By Janice Vard Smith | Project Leader
Nandri has supported hundreds of our young girls and their families with financial loans so they can stay in school and fulfill their dreams of completing their education, achieving degrees and finding well paid jobs to help support their families. We also provide our families with small business loans. Here are some stories of how you have helped Nandri to change these girls lives.
Hishalini was an exceptional student in school but like many of our children, because she was from a very low income family, she could not continue her studies and go to college. Nandri offered financial support from their Higher Education Programme and now thanks to the loan she received, she is completing her first year of BA in English at Thenpallipattu.
Mary S. is from Vellore. She was a very bright and hard working student and had ambitions to become a nurse. Unfortunately as she was from a very poor family, this was just a dream. Both her parents were daily wage labourers and the family could not afford to keep her in education and it would be absolutely impossible for them to pay for 3rd level college. Nandri gave her parents a loan so she could continue on to Nursing College in Bangalore and now she is in the middle of studying for her Bsc in nursing in St Joseph’s College. When she completes her degree, she will be able to find a well paying job and will be able to support her impoverished parents in the future. One educational loan to this girl and her family has changed all their lives.
Recently we held a training workshop for our young people to teach them skills to enable them to start their own income generating projects and businesses and become self employed.
Sixty young people aged between 18 - 35 from families below the poverty line took part in various training programmes in agriculture and also learning technical skills in various industries and businesses. The aim of the project is to educate our young rural men and women in the skills needed to persue a self employed career in many areas of agriculture and also various self employed business schemes.
An important part of the training scheme is motivating these young people and encouraging them to believe in their own talents and abilities. We show them that with Nandri’s support and their own enthusiasm and skills that they can become self employed and earn a living to support themselves and help support their families. Knowing that Nandri will provide financial support loans and also the necessary education, these young people left with newly acquired skills and filled with enthusiasm to start their own small businesses.
Through both our Stay In Education programmes and our training programmes, we give our young people the education and skills to succeed in life and achieve wonderful careers. We could not do this work without your ongoing support. From all our young people at Nandri, we extend a big thanks you for enabling us to help our Nandri girls and their families.
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