HELP EDUCATE 750 GIRLS IN RURAL INDIA

Dear Friends,

Greetings from IIMPACT!

It is with great pride and satisfaction that we have entered the 15th Year of IIMPACT.

As you already know IIMPACT Girls Education Project was started by the Alumni of IIM, Ahmedabad  (a leading Business School in India)- 1978 batch. Under this project, IIMPACT has identified rural out-of-school girls in different regions in 11 States with low female participation in education. IIMPACT’s single minded focus is on providing quality primary education to rural out-of-school girls. IIMPACT has identified problems plaguing girls’ primary education in India and has developed a model that overcomes these problems viz. the IIMPACT Learning Centre model.

Under this model, IIMPACT establishes single-teacher primary Learning Centers in the villages with high concentration of out-of-school girls in the 6-14 year age group. These girls benefit from the learning center approach as they are near to their homes. Thus, IIMPACT takes the school to their door steps. The Learning Centers employ female teachers sourced from the local area who provide very high quality education through play-way methods. The Learning Centers are also a converging point for the local village community as they learn about the importance of education for girls and break age-old shackles in girls’ education.

Starting with just 450 girls and 15 learning centers in 2004, today IIMPACT is running this project in over 1686 villages of India, and has covered over 80000 out-of-school girls in its primary education programme. Around 20,000 girls from IIMPACT learning centers have completed their quality primary education cycle and most of them continue with their upper primary and secondary education.

We have observed that the girls who have completed their primary education from IIMPACT learning centers have very high levels of skills and competence. Many of the IIMPACT girls have now joined college level education and have demonstrated equal competencies there as well. Most of the girls completing their education from IIMPACT Centers are first generation learners from their families, yet these are the very girls who are bringing a big change in their families and communities.

By getting access to quality education and by continuing in higher education these girls will be the agents of development and change and thought leaders in their communities tomorrow - thereby Transforming Lives for the better.....

Thank you all for being such an important part of this amazing journey!

Regards

Urvashi