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Jaipogal Garodia Girls' Higher Secondary School, Saidapet, Chennai, is a Govt high
school struggling to make do with meager govt financing. Students are entitled to a free
noon meal every day, but this was being cooked outdoors. As a result, students were dealing
with missed meals in wet weather, and dirt in their food in dry.
OPEN spent $2420 to fund construction of a kitchen for this school in May 2003, after
calling for tenders from several construction firms in Chennai. The building opening
ceremony invitation, and photographs of the building, follow.
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