Free Residential Institute for 10,000 Tribal

Children
From KG to PG
 An Introduction To KISS
A Home AwAy from Home……

Started in 1993 with 125 children

• 10,000 children as on July 2009

• In this 60% are boys & 40% are girls
• Students from 62tribes
(13 primitive tribes)of Orissa &
adjoining states
• Land: 60 Acres
• Built up area: 4,20,000 sq. ft
• Under construction: 2,00,000 sq.ft
 “Earn While You Learn”:- KISS provides tribal children a
unique opportunity to earn through vocational training
 “Livelihood Training”:- Each student is expected to
undergo vocational training based on his/her interest and
skill which lays foundation of future employment
 “Arresting Drop out Menace” : Not a single case of drop
out since its inception
 Coming up with the Tata Memorial Library
 Centre of Excellence on Vocational Training
 Provides training to School Drop out tribal youth
 KISS confer Humanitarian Award annually to distinguished
individuals working in diverse fields for the betterment of
the society
 Rugby Stadium, Kick Boxing Centre, Indoor Stadium,
Computer Centre, 24 hours Medical Facility, Multi Gym
 Mission of KISS

•To Eradicate Poverty and Hunger through

Education
•To convert “liability” into “asset” by combining To train students to be self-
Education with vocational training and life skill reliant, resourceful and
education change agent for the tribal
communities.
•To promote gender equality & encourage more
no of girls in higher education
•To preserve tribal heritage, culture and values
•To prepare them to protect natural resources
and environment and make them ambassadors
for the cause of Climate Change.
Millennium Development
Goals (MDG) vis a vis Kiss
KISS has been successfully responding to the
Millennium Development goals by :-
• Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger.
• Promoting gender equality and empower
women
• Reducing child mortality
• Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other
diseases which constitute 25% of the
population of the state
• Also we reach out to global partnership
with goal for achieving development.
 Significant Achievements
• “Limca Book of Records” :- Being the Largest Residential Tribal Institute of
South Asia providing free Food, Accomodation, Education to ten thousand
tribal children from KG to PG
• KISS won first prize for four consecutive years in National School Children
Science Congress
• World Champions Under – 14 Rugby Tournament at London (2007).
• Under – 14 Girls Rugby team selected to play matches with the teams in
London (March 2010)
• Under – 16 Boys Rugby team selected to play matches with different teams in
France (November 2009).
• 100 % result in High School Certificate Examination of Orissa for last seven
years.
• 100 % result in +2 Arts Higher Secondary Education against the State result of
69.99% and 90 % result in +2 Science for last three years.
• One student of Class IX participated in International Children’s and Youth
Conference in South Korea organized by United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP) (August 2009).
 Credibility & Recognition of
KISS
• “UNFPA & KISS Life Skill Centre”:- For the first time in South East Asia ,
UNFPA set up the Life Skill Centre for the under privileged at KISS campus. The
Life Skill programme will overcome knoweldge and skills deficit in the state of
Orissa. The programme addresses tribal adolescents who are highly veunerable
and have fewer opportunities to access information.
• “US Government Sponsored English Access Micro scholarship
Programme”:- US Government has selected KISS to implement this innovative
project for the first time for the tribals in the country which will enable the tribals
students to go through English Skill development programmes.
• “UKTI India Business Award”:- First time in India, KISS as a social
organization nominated under UK TI India Business Award,2009 under
the CSR category along with Tata Steel and Unilever
• “World Innovation Summit on Education (WISE)”:- KISS was
nominated as one of the innovative project in the World
 ROAD AHEAD FOR KISS

• The target is to reach 200000 (2 lakh) children by the end of 2011 by :-

• Setting up 2o nos of schools in 20 tribal district of Orissa with 1000
capacity
• Three schools at Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, MP, Karnataka and Maharashtra
• Two schools at Nepal & Cambodia