By Machhindra Gojame | President
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 24th 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 10th 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.
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