Girl Child Education
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Education of Girls:
Even after fifty-five years of independence of India, girls in India do not have the opportunities to educate themselves, in spite of education being fundamental rights in the constitution of India. Mann Deshi Mahila Bank (women Bank) and Mann Vikas Samajik Sanstha (NGO) consider their primary task to work on education of girls. If women have assets and are educated they would never be vulnerable as they are today.
Women’s bank and NGO have annual meeting to gather, and members of both the organization who are women, every year they take up the campaign for the social issues. In 1999, the campaign was taken up on “women will not kill female fetus”, which was against sex determination test. Since last two years women members of the Bank and NGO are emphasizing on health and education.
It is so obvious that if income of women increases and if they have control on their income they tend to invest in the education and health of the families. Bank with the partnership of NGO have already started health insurance is now focusing on the education, especially on girls education. NGO and Bank started the program, when Maya, a twelve-year-old girl came to the office of Bank and said, “I have passed my seventh grade with second rank and want to go for the VIII Grade but as there is no bus; to go to high school from my village my parents are withdrawing my name from the school.
This incident made us think seriously, though we immediately contacted Maya Parents and teacher and provided her bicycle. This became the regular program.
State of education
Education for all continues to be acute problem in India. Despite the fact that government targets were education for all by 2000.An estimated facts are as below, 33% of children above age of 7 are illiterate, 42 million are not able to get access to basic education. And 100 million children are out of the school. The plight of girls remains considerably worse then the boys. Drop out
Education of Girls:
Even after fifty-five years of independence of India, girls in India do not have the opportunities to educate themselves, in spite of education being fundamental rights in the constitution of India. Mann Deshi Mahila Bank (women Bank) and Mann Vikas Samajik Sanstha (NGO) consider their primary task to work on education of girls. If women have assets and are educated they would never be vulnerable as they are today.
Women’s bank and NGO have annual meeting to gather, and members of both the organization who are women, every year they take up the campaign for the social issues. In 1999, the campaign was taken up on “women will not kill female fetus”, which was against sex determination test. Since last two years women members of the Bank and NGO are emphasizing on health and education.
It is so obvious that if income of women increases and if they have control on their income they tend to invest in the education and health of the families. Bank with the partnership of NGO have already started health insurance is now focusing on the education, especially on girls education. NGO and Bank started the program, when Maya, a twelve-year-old girl came to the office of Bank and said, “I have passed my seventh grade with second rank and want to go for the VIII Grade but as there is no bus; to go to high school from my village my parents are withdrawing my name from the school.
This incident made us think seriously, though we immediately contacted Maya Parents and teacher and provided her bicycle. This became the regular program.
State of education
Education for all continues to be acute problem in India. Despite the fact that government targets were education for all by 2000.An estimated facts are as below, 33% of children above age of 7 are illiterate, 42 million are not able to get access to basic education. And 100 million children are out of the school. The plight of girls remains considerably worse then the boys. Drop out