By Sonal Shukla | Managing Trustee
Dear friends, Hello, As you know your donations to Vacha has helped us reach tens thousands of poor adolescent girls living in slums of Mumbai and its outskirts. The girls suffer only due to poverty but also because of the huge son preference and orthodox traditions controlling girls’ mobility, education, early marriage and lack of choice in decision making. All girls in Vacha programme complete 12 years of schooling and many go for post 12th courses including college programmes. We have filed some of the success stories of girls becoming pharmacist, lawyer, and doctor and succeeding in field like stock exchange fellowship, National Day parade, fashion design and of air craft hospitality. We will be sending more stories. These girls would not have been successfully without our programme of training in soft and hard skills and leading community action. They have worked on preventing child marriage, demanding adequate number of clean public toilets (their homes do not have attached bathroom/toilet) and creating safe spaces for women and girls. Your donations have hugely contributed to our programmes. Vacha team, therefore, appeals to you to donate generously on GivingTuesday for continuing and expanding our work. Sincerely, Sonal Shukla
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