Details of present BREAD programs are given below:

A. CHILDREN’S LIBRARY PROGRAM:

With a view to catch the children at a very young age and to inculcate the book reading habit in them, BREAD Society is introducing its Children’s Library program from Primary School level itself. BREAD has now taken up BREAD Children’s Library as its Flagship program in place of ‘BREAD Scholarships’.  Donors have the choice to name the schools for starting libraries and to nominate local coordinators for monitoring the working of libraries to ensure proper implementation.

i. Primary School:

With a contribution of Rs. 5,000 by a donor, books and puzzles and games of interest to children worth Rs. 7,000 for children in the age group of 5-10 years will be selected by an Expert Committee and will be supplied to the Primary School. Head Master will be responsible for nominating a teacher to look after the Children’s Library. Donor may nominate a local person for monitoring the functioning of the Library. Donor may award prizes annually to children narrating the stories read by them. H M and teacher in charge will select winners.

ii. Upper Primary School:

With a contribution of Rs. 10,000 by a donor, books and puzzles and games of interest to children worth Rs. 9,000 for children in the age group of 5-12 years will be selected by an Expert Committee and will be supplied to the Upper Primary School. In addition a steel book case with two lockable hanging glass doors valued at Rs. 3,000 will also be supplied for safe custody of the books. Labour, packing and forwarding charges will cost about Rs. 1,000.  Head Master will be responsible for nominating a teacher to look after the Children’s Library. Donor may nominate a local person for monitoring the functioning of the Library. Donor may award prizes annually to children narrating the stories read by them. H M and teacher in charge will select winners.

iii. High School:

a. Specified by Donor:

With a contribution of Rs. 20,000 from a donor, 600 books worth Rs. 17,000 for children in the age group of 10-14 years will be selected by an Expert Committee and will be supplied to the High School. In addition a steel book case with four lockable hanging glass doors valued at Rs. 6,500 will also be supplied for safe custody of the books. Labour, packing and forwarding charges will cost about Rs. 1,500. Head Master will be responsible for nominating a teacher to look after the Children’s Library. Donor may nominate a local person for monitoring the functioning of the Library. Donor may award prizes annually to children with best write-ups on the books read by them.

b. Selection of High School by BREAD Society:

If selection is left to BREAD Society, it will choose schools with best National Means cum Merit Scholarships (NMMS) results. Govt. conducts NMMS examination for govt. / aided school students in 8th Class and awards cash prize of Rs.6,000 per annum for four years to selected students for further education.

With a contribution of Rs. 25,000 from a donor, 600 books worth Rs. 17,000 for children in the age group of 10-14 years will be selected by an Expert Committee and will be supplied to the High School. In addition a steel book case with four lockable hanging glass doors valued at Rs. 6,500 will also be supplied for safe custody of the books. Labour, packing and forwarding charges will cost about Rs. 1,500. Rs. 5,000 will be kept aside for awarding prizes to the best write ups for three years. Head Master will be responsible for nominating a teacher to look after the Children’s Library.

Guidelines below will be followed for effective implementation of the program in High Schools.

1. Weekly one period will be exclusively allotted for Library for lending books.
2. Class teacher will identify at least three responsible students for issuing books to students.
3. Library-in-charge will train them to issue books and will supervise the activities of Library.
4. Prizes for best write-ups on library books will be awarded to three students from each class annually. Students must maintain separate notebooks and do write-ups at least on 20 books read by them. Students getting prizes once will not be eligible for prizes thereafter. 50% students must participate in the competition with write-ups to qualify for prizes.
5. Prizes for write-ups are linked to nurturing tree seedlings in schools where there is adequate space. BREAD Society will procure and supply tree seedlings to the schools on request.
6. Class teachers, library in-charge and HM will select the winners of best write-ups.
7. Students must return books in good condition. Otherwise books will not be issued to them again.
8. Students may share books in vacations by exchanging books among themselves but are responsible to return books borrowed by them in good condition.
9. HM and teachers responsible for NMMS results will be honoured as a token of appreciation for their dedicated work.

B. SCHOLARSHIPS:

BREAD Scholarships are revived for Intermediate, Polytechnic, D.Ed. and D. Pharm from 2012-13 for students fulfilling all BREAD Society’s eligibility criteria and denied assistance by Govt. The Society has decided to award BREAD Scholarships only in the second and subsequent years of study after ascertaining that the scholars were not given tuition fee waiver and/or monthly maintenance scholarship by the govt. BREAD Scholarship will be based on academic performance at the entry level and as well as during the present course.

C. RURAL STUDY CENTERS:

BREAD Society will continue to run Rural Study Centres in remote villages where there are no schools. Donors may choose villages and nominate local coordinators for effective monitoring of the program.

D. COACHING ASSISTANCE PROGRAMME:

BREAD Society initiated Coaching Assistance program in 2008-09 for supporting underprivileged students for Common Entrance Tests. However, our experience is that very few students have availed the opportunity provided by us, especially for GATE, PGCET and ICET. Therefore, Coaching Assistance for these CETs has been discontinued. However, in order to encourage students to choose the Polytechnic option for becoming full-fledged engineering graduates, Coaching Assistance for CEEP and ECET is being continued.

E. BREAD-KRIYA CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL:

This collaborative program will be continued for one more year viz., 2012-13.