Provide Bicycles for Poor Students in India

One imaginative way to make a difference in this project, is to help boys and girls go to school by providing them with bicycles.

Since project activities started, 200 bicycles made locally have been bought (@75 USD each = 3,375 Indian Rupees) and formally and publicly delivered to school beneficiaries. This represents a total of net donations received of 15,000 USD out of which 9,200 USD (61%) came directly from generous donors to Global Giving. This is a major achievement.

Boys and girls will become full owner of their bike when they graduate. This is a great incentive to improve grades at school!

Thank you so much for your continuing interest in this to fund 100 more bicyles and perhaps more as other schools are lining up to help their poor students. It is a great encouragement for us to spread the spirit of love and support.

Eddy and Claudine

Who are the most destitute children in India? The answer is: those poor children who cannot go to school. The result? Needless suffering.

As we are gearing up to provide 100 more bicycles this summer at $75 each to allow children --boys and girls-- to go to school in the poor coastal areas of Kerala, India, you can now give them the gift of hope.

Through your generous support, past and present, children like the ones on the pictures below can hope for a better life of dignity. They won't need to submit themselves to exploitation and depradation.

Thank you for your prayers and continued support or new gifts.

Dear GlobalGiving Friend, Thank to your generous support, the “Bicycles for Poor Students” project proposed for the coastal areas of Kerala near Azheekal has started successfully in 2007 and progressed well in 2008 (see previous updates). In 2009, we need at least 100 additional bikes to help more boys and girls go to school by providing each one of them with a bicycle. Budget: at least US$ 9,000 for 2009. Your gift will give help and hope to these poor children and their struggling families for a good cause: education. Thank you for your generosity in these difficult times.