Give A Girl A Bicycle - Help Her To Go School

Dear well-wishers,

Regards from Gram Vikas Trust, Bharuch.

While thinking to update the report of “Give a girl a bicycle - help her to go school”, a girl Kinjal (name changed) came in to mind. But the thoughts were quite confusing, what to write about her as she was not able to learn in this pandemic through online classes. It is success for us that we could able to re-enroll her in the school after school reopened in Gujarat, but also unhappy moment for us that we could not identify her during pandemic. Which could have helped her in her schooling.

Kinjal, daughter of a farmer in the rural belt of Jhagadia block of Bharuch district. While schools were closed she could not attend the online classes’ runs by government as they do not have smart phone or TV at their home. Also Kinjal’s family lives in their farm so there are no nearby neighbors who can help her to watch the online classes. She is in 11^th standard, and good at studies but the long break in education makes her quite uncomfortable to get back to school.

As GVT is working with this village, our field staff come to know about Kinjal, and started exploring about her and her family. It took almost a week to convince Kinjal and her parents. There were some financial difficulties, managing household and other work which was quite difficult for the family to manage. But at the end GVT could able to make the parents aware about her future without education.

Kinjal is in school now, with her bicycle. She attends school regularly with her friends. But GVT believes that still there are many girls who do not able to study further because of some minor reasons, parents are also not able to think about their daughters’ future and just make their lives worst by not giving them education.

Little help, by giving school materials, bicycles or may be tuition fees will make some girl’s future bright. Let us help them to educate, let us make their future bright.