Summary
PPES provides free education and vocational training to about 900 rural village girls in Anupshahar, Uttar Pradesh, India. Its mission is to create a generation of self-reliant and independent girls.
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In rural India, girls are unwanted and discriminated against. The practice of female infanticide - when female babies are killed after birth - is still widely practised in the region in which Pardada Pardadi operates. Girls are often put to work at home or farming chores and rarely get to attend school before they’re married at the age of 14. Pardada Pardadi believes education, opportunity, and female empowerment can change all these problems.
In addition to a value-based education, our students are trained in the art of producing textiles. As an incentive, PPES deposits 10 rupees in a girl’s account for every day she attends school, which she will access upon graduation.
Total Funding Received to Date: $17,001
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $132,999
Total Funding Goal: $150,000
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
Every student at Pardada Pardadi acts as an advocate for change, both in their families and in the community at large. They are both role models and change agents.
"I am happy that I am able to stand on my own feet!"
- Asha, PPES Graduate and Textile Instructor
Renuka Gupta
CEO
A-47 Lajpat Nagar - 1
New Delhi 110024
New Delhi, New Delhi 110024
India
+91 11 4650 2631
Email:
Pardada Pardadi Educational Society
A-47 Lajpat Nagas-1
New Delhi,
NA
110024
India
+91 11 4650 2631
http://www.education4change.org
This project is located in
India
and can also be found under
Women and Girls.
For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.
This project was last updated on December 10, 2009.
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 28, 2009
By Renuka - CEO, December 09, 2009 02:04 PM
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