By Khalil Bensid | Project Assistant
Thank you for your generous support and contributions to the Alice project in Boddishatta, India. This project, launched in 1994 by Italian teachers Valentino Giacomin and Luigina De Biasi, aims to provide school to 125 disadvantaged children with poor educational prospects in a community plagued by poverty, illiteracy, and a lack of infrastructure. The addition of a girls’ boarding school in 2010 provides 20 girls from remote villages with education, food, lodging, and health care.
In 2013, the donations Friends of Humanity has received has faciliated the branch school in Bodhisatta to welcome 20 girls, ranging in age from toddlers to teenagers, covering grades 1 through 6. At a monthly cost of 508 CHF, the school provided not only education, but shelter, three daily meals, clothing, laundry, toiletries, school supplies and medicine.
The education of girls is one of the main purposes of the Alice Project, particularly in a traditionally male dominated society. Most girls come from very poor families, some are orphans. The school provides these girls from otherwise illiterate families not only with an opportunity for education, but a safe and nurturing environment in which to thrive. It empowers them with a foundation for a better future for themselves, as well as the opportunity to be a positive influence in the lives of others.
Your kind donations will help the girls to have a better and brighter future.
Thank you again, and we look forward to your continued support!
Friends of Humanity
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