Empower 5000 drop out Adolescent Girls in Lucknow

We wish a very Happy and Healthy New Year 2021 to GlobalGiving, its team and all donors supporting for the development and welfare of vulnerable communities.        

The Covid-19 induced challenges such as household food insecurity,livelihood insecurity,child labour, child marriages,  economic slowdowns, sectoral services like education, health, nutrition have compounded community vulnerabilities, despite vigorous efforts of the government, non-government organisations and donor groups in India and across the Globe. It has more devastating impact on children, adolescent girls and women in slum communities where majority of the families are daily wage earners, migrants and daily vendors living in the situation from hand to mouth. Covid 19 may further increase the problems like school dropouts, child labour and child marriage affecting them most. Sarathi Development Foundation has focussed on reducing challenges of Covid 19 by capacity building of community volunteers and groups, communication to prevent Covid 19 spread risks in congested slum settings & crowded basic facilities like community toilets, water supply systems and building linkages with the government relief schemes such as dry ration for food.    

Education is the foundation to empower children and adolescents girls and protect from the risks like child labour, child marriage, trafficking, discriminations, abuses and exploitation especially in the given poor social and economic conditions of the slums. Keeping this in view, Sarathi Development Foundation started My School My Dream Campaign in month of December 2020 to see the children and adolescent girls back to their schools in slums of Badali Khera, Makdoom Nagar and Munshi Khera slums of the Lucknow. It focussed on mapping of children and adolescent girls either already drop out or at the risk of becoming drop out, home based counselling of care givers of children and adolescent girls, coordination with the school teachers and school management committees and enrolment in the schools through the engagement of community volunteers, women self-help groups and adolescent girls groups developed under the project with support of GlobalGiving. 45 drop out children and adolescent girls were re-enrolled in four government schools and nine are in process to be re-enrolled.

We are grateful to the support of GlobalGiving to deliver impact among the children, adolescent girls and their families in slums of Lucknow.