By Pramilla Kumar | Student
Hello Everyone!
My name is Naresh Sir And I am Director of Education at People First. I would to thank once again for all your marvellous support. Well, I hope you all you enjoyed the festive season.
I thought it time you heard from a girl helped by the programme, so I asked" Pramila" (see picture above but name changed) to write a little about herself for this report. it was written in Hindi and translated but not a single word was changed apart from the name.Here is her open letter to you all..
Namaste! respected persons of great repute,
My name is Pramilla.
I am about 13 years of age , but I do not know my birthday or birth year. My father is a farmer, we have a little land and I have 3 brothers and two sisters, but I am the first girl in my family to go to school above class 5. I am in class seven . I am so lucky , without the help from people first and the support they give it is very unlikely that I could be here in my classroom, writing to you.
I think it is only right that girls should have same chance as boys, do you know there are villages in Bihar where the local village council do not want girls to dress in western dress or have a mobile phone of their own. It is not like that here. We are being educated and therefore we would fight against such ridiculous notions from men. Education awakens us in more ways than literacy or counting and mathematics.
Your help for this programme does reach to girls like me, without it I could not afford school uniform or books or any tuition this is provided to me free of any cost, so thank you and please continue to reach out and take the hands of girls like me..
Your student,
Pramilla
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