By Alicia Conti | Project Leader
Chandrika - The student growing in confidence each day.
Before enrolling in Street Child’s programme for Musahar girls, sixteen-year-old Chandrika had never been to school, as her father went abroad for labour work, leaving her at home to support her mother with household chores and the rice harvest.
Chandrika has had to learn everything completely from scratch: “I learned Nepali alphabets, words and sentences, English alphabets, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division!”
When she was a young child, Chandrika had a small wound on her face. The home remedy applied to heal it, sadly, had the opposite effect leaving Chandrika’s skin scarred as if it had been burnt, and as a result she has struggled with low self-confidence all her life.
However, things are changing. Since coming to Street Child’s classes she cannot believe how her studies have boosted her spirits: “Before coming to this class I used to feel fear to speak in front of others, and couldn’t speak any words, but now I can speak without any fear. I feel more confident now.”
Outside of the classroom Chandrika loves to draw, and with her new-found confidence she aspires to learn embroidery when the programme comes to an end.
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.
