Preventing 50 Girl Child Marriages from Latur

Continue support is ongoing to girls from single parent family for their education.

Once a girl is out of school, she is more vulnerable to child marriage and early pregnancy. Alternatively it is clear that child marriage often means the end to a girls’ formal education. Education can be one of the most powerful tools to enable girls to avoid child marriage and fulfill their potential. The longer a girl stays in school, the less likely she is to be married before the age of 18 and have children during her teenage years.

Prevention of girl child marriage is our aim of this project and having single parent is one of the factor of early marriages. Untimely loss of maternity or paternity is very traumatic and painful. In case of India and especially in rural community, loss of paternity means loss of support to life, collapsing dream world of Girl child. In this situation, girl child has to stay away from education and most of them have to face child marriage. From last two years, Grameen Vikas Lok Sanstha (PIRD) is taking efforts to collect donation from likeminded donors through GlobalGiving and offline donations  to complete at least higher secondary education (i.e. up to 12th Standard) of girls who are facing such situation.

We have helped 3 girls in fist year under this activity.  Last year the GlobalGiving support us to rise fund online through their  network and we have able to help 1o girls and we have rise more fund because of their  continue support and we have help to those 10 girls for the second year also. And we are happy to say, we have able to help another additional 5 girls during the last three months , means presently we are helping total 15 girls for continue their higher education to needy girls which are belong to single parent family.

These 15  girls are from Farmers and Farm labour category  and out of those 5 are OBC, 1 SC, 5 NT, 4 are from other category. Out of these 15, 10 girls are studying SSC, 3 HSC and 2 Graduate level educations. Still there are many more single parenting girls are having hopes to complete their education.

Links:

• PIRD facebook page
• PIRD Youtube channel
• PIRD twitter

Step towards Progress

            In academic year 2017-18, those who have single parents such 10 girls were sponsored with educational support,  amongst them 9 has successfully completed their education and from these sponsored girls, 8 girls are in process to receive educational sponsorship for the year of 2018-19. Among those who were sponsored in last year, one girl got married and now she is no more eligible for this sponsorship. As we receive donation in current year accordingly we will distribute it. We have targeted 50 girls of single parents to be sponsored this year.

            Prevention of early marriage is our aim of this project and having single parent is one of the factor of early marriage. There are mainly two reasons behind early marriage of single parents girls are: 1.Economic condition of single parents and 2.Traditions.  In traditional method those parents either mother or father has expired, that girl has to marry within a year and if she fails to do this then she has to wait 3 years for her marriage, she cannot marry within 3 years. Due to this reason they have to marry, though the girl is not even eligible for marriage. Here we are focusing on this issue and hence as a priority we are conducting educational sponsorship activity in this project.

Visit of GlobalGiving volunteers to project:

            Visitor from GlobalGiving, Poonguntan Cibi visited our project on 24^th May. In which those who are getting benefits from our project, means project beneficiary. He interacted with them during visit and asks them regarding their dreams and their aspirations. He looked at the disbursement of funds and also mentioned that donors should get all the stories of single parent girl child with their lots of problems. And finally he stated that this project needs more funds to deliver all the project activities and for this GlobalGiving is struggling a lot.

She has to marry due to traditional practices :

There was one girl named Shivkanya, she was sponsored girl of this project in the last academic year and she has successfully completed her 10^th class exam but unfortunately due to traditional practices she has to marry in early age. Her father expired in that year and due to this she has to marry in that year only or she will have to wait for next three years but her uncle’s and relatives  were not ready to wait for three years. Under their pressure that girl and her mother effete in front of them. Due to such reasons many girls have to stop their education and have to marry in early age.

Links:

• Website of the org.
• Our youtube channel
• our blog on Prevention of girl child marriages !