By Prayeen Kumar | Program Manager
In three months, our girls have won 5 prizes!!! Varsha- MS. Vibrant 2023, Anisha- 2nd prize in singing competition, Prachi- 3rd prize in Dance Competition. Aarti is among the top twenty students of a batch of 100 students graduating from mid schools to high schools and little Prachi scored 91 % in her total class percentile.
We are impossibly proud as the education of these girls was interrupted during Covid as they had little access to online classes during the lockdown. They were sent back to the red-light areas, there was no food and even little room to sleep.
We continue to support 65 children in schools through community classrooms in Bihar, 5 children through sponsorships in Delhi schools, and 288 in the Nizamuddin Basti New Delhi, 20 children in Bengal through sponsorship in Kolkata schools and 25 children’s tuition under the Hastings Bridge through our mobile van. The total to 403 children supported in schools.
In addition, 15 young women and men are being sponsored in college by our NGO.
20 girls continue to learn martial arts in our Bihar Centre.
This quarter, 1 March - 30 July 2023, we distributed 15000. meals to 40. women and 110.children in Bihar, 10, 500. meals to 30 women and 75 children in Bengal and 7700 meals to 17 women and 60 children Delhi taking the total to 33, 200 meals to 87 women and 245 children for all India.
In addition, we distributed. six hundred sanitary pads.
To top it all we can report that the eleven women running the Apne Aap food truck now earn Rs 12500- 18500 per month and obe Girl from our sowing class has started a tailoring business from her home- (earning- Rs 100-150 per day).
Our program continues its outreach. We have 11 new members. Our team helped three women obtain Govt. ID’s and connect with Govt. entitlements like low-cost food, health care and housing. and helped one woman with opening a bank account,
In addition there is a new fiction novel, I Kick and I Fly by our founder Ruchira Gupta on our work. It is about a 14 year old girl in Bihar who escapes the sex trade by becoming a Kung Fu champion. The book is based on true experinces of girls in our NGO that you support. Do order the book and share with your friends so we can gain more supporters for our cause. It was just featured on NBC, CSPAN and BBC Woman's Hour. Its available in all bookstores near you and online too.
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