By Valerie Hohman | Head of Organisational Development
“My name is Sheetal and I study in class 3. I want to be a police officer and help people. I want to take care of my health, and I want to eat bread and eggs. Thank you.”
On December 10, the girls from our scholarship program gathered with their families at the CSR office for a year-end celebration and to collect the final disbursement of their scholarship funds. There was more singing and dancing, and a lot of talk about how critical it is to invest in the future of girls.
Dr. Kumari talked with the girls about the importance of their education as well the importance of eating well and staying healthy. The girls shared with us how they are using their scholarships and made a commitment –along with their families – to take care of their nutrition and health on a daily basis.
Sheetal (pictured and quoted above) is one of our youngest scholarship recipients. She told us how she wants to be a cop and how she will eat bread and eggs (healthy foods) to make sure she stays strong.
Your donation is helping Sheetal get the start in life that she deserves.
Please visit our Global Giving page and Youtube channel for a collection of interviews with the girls from our program sharing what education and good health means for them.
…..
As I’ve shared, we want to continue this program next year for at least 50 girls. To do that, we need to raise an additional $6,500 by the end of the year.
This program is funded entirely through the generosity of individual donors like you. The girls would be so grateful if you would renew your support for the coming year.
This holiday season, give the gift of education and change a girl’s life.
With gratitude,
Valerie Hohman
Head of Organisational Development
Links:
Project reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.
If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you can receive an email when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports without donating.
