Scholarships to enable 12 children to go to school

Monica, a Dalit girl from a very poor background, living in Jodhpur,  has been in our Scholarship Project since 2008. She joined the first Sambhali Empowerment Centre in 2007. She was enrolled in class 6 at a local school, 2 years later, after dropping out of school for 4 years due to family and financial reasons.  Monica was always a bright student and a star pupil; she played netball for the school team and has always been a spirited girl in defence of women's rights. She has very good public speaking skills, being encouraged to speak to many members of the press, officials and the public during a variety of conferences over the years that have involved Sambhali Trust.

 Now Monica is in the final year of her college studying for a Bachelors of Arts. She has also done her Hotel Management diploma in parallel to her degree studies, from the Indian Hotel Management Institute in Jodhpur as well as working part-time at Durag Niwas Guesthouse to earn a small income and being a member of the Sambhali staff as a field worker for the Sambhali Scholarship project which has total number of 201 children in 2016-2017.

It is a proud moment for both Monica and the Trust to have her join hands with the development of children coming to Sambhali to fulfil their dreams of better education in a healthy environment.

We are very happy with the generous contribution of our sponsors that we were able to sponsor 201 children into schools this year.

We have accepted one application of a 14 year old girl called Pooja who lived on the street with her mother, father and younger brother. She is going to be enrolled in school from April 2017. She is living with us at Sambhali Sheerni Educational Project (Boarding Home). Pooja's mother and Pooja were taking care of the household and its income. The family lived through rag picking.

This year under the Sambhali Scholarship project we have some information below.

Primary classes we have 97 children (56 girls and 41 boys)

Upper primary 39 children ( 28 girls and 11 boys)

Secondary classed 29 (21 girls and 8 boys)

Higher Secondary class 19 (12 girls and 7 boys)

College 17 children ( 13 girls 4 boys)

Number of girls: 130

Number of Boys: 71

The two girls that have been sponsored through Global Giving donations are Nandani and Rajnandani. 

They are very happy to have the chance to go to school and are very thankful for the opportunity.