Enphase Energy to support School Infrastructure Development Program in Karnataka

The First-of-its-kind initiative’s pilot project was commissioned at Karnataka Public School, Kudur, Ramanagara District, Karnataka. 

Magadi MLA, A Manjunath inaugurated the program along with Head Master, Venkatesh Murthy of the Karnataka Public School, Kudur Magadi Taluk, Ramanagara District

Enphase Energy aims to expand the government schools curriculum with Trinity Care Foundation by providing the infrastructure for computer and robotics education 

Bengaluru : Enphase Energy, a global energy technology company and the world’s leading supplier of micro inverter-based solar and battery systems, announced the commissioning of its first project, as part of Trinity Care Foundation’s (TCF) Integrated School Educational Infrastructure Development Program (ISEIDP), which forms part of Enphase India’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) related activities in India. 

The pilot project was inaugurated on 9th July 2022 at Karnataka Public School, Kudur, Ramanagara District, Karnataka. The integrated project was inaugurated by Magadi MLA, Mr. A Manjunath in the presence of Mr. Manoj Gopalan Nair, Senior Director of Sales, Enphase Energy, and Dr. Tony Thomas, Managing Trustee, TCF.   

 

Integrated School Educational Infrastructure Development Program (ISEIDP)

Enphase India, as a part of its CSR responsibilities under Indian law, is supporting ISEIDP which is the first-of-its-kind initiative to use renewable energy sourced from rooftop solar PV systems to power a school while uplifting the curriculum with computer and robotic training by providing access to computers, course materials, and trainers for students. 

Supported by the Govt. School management and the Education Department, Enphase Energy will be equipping the higher primary classrooms with desktops and projectors that will be powered by a 4kv Rooftop Solar PV micro-inverter-based hybrid system. 

All the lights, fans, and computer systems will be supported in case of power breakdown or failure.  

Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, Manoj Gopalan Nair, Senior Director of Sales at Enphase Energy said, “Our goal through this pilot project with Trinity Care Foundation’s ISEIDP initiative is to provide Karnataka Public School, Kudur with a reliable and consistent power supply ensuring unhindered learning.

The installed Rooftop Solar PV system of 4kWp micro inverter-based systems generates around 15 units per day, taking care of the school’s power needs, especially for their students of classes 8, 9, and 10.

Enphase’s partnership with Trinity Care Foundation will only provide the required power supply for computers, learning modules and robotics workshops to students, thus making it holistic enablement of learning. 

“This will help provide a robust curriculum and technical learning material that are play-based, safe, and contextual for the holistic development of these children.”

Enphase Energy will also be supporting the schools’ curriculum by providing the students access to computers, STEAM, and Robotics classes that will be taught throughout the academic year by a teacher who is also supported by this program. 

This robotics kit curriculum will provide year-long education programs for classes 8 to 10 and will be used to deliver comprehensive STEAM education on topics like electronics, robotics, automation, IoT, coding, android app development & much more. 

Another key aspect of the ISEIDP initiative is to build the capacity of the teachers through targeted training and one-on-one coaching/sessions. 

In rural India, poor quality of technical education adversely affects the academic performance of the child from primary to higher secondary years and often leads to high levels of dropouts. This initiative will benefit around 500-600 students encouraging them to pursue technical education. 

“Today, knowledge of computer software or hardware is considered a basic necessity for most jobs. With this first of its kind, ISEIDP initiative, in partnership with Enphase Energy India, we can now empower students from the underprivileged section of society with computer literacy, making them more competent and better suited for future opportunities. Enphase has designed a system that is reliable and safe to deliver uninterrupted power at government schools and ensure unhindered education in the process,” said Binu Varghese, Director – CSR Non-Profit Consulting & Project Management, Trinity Care Foundation

The Trinity Care Foundation 

Trinity Care Foundation is a Non-Profit Organization with the main focus on enhancing the effectiveness of the public program and strengthening community programs by reaching out to the socially and economically underprivileged sections of society both in rural and urban India. The Foundation improves Government Schools, conducts School Health Programs, and community outreach programs, and provides free Cleft and facial deformity surgeries for marginalized sections of the society in Karnataka state, India. Trinity Care Foundation operations are managed out of the Bangalore office; the management team takes the program and operational decisions with oversight from the Board of Trustees.

Trinity Care Foundation is a public charitable trust having PAN, TAN, 12AB, 80G, Professional tax and FCRA. It is registered with NITI Aayog, Government of India. It is National Health Mission Partner in Karnataka, India. Trinity Care Foundation has been registered with MCA for undertaking CSR activities and the Registration number is CSR00003858. 

For Partnership,

Visit -> http://www.trinitycarefoundation.com/csr

Write to – support@trinitycarefoundation.org  or 

Call  Dr. Thomas +91 9880 39 6666 or Mr. Binu +91 9880 35 8888

Executed CSR Projects : https://www.flickr.com/photos/trinitycarefoundation/albums 

Tobacco’s threat to our environment : World No Tobacco Day 2022

 The WNTD 2022 campaign calls on governments and policy-makers to step up legislation, including implementing and strengthening existing schemes to make producers responsible for the environmental and economic costs of dealing with tobacco waste products. WHO also recommends that countries fully ban tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship, including advertising CSR programmes, in accordance with the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). 

