Education & the girl child
Most children who leave school in our block do not leave because of marks. They leave because of a bill that fell due in a bad month.
What we do
Keeping a girl in school is usually a matter of a few hundred rupees at the right time.
District Jind recorded a sex ratio of 871 women to 1,000 men at the 2011 Census, and rural female literacy well below the male figure. Those two numbers describe the same decision, taken in thousands of households: when money is short, the girl’s schooling is what gets cut.
The Sanstha works at exactly that moment. A family that has had a crop failure, a hospital bill or a death cannot find the examination fee, the uniform, the books or the bus fare. We meet the cost so that the child stays enrolled and does not have to be readmitted a year later, which almost never happens.
We give the support to the school or the shop wherever we can, rather than in cash, and we keep a record of what was paid for which child. Where a family needs help across a whole year rather than a single month, we try to find a donor willing to commit for that year.
What support pays for
Sponsor one child for one year.
Tell us the amount you can commit for an academic year and we will match it to a child in Safidon block, send you the school’s receipt, and report at the end of the year on whether the child stayed enrolled. If you would rather give once, that works too — it goes into the same fund.
- School feesExamination and admission fees at the moment they fall due
- Books & stationeryTextbooks, notebooks, and a school bag
- Uniform & shoesA full set, so attendance is not an embarrassment
- Coaching supportHelp with tuition where a child is at risk of dropping out
- Sponsor a yearOne donor, one child, one full academic year