Education India Project #1877

Send a Child in India to School for a Year

by Seva Mandir

Send a Child in India to School for a Year

Project Report | Feb 4, 2015
The Gifts of Sight and Education

By Atul Lekhra | Incharge Online Donor Communication

Dear Friend,

Nisha, who is 11, had never been to school - not that she didn’t want to go, but there wasn’t one close to her home in a rural village and her parents were unable to send her to a school outside the village. They heard about Seva Mandir’s Residential Learning Camp at a village meeting, and as other children they knew were going they decided to send Nisha. She soon settled into this environment (very different from the government schools) with ten pupils to one encouraging and supportive teacher, and several hours of enjoyable lessons every day. Like the other children at the camp, she was given two sets of clothes, good meals every day and lessons in basic arithmetic and Hindi, some English, science and hygiene, and a chance to play as children do. It was during one of the weekly health checks by a doctor that it was discovered that Nisha had a cataract in one eye, the result of an earlier injury. Seva Mandir arranged for her to have an operation to remove the cataract, free of charge, and her father came with her. Now her sight is returning and she just has to wear sunglasses while her eye recovers. She is continuing to soak up all the learning she can in her third successive two-month camp, anxious to make up for lost time. Now her Parents hope a bright future for her.

Without your help, Nisha would probably have remained illiterate and partially sighted. It’s due to your support we are able to help her.

Thank you for your contribution in ensuring her a better future! We look forward to your continued support.

We would love to hear from you. Please do reach me at atul.lekhra@sevamandir.org

Regards

Atul Lekhra

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