About Trust: Our name “HASRA” – is inspired from the First Caliph of Islam and one of the pious social workers we ever heard Hazrat Abu Bakr As Siddiq Radhi Allahu.
HASRA Educational & Welfare Society was registered under Bombay Trust Act, 1882 and Societies Registration Act, 1860. The sole aim of establishing this educational trust was to establish an affordable yet state-of-the-art school in the slums of Devri Pada, Kausa – Mumbra. Thane: 400612.
About School: In 2016, HASRA English School started at 10x30sq.ft. room where only one classroom was utilized for three sessions. Today, we have 9 classrooms with a separate Computer Lab, reading library and one proposed Science Laboratory. Our school is accredited under OBE programme of the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), Govt. of India. It allows learners to study under Level A, B & C .i.e. equivalent to Grade 3, 5 and 8.
For the academic year 2024-25, we have around 532 students of which about 95% are the first-generation learners as their parents are uneducated or less educated. These learners are the only hope for families who will bring some stability in their lives. Mostly the parents or guardians are unemployed, labourers, drivers, semi-skilled workers, daily wagers etc.
- Fees Structure: Our current fees for Nursery to Grade 7 is only 500 rupees per month and Grade 8 to 10 is 600 rupees per month. The admission is free in the school however we charge approx. 1000-1500 rupees for providing school stationary and other benefits like Free Abacus, Robotics & daily Newspaper to each students.
Despite such a low Fee charges, around 20% fee remains bad debt due to low-parity of parents to pay it. - Our Schemes: To retain maximum students especially girl child and make education affordable for all, we have introduced number of fee schemes at our school.
- a) Free-ship: If a parent (father & mother) has three (3) children than we provide one child free-ship. It means parents will have to pay fees of only 2 students .i.e. 500X2 = 1000 rupees for three (3) students. This fee-waiver scheme has helped to retain girl- child a lot.
- b) 50% Fee-waiver for Orphan: All the students who have lost their fathers gets 50% fee-waiver in their monthly fees. It means the student pay only 250 rupees per month to get English at our school. Submitting father’s death certificate copy is
- c) 50% Discount for Handicap: If the parent or a child is handicap than they’ll get 50% fee-waiver. Submitting handicap certificate copy is mandatory.
- d) Fee-waiver after consideration: Apart from these schemes, we also provide
Free-ship or waiver to many students after learning about their family conditions.