Funds of the School

PTA fund
When I joined school PTA fund had only rufia 2.86 (Maldivian currency) which is about one fifth of a dollar and when I left, the funds had thousands of rufias after spending more than half of the money collected for various matters. First plan of PTA suggested that parents work once a month to collect money for the funds but later it was relaxed a bit.
Three special days were conducted as parents’ day for collecting funds. Further a food exhibition was held to collect funds. Besides this different parents groups who had collected money before Tsunami decided to contribute the money to PTA fund. There were two such groups which totally contributed more than 15 thousand rufias.
PTA fund contributed for matters such as buying things needed urgently for school, bringing specialists for professional development programmes and for instructors brought for training students.

Education Fund of Vilufushee School
Education fund was an idea I proposed for sustenance of Advanced Level classes in the school. Further to make the education fund a strong body I proposed the view of including the island chief (Katheeb), Vice President of PTA, a member from women’s committee, head of the school, a member to represent parents and a member to represent teachers. This fund committee is supposed to make decisions regarding the fund matters while the main objective of the fund committee would be sustenance of the Advanced level education in Vilufushee School.
The fund needed immediate money when it was established and I requested people who contributed the school during the elections period in 2008 to see whether they could contribute. However, as I was not lucky enough for various reasons a started looking for other options. I was acting at that time as head of school and head of the fund as well. We decided in the committee to request the citizens of the island to contribute for the initial requirement as more than 800,000 rufias were frozen in their account for years. That was successful after conducting a meeting with all the citizens of the island. They contributed more than 100 thousand rufias which was necessary for initial expenses and monthly expenses of the students brought from other islands for Advanced level classes, for two years which is the duration of the whole course.
Further starting from the inaugural meeting of the fund till I left more than 25,000 rufias were collected in the fund boxes. The electric supplying authority staff in the island decided to make regular monthly contributions as well.
(second experience as a school leader-6)