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CASP-Rajagiri association silver jubilee

Staff Reporter

KOCHI: The year-long silver jubilee celebrations of the Rajagiri College of Social Sciences-CASP (Community Aid and Sponsorship Programme) Sponsorship Project `Souhrudam-2006' will be inaugurated on Friday.

CASP is a national voluntary organisation, set up with the objective of sponsoring the education of needy, underprivileged and deprived children.

The Rajagiri-CASP sponsorship supported more than 4,200 children through various sponsors.

The project was celebrating 2006-07 as its silver jubilee year. The celebrations would be inaugurated by Minister for Fisheries S. Sarma, Fr. Jose Alex and M.P. Antony, chairperson and project manager, respectively, of Rajagiri-CASP, said at a press conference here.

The CASP programme started at the college in 1982. The association with CASP enabled the college to update the quality and volume of the services provided under the scheme.

Community development projects were implemented in various places in the State. CASP took the initiative to construct hygienic toilets in Kothad village.

It also sponsored drinking water-solar energy projects in Mudanveli in Idukki district. Day care for the elderly were also set up in five panchayats, including Kadmakudy and Mannuthy.

Last year, 20,000 students benefited from the Life School scheme to raise the educational standard of children. CASP was implementing the scheme to create awareness about democracy among children through Balapanchayat. The classmate education scheme was being implemented in Malappuram.

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