By Sarah Symons | Founder
Through our 2021 campaigns, Her Future Coalition has been able to offer high quality computer training to 160 survivors and high risk girls over the past 8 months.
The devastating second wave of COVID-19, which hit India in the late spring, has necessarily delayed the opening of our new computer lab in Kolkata, but design and furnishing of the lab is underway.
Meanwhile, we have offered computer classes to 100 middle school girls at the EkTara school in a Kolkata slum community, and 6 months of professional computer training (mostly offered virtually) to 60 adolescent and young adult women from the most vulnerable circumstances. We provided tablets for computer training and online schooling to 75 girls in the red light areas and urban slums.
Our next step will be opening a full service computer lab at our Her Future Learning Center in Kolkata, adjacent to the Sonagachi red light area. At the lab, we will able to offer computer training at all levels - from absolute beginner to coding - to 200+ girls a year, opening up a world of opportunities and changing their lives.
In addition, construction of the Freedom School in Eastern Nepal is almost finished! The school opened in September to 75 students, and will ultimately provide high quality education to 325 students. While the construction is being completed, we are providing tutoring support to some high risk girls and conducting teacher training. The school is in a remote tribal region with an extremely high rate of trafficking and exploitation
We are supporting a full year of intense tutoring and remedial help for 250 girls: 65 in an urban slum of Kolkata, 25 in a rescue shelter in Kathmandu, Nepal, and 175 in the red light areas of Kolkata.
We are 75K away from our year end goal.
- The Her Future Team 10/12/2021
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