Tobacco use damaging at every stage

From start to finish, the tobacco life cycle is an overwhelmingly polluting and damaging process. Air pollution caused by smoking springs to mind, but damage occurs across the entire supply chain, and is much more complex.

1. Across the globe around 3.5 million hectares of land are destroyed to grow tobacco each year. Growing tobacco also contributes to the deforestation of 200 000 hectares a year and soil degradation.
2. Tobacco production depletes the planet of water, fossil fuel and metal resources.
3. Globalization of the tobacco supply chain and sales means the tobacco industry relies heavily on resource-intensive modes of transport.
4. 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are not disposed of properly every year across the globe, generating 1.69 billion pounds of toxic waste and releasing thousands of chemicals into the air, water and soil. 

Stronger policies needed

Consumers have become more environmentally conscious and they are choosing more sustainable products. The tobacco corporations, among others, have made environmental sustainability an integral pillar of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies and adopted several greenwashing practices. These include beach clean-ups and marketing new products as eco-friendly to divert public attention away from their own environmentally damaging actions.

The 2022 global campaign aims to raise public awareness about the environmental impact of the entire tobacco cycle, from its cultivation, production and distribution to the toxic waste it generates. The campaign will also aim to expose the tobacco industry’s effort to greenwash its reputation and to make its products more appealing by marketing them as environmentally friendly.

More on World No Tobacco Day 2022 : https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/world-tobacco-day-2022-tobaccos-threat-our-abraham-thomas/ 

Library as a Learning Centre: Project by Trinity Care Foundation

Library as a Learning Centre: Children thrive in reading when the environment contains a lot of interesting and engaging books and other reading material.

Reading is the primary avenue to all knowledge. It offers access to the information, aspirations and happenings of both the past and the present. Reading aids character formation and widens horizons. Intellectual development is possible only through the cultivation of regular reading habit, hence reading has become one of the most important factors of success. 

Major Objectives:

1. To enable children to become motivated and independent reader
2. To possess sustainable reading and writing skills to achieve age appropriate learning levels
3. To associate reading and writing with joyful learning and real life situation
4. To develop sustained multilingual capabilities of children
5. To recognize social perspective of home- school transition and the role of children's literature in the process of building independent and engaged readers and writers.

A recent Library Project implemented by Trinity Care Foundation in a Government School, aligned with UN's sustainable development goals : https://www.flickr.com/photos/trinitycarefoundation/albums/72177720298316854 

Trinity Care Foundation has been actively supporting critical community programs since 2007, You can support such outreach programs as a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative for your company in association with us in Karnataka state, India. Write to us (support@trinitycarefoundation.org) to connect. 

For Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Partnership,

• Visit -> http://www.trinitycarefoundation.com/csr
• Write to – support@trinitycarefoundation.org  or 
• Call  Dr. Thomas +91 9880 39 6666 or Mr. Binu +91 9880 35 8888
• More about executed CSR Projects by Trinity Care Foundation : https://www.flickr.com/photos/trinitycarefoundation/albums 

Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar (SVP) for 2021-2022

 Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar (SVP) for year 2021 -2022

The Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar has been instituted by the Ministry of Education, Government of India to recognize, inspire and celebrate excellence in sanitation and hygiene practice in schools. The purpose of the SVP is to honor schools that have undertaken significant steps towards fulfilling the mandate of the Swachh Vidyalaya Campaign. SVP is based on IT enabled assessment of WASH infrastructure, hygienic practices and COVID-19 appropriate behaviour.

In order to create self-motivation and awareness about sanitation, the Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar (SVP) was first instituted by the Department of School Education and Literacy, in 2016-17.

The SVP 2021-22 is open to all categories of schools in both rural and urban areas. The schools will be assessed through an online portal and mobile app in six sub-categories: Water, Sanitation, Hand Washing with soap, Operation and Maintenance, Behaviour Change and Capacity Building and the newly added category on COVID-19 Preparedness and Response and the system will generate the overall score and rating automatically.

The schools have been given sufficient time till March 2022 to apply for the awards so that they can do so at an appropriate and safe time at https://swachhvidyalayapuraskar.com/

How to apply : 

All Government, Government aided and private schools from both rural and urban areas are invited to apply for the Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar

• The registration of schools would be done with the UDISE+ code of the school.
• Schools will first complete the primary information section in the prescribed format and submit.

Steps to apply :

Step 1: Click Here ( https://school.swachhvidyalayapuraskar.com/signup ) to Sign Up & Click Here ( https://school.swachhvidyalayapuraskar.com/ ) to Login

Step 2: Fill Online Survey 

About Us :

Trinity Care Foundation is a network of highly accomplished and networked professionals in Karnataka state, India. They aim to solve the challenges of healthcare/education in India by working in synergy with the government system. 

Trinity Care Foundation has the Trust registration, PAN, TAN, 12AB, 80G, Professional tax and FCRA. It is registered with NITI Aayog, Government of India. It is National Health Mission Partner in Karnataka, India.

For Partnership,

Visit -> http://www.trinitycarefoundation.com/csr

Write to – support@trinitycarefoundation.org  <- 

Executed Projects : https://www.flickr.com/photos/trinitycarefoundation/albums 

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