The Blossom Bus: Help Rural Girls Get To School!

Breaking news! 

• All of the Blossom Girls in year 12 have passed and will graduate.
• We are now identifying girls for a push to add around 10 new riders to the Blossom to College and would be up to 30 riders!

USHA is a recent high school graduate who was able to attend higshcool under the Blossom Bus program.

We are looking at Usha’s case along with all the nine others that passed the 12^th grade in the 2015-16 school year and wishing to continue to college. Currently we have 20 girls in our Blossom to College Program and we are seeing if we are in a position to take on more girls. Some of these new graduates are from the same villages as the current girls of the Blossom to College Bus program so we are hoping that we can bring those girls into the program easily.

Below is a letter written by Usha in request of further assistance:

My name is Usha, daughter of Tejvir. My father runs a makeshift shop in front of a temple in Gurgaon selling offerings to devotees and feeding family of seven persons. My mother is a housewife.

I have graduated from High school this year travelling on Blossom Bus which is a great achievement for me. My father is very happy that his daughter is now a school graduate and another reason for his happiness is that his younger daughter has also passed grade eight from village school and has enrolled herself in High school at Aharwan and started travelling on Blossom Bus.

My father is a worried man as well at the same time because I am very much willing to go to college but we do not have resources to go to a college 20 kilometers away from my village. My father is capable of paying my college fee etc. but a safe transport is not available. Most of the girls from my village who have graduated from school never went to college.

I do not know what to do.

From,
Usha

We hope to support Usha along with all of the other Blossom Bus graduates who wish to attend college. It is with your help that we can continue to assist these youg women on their quest for an education. Thank you!