Education India Project #20989

Educate 100 Dalit girls

by Nandri

Project Report | Dec 2, 2020
COVID and educating our children

By Janice Vard Smith | Project leader

Teaching the children organic farming methods

“It takes a village to raise a child”

Our children are our future and our mothers are the heart of Nandri, as mothers are the heart of many homes across the world. If we support our mothers, in turn this enables them to provide for their children and Nandri enables them to keep them in education through financial loans. It is a condition of our loans to the mothers, that they must keep their children in school. We then encourage them to continue to third level education.

Nandri’s aim is to enable and empower our mothers, to help them start micro businesses and achieve goals in life that previously they would have thought impossible. Nandri also knows the importance of nurturing and educating the next generation, our children. Their growth, happiness and development is intrinsic to their future success and that of our community.

In our villages, traditionally mothers take on the greater role of raising the children. In some cases they are the sole earners in the household, left to care for the children as well as provide for them on meager salaries.

This is where Nandri becomes the supportive “village” that our families can depend on - a community built around helping our mothers to help themselves and each other too, enabling them to provide the basic necessities their children need. These basic “needs” are things that we take for granted; food, shelter, sanitation and education. Poverty strips our families of these necessities.

Nandri provides a supportive community, a “village” that helps our mothers and their families to escape the continuous circle of poverty. Through financial loans and educational support, even on to 3rd level colleges, dreams are fulfilled, ambitions are achieved and our village of Nandri creates a caring community which helps our mothers raise their children with hope of a better, brighter future.

Education during the COVID pandemic:

We have organised many special inniatives during this time to help our children continue to grow and learn. These are some of the new projects we have developed:

Special classes for 10th standard students
Training the children in organic methods of agriculture
Initiation of a new project for the students to plant 100000 palm seeds in our villages.

These new projects have helped keep the children busy while schools have been closed. They have embraced them and have enjoyed creating their own micro gardens, growing vegetables for their families.

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Aug 6, 2020
Jancy, one of our college graduates, gives back to Nandri

By Janice Vard Smith | Project leader

Jancy donates her first nurses salary to Nandri

Last January at the Nandri Conference, in front of thousands of Nandri Mothers one very proud mum looked on as her daughter Jancy presented Nandri with a donation of her very first salary as a nurse. She thanked Nandri and explained that this was a token of her gratitude for all Nandri has done for her.

Jancy with Joe our director in India and Phelim our CEO

Jancys story began a few years previously when Joe, our director, heard of a bright and hard working student who was heartbroken as her family could no longer afford to keep her in education. Jancy is the oldest of 5 children, two of whom are handicapped. Her parents are daily wage earners, eeking out a meager living and barely managing to feed their family. After finishing school, Jancys dream was to study to become a nurse but for a girl from a poor Dalit family this was an impossible dream. She started working in a menial job, earning a pittance to help support her family. Joe stepped in and enrolled her in our higher education programme and with a loan from Nandri she was thrilled to be able to commence her studies in Nursing College.

Jancy has completed her degree and is working as a nurse in a Hospital in Delhi. She is now in a position to contribute to her family’s income and support her younger siblings in their education. This wonderful young lady is just one of hundreds of success stories - boys and girls whose lives have been transformed because of Nandri’s support and sponsorship through 3rd level education. Because of Nandri’s help these children have escaped from the inevitable poverty passed on from one disadvantaged generation to the next.

Nandri is proud to be helping to change the future of both our children and their families. Your genorosity makes our work possible and on behalf of all our children, we thank you. "Nandri" from the bottom of our hearts.

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Apr 7, 2020
COVID19 A catastrophe for our girls and their families

By Janice Vard Smith | Project Leader

A catastrophe of untold proportions is about to hit our Nandri children and their families. Nandri will do everything in our power to help our Mothers, their children and families survive COVID19 so we can continue to support them in completing their education and fulfilling their ambitions in life. First we must help protect them from COVID19.

India, the second most populous country in the world has declared a 21 day national lockdown. There have been many shocking images of millions of migrant workers trying to leave the cities to return to their villages. These daily wage workers have been let go from their jobs. They live from hand to mouth with no savings and now with no work their only option is to return to their rural villages. There is no safety net to help them survive this global catastrophe.

All our Nandri families are being severely impacted by this lockdown and will be in great danger when the Covid Virus hits their villages. They live in very rural areas with little or no medical care and we have seen cities like New York with top rate health care brought to its knees by the number of people very ill and losing their lives. The Indian Government is giving some support but it will not be enough for our families to survive 21 days without work or income.

Nandri is there to help and support our mothers and families through this desperate time. We will support our families financially. Just 1000 rupees (12 euros) per month to each of our mothers will help them survive this unprecedented pandemic. It is important to help our families avoid contracting this disease, especially as they will be particularly vulnerable as there is very little medical care available to them. We have implemented educational programmes in order to teach our families about the importance of hygiene – especially hand washing and to emphasize the importance of social distancing to prevent spread. This disease is new to us all and it is vitally important that our families are informed how to prevent contracting it.

The world is going through an unprecedented pandemic that is devastating countries both rich and poor but the effect that Covid19 will have on our poorer countries is unimaginable. We have seen wealthy Nations with sophisticated health care buckling under this virus. India has a population of 1.3 Billion, of which 360 million live in poverty. This virus does not discriminate on who it infects but the poor are so much more vulnerable. Nandri has already transformed the lives of over 5000 poor Dalit mothers and their families and through out this pandemic we will do everything in our power to protect, support and see our vulnerable families through this desperate time.

We want to thank you, our donors who make it possible for Nandri to do its work. In this extraordinary and very frightening time, If you can help us by donating here or to our special COVID19 fundraiser project which is linked below, it would be an enormous help for us to support our children and their families.

 As Nandri means thanks in the Tamil language, we would like to say once again, a big “NANDRI” to you all.

Links:

https://goto.gg/46009

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