In The Hindu, this article dated June 3, 2021, highlights an independent assessment by the Indian Institute of Health Management Research in Jaipur, which finds us to be leaders in bridging the digital divide enabling 700 girls, living in poverty, to continue quality schooling through the pandemic. With your support, and a partnership with Together Women Rise, and the use of personalized tablets we are able to educate these young girls at just $1 a day.
When Covid closed down Jaipur’s teeming streets, Harmendra Singh, like many other daily wage laborers, panicked. How would he feed his family of six? For Harmendra, a blacksmith who makes INR 300.00 per day and lives in Jaipur’s Dhoongri slum, the shutdown in India was particularly brutal–he needed his income for his family’s basic daily survival.
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The story of Global Grant beneficiary Vimukti Girls' School, Jaipur, India
The World Bank estimates the cost to society of not educating girls at $15-30 trillion! or put simply, educating girls changes everything.
Read MoreA News story was done on Vimukti Girls School, Jaipur by Doordarshan News (DD News) for its program Good News
Read MoreAre things getting worse for girls?
My mother was a bright girl with a keen desire to learn, but she was not allowed to continue her education beyond Grade 8 as that meant she had to go to school in another town. Eighty years later, Malala wanted to go to school, but she was shot because of it, even though the school was in her own home town. They shot her to stop her from promoting education for girls. The moot question is: Are things getting worse for girls?
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