOT tax deductible for federal income tax purpose.
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SECTION 4: CONCLUSION
We are requesting support from members and friends living in the USA to make donations in
Support of the DSSC USA Computer Project.
This project is specifically aimed to ensure computer education to each and every student in
order to fulfill their potential.
We already have substantial support from 2 staff members of our college who are currently
involved in providing computer education to our students. We also have the support of our DSSC
OBA in Sri Lanka.
We believe that our track record of our management and financial competencies qualify us to
make this project a success.
(Please visit our website in order to view DSSC USA Scholarship Fund Project)
http://www.dsscusa.org/scholarship/index.html
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SECTION 4: DSSC USA OBA BOARD MEMBERS & KEY STAFF MEMBERS
The committee consists of DSSC USA OBA members who put forward the idea of starting this
project. DSSC USA OBA Committee members will collectivity pool their time and resources to
manage, monitor and report on the Computer Project 2011. Staff members from the College are
also activity involved in this project,
Committee
Pandula Sumanadasa
psumanadasa4020@gmail.com
Agasthi Ranasinghe
aranasi@hartdistrict.org
Lasitha Gunawardena
lasitha_g@yahoo.com
Thepul Subasinghe
ruwan2781@hotmail.com
Dinesh Jayasundera
dineshpjaya@yahoo.co.uk
Udeshka Gunawardena
udeshka23@yahoo.com
Devinda Moonesinghe
devinda_moonesinghe@hotmail.com
Suresh Subasinghe
sureshd@gmail.com
Sanjaya Ranasinghe
sanjaya50@gmail.com
Staff members
Mr. Ashoka Galahitiyawa
galahitiyawaa@gmail.com
Ms.Ganga Liyanage
ganga_liyanage@yahoo.com
For further information about the project visit www.dsscusa.org
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