Financial Support for Urban Girl's School

In the Addagutta slum, where residents live below the poverty line without drinking water or streetlights, mothers work on construction jobs or as domestic help, and only 34% of girls attend school, the desire to improve circumstances is intense. However, slowly, impoverished mothers have begun to support Vikasini and enrollment has grown from 15 to 41 in its first year. An additional teacher, administrative help, books, sports equipment, and one computer are needed. Local donations cannot meet the school's needs.

The cost of obtaining an additional teacher, administrative help, books, sports equipment, and one computer is $8,800 (without resorting to child labor). Girls are taught to comprehend discrimination, self-confidence is increased through sports, English, computer usage, information technology and math. Reading will be encouraged through the addition of a library in the future. With the funding of this project, these girls will start seeing options other than cleaning houses with their mothers, as education will open the door to a new world of possibility.

To learn more about this project and/or contribute, please click HERE, or contact Sangeetha Pearl, Communications Officer Nirnaya, # 11 Deepti Apts., S.P. Road, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh 500 026, India. Tel: 91-40-27804361.