With your help, we've already supported over 10,000 children, many of them girls, to leave child labour in India's tobacco industry and enter education. With this incredible success and the closure of many of the tobacco making factories in our area of work - Now, we're taking the next step: helping girls stay in school from primary education all the way to college. This project gives girls the long-term support they need to complete their education, overcome poverty and lead community change.
While we've made huge progress in ending child labour in tobacco factories, many girls still face pressure to drop out of school. Poverty, child marriage and patriarchal cultural norms can interrupt their education at any point. Without long-term support, families are forced to choose survival over schooling their daughters. Enrolment is no longer the only challenge - staying in school becomes the next one.
We are working with over 2,000 girls and their families, to provide highly personalised support. Our support starts at nursery level-primary school and continues all the way through to college. We provide support for educational material and supplies, distribute bicycles to girls who live furthest from school, offer mobile health clinics and support families to achieve basic food security and start income generating activities, so they are less likely to take their daughters out of school.
When girls complete their education, everything changes for them and their communities. They can access meaningful work, avoid early marriage and become leaders and role models. The long-term support we provide helps girls like Radhika, who started in our programme at age 3 and is now a qualified nurse supporting her entire family. This work creates lasting change, one girl at a time.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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