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Project Need: $50,000
Funding
to Date:
$36,331 (%)
As of Feb 13 02:57 2012
Theme: Education
Country: India [View country profile] info
Sponsor: Ashoka Innovators for the Public (nominal)
Project duration: Ongoing

Project's focus area: The provision of durable goods to help women improve their lives and their futures.
Project Needs and Beneficiaries

In rural areas of India more than 50% of girls drop out of school after Class 5. Although school is free, transport costs deter rural families from sending girls to school. These families seek a mobile solution to make education a reality for their daughters.

Activities
In order to offer girls a chance at an education, we provide bicycles at a 0% interest loan. Mann Deshi also donates the bicycle to the girls whose family do not afford loan.
Expected Outcomes
The girls deserve the chance to go to school; only through education can they become independent and successful, and be released from poverty and repression. As ongoing projects, we try to give 400 bicycles to girls each year, allowing them to contin
Project Message
“It is a simple project with a large effect, because education is the starting point for every development.”
- Anna Alex, , Volunteer of Manndeshi
Project Contact

Chetna Sinha,
President
Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank Ltd. Mhaswad
Tal. Mann Dist.- Satara
Mhaswad, Maharashtra Postal Code 415509
India
9102373270141
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