Girl Children’s Education: Investing in the Future

We have started supporting school going as well as irregular school going children in addition to our normal programme for the children with the objective of reducing the dropout rate due to poverty. We contacted some schools through our staff and identified the needy girl child. We provided educational kits (Scale, Pencil, Crayon, Drawing copy, sharpener, Eraser, Pen, Geometry Box, Pencil Box, Books, Guide Books, Test Papers, Note books, School Bag including copies for handwriting in Oriya as well as in English. The works started in 16 schools and covering 219 children including two minority schools where the need was most urgent. By March it has been expanded to 21 schools touched 316 children. Other than that we have also covered 8 schools under Baripada Municipality.

We are in the process of forming school education committee in every village consisting of two representatives from Self Help Groups and individuals interested in Education. We are getting good response from the students as well as parents. We started this programme in Mayurbhanj, Balasore and Puri districts respectively.

Our programme provides opportunities for children to access quality education, empowering them to achieve their dreams.