In rural areas of India, more than 60% of children drop out of school after 5th grade. High schools are not available in rural villages and girls need to travel long distance to pursue higher education. A lack of transportation and infrastructure causes parents to drop their daughters out of school. Mann Deshi Foundation provides financial literacy training to young girls and provides bicycles to girls who save regularly. This also enables them to attend school by commuting with new bicycles.
In rural areas of India, more than 60% of children drop out of school after 5th grade. High schools are not available in rural villages and girls need to travel long distance to pursue higher education. However, a lack of transportation and infrastructure causes parents to take their daughters out of school, resulting in labor work, early marriages, pregnancy, and a greater vulnerability to violence.
Every girl deserves to go to school. Mann Deshi Foundation provides financial and digital literacy training to young girls in the form of workshops. Every month, the girls are encouraged to make a saving deposit in their personal bank account. Girls who successfully make saving regularly are gifted with a bicycle! The bicycle is an incentive for the young girls to keep saving and attending the financial and digital literacy workshops. It also enables them to attend school on their new bicycle.
Through education and learning about the importance of having control over their finances, girls can become independent and successful. It releases them from poverty and repression. This program has been running for 20 years and has given over 10,000 bicycles to young girls.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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