Project duration: 1 Year
Project's focus area: Providing access to basic education for boys and girls, as a stepping stone to alleviate poverty
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Students of poor coastal areas of Kerala, India, need to go to school in remote villages. Areas are steeped in poverty and at the mercy of repeated sea erosion . School is too far from villages to walk each day barefoot with heavy bags of books, making school attendance difficult to the point of jeopardizing students’ future. Bicycles will have a strong impact by helping poor boys and girls go to school regularly. Students will own their bike after completing school.
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Buying and distributing 300 bicycles: 150 Herald Thriller bikes for boys; 150 Lady Bird bikes for girls. Students contribute Rs500 each (US$12). Project will ensure qualitative changes in people’s life and enhance village integrated development. |
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By helping 300 poor students (50% boys; 50% girls) finish high school and own a bicycle after graduation, the project will provide access to basic education to all the poor students in the selected area and village. |
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The program for the students, irrespective of caste and creed, will help raise the educational standard of the people as well as the income of the families.
- R. Thomas Parathara, General Manager of beneficiary school
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Claudine Dussert,
President and Treasurer
Mary Mother of Peace-Medjugorje Charity, Inc
8617 Irvington Avenue
Bethesda, Maryland 20817-3603
United States
13015305416
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