KickStart Girls equips adolescent girls and young women from villages in India with essential personal and professional skills to help them become future-ready. The programme aims to prevent school dropout, early marriage, early motherhood, and the intergenerational cycles of poverty. We do this by creating pathways to education, employment, and entrepreneurship. Our focus areas include financial and digital literacy, and providing knowledge and platforms for advocacy and community leadership.
The need for this project arises from the lack of access to education, financial literacy, and career opportunities in drought-prone regions of India. Many adolescents and young women, especially first-generation learners, in these areas face systemic challenges, including poverty, lack of skills and networks for job opportunities, and social constraints, which hinder their ability to transition into financially independent and empowered individuals.
This project addresses systemic challenges in rural Maharashtra by empowering girls through four initiatives - 1. Rise Up - facilitating skill development workshops in remote villages 2. Youth Leadership Lab - equipping students with financial and digital literacy 3. Children's School Bank Project - instilling saving habits and early financial responsibility 4. Fellowship - providing job-readiness skills and bridging the skill gap 5. Nayi Soch - an advocacy and community leadership platform
The project's long-term impact includes breaking intergenerational cycles of poverty and vulnerabilities by empowering rural girls and women to shape their futures and contribute meaningfully to society. By encouraging financial education, skill development, and self-reliance, participants become torchbearers in their communities and role models for the next generation of female learners.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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