Educate an Indian Child Experiencing Poverty

The reality for impoverished children in India, particularly girls, is stifling. They face insurmountable odds and are sentenced to repeat the generational cycle of poverty into which they were born.

• An estimated 47% of women in India are married by age 18¹.
• 29.8% of girls in India complete Grade 10 ¹.
• Only 1 in 100 girls in India graduate from Grade 12¹.

Christel House has been working to break this cycle of poverty in India for 15 years. Students starting in kindergarten at Christel House India are 16 times more likely to graduate from a post-secondary education program when compared to government school students.

• Girls with secondary schooling are 6 times less likely to be child brides than those with little or no education ³.
• Christel House India has a 96% annual retention rate.
• 98 in 100 students at Christel House India pass their graduation exams.

And, with your support, we want to continue the impact. We will soon open a new school in India to give even more children a brighter future.

The government of Chhattisgarh, one of India’s poorest states, is building a new school for Christel House in the city of Naya Raipur. The school is scheduled to open in the fall of 2016. Initially, it will serve 210 students in Grades K–2. Each year, the school will add one new grade level.

The government is funding construction, but Christel House will be responsible for covering the cost of student programs, teachers, books, food, health care and transportation.

For young girls living in poverty in Naya Raipur, attending Christel House will mean a free, quality education, nutrition, medical support, safe transportation to and from school and a healthy environment to learn and grow.

Your support of ‘Educate an Indian Girl-Child from the Slums’ is giving impoverished girls the opportunity to step into a classroom for the very first time. Thank you for helping to change a child’s life story.

1. The World of Indian Girls 2014 Report – Save the Children
http://resourcecentre.savethechildren.se/sites/default/files/documents/executive_summary_of_wings_2014.pdf
2. Impact at Scale, DARSA
https://www.dasra.org/insight/impact-at-scale
3. Keeping Girls in Secondary Schools, DARSA
https://www.dasra.org/cause/keeping-girls-in-secondary-schools

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