By Kuriyakose Sajan | Chairman
Dear Donors,
Greetings to you from Health Education Adoption Rehabilitation Development Society (HEARDS) - India!
I hope this letter finds you that you are all well.
We recently completed the second year of the new, expanded version of this project. I am really happy to have the opportunity to share some of the key achievements with you.
Progress towards overall aim of project.
The project aims to help 85 children to escape the prospect of child labour by getting an education. All the project partner like you have given us a great strength has always been successfully and creatively engaging all stakeholder groups, so that entire communities are involved in these new educational initiatives.
Recently we have mainstreamed more than 20children successfully into the regular Government schools with the help of the Village Education Committees and Parent-Teacher Associations came into being and worked with local leaders to rally around a school enrolment drive and support the project generally. As a result, over 20 children have entered education, and around 300 have been supported in remaining in school in a number of different ways.
Women’s self-help groups meant that women could access loans, with almost 30 already generating their own income as a result. Vocational training meant that young people who had either finished school, or dropped out too early, had better prospects than following their parents into employment.
All of these activities serve to create communities which no longer depend on the noxious work of the various hazardous industry, and are aware of the importance of education. This means there is more hope for the children of the target area than there ever has been to escape the grinding poverty they are in.
Thank you for funding this life changing work.
We are now into the third year of activities, and I will soon be updating you as before, with stories from the ground.
The difference that is being made to these children's lives, and the communities they are in, could scarcely be more profound.
Thank you, as always for continuing to give your hard earned money to this life changing work.
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