By Jane Manson | Fundraising
Nazia loves school. One day she wants to become a teacher, but it is going to be a struggle. Despite being a very bright girl, her parents wanted her to drop out of school and become a rag picker like her mother. Her father works in a chappal factory (making cheap plastic sandals). Their combined incomes barely feed the family of six so there is pressure on the children to take up work. With Tiljala SHED’s intervention, the parents have agreed to let Nazia continue in education. She is an enthusiastic member of our Park Circus Education Centre which lies just behind the railway lines where Nazia and her family live in a makeshift shelter. She attends classes every day after school. She is also a member of Tiljala SHED’s Gyan Azhar library, a girls-only facility in the local slum, where she can borrow books, read, study and hang out in a safe place with her friends. Nazia’s enthusiasm for her education and Tiljala SHED’s interventions combine to offer Nazia a real opportunity to break out of the cycle of poverty, illiteracy and early marriage which are prevalent amongst these very vulnerable communities.
For just £11 or $15 a month you are helping a girl like Nazia to reach for a better life.
Thank you
About the project
600 children of rag pickers, rickshaw drivers, maidservants, vegetable sellers are enrolled on Tiljala SHED's Education and Child Protection programme. They are required to attend their local government school but in the afternoon they attend remedial classes in T SHED's 5 centres, one in the heart of each community where we work. Here they play, sing, complete their homework, attend remedial sessions and child protection workshops. They love the classes and attendance is very high. Their parents are also closely involved - after all it is only with the parents' consent that the children remain in education and avoid dropping out. Tiljala SHED works very hard to persuade the parents that a proper education is worth the sacrifice of anything a boy might earn rag picking or working in a factory. And infinitely better than marrying off a daughter as soon as she reaches puberty.
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