Education India Project #20989

Educate 100 Dalit girls

by Nandri

Project Report | Jul 13, 2018
140 of our children move on to 3rd level education!

By Janice Vard Smith | Project Leader

our students future 3rd Level students

This year with our educational loans, 140 children from our Nandri families completed their final school examinations. With the help of Nandris' "Support for Higher Education loans", most of the young adults have decided to move on to 3rd level education. Since this programme was introduced two years ago, most of the children who completed 2nd level education progressed on to college. This is an incredible achievement. Previously the upfront cost of college fees precluded these children from progressing their education.

Nandri loans enable the children of illiterate and impoverished families to continue their education and break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy passed on from generation to generation. The parents of these children have had little or no education. They are mostly unable to read or write. They take enormous pride in their sons and daughters success in school and college and the fact that they will go on to have professional, well paid careers. In turn, their children will support their parents, extended family and also fund other siblings education. The benefit to the entire community is enormous.

Five years ago less than 10 of our children continued on to 3rd level education but now with the help and support of Nandri Loans, this year we can look forward to 140 children fulfilling their dreams by becoming doctors, nurses, teachers, accountants or achieving in what ever career they choose. We cannot do this without your help and we thank you for supporting and donating to Nandri, helping us to change lives.

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Apr 12, 2018
Making progress

By Janice Vard Smith | Project volunteer

Jul 27, 2017
You have made 75 children happy

By Fred Crowe | ceo

There have been many controversies in Ireland and I'm sure in other countries regarding overpaid CEOs and staff in NGOs. Nandri Ireland is a small charity with an unpaid CEO and one administrator who works a few hours a day. Last year less than 4% of our income was spent on salaries and 10% of our Revenue on expenses including audit fees and necessary postage and legal fees.

We are continuing to receive money every month for this project. For each child we add to the programme. We open a bank account. We transfer money for every month into the child's bank account and also try to ensure that the bank account is only used for educational purposes.

When the child has reached 17 or 18 We will provide a loan to the child to go to college and this will loan will be repaid by the family while the child is in college and the child will complete when here she is earning

The child sponsorship money for each family per month is either Rs.450 ($3.00) or Rs.600 ($4). Considering a mother will earn Rs.150 for working in a scorching hot rice field by day you can see how much this money means to the family. It is probably the equivalent of giving $450 to an American familyNo probably zero.

We are grateful to the sponsors who make a sacrifice, but which makes a huge difference to the family in India. Where we have a name and an email address. We set up the sponsor in our system and the sponsor can access the latest photographs we have for the child and the child's family. . We don't allow our sponsors to contact the children or their families for child protection purposes.

The children do indeed know that their lives are being changed by somebody far away. Probably have no idea where Ireland or the USA. You should be content knowing that your money is indeed changing the lives of the sponsored children

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