By Malliga | Supervisor
As part of the efforts to reduce drop outs, the project is supporting students through scholarships and providing bicycles.
In the last three months the project provided scholships to students studying in local village schools. The scholarship is helping to provide for the children's school bags, extra notebooks and other basic amenities that parents are unable to provide for thier children.
Why bicycles: A majority of rural students walk 6 kms to reach a middle school and 8+ kms to reach a high school. Children from our villages have told us ‘walking to and back from school daily is very difficult; we feel very tired and hardly have any energy to study after coming back home’. Parents tell us that their children would get sick walking in the heat and often missed school because of this.
The project is helping to provide bicycles to students in middle school, as a long-term and sustainable solution to address the problem of distance to school, a main reason for drop-outs. The bicycle project is a tremendous success. We see visible differences in school attendance and also a shift in attitudes among students and parents. Students tell us proudly ‘now I have a bicycle; I come to school independently riding the bicycle and am very happy about this’.
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