Send 1000 Girls to Schools in India
Campaign by PRAJNA FOUNDATION for Cultural Interaction and Studies
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An estimated 21,600 girls are living in Delhi's slums alone who have no access to education. Feminine hygiene products are out of reach for nearly 200,000 adolescent girls.
While all children in these communities face enormous barriers to escaping the cycle of poverty, girls are especially vulnerable. Without a primary education, financial independence is nearly impossible for women in India. Due to the dowry system and lack of opportunity, families often marry their girls off at a young age. All of this places them at risk of teenage pregnancy, trafficking and sexual abuse.
Aligned with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, the Foundation supports families to enrol their girls in schools and preschools, and after-school programs help ensure their success by providing tutors, college mentors, remedial tuition, and a safe, accessible environment for learning. Technology is central to our programming, and our centres are equipped with high 100 Mbps internet connectivity, educational software, video conferencing facilities, and film technology.
Over the past 24 years, the PRAJNA Foundation has been creating pathways for women and girls to escape the cycle of poverty through education and vocational training. While we support all slum children, educating and empowering girls, has a powerful generational impact.
This year, we hope to send 1,000 girls from Delhi's slums to school, supporting their long-term success by providing school supplies, remedial tuition, digital literacy, nutrition & health supplements, and self-defence training.
An investment in the well-being of a girl from Delhi's slums is an investment in all of India. Educating a girl allows her to dodge early marriage and motherhood. She will be more likely to support and empower all her children, and her daughters will also avoid the cycle of early marriage and pregnancy that traps generations in abject poverty. Although this project aims to send 1000 girls to school, this "girl effect" will spread education and opportunity exponentially in future generations.
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Project Updates
31 Jan, 2022
100 Children Get Laptops for Online Education during Covid-19
With the Covid-19 pandemic striking the World in alarming proportions, millions of people in India too became jobless overnight due to Nationwide lockdown. With social distancing affecting normal life, educational activities also came to a grinding halt.
The economically weaker sections of society have like always been the worst hit. With education shifting to online classes, Digital learning is the need of the hour to acquire knowledge and hold the key to a successful career.
However, it is proving very difficult for the poor students due for board exams to cope with the pressures owing to computers being out of reach for them. It is really a sorry state of affairs that in spite of being brilliant and hardworking, they are forced to lag behind in studies due to unavailability of devices to access education. Children from affluent families easily possess smartphones while it is an unimaginable luxury for low income background children. Understanding complex concepts has been next to impossible for them.
In this scenario, their hopes for a better tomorrow are instead threatened with a dark future looming large over their already bleak situation. It is alarming to see more and more incidents of suicide by young students from humble background succumbing to a losing battle of hopelessness.
We took the initiative to distribute refurbished laptops and new internet dongles to around 40 such families. There are 2 or 3 school going students in each family. It is heartening to know that with the laptops, about 100 children are now enabled to regularly attend their online classes.
Education is the right of every child irrespective of which strata of society they belong to. They are our precious future and urgently need our help and support to guide and lead them to their deserving destination.
IMPACT: Teachers have informed us that their students have gained immensely and made considerable progress by also taking internal exams successfully.
Encouraged by the positive response of the donors and the beneficiaries alike, Prajna Foundation is launching a Laptop Bank Project for the underprivileged. All are invited to support and participate.
Organisers
PRAJNA FOUNDATION for Cultural Interaction and Studies
Beneficiary Charity
Dr. RK Sinha
